Projects tagged
Demonstration & Protest
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Speech/Acts at ICA Philly
Read more: Speech/Acts at ICA PhillyIn “Speech/Acts,” a group exhibition organized by Meg Onli at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Tiona Nekkia McClodden stood out as artists who take up voices, histories, and experiences that can help audiences move…
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The “Radical Edits” of Alexandra Bell
Read more: The “Radical Edits” of Alexandra BellThe artist Alexandra Bell‘s “Counternarratives” series highlights journalism’s tendency toward obfuscation and slant. In the spring of 2017, Alexandra Bell began wheat-pasting posters of edited and redacted pages of the New York Times on subway platforms and buildings around the…
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All Eyes on ‘Sparrow’: Documenting the Dangers of Activism in China
Read more: All Eyes on ‘Sparrow’: Documenting the Dangers of Activism in ChinaNanfu Wang feels safe in New York. Surveillance, that essential preoccupation of the documentarian in America, is a chokehold from which she has been temporarily released. From her Brooklyn apartment, the Chinese filmmaker prepares for the release of her debut…
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Dismaland
Read more: Dismaland“He describes it as a “family theme park unsuitable for small children” – and with the Grim Reaper whooping it up on the dodgems and Cinderella horribly mangled in a pumpkin carriage crash, it is easy to see why. Banksy’s…
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Rise, Resist & Unite…V-Day & The Vagina Monolouges
Read more: Rise, Resist & Unite…V-Day & The Vagina MonolougesBack after a five year hiatus, V-Day Sedona joins with hundreds of other productions across the globe in celebrating V-Day’s 20th anniversary with an act of artistic activism. For its 20th anniversary, V-Day is calling on activists around the world…
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In NYC, Activism Begins With Lessons In Theater
Read more: In NYC, Activism Begins With Lessons In TheaterNote before the post: This article is great in highlighting a specific case of creative activism in the streets of New York City, but also gives some contextual background to how this project manifested. On a sidewalk in the Village…
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No Borders in the NHS
Read more: No Borders in the NHSA creative action against the introduction of mandatory immigration checks and upfront charging in the UK’s National Health Service, including a systematic social media campaign under the hashtag #PatientsNotPassports. The action helped create new chapters of Docs Not Cops in…
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A Night Of Philosophy And Ideas
Read more: A Night Of Philosophy And Ideas“A Night of Philosophy and Ideas is a thinker’s lollapalooza. The free, 12-hour weekend lyceum at the Brooklyn Public Library includes spirited debate, live music, theater, performance art pieces, and film screenings. At any given hour, five or six different…
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Red Paint Splashed on Roosevelt Statue after second “Anti-Columbus Day Tour”
Read more: Red Paint Splashed on Roosevelt Statue after second “Anti-Columbus Day Tour”Just weeks after activists staged an alternative tour of the American Museum of Natural History to call for its removal, among other things, the equestrian statue of Teddy Roosevelt was vandalized early Thursday morning. The base of the statue, which…
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ESTUDIANTE MILITANTE: University of Puerto Rico Student Movement and campus occupation.
Read more: ESTUDIANTE MILITANTE: University of Puerto Rico Student Movement and campus occupation.El Estudiante Militante is a giant puppet built by the members of Papel Machete and students of the University of Puerto Rico during the first three days of the 2010 student strike at a cultural camp established by the theater…