Projects tagged
Demonstration & Protest
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Gota D’Agua
Read more: Gota D’AguaA site-specific art intervention intended as a call to action in response to Brazil’s water crisis. Strategically planned to coincide with UN World Water Day, Gota D’Agua gathered onlookers around an abandoned Olympic size swimming pool at the foot of…
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BAN Protests Real Estate Summit
Read more: BAN Protests Real Estate SummitThe Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network is a grassroots movement and campaign to prevent the displacement of low-to-middle income people, elders, families and mom-and-pop businesses from Brooklyn. They say, “Not 1 more person displaced! Not 1 more luxury development, until we have…
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“The Body Of Water”
Read more: “The Body Of Water”In November 2016, citizens of Flint, MI filed a historic class action law suit against both city and state for the damages wrought by lead contaminants in the water supply. The city’s 100 thousand inhabitants have faced damages not only…
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China’s Vacuum-Cleaner Artist Turning Beijing’s Smog into Bricks
Read more: China’s Vacuum-Cleaner Artist Turning Beijing’s Smog into BricksBeijing and the rest of cities in northern China suffer from years of smog pollution.The beige-gray miasma of smog brings coughs and rasping. Hospitals are crowded from respiratory ailments and a midday sky is so dim. But “Brother Nut(坚果兄弟)“, a…
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Shift Change Dress
Read more: Shift Change DressShift Change Dress is a community fashion & art project that utilizes a shift dress sewing pattern as a medium for communication and action. Participants are encouraged to use the pattern as a blank canvas for their art or message…
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Artists got fed up with these ‘anti-homeless spikes.’ So they made them a bit more … comfy.
Read more: Artists got fed up with these ‘anti-homeless spikes.’ So they made them a bit more … comfy.These are called “anti-homeless spikes.” They’re about as friendly as they sound. Photo courtesy of CC BY-ND, Immo Klink and Marco Godoy. As you may have guessed, they’re intended to deter people who are homeless from sitting or sleeping on…
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Pimp My Carroça
Read more: Pimp My CarroçaWith the intention of recognizing the work of the Latin American carreteros (garbage pickers) that collect recyclable materials in wheel carts, and increase environmental consciousness, artist Mundano created “Pimp My Carroça” The brazilian graffiti artist started pimping carrocas years ago…
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Migrant crisis: Charities make massive peace sign out of life jackets on Lesbos
Read more: Migrant crisis: Charities make massive peace sign out of life jackets on LesbosCharities working on the Greek island of Lesbos have made a massive peace sign out of discarded life jackets to honour refugees who’ve died trying to cross the Mediterranean. More than 100 volunteers used 3,000 vests to form the symbol…
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Ai Weiwei poses as drowned Syrian infant refugee in ‘haunting’ photo
Read more: Ai Weiwei poses as drowned Syrian infant refugee in ‘haunting’ photoChinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has recreated the image of drowned infant Alan Kurdi that in 2015 became the defining symbol of the plight of Syria’s refugees. For the recreation, Ai lay on a pebbled beach on the Greek…
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Land Minds: spreading internet freedom and privacy
Read more: Land Minds: spreading internet freedom and privacyIn the past few years we have seen a growing awareness and concern with Internet freedom and privacy, fuelled by Edward Snowden’s revelations of the vast U.S. government’s surveillance programs, by Wikileaks’ publications, by protests against the Stop Online Piracy…