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ASCO Collective

Date:
Apr 17 1970

Beginning in the early 1970s, the Los Angeles-based multi-media arts collective Asco (from the Spanish word for nausea) created performances, street theater and conceptual art that satirized the emerging styles of Chicano art and pushed the boundaries of what it…

Former Dazed editor Rod Stanley launched ‘Good Trouble’: an online zine celebrating the culture of resistance

Practitioner:
Good Trouble, Rod Stanley

Date:
Apr 17 1970

If, like me, you spent the days after Trump’s election in a depressed stupor wondering what – if anything – would change, look no further than Good Trouble. Set up by former Dazed editor Rod Stanley, it’s a new collective…

Sixth Annual NYC Feminist Zinefest

Practitioner:
Barnard

Date:
Apr 17 1970

“The Feminist Zine Fest showcases the work of artists and zine makers of all genders who identify on the feminist spectrum, and whose politics are reflected in their work. For the second consecutive year, Barnard proudly hosts the zine fest,…

Queer vernaculars and visual narratives IRANTI

Practitioner:
Iranti

Date:
Apr 17 1970

ONGOING ORGANIZATION: CALLED: Iranti [pronounced írantì] is the Yoruba word for ‘memory’. Largely found in South West Nigeria and parts of Benin Republic, the Yoruba people consider memory a prized form of intelligence which determines how often one remembers what…

5 Ways PETA Asia Became an Animal Rights Groundbreaker in China

Practitioner:
PETA Asia

Date:
Apr 17 1970

The world is shocked by China’s dog meat festival and by videos showing that animals are eaten alive in restaurants in Guangdong. But in that country of 1.3 billon people, a massive shift in ideology is happening. Our friends at…

Threads of Resistance

Practitioner:
Artist Circle Alliance

Date:
Apr 17 1970

A juried exhibition of fiber art created by the Artist Circle Alliance to protest the Trump administration’s actions and policies. This is a traveling exhibition to 13 venues across the U.S. All work in the exhibition, as well as the…

The Protest Banner Lending Library

Practitioner:
Aram Han Sifuentes

Date:
Apr 17 1970

The Protest Banner Lending Library is a space for people to gain skills to learn to make their own banners, a communal sewing space where we support each other’s voices, and a place where people can check out handmade banners…

Shoddy, a disability arts exhibition

Practitioner:
Gill Crawshaw; Uk disabled artists

Date:
Apr 17 1970

A disability / textile arts project, challenging assumptions about disabled artists & highlighting shoddy treatment of disabled people by current government: https://shoddyexhibition.wordpress.com/ Shoddy is the name for new cloth created from woollen waste and recycled fabric. This original meaning is…

Ai Weiwei on the project that awoke his political voice – The Start podcast

Practitioner:
Ai Weiwei

Date:
Apr 17 1970

In 2008, an earthquake devastated Sichuan province in China, claiming the lives of more than 69,000 people. Following accusations from parents that substandard construction caused the collapse of schools across in the region, the artist Ai Weiwei set upon a…

Actor Jim Carrey has emerged as an unlikely political artist and activist

Practitioner:
Jim Carrey

Date:
Apr 17 1970

Actor and comedian Jim Carrey has always been known for his slapstick silliness. You know the films — “Dumb and Dumber,” “The Mask,” “Liar Liar,” “Ace Ventura,” just to name a few. But he also always managed to peel back…