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Parió Paula

Date:
Jan 15 2009

Parió Paula is an all women’s percussion group based in Lima, Peru. These women are truly artistic renegades defying the social norms of Lima’s predominantly male music scene. With a bold message on emphasizing female expression, these ladies have transformed…

The Standing March as silent protest

Practitioner:
JR & Darren Aronofsky

Date:
Jan 15 2009

Renowned French artist JR and Oscar-nominated American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky have collaborated on The Standing March, a major public artwork exhibited in Paris during the UN’s COP21 climate conference. The video projection will remind leaders that the world is watching…

Las hijas de Violencia

Practitioner:
Las hijas de Violencia

Date:
Jan 15 2009

Born as a side project Las hijas de Violencia approaches the subject of street harassment and gender based violence through performance art, punk and video that is addressing socially legitimized male violence. “As actresses and as women we feel directly…

Singalongs

Practitioner:
Dave Lippman, many more, Raging Grannies, The Stop Shopping Choir

Date:
Jan 15 2009

I have several theories about why song rewrites work well. Theory aside, people know the tunes and can learn the words. Scholars differ on whether you should make it as simple as possible or let the crowd be the artist…

FTSE – A British Anti-Capitalist Rapper

Practitioner:
FTSE

Date:
Jan 15 2009

“FTSE” is Birmingham-born producer and rapper Sam Manville. As an anti-captialist, he though it would be funny to take the name of the British stock market index (Financial Times and Stock Exchange), but he also jokes the acronym stands for…

Embassy Of Iran in Jerusalem

Practitioner:
Hamabul collective

Date:
Jan 15 2009

There is no embassy of Iran in Jerusalem. We ask why. We are a group of artists living and creating in Jerusalem, trying to create a new reality. one which we can identify with. A reality of dialogue between the…

Jay Allan Zimmerman

Practitioner:
Jay Allan Zimmerman

Date:
Jan 15 2009

Zimmerman a composer who uses art, dance, tech, and even robots in his shows. You might call this interdisciplinary. Wagner called it total art, or gesamtkunstwerk. The son of a midwestern piano teacher, Zimmerman literally grew up over the piano…

Christine Sun Kim

Practitioner:
Christine Sun Kim

Date:
Jan 15 2009

For artist Christine Sun Kim, sound is a “ghost.” The multiple-MFA-holding Senior TED Fellow who has had a Whitney Museum residency and exhibited at MoMA, has been profoundly deaf since birth. The sonic hush in which she lives has pushed…

Kids Helping Kids

Practitioner:
Hip Hop Saves Lives, Negusworld

Date:
Jan 15 2009

Kids Helping Kids is a youth hip-hop program run by two NGOs, Hip Hip Saves Lives and Negusworld. Together, these organizations work with middle school and high school students to make conscious hip hop influenced by activist work happening worldwide.…

Jesus as a Working Class Hero: Resignifying religion in Spanish music (three examples)

Practitioner:
Extremoduro, Gloria Fuertes, SKA-P

Date:
Jan 15 2009

The story of the life and death of Jesus is arguably the most ubiquitous story ever told. Translated to every language, vastly circulated, taught in schools all around the world, conservative groups –except for some exemptions, like Liberation Theology- have…