Projects tagged
Performance
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APEC Osama Motorcade
Read more: APEC Osama MotorcadeA satirical TV comedy show caused a security alert after coming within yards of George Bush’s hotel at a top-level government conference in Australia. The Chaser’s War on Everything, which airs on the ABC network, sent a team to the…
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Otpor Barrel Action
Read more: Otpor Barrel ActionThe Milosevic regime ruled over Serbia and Yugoslavia for about 13 years. To maintain control, the Milosevic regime was infamous for arbitrary arrests, beatings, imprisonment and even murder of avid opponents. In 2000, before the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, a…
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José Bové dismantles a McDonald’s
Read more: José Bové dismantles a McDonald’sJosé Bové, a sheep farmer/activist in Aveyron in the Midi-Pyrénées region of France, is a modern day Astérix, a mythical Gaul who drubbed foreign intruders centuries ago. In Bové’s case, the intruder was McDonald’s, the American fast food chain. On…
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Ace Bank
Read more: Ace BankACE Bank was a hoax bank developed as part of a bigger campaign by Netwerk Vlaanderen, a Belgian organization concerned with banks’ responsibilities for what they invest in. ACE bank was an elaborate deception, with a headquarters in central Brussels,…
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Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs Container
Read more: Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs ContainerForeigners out! Schlingensiefs Container (Ausländer raus! Schlingensiefs Container), alternately named “Wien-Aktion”, “Please Love Austria—First European Coalition Week”, or “Foreigners Out—Artists against Human Rights”, is an art project and television show from 2000 that took place within the scope of the…
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Nikeplatz
Read more: NikeplatzIn September 2003 the news went out nationwide: Karlsplatz, one of Vienna’s main squares, is soon to be renamed Nikeplatz. Apart from the new name, it appears that a huge monument in the shape of Nike’s famous “Swoosh” logo will…
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Respect The Living Too
Read more: Respect The Living TooAn advertising agency creates a one-time action for traffic safety, then uses documentation to generate awards and free promotion for their company. Did traffic fatalities actually drop after this was done once? Their Press Release doesn’t make mention. From McCann’s…
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The Peoples Bank of Govanhill
Read more: The Peoples Bank of GovanhillThe People’s Bank of Govanhill uses social and activist art practices to involve people in re-imagining the local economy, looking at how we can put feminist economics into practice in the local community. The project was intiated by artist Ailie…
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The Comfort Illusion
Read more: The Comfort IllusionThe Comfort Illusion is a solo aural performance that highlights the effects our everyday actions can have on the environment. Through mixed media storytelling using sound and lighting, Adams narrates the life of “The Overkiller” a fictional villian who negatively…
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Conquest
Read more: ConquestConquest is a compelling new collective performance conceived by acclaimed artist Pope.L (b. Newark, 1955). It is inspired by his iconic solo crawls, where the artist dragged himself across a number of different urban landscapes. Navigating the streets and parks…