Projects tagged
Performance
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Performance Art Feminism in Beijing
Read more: Performance Art Feminism in BeijingXiao has organized and participated in a series of activities that combine performance art with a strong social message. Despite a well-known Chinese maxim expounding that women “hold up half the sky,” feminism has largely been an underground movement in…
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Human Genitals Dinner
Read more: Human Genitals DinnerIn a private Tokyo dinner party artist Mao Sugiyama served his genitals to five of the events guests. Several months prior to the event he chose to have his genitals surgically removed. He released invitations to the event on social…
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Barbed Wire Protest
Read more: Barbed Wire ProtestIn May, 2013, Russian performance artist Petr Pavlovsky wrapped his body, nude, in barbed wire and lay outside the St. Petersburg legislative assembly. The act was in protest of restrictions imposed on freedom of speech and assembly. Police officers were…
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Red Square Performance “Fixation”
Read more: Red Square Performance “Fixation”Petr Pavlensky, a Russian performance artist, sent a nail through his scrotum to the cobblestones of Red Square in Moscow (on a holiday in celebration of law enforcement). He was later charged with hooliganism. Pavlensky, as quoted in the Guardian:…
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Coca Cola is Out of Order – Grassroots Campaign For Container Deposit Recycling in Australia
Read more: Coca Cola is Out of Order – Grassroots Campaign For Container Deposit Recycling in AustraliaIn March 2013 we started a grassroots boycott movement against Coca-Cola for exploiting legal loopholes to kill off container deposit recycling in the Northern Territory. We simply used the same successful strategy as the ANZ Out of Order action, putting…
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Lift the Skirt / What the Skirt Lifts / What the Skirt Raises
Read more: Lift the Skirt / What the Skirt Lifts / What the Skirt RaisesWhat the Skirt Lifts is a day long protest against gender discrimination initiated by student Arthur Moinet and sanctioned by the Académie de Nantes, made up of local school officials. Both male and female students were encouraged to school wearing…
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Arts Meets Environmental Activism in “The Crossroads Project”
Read more: Arts Meets Environmental Activism in “The Crossroads Project”This month’s blast of arctic air may have roused climate-change skeptics. But the composer Laura Kaminsky and the painter Rebecca Allan were unfazed. Holed up in their apartment in Riverdale in the Bronx on one of the coldest days in…
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Grammys featured on-air weddings of 34 couples
Read more: Grammys featured on-air weddings of 34 couplesLOS ANGELES — At the Grammy Awards on Sunday night, pop’s megastars will compete for the music industry’s most prestigious trophy, and put on flashy performances that are sure to ricochet through social media. But the producers behind the program,…
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#ShoutingBack with Coasters
Read more: #ShoutingBack with CoastersThe group of NYU graduate students went to bars in Manhattan to shout back against sexual harassment and bring awareness to the Everyday Sexism project. Armed with coasters that said “#shoutingback” on them, as well as a slogan. Three different…
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Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army
Read more: Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown ArmyTo some, the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA) might appear to be but a ragged bunch of activists sporting false noses, a smudge of grease paint, camouflage pants and bad wigs. And those people may be right. But it…