Projects tagged
Performance
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Gangnam Style Used in Protests in China
Read more: Gangnam Style Used in Protests in ChinaIn early January, constructions workers in Wuhan, China staged a Gangnam Style protest in front of their employer’s building. Using the Gangnam Style dance, the men sought to bring media attention to their mounting unpaid wages. Several men are owed…
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Reclaim the Streets occupy Camden High Street
Read more: Reclaim the Streets occupy Camden High StreetA collective resistance movement dedicated to reasserting communal ownership of common spaces, Reclaim the Streets staged its first action on Camden High Street in 1995, when activists closed the road to vehicle traffic to make way for a street party.…
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San Francisco Mime Troupe performs L’amant Militaire
Read more: San Francisco Mime Troupe performs L’amant MilitaireThe San Francisco Mine Troupe has been staging radical political theater for over fifty years. In 1967, the Troupe toured campuses across the midwest, performing L’amant Militaire – a satirized adaptation of an old anti-war play, updated to critique US…
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UndocuNation gathers artists at International House
Read more: UndocuNation gathers artists at International HouseUndocuNation, a performance and visual art conglomeration, took place this past Friday at International House. The Center for Race and Gender at Berkeley, CultureStr/ke, and the Theater and Dance Performance Studies department here at UC Berkeley helped put on the…
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“Human Cost” Oily Protest at the Tate
Read more: “Human Cost” Oily Protest at the TateOn the one-year anniversary of the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, artist-activists at Liberate Tate staged a guerrilla performance in the Tate Britain galleries to highlight the museum’s ties to BP. The peformance: “A naked member…
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Mental Health Care Revolution: FEEL IT!
Read more: Mental Health Care Revolution: FEEL IT!Artistic Activist, Charlotte Claire, is at the forefront of initiating revolutionary change in mental health care. Her project, The Babyfacedassassin, is dedicated to improving mental health care and inspiring people to care for their mental health. Mental Health Care Revolution:…
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Cegos | Ciegos | Blind
Read more: Cegos | Ciegos | BlindA troupe of approximately thirty women and men of various ages, sizes, ethnicities and performance backgrounds marched through the performance art space of SESC-Vila Mariana in Sao Paulo and then through the streets of downtown Sao Paulo, silent, blind folded,…
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Hotel Voices
Read more: Hotel VoicesThe Revolutionary Theatre project co-written, co-directed and acted by writers, artists and poets currently living, surviving and sometimes thriving in Single Room Occupancy Hotels aka poor people housing in the Bay Area. Hotel Voices theatrically speaks to and educates the…
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Regina José Galindo- Performance Art Guatemala
Read more: Regina José Galindo- Performance Art GuatemalaRegina Galindo is a Guatemalan performance artist that uses her body as a means to explore many of the human rights violations in Guatemala. In one of her performances, ” no perdemos nada con nacer,” or ” we don’t lose…
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Julia Butterfly Hill and Her Tree sit in Luna
Read more: Julia Butterfly Hill and Her Tree sit in LunaForest activist and environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill spent two years (Dec. 10, 1997-Dec. 18, 1999) living 180 feet high, on two six-by-six-foot platforms, in the canopy of a thousand-year-old redwood tree named Luna to help make the world aware of…