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Whirl-Mart Ritual Resistance

Date:
Apr 1 2001

“Whirl-Mart Ritual Resistance is a participatory experiment. It is art and action. It came into being in 2001 as a response to Adbusters magazine’s call for foolish action on the first of April. What began as a single happening in…

Waiting for Godot

Practitioner:
Paul Chan

Date:
Apr 1 2001

“IN an instant all will vanish and we’ll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness.” When the actor Wendell Pierce spoke these words in performances of “Waiting for Godot” here last month, he really was in the middle…

One Billion Rising

Practitioner:
Eve Ensler

Date:
Apr 1 2001

The One Billion Rising campaign is a global movement that’s using dance to combat gender violence worldwide. Initiated by “Vagina Monologues” creator and women’s activist Eve Ensler, the campaign will see cities across the world hold dance parties on Valentine’s…

Abbie Hoffman and Yippies shower money on the NYSE

Practitioner:
Abbie Hoffman, James Fouratt and the Yippies

Date:
Apr 1 2001

One interesting thing about this stunt is that there is no record of it other than the Yippies’ wonderful testimony. We believe that it actually happened, but it shows that storytelling is the most important part of any action of…

Human Cost, Tate Britain Performance – First anniversary of the Gulf of Mexico disaster

Practitioner:
Liberate Tate

Date:
Apr 1 2001

“Human Cost, Tate Britain Performance (87 minutes), charcoal and sunflower oil 20 April 2011 – First anniversary of the Gulf of Mexico disaster. On the same day, 166 people who work in the arts published a letter in the Guardian…

Gay Shame S.F.

Practitioner:
Gay Shame S.F.

Date:
Apr 1 2001

From the screaming queens of the Stonewall Riots to the contemporary Human Rights Campaign corporate gays, the politics and methods of queer activism have clearly fluxuated. By the late 1970s, the radicalism of stonewall was replaced with a more formal…

Political Pieing: Anita Bryant

Practitioner:
Thom Higgins

Date:
Apr 1 2001

Gay rights activist, Thom Higgins, pied Anita Bryant, singer, former Miss Oklahoma beauty pageant winner, Florida Orange Juice Representative, and anti-gay rights activist, at a press conference in Des Moines IA. Bryant was a relentless crusader against gay rights. She…

Dream Kites

Practitioner:
CultureStrike

Date:
Apr 1 2001

CultureStrike, the national arts and activism group, teamed up with undocumented youth and NY-based artist Miguel Luciano to hold a kite-based symbolic public art project in Washington D.C. The kites were flown over the National Mall and the White House…

Witness to the ruins/Testigo de las ruinas

Practitioner:
Mapa Teatro

Date:
Apr 1 2001

The starting point of this artistic project, carried out by MAPA within its Laboratory of Artists in Colombia, is the disappearance of one of the oldest “barrios” downtown Bogotá: El Cartucho. This place, where thousands of people survived for decades…

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Practitioner:
Alex Bojour

Date:
Apr 1 2001

On October 2nd, three animal rights activists shocked the world with an extraordinarily bold act, organized by Alex Bojour. They all were branded alive (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA4q1pU957c) as a symbolic act of identification with the animals that are branded and used by…