Projects tagged
Performance
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Lysistrata
Read more: LysistrataLysistrata, by Aristophanes, was first performed in Athens in 411 BC. The play, while fictional, can be read as an early example of creative activism. It is about Lysistrata’s quest to end the war between Athens and Sparta. She gathers…
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Much Ado About BP
Read more: Much Ado About BP“Members of the Reclaim Shakespeare Company jumped on stage at the Noël Coward theatre to deliver another surprise anti-BP performance. Just before the second half of a BP-sponsored Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) performance of Much Ado About Nothing was due…
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Activists fight the intrusion of camera surveillance in New York City
Read more: Activists fight the intrusion of camera surveillance in New York City“The Surveillance Camera Players (SCP) is a small, informal group of people who are unconditionally opposed to the installation and use of video surveillance cameras in public places. The SCP was formed in New York City in November 1996 by…
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Lambrakis LivZ
Read more: Lambrakis LivZThe performance, “Lambrakis LivZ”, concerns the re-enactment of the political speech of Grigoris Lambrakis given in Athens in 1962. Grigoris Lambrakis was a peace-activist, assassinated by a paramilitary plot on June 1963 at Thessaloniki, Greece. The title denotes the first…
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Wyrd: Double, Double, Oil, and Trouble
Read more: Wyrd: Double, Double, Oil, and Trouble“Twelve members of the ‘Reclaim Shakespeare Company’ staged an unexpected protest performance inside the ‘Shakespeare: Staging the World’ exhibition at the British Museum. At 3.30pm, a dozen members of the “Reclaim Shakespeare Company” theatrical action group launched a surprise piece…
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Occupy Supporters In Protest At St Paul’s
Read more: Occupy Supporters In Protest At St Paul’sOccupy Supporters In Protest At St Paul’s: Protesters leave St Paul’s after staging a protest in solidarity with Russian anarcho-punk band Pussy Riot. Protesters leave St Paul’s after staging a protest in solidarity with Russian anarcho-punk band Pussy Riot. 4:49am…
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A Map of Error
Read more: A Map of ErrorBuenos Aires in Argentina is the only city in the world where streets named Palestine and Israel intersect on the city grid. Taking advantage of this situation, The Errorist Movement decided to protest against the conflict in Gaza in that…
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Melting Man: Red Cross-Sponsored Activist “Melts” On Sidewalk
Read more: Melting Man: Red Cross-Sponsored Activist “Melts” On SidewalkA young man melting into a puddle of himself is something you don’t see everyday, much less in a busy public square. Yet this humourous but surprisingly effective spectacle is the latest effort by the Red Cross of Argentina to…
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Melting Man: Red Cross-Sponsored Activist “Melts” On Sidewalk
Read more: Melting Man: Red Cross-Sponsored Activist “Melts” On SidewalkA young man melting into a puddle of himself is something you don’t see everyday, much less in a busy public square. Yet this humourous but surprisingly effective spectacle is the latest effort by the Red Cross of Argentina to…
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Activists get branded with hot steel
Read more: Activists get branded with hot steelOn October 2nd 2012, World Farmed Animals Day, three animal rights activists in Israel got branded with a hot steel brand, in the same way that farmed animals are branded in factory farms. The branding of the calf’s number, chosen…