Visual Arts – Page 21 – Actipedia | A Wiki for Creative Activism

“Your body is a battleground”

Date:
Jun 30 1989

A woman’s head is bisected by a line that splits her face into positive and negative halves. Over the image, a commanding text, stated in the second person, reads: “Your body is a battleground.” Artist Barbara Kruger’s famous collage —…

The Story of Let Hair Down and her confrontations with the NYPD

Practitioner:
Kanami Kusajima

Date:
Jun 30 1989

Kanami Kusakima, also known as the woman who dances in Washington Square Park with the long black hair and the paint, was happy to allow the Mayor’s Office of NYC use her image as a promotional tool for a “post-coivd”…

“We stand in solidarity”-Asian American Artist Confront Racism

Practitioner:
Godzilla: Asian American Art Network, Mike Keo, Monyee Chau

Date:
Jun 30 1989

Unleashed by anxiety over the pandemic, the nationwide rise in anti-Asian hate has served as a call to action for many Asian American artists to take a stand: To actively challenge the historic negative stereotype of the vice- and disease-ridden…

Ice Watch London

Practitioner:
Olafur Eliasson

Date:
Jun 30 1989

The Guardian: Olafur Eliasson is putting the chill into climate change. The revered Scandinavian artist has placed 24 large blocks of centuries-old ice, harvested from the Nuup Kangerlua fjord in Greenland, in a circle outside the Tate Modern in London,…

Tamir Rice legacy shows how artists can sensitively engage with racially charged history

Practitioner:
Cleveland Museum of Art

Date:
Jun 30 1989

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Dana Schutz, the acclaimed New York artist who trained at the Cleveland Institute of Art, famously stirred controversy at the 2017 Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art with “Open Casket,’’ her painting depicting Emmett Till’s…

Waste Land Project

Practitioner:
Vik Muniz

Date:
Jun 30 1989

The project involved creating portraits of garbage pickers from the Jardim Gramacho landfill near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, using materials found in the landfill itself. Muniz worked with the garbage pickers to create the portraits, which were then photographed and…

Inside Out Project

Practitioner:
Jean-René

Date:
Jun 30 1989

After winning the TED Prize on March 2, 2011, the French-artist JR launched the Inside Out Project, in his first TED Talk. Using his own artistic practice as inspiration, this participatory platform helps individuals and communities to make a statement…

The Point is to Change It

Practitioner:
Liberate Tate

Date:
Jun 30 1989

When President Trump announced the US departure from the Paris Climate Accord on 1 June 2017, his enjoyment at walking over the efforts of national delegations and hundreds of pressure groups across the world who fought for that deal was…

Trust visions that don’t feature buckets of blood

Practitioner:
Jenny Holzer, Lady Pink

Date:
Jun 30 1989

In the 1980s, Holzer and Lady Pink used New York as a backdrop for their artworks: Holzer wheatpasted posters and slogans on walls throughout Manhattan, and Lady Pink spray-painted graffiti on buildings and subway cars. The two also collaborated on…

Negro Matapacos

Practitioner:
Maldito Perrito

Date:
Jun 30 1989

The streets of Santiago are once again alive with the spirit of revolution. For weeks now, working-class Chileans have occupied national monuments and blocked major intersections in protest of widespread inequality. They desire full reform — a request so long…