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Maboneng Township Arts Experience

Date:
Jan 1 2001

At the age of just 30, Palesa Ngwenya is helping transform these areas through her position as development coordinator of Maboneng Township Arts Experience. “We turn homes in the townships into art galleries,” says the young South African woman, who…

‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ inspires real-life billboards

Practitioner:
avaaz, Justice 4 Grenfell

Date:
Jan 1 2001

A pair of activist groups have taken a tactic straight from the Oscar front-runner “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” The movie centers on a grieving mother, angry that the man who raped and killed her daughter still hasn’t been found…

Actor Jim Carrey has emerged as an unlikely political artist and activist

Practitioner:
Jim Carrey

Date:
Jan 1 2001

Actor and comedian Jim Carrey has always been known for his slapstick silliness. You know the films — “Dumb and Dumber,” “The Mask,” “Liar Liar,” “Ace Ventura,” just to name a few. But he also always managed to peel back…

Zanele Muholi: ‘I’m a visual activist’

Practitioner:
Zanele Muholi

Date:
Jan 1 2001

I am a visual activist. Most of what I have done over the years focuses on black LGBTQIA+ and gender-non-conforming individuals from South Africa and other neighbouring countries. It’s about making sure we exist in the visual archive. I call…

FOKAL

Practitioner:
and Africamérica, Fondation Culture Création, the French Institute, UNESCO

Date:
Jan 1 2001

ARTS/CULTURE FOKAL is the hub in Haiti where locals and international visitors from all walks of life — artists, writers, citizens, activists– come together to discuss the most pressing nation- and community-building issues, enjoy cutting edge artistic expressions, and share…

Sit-Down Strike for Rhythm

Practitioner:
Rhythm Ambassadors

Date:
Jan 1 2001

At the New Orleans Swing Dance Festival the all African-American dance troupe The Rhythm Ambassadors were presented along side an African-American iteration of the Preservation Hall All-Star band with African-American vocalist Taryn Newborne to deliver the message that the African-American…

Reclaiming the Domestic

Practitioner:
Mary Sibande

Date:
Jan 1 2001

The work of South African artist Mary Sibande tells the tale of her alter-ego Sophie, a domestic worker who finds refuge in dreams where she emancipates herself from the ghoulish realism of an ordinary existence, cleaning other people’s homes. Exploring…

Vetements old clothes piles against fast fashion

Practitioner:
Vetements

Date:
Jan 1 2001

Vetements’ trademark is for subverting the fashion industry’s ways of doing things. Following its recent return to the runway after a short one season break, designer Demna Gvasalia has unveiled his latest project. Mirroring its takeover of New York department…

The “Radical Edits” of Alexandra Bell

Practitioner:
Alexandra Bell

Date:
Jan 1 2001

The artist Alexandra Bell‘s “Counternarratives” series highlights journalism’s tendency toward obfuscation and slant. In the spring of 2017, Alexandra Bell began wheat-pasting posters of edited and redacted pages of the New York Times on subway platforms and buildings around the…

Dismaland

Practitioner:
Banksy

Date:
Jan 1 2001

“He describes it as a “family theme park unsuitable for small children” – and with the Grim Reaper whooping it up on the dodgems and Cinderella horribly mangled in a pumpkin carriage crash, it is easy to see why. Banksy’s…