Latin America & Caribbean – Page 20 – Actipedia

SuperBarrio runs for PRESIDENT!

Date:
Apr 1 1996

“Superbarrio Gomez and his journey in the construction of a “politics of the possible” (1) , an alternative political imaginary constituted via popular culture and the construction of a national and transnational social movement. Superbarrio makes evident the collapse between…

“Guerras Electorales”….a game that mimics electoral fraud

Practitioner:
Innox

Date:
Apr 1 1996

Right before the presidential elections in Mexico, planned for July of 2012, a local software enterprise has developed a smart-phone game that shows how to commit fraud at the elections. The game, called Guerras Electorales (Electoral Wars)and created by a…

Garrido Boxing Academy

Practitioner:
Nilson Garrido

Date:
Apr 1 1996

The odd spaces exiting under bridges and viaducts around the world are often left aside, urban spatial residues mostly abandoned or occupied informally by homeless people drug users etc. The former pro boxer Nilson Garrido saw the space under the…

Ossario: Reverse Graffiti

Practitioner:
Alexandre Orion

Date:
Apr 1 1996

Visual artist Alexandre Orion removes soot in an artful manner to produce skulls in the tunnels of the polluted city of Sao Paulo. Orion does so in an attempt to create intervention, raise awarenes, and decrease pollution. “From the ocular…

A Map of Error

Practitioner:
The Errorist Movement

Date:
Apr 1 1996

Buenos 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…

El Cerro

Practitioner:
Chemi Rosado Seijo

Date:
Apr 1 1996

Excerpts from Chemi Rosado’s lecture at The Creative Time Summit 2011: “For me, there are four major aspects that this project has achieved: 1. It’s a Social Active work of art 2. The exchange of knowledge between people that normally…

International Errorist Movement

Practitioner:
Colectivo Etcétera, International Errorist Movement

Date:
Apr 1 1996

errare humanum est Augustine of Hippo, Sermones Capitalism is the most insidious error that has been successfully dissimulated. The International Errorist Manifesto The IV Summit of the Americas took place in Mar del Plata, Argentina on the first days of…

Melting Man: Red Cross-Sponsored Activist “Melts” On Sidewalk

Practitioner:
Red Cross

Date:
Apr 1 1996

A 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…

Melting Man: Red Cross-Sponsored Activist “Melts” On Sidewalk

Practitioner:
Red Cross

Date:
Apr 1 1996

A 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…

The City: Pedestrian and Cyclist Cemetery

Practitioner:
Bicicleta Blanca Guadalajara

Date:
Apr 1 1996

The City: Pedestrian and Cyclist Cemetery (Ciudad cementerio de peatones y ciclistas) A project by Bicicleta Blanca Guadalajara Since we perceive the world at the size of a human being and not a car, this is an inherently more comfortable…