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Cop d’ ull

Practitioner:
Enmedio, TAF!

Date:
May 1 2002

This project was born a few days after a demonstrator lost an eye after being hit by a rubber bullet shot from police guns in Barcelona. Unfortunately, it was not the first time. “Cop d’ ull” means a “a blow…

Art and Activism (TV Documentary)

Practitioner:
Enmedio, Leonidas Martin, Yomango

Date:
May 1 2002

A television report written, directed and produced by Enmedio members Leónidas Martín and Xavier Artigas. Collective projects that see art as a kind of social relationship. Artistic interventions that target consumption, media guerrilla tactics, creative mobilisations and protest, critical projects…

Activism and Fiction (TV documentary)

Practitioner:
Enmedio, Leonidas Martin, Nuria Campabadal

Date:
May 1 2002

On 6 January 2012, Metrópolis (TVE 2) broadcast “Activismo y Ficción”, a report directed by Enmedio members Leónidas Martín and Núria Campabadal. It looks at a series of creative projects that lie somewhere between fiction and social activism. The paramount…

Party #CierraBankia (Shut down Bankia)

Practitioner:
Enmedio

Date:
May 1 2002

First cut the banks! In 2012 Bankia declared itself bankrupt and, almost immediately, asked the Government of Spain for €23 billion. The Government accepted, yet that very same week ordered €20,000 million worth of cuts in health and education. It…

Party at the Unemployment Office

Practitioner:
Enmedio

Date:
May 1 2002

The crisis is here, let the party begin! April 30, 2009. At first the crisis was just a state of being, a kind of social sadness that paralyzed everything. To break this atmosphere we couldn’t think of anything better than…

Occupy Small Street

Practitioner:
Arts x Activism

Date:
May 1 2002

First Inspired by a doll-sized action in Siberia, #occupysmallstreet staged its first little protest in Melbourne’s City Square, as part of #F12, International Art + Occupy Day. Signs are made collectively, by regular Arts x Activism and members of the…

Real Democracy Australia – Viral Participatory Poster Project.

Practitioner:
Carl Scrase in collaboration with Real Democracy Australia

Date:
May 1 2002

Do we need to crowdsource a new Australian Constitution? Does anything matter more than the environment? Should Australia become a republic with an Australian head of state? Should whistleblowers be protected? Is representative democracy antiquated? Controversial artist Carl Scrase is…

Building Images

Practitioner:
Isabelle Wenzel

Date:
May 1 2002

Isabelle Wenzel’s series of photographs entitled ‘Building Images’ is a striking view on the idea of the office/ workplace. Not only do her images ironically translate the uncomfortable positions office workers endure sitting in a single position for 8 hours…