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artistic activism
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Howitcouldbedifferent.org – a wikipedia of ideas for improvement and social change
Read more: Howitcouldbedifferent.org – a wikipedia of ideas for improvement and social changeHave you ever wanted to see current or potential innovations for poverty or the environment without having to do a lot of researching or reading? Have you ever thought of an idea and wanted to tell the world about it…
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Anti-Capitalism Art on the Louvre’s Glass Pyramid
Read more: Anti-Capitalism Art on the Louvre’s Glass PyramidFor the first time since its controversial installation in 1989, the I.M. Pei-designed Louvre Pyramid has been decorated in a museum-sanctioned act of anti-capitalist activism. Italian conceptual artist Michelangelo Pistoletto has imposed a three-looped infinity symbol on the pyramid’s western…
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Connecting Peace Day and Valentine’s Day
Read more: Connecting Peace Day and Valentine’s DayValentine Peace Project (VPP) Community Valentine actions started on the streets of Los Angeles with the sharing of thousands of poems on peace and expressions of love given out wrapped around carnations and later Fairtrade roses. Students also made paper…
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How to Disrupt the Financial Order with Humour, Creativity and a dose of Mischief.
Read more: How to Disrupt the Financial Order with Humour, Creativity and a dose of Mischief.Enmedio member Leonidas Martín at Creativetime 2012 (New York). His presentation “How to Disrupt the Financial Order with Humour, Creativity and a Dose of Mischief” is priceless. Watch the video and laugh. Just pause for a moment and imagine: the…
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175 HECTARS
Read more: 175 HECTARSOn 27th January 2013, the participatory project titled 175 hectares has run through the streets of the city of Trento (Italy). All the community has traced a line of white chalk that measures 6.3 km and the area included was…
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Lixo Extraordinário
Read more: Lixo ExtraordinárioOver the course of 3 years, from 2006 until 2009, the production team behind the film Wasteland (2010), also known as “Lixo Extraordinário” followed Brazilian, Brooklyn-based mixed-media artist, Vik Muniz, as he traveled back to Brazil to create self portraits…
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Mental Health Care Revolution: FEEL IT!
Read more: Mental Health Care Revolution: FEEL IT!Artistic Activist, Charlotte Claire, is at the forefront of initiating revolutionary change in mental health care. Her project, The Babyfacedassassin, is dedicated to improving mental health care and inspiring people to care for their mental health. Mental Health Care Revolution:…
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Decolonize Me
Read more: Decolonize MeDecolonize Me features six contemporary Aboriginal artists whose works challenge, interrogate and reveal Canada’s long history of colonization in daring and innovative ways. Deliberately riffing on the title of Morgan Spurlock’s film, the pop-cultural phenomenon Super Size Me (2004), the…
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A is for Activist: An ABC Book for Kids of the 99%
Read more: A is for Activist: An ABC Book for Kids of the 99%A is for Activism is a children’s book developed by Innosanto Nagara, an author illustrator and founding member of the Design Action Collective, a worker owned cooperative design studio in Oakland that is dedicated to “serving the Movement.” The book…
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In Belarus, Theater as Activism
Read more: In Belarus, Theater as ActivismBy DAVID L. STERN, in The New York Times Published: September 22, 2009 MINSK, BELARUS — Three male actors enter a stark, white room in a ramshackle house on the outskirts of this former Soviet city and place a large…