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Unland
Practitioner:
Doris Salcedo
Date:
Mar 19 1998
Doris Salcedo talked extensively with victims of the violence in Colombia. For the project titled Unland she spoke specifically with children who had witnessed the murder of their parents. This piece was a poetic response and representation of their testimony. Salcedo combined halves of tables together to make a whole. In the seam where the tables joined Salcedo meticulously sewed the tables together using white silk thread, dark hair and bone.
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Basta Dobbs
Practitioner:
Presente.org
Date:
Apr 1 2009
CNN calls itself "The Most Trusted Name in News," but for years they provided a platform for Lou Dobbs to spread dangerous myths about immigrants and use dehumanizing and disrespectful language towards the Latino community. In 2009 Presente.org fought back, spearheading a multi-stage, national campaign with dozens of partners demanding that CNN remove Dobbs.
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International Harlem Fine Arts Show
Practitioner:
Dion Clark, International Harlem Fine Arts Show
Date:
Feb 24 2023
The International Harlem Fine Arts Show (HFAS) is the largest traveling African Diasporic art show in the United States. Inspired by the Harlem Renaissance, HFAS provides a platform for African Diasporic visionaries and American visual artists to exhibit and sell their artwork. The show also aims to create economic empowerment, educational opportunities and professional recognition within the multicultural community.
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Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui
Practitioner:
El Anatsui
Date:
Feb 8 2013
The first solo exhibition in a New York museum by the globally renowned contemporary artist El Anatsui, this show will feature over 30 works in metal and wood that transform appropriated objects into site-specific sculptures.
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My World Is In Your Blindspot
Practitioner:
Tenzing Rigdol
Date:
Jul 1 2014
This is a series of paintings reflecting the struggle and sacrifices made by the Tibetan people for independence. The author is Tenzing Rigdol, who is a Tibetan and influenced a lot by the Dalai Lama and traditional Tibetan culture. The paintings are full of Tibetan cultural elements. For instance, the characters created in the paintings are Tibetan monks, who are the typical representatives of their culture.
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"RE.ACTIVIUM SILVESTRE"
Practitioner:
Re.Colectivo Association, Yetooponese Association, Masta Platform
Date:
Feb 14 2014
COLLABORATIVE LABORATORY FOR ANALYZE PASSIVE ATTITUDES AND CREATIVE STRATEGIES OF ACTIVATION. 14-15-16 February 2014 Meeting to discuss experiences and reflect on the concept of creativity as a tool for transformation.
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Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei
Practitioner:
Ai Weiwei
Date:
Mar 12 2025
“Everything is art. Everything is politics.” Globally renowned artist Ai Weiwei (Chinese, b. 1957) is celebrated as a disruptor of artistic canons and a champion of free expression. In his work—ranging across performance, photography, sculpture, video, and installation—he deploys humor and provocation, calling upon his viewers to examine history, society, and culture.
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Hatsune Miku
Practitioner:
Crypton Future Media and its official moe anthropomorph
Date:
Aug 31 2007
Miku is a Japanese virtual idol. She is 16 years old. Miku is created in 2007 and has been heavily promoted since 2008 and was originally aimed at professional musicians. On September 12, 2007, Amazon.co.jp reported sales of Hatsune Miku totaling 57,500,000 yen, making her the number one selling software of that time. She was the first vocal to be developed and distributed by Crypton Future Media and sung in Japanese.
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The Reality of Small Differences
Practitioner:
Gill Crawshaw; disabled artists in Yorkshire
Date:
Aug 23 2014
An exhibition of textile-based work by disabled artists, organised in protest at the inaccessibility of an exhibition by a popular artist, when it came to Leeds.
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“Don’t Look Up” director McKay gives to climate activists
Practitioner:
Adam McKay
Date:
Sep 20 2020
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In director Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up,” a 2021 satire about two scientists who try in vain to warn the world about a planet-destroying comet, the scientists’ desperate plea for action ultimately doesn’t work. But don’t take that as McKay’s view on the power of activism to change the course of the climate crisis, the existential threat his movie was really about.
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Guerrilla Girls- Twin Cities “takeover”
Practitioner:
Kahlo and Kollwitz
Date:
Jan 20 2016
A project as expansive as the Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover is a first for them. Kicking off on January 21, the festival will comprise a series of events by 30 different groups, which will take place until March 6 at more than 20 arts and cultural organizations in and around Minneapolis/St. Paul. A network of local art activists will be mobilized, and the Guerrilla Girls have been working in tandem with the area’s youth groups to prepare.
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Security-1998 Hacked CANTV database
Practitioner:
Yucef Mehri
Date:
Aug 17 1999
In 1998 Hacker-Poet-Artist Yucef Mehri breached the security of CANTV at the time the largest telecommunications company in Venezuela. He was able to access the personal data kept by the company which contained the names, addresses, phone numbers, working places, and even checking accounts, credit cards, and expiration dates of it's customers.
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Iva Hladis: Origins Extinct
Practitioner:
Iva Hladis
Date:
Sep 10 2005
Iva Hladis was born in Czechoslovakia in 1965. ​In 2005 her attention turned to the issue of global warming and world destruction with a new series of artworks titled “Origins Extinct”; assemblages of used computer chipboards, real botanicals, bugs, Czech glass beads, found objects, wires and pearls.
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Environmental protection is the greatest religion, says Chinese artist
Practitioner:
Yuan Xikun
Date:
Aug 8 2014
By a pond inside one of the entrances to Beijing’s Chaoyang Park lies a cluster of one and two storey red pyramid-shaped buildings. Sculptures of Gandhi and Lincoln and other famous figures sit in the quiet woods nearby. This is Yuan Xikun’s Jin Tai Art Museum.
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Occupy Museums Hosts a Faux Graduation Ceremony at the Whitney Museum
Practitioner:
Occupy Museums
Date:
May 5 2017
The Whitney Museum of American Art’s pay-what-you-wish Fridays are typically busy. For two-and-a-half hours out of the 53 the museum is open each week, visitors can enter without paying the usual $25 admission fee, a brief and temporary, but recurrent, leveling of the playing field for art lovers.
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Bailando en el banco
Practitioner:
FLO6x8
Date:
Oct 22 2010
Unas clientas esperan tranquilamente en un banco, cuando empieza a sonar una extraña canción en el hilo musical. Una clienta se sale de la cola y comienza a bailar con brío flamenco, y sorprendentemente el resto de clientes se le unen en una compleja coreografía con mucho desparpajo.
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Andrea Bowers: Art for Social Justice
Practitioner:
Andrea Bowers
Date:
Jul 13 2023
“Artist Andrea Bowers creates powerful works addressing immigration, gender violence, and environmental justice. Her large-scale drawing ‘No Olvidado’ memorializes migrants who died crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, calling attention to the human cost of border policies.”
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European leaders visit Kyiv, and tell Russia: 30-day ceasefire now or face massive sanctions
Practitioner:
Andrew Carey, Nick Paton Walsh
Date:
May 10 2025
Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — The leaders of Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Poland have told Russian leader Vladimir Putin to agree to a 30-day ceasefire starting on Monday or face possible “massive” sanctions, according to French President Emmanuel Macron, on a highly symbolic visit to Kyiv. The demand comes with the backing of the White House after a joint phone call with President Donald Trump, the Europeans said.
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Chinese Feminist Act Against Sexual Harassment on Subway
Practitioner:
Zheng Xi
Date:
Dec 1 2017
Zheng Xi 郑熹, a Ph.D. candidate with a focus on gender studies at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. Zheng has launched a campaign asking city governments around China to display anti-sexual-harassment logos, complete with a groper’s “salty-pig hand” visual (etymological context here), alongside other commonly displayed public safety logos on places like subway trains and buses.
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AmplifyHER and AnimateHER
Practitioner:
Ten One Films
Date:
Sep 1 2015
Amplify HER is a visually dynamic, character driven feature documentary that offers intimate access into the lives of numerous emerging female artists. By combining ecstatic energy and feminine artistry, these talented young women in the global electronic music scene are harbingers for the emerging paradigm.
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