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Date:

May 13 2013

"Suzanne Lacy is an internationally known artist whose work includes installations, video, and large-scale performances on social themes and urban issues. One of her best-known works to date is The Crystal Quilt (Minneapolis, 1987) a performance with 430 older women, broadcast live on Public Television." (http://www.suzannelacy.com/)

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“Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)

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Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Date:

Jan 24 1991

Felix Gonzalez-Torres produced meaningful and restrained sculptural forms out of common materials. “Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) consists of an ideal weight of 175 pounds of shiny, commercially distributed candy. The work’s physical form and scale change with each display, affected by its placement in the gallery as well as audience interactions.

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Terrorism to Monuments

Practitioner:

Arquitectura y Urbanismo

Date:

Jul 10 2019

Within the topic of terrorism, the idea of loss and memory is always a pervasive idea that cannot be avoided. Within the topic of loss and memory, the idea of monuments is always a pervasive idea that cannot be avoided because they are used to commemorate and remember those that lost their lives to the terrorists.

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Future Internment Camps

Practitioner:

Plastic Jesus

Date:

Mar 7 2017

Over the weekend, Plastic Jesus affixed 50 signs to construction sites throughout the country that read, “Lot reserved for: Future Internment Camp.”

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Alternative News Agency: revolution's visual narratives revisited

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Alternative News Agency

Date:

May 14 2012

from ahramonlineby Sara ElkamelAn indelible link has materialised between artistic expression and revolution. Maybe it is the features they share: freedom, deviance and fluidity, which bring them so close together. In any case, Egypt’s January 25 Revolution undeniably led to a surge of creativity across the country; a rebel’s passion merges with an

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untitled subway graffiti

Practitioner:

Unknown

Date:

Feb 9 2025

alternating yellow and white chalk on black blank subway advertisement spaces. "NO ONE VOTED FOR ELON" "RISE AND RESIST" "RESISTANCE IS CONTAGIOUS" "WHO WILL SAVE US? WE WILL SAVE US" found on the uptown C train platform at 50th street station. found on february 9, 2025.

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"Great Men" - Marlene Dumas at Manifesta 10

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Marlene Dumas, Manifesta 10

Date:

Jun 28 2014

AMSTERDAM — “When I was in the army, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.”

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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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The artist behind ‘Fearless Girl’ wants to spread her message far and wide. A lawsuit is getting in the way

Practitioner:

Kristen Visbal, CNN

Date:

Feb 17 2022

CNN — Five years after first appearing on the cobblestones of Wall Street, the “Fearless Girl” statue – a petite but controversial symbol for gender equality – is taking on a new digital form.

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Join The Pack

Practitioner:

Emily Kelley

Date:

Jan 16 2016

Grey wolves have had a tumultuous relationship with their human neighbors in the Pacific Northwest for more than a hundred years. From nearly being wiped out from the continent, Canadian grey wolves started being reintroduced to the wilderness in the U.S.'s Northern Rockies as early as 1995. The wolves were (and continue to be) placed in areas dense with wilderness and potential prey.

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Rap Against Rape

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BomBaebs

Date:

Mar 16 2015

Under the moniker BomBaebs, Pankhuri Awasthi and Uppekha Jain rap about rape, cultural stereotypes, religious biases, and hypocrisy surrounding sexism and gender biases in India. They open the video with a disclaimer, warning that “This video doesn’t have any explicit or bannable content. It is just that the reality for women in India is Explicit.”

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Performance Art Feminism in Beijing

Practitioner:

Xiao Yue

Date:

Feb 14 2012

Xiao has organized and participated in a series of activities that combine performance art with a strong social message. Despite a well-known Chinese maxim expounding that women "hold up half the sky," feminism has largely been an underground movement in the country. Xiao and her cohorts' mission is to change that by taking up the cause in public, even if it means going to extreme and controversial lengths.

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LGBT activists ask strangers for hugs in China protest at Weibo censorship

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Chinese LGBT activists

Date:

Apr 19 2018

A social experiment testing the public’s reaction to gay people in China has gone viral. The blindfolded activists stood in public wearing T-shirts that said “I’m gay would you hug me?” and video of the protest then spread rapidly on Weibo, a hugely popular social media platform in China. The social experiment follows a recent announcement by Weibo to ban gay content on its platform of 400 million active users.

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Documentary on art and activism in the streets of Buenos Aires

Practitioner:

Graffitimundo

Date:

Oct 1 2008

'White Walls Say Nothing’ is the first feature-length film of its kind to explore art and activism in the streets of Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires is a complex, chaotic city. It has European style and a Latin American heart. It has oscillated between dictatorship and democracy for over a century, and its citizens have barely known political or economic stability.

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Police dogs and firehoses

Practitioner:

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Date:

May 3 1963

Police dogs and firehoses is, for most of the world, the image of Birmingham made by Bull Connor and the Birmingham Police Department during the Birmingham Campaign of the African American Civil Rights Movement.

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Mile-long bus museum honoring children killed by gun violence heads to Ted Cruz's Texas home

Practitioner:

NRA Children's Museum

Date:

Jul 14 2022

Article written by Katy Barber: A mile-long procession of school buses are headed to Sen. Ted Cruz's home in Houston on Thursday, July 14.

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Abortion Drone; first flight to Poland

Practitioner:

Women on Waves

Date:

Jun 27 2015

On Saturday June 27 th the Abortion drone flies for the first time packages of abortion pills from Frankfurt an der Oder in Germany to Słubice in Poland.

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Shining a spotlight on domestic violence – the Women’s House (Sunglasses) project

Practitioner:

Sanja Iveković

Date:

Jun 28 1998

Croatian artist Sanja Iveković started Women’s House (Sunglasses) in 1998 in collaboration with a women’s shelter in Zagreb and later with women’s shelters elsewhere in Europe and Asia. Iveković organised workshops with women in these shelters to produce plaster casts of their faces, as well as to give them the space to write their life stories.

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