Projects tagged "Performance"

Clowns against (Nazi) Clowns
Practitioner:
Loldiers of Odin, Coup Clutz Clowns, English Disco Lovers, et al.
Date:
Aug 26 2017
Trolls chanted in the streets the day of a planned neo-Nazi rally in the small ski town of Whitefish, Montana earlier this year. But they were not the trolls that residents had been expecting—namely, white supremacists from around the country, who had been harassing the town's Jewish community with death threats.
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Wake Up Masoala
Practitioner:
Razia Said and various artists
Date:
Oct 15 2011
In an endeavor to raise awareness at the local and international level, Razia organized the Mifohaza Masoala (Wake Up Masoala) music and environmental festival, which took place at the edge of the Masoala Rainforest in October 2011. The concert featured some of Madagascar’s most thrilling performers, and the festival was a tremendous success, with over 10,000 people in attendance.
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The Yes Men - Bhopal Hoax
Practitioner:
The Yes Men
Date:
Dec 3 2004
“I am very, very happy to announce that for the first time, Dow is accepting full responsibility for the Bhopal catastrophe. We have a $12 billion plan to finally, at long last, fully compensate the victims, including the 120,000 who may need medical care for their entire lives, and to fully and swiftly remediate the Bhopal plant site,” said the supposed Dow Chemical spokesman, Jude Finisterra, on Dec. 3, 2004, during an appearance on BBC World.
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In NYC, Activism Begins With Lessons In Theater
Practitioner:
EMERGE NYC
Date:
May 31 2017
Note before the post: This article is great in highlighting a specific case of creative activism in the streets of New York City, but also gives some contextual background to how this project manifested. On a sidewalk in the Village in downtown Manhattan, an African-American woman leans on her elbows and knees, wearing only black underpants. Scrawled in black marker all over her body are the words "Ain't I a Woman?"
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Between the Door and the Street
Practitioner:
Creative Time and The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum with Suzanne Lacy
Date:
Oct 19 2013
On Saturday, October 19, 2013, Creative Time and the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum presented Between the Door and the Street, a major work by the internationally celebrated artist Suzanne Lacy, perhaps the most important socially-engaged artist working today.
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What the Skirt Lifts
Practitioner:
Arthur Moinet/Academie De Nantes
Date:
May 16 2014
"What the Skirt Lifts", created by a student in France, is a day long protest against gender discrimination where male and female students were encouraged to wear skirts to school.
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An Italian farming community gathers for the funeral of traditional agriculture.
Practitioner:
JR, Alice Rohrwacher
Date:
Nov 1 2019
Omelia Contadina was born out of the concern of JR and director Alice Rohrwacher for the difficulties encountered by many small farmers and inhabitants of the Alfina plateau, in Italy.
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How Nina Simone turned the movement into music
Practitioner:
Nina Simone
Date:
Jul 4 1965
My skin is black,” the first woman’s story begins, “my arms are long.” And, to a slow and steady beat, “my hair is woolly, my back is strong.” Singing in a club in Holland, in 1965, Nina Simone introduced a song she had written about what she called “four Negro women” to a young, homogeneously white, and transfixed crowd.
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Wallyball
Practitioner:
Mexico and US Residents
Date:
Aug 26 2015
The frontier between the United States and Mexico is the busiest land border in the world. It is also among one of the world’s most heavily regulated and policed border zones—the arid climate of which is responsible for many migrant deaths each year.
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Imaginary Activism: The Role of the Artist Beyond the Art World
Practitioner:
Guillermo Gomez-Peña
Date:
May 6 2015
In this solo work, Gómez-Peña tests brand new material dealing with radical citizenship and what he terms “imaginary activism,” combining live art, literature, theory, and pedagogy in a wonderfully strange mix. Not one solo performance is ever the same.
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Good Chance Theatre
Practitioner:
Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson
Date:
Jan 1 2016
Surrounded by a jungle of tents and mud, the Good Chance Theatre was set up last year by British playwrights Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson. The refugee camp theatre has been derided by many, but for the thousands of migrants who have journeyed across the world to Calais, the small dome has been the first and only place into which they have been welcomed, and their voice valued.
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Welcome World Sleep Day: Performance art calls for "Put down the phone and sleep at ease"
Practitioner:
Chongqing Fuling wine town square
Date:
Mar 20 2021
March 20, World Sleep Day is approaching, Chongqing Fuling wine town square placed 2 transparent sleep house, staff in the form of performance art to call on people to "put down the phone, sleep at ease". It is reported that the purpose of World Sleep Day is to make people pay attention to the importance of sleep and sleep quality, to remind people to pay attention to sleep health and quality.
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Regina José Galindo- Performance Art Guatemala
Practitioner:
Regina José Galindo
Date:
Feb 3 2000
Regina Galindo is a Guatemalan performance artist that uses her body as a means to explore many of the human rights violations in Guatemala. In one of her performances, " no perdemos nada con nacer," or " we don't lose anything by being born," the artist "disposes" of herself in a plastic bag.
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Social Experiment: 65-Year-Old Man Tries To Marry A 12-Year-Old Girl In NYC
Practitioner:
Youtuber Coby Persin
Date:
Feb 24 2016
The statistics in regards to older men marrying young girls is mind boggling and disgusting. Every day 33,000 girls are married to older men, denied their rights to education and opportunity and robbed of their childhood. Many countries around the world find this practice normal, thankfully we do not find it normal here in the United States. More than 91 countries allow girls as young as six-years-old to be married. This is a problem.
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Jingle dress dancers honour George Floyd at site where he was killed
Practitioner:
Indigenous jingle dress dancers
Date:
Jun 2 2020
Indigenous people in Minneapolis supporting Black Lives Matter cite similar struggles Jingle dress dancers held a ceremony at the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis on Monday, the place where George Floyd was killed by police last week.
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And Counting...
Practitioner:
Wafaa Bilal
Date:
Mar 9 2010
Wafaa Bilal’s brother, Haji, was killed by a missile at a checkpoint in their hometown of Kufa, Iraq in 2004. Bilal feels the pain of both American and Iraqi families who have lost loved ones in the war, but the deaths of Iraqis like his brother are largely invisible to the American public.
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Teatro x la identidad
Practitioner:
Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo
Date:
Apr 10 2001
The Search for Identity in a Country of ‘Disappeared’ By Marcela Valente ‘Theatre for Identity’ is the theme of a novel undertaking in the Argentine capital, where 41 plays are being put on every Monday in 14 theatres.
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Intersecting Realms: Eva Koťátková's 'My Body Is Not An Island' and the Dialogue Between Body and Society
Practitioner:
Eva Koťátková
Date:
Aug 12 2023
Eva Koťátková is one of the most outstanding contemporary artists of the Czech Republic, working in the interdisciplinary art genre, emphasizing themes of the human body, society, and psychology. Her art often occupied the space of the thorny, tangled, and complicated human environment and did not remain indifferent.
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Xiuhtezcatl
Practitioner:
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
Date:
Aug 15 2017
The new wave of hip-hop has arisen a woke generation. From it, Xiuhtezcatl — seventeen-year-old Indigenous rapper and activist — has emerged, stirring the comatose with his music. From performing at the Standing Rock encampment with Immortal Technique and Nahko to leading the Youth v. Gov. lawsuit against the Federal Government, Xiuhtezcatl’s actions show his music is more than words.
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Washing River 洗河
Practitioner:
Yin Xiuzhen 尹秀珍
Date:
Jan 1 1995
Since the 1980s, revitalizing the economy has always been the country's development strategy. Although China's economy has grown rapidly in just twenty years, attracting worldwide attention, environmental destruction has also become a problem. For example, the Fu Nan River in Chengdu, like many rivers nationwide, is severely polluted.
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Artist's self record of a Chinese marriage market
Practitioner:
Yingguang Guo
Date:
Aug 1 2015
A photography project on China's marriage market has recently reignited the debate about marriage in China, and the phenomenon of women deemed too old to marry, or "leftover women" in the country.
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Corporations Ain't People
Practitioner:
Backbone Campaign
Date:
Sep 14 2010
Corporations Ain’t People: A Musical Protest 
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In Belarus, Theater as Activism
Practitioner:
THE FREE THEATER
Date:
Oct 4 2005
By DAVID L. STERN, in The New York Times Published: September 22, 2009
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The Mirror Casket Project
Practitioner:
De Andrea Nichols, Marcis Curtis, Sophie Lipman, Damon Davis, Mallory Nezam, Derek Laney, Elizabeth Vega
Date:
Sep 24 2014
The Mirror Casket project is a sculpture, performance, and visual call to action designed and orchestrated by a collaborative of St. Louis community artists in response to the shooting death of Michael Brown on August 9, 2014 in Ferguson, MO.
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Paddling Home
Practitioner:
Kasey Wong
Date:
May 4 2009
From Public Delivery: Kacey Wong has a knack for creating art that investigates the space between people and their surrounding environment. Paddling Home, which was performed on the Hong Kong Victoria Harbor, was a star feature in the Hong Kong contemporary art scene.
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