Projects tagged "Visual Arts"

Courthouse Protest
Practitioner:
Maret Anne Sara
Date:
Mar 20 2022
he tundra of northern Norway is a long way from the Venice Biennale. Indeed, it is a long way from anywhere, at least viewed through western eyes.
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Artists in Seven South American Cities Reflect on Past Dictatorships
Practitioner:
various groups
Date:
Mar 23 2018
*image* Gabriela Golder, “Letters” (photo by Federico Lo Bianco, courtesy Parque de la Memoria)
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Plutos: Chronicles of the Superrich
Practitioner:
Smuggers
Date:
Feb 7 2011
Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 17 of the United States Criminal Code: "Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System,
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Artist cages Boston's "Make Way for Duckings" statue
Practitioner:
Karyn Alzayer
Date:
Aug 9 2019
Alzayer put cages around Boston's "Make Way for Ducklngs" statues, separating the baby duckling statues from the mother. The original statues were created in 1987 by Nancy Schon and the mallard family is based on the children's book by Robert McCloskey.
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"Great Men" - Marlene Dumas at Manifesta 10
Practitioner:
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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Guernica
Practitioner:
Pablo Picasso
Date:
Jul 1 1937
Pablo Picasso painted Guernica in just five weeks in the spring of 1937. Then living in Paris, Picasso, fifty-five, was already well-known. Born in Spain in 1881, he went to Paris in 1900; he had visited Spain in 1934 but would never return.
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We Declare The World as Our Canvass
Practitioner:
Street Art Utopia
Date:
Mar 13 2013
The website 'Street art utopia' has an amazing collection of pictures of street art from Belgium, NYC, to Brazil and Israel Palestine. Talented people sharing their art publicly for the streets and the world to see! Activism: reclaiming a public space, maybe...not sure, but it is public art with various messages...
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The Protest Banner Lending Library
Practitioner:
Aram Han Sifuentes
Date:
Jan 1 2017
The Protest Banner Lending Library is a space for people to gain skills to learn to make their own banners, a communal sewing space where we support each other’s voices, and a place where people can check out handmade banners to use in protests.
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Ai Weiwei’s Colored Vases: Clever Artwork Or Vandalism?
Practitioner:
Ai Weiwei
Date:
Jan 1 2006
Exhibition visitors have expressed feelings of uneasiness or even pain and nostalgia when seeing Colored Vases by Ai Weiwei1. The 51 vases that make up the artwork are originally treasures from the Neolithic Age (5000–3000 BCE) and the artist has dunked them in common industrial paint. Why did Ai Weiwei do it?
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iPod's Dirty Secrete
Practitioner:
The Neistat Brothers
Date:
Apr 24 2003
The Neistat Brothers first attracted public attention in 2003 with their blatantly critical work, iPod’s Dirty Secret. After being refused a replacement battery for an 18-month old iPod, [they] took to the streets of Manhattan on their bikes to sabotage iPod’s omnipresent advertising.
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Resistance to the stereotypes of poetry
Practitioner:
Applied Clinical Sociology and Arts, Department of Sociology at the University of the Aegean, Department of Fine and Applied Arts, School of Fine Arts Florina Greece
Date:
Jan 1 2021
The aim of the action is to create a fractal network of poets, where their poems will be recited, recorded, set to music, will be activistically acted as performance material in order to resist the censorship of art. The field of action is the poets who will be born and the network that will be created by the restless artists.
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The Great Migration Series
Practitioner:
Jacob Lawrence
Date:
May 12 1941
National Public Radio (NPR): There's no historical marker outside Jacob Lawrence's childhood home in New York City's Harlem neighborhood. But Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has an idea of what it might say: "Here lived one of the 20th century's most influential visual artists, a man named Jacob Lawrence, who was a child of southern migrants."
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Color-Cycling
Practitioner:
Narcelio Grud
Date:
Apr 23 2012
Ciclo-Color 
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Local artist stages demonstration inspired by protesters in China
Practitioner:
Yolanda He Yang
Date:
Dec 11 2022
Late last month, Chinese citizens took up a creative means of protest over the nation’s strict “zero-COVID” policy. In a place with little tolerance for large public demonstrations, protesters have been holding up blank pieces of paper. Their ingenuity inspired a local artist Yolanda He Yang to stage a public art demonstration to subtly communicate their dissent.
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NYC Artist Is Using Her Unapologetically Brown Identity to Empower Others
Practitioner:
Johanna Toruno
Date:
Jul 1 2017
You’ll find Johanna Toruno on the streets of NYC plastering pictures of her flower-filtered poetry, Kendrick Lamar, and Selena on blank walls, street lights and buildings. When I came across The Unapologetically Brown Series on Instagram I was intrigued not only by the name but by the concept of being unapologetic and brown as the premise for a body of street art.
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"Printing Lost Culture of Ukraine" and "The Man Who Flew Into Space From His Brooklyn Apartment"
Practitioner:
Dmitry Borshch
Date:
Nov 13 2023
Both shows are supported by funds from New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and Materials for the Arts (MFTA). "Printing Lost Culture of Ukraine" November 13 – December 15, 2023 Monday – Friday, 10 am – 7 pm, free admission Ukraine House New York, 360 Merrick Road, 3rd Floor, Lynbrook, NY 11563
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Artists React to the Pandemic, George Floyd and the Election
Practitioner:
Patricia Dahlman
Date:
Jul 3 2020
“Artists React to the Pandemic, George Floyd and the Election”
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Ella Daish's Giant Tampon
Practitioner:
Ella Daish
Date:
Sep 30 2020
Environmental activist Ella Daish has created a giant tampon applicator as part of a protest against single-use plastic. The piece is made out of period plastic found polluting beaches, waterways, and local ecosystems in the UK. Daish sourced 1,200 applicators from 15 different locations across the United Kingdom. Of the plastic applicators collected for the project, 87.5 percent came from one brand, Tampax.
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Creative activism and the remaking of Palestine
Practitioner:
Khaled Jarrar & groups of Palestenians
Date:
Jun 10 2012
Creative activism and the remaking of Palestine While policy wonks and media pundits wallow in endless debates about Jewish settlements and the threat of terror, Palestinian groups are creatively exploring alternative ways to realise their national aspirations.
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Hamilton
Practitioner:
Lin Manuel Miranda
Date:
Aug 6 2015
‘‘HAMILTON,’’ the new musical biography of Alexander Hamilton created by and starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, kicks off with a doozy of a question. The houselights rise on Aaron Burr, the third vice president of the United States and, infamously, the killer of Hamilton in a duel in 1804. Burr steps to center stage and reels off several lines of verse:
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#thisisnotamask Covid-19 Rubber Stamp Currency Intervention
Practitioner:
Joseph DeLappe and Brent Richardson
Date:
Jul 1 2020
#thisisnotamask Covid-19 Pandemic Rubber Stamp Currency Intervention Website: https://thisisnotamask.tumblr.com/ For more information: Joseph DeLappe artist/activist – j.delappe@abertay.ac.uk Brent Richardson media artist – brent@BrentRich.com Let’s mask the presidents!
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The body as a living artwork: Olivier de Sagazan’s Transfiguration
Practitioner:
Olivier de Sagazan
Date:
Jan 1 2024
As the audience enter, Olivier de Sagazan is pacing the stage, deep in thought. A slight, barefooted figure dressed in suit and tie, he circles in and out the shadows, head bowed, sometimes muttering to himself. As the audience settle and hush, his footsteps gradually become more audible (the floor is mic-ed) and begin to pound like a calling drum.
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“To See If I Could Go Home: A True History Paste-Up”
Practitioner:
Nathaniel Ruleaux
Date:
Mar 2 2023
Artist Nathaniel Ruleaux leads a community project called “To See If I Could Go Home: A True History Paste-Up” at the Union for Contemporary Art in Omaha on Thursday. His son, Luca, 3, walks away after handing Ruleaux a print to use to demonstrate the project. A member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, Ruleaux often uses his art to bring attention and activism to Native stories.
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'Orheim, Light of Life' exhibition with three generations
Practitioner:
Seungkyoo Han; Lee Woon-sik, Lee Sunkyeong, and Han Junkyu
Date:
May 28 2023
[Translated by Google translator]
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Mystery Artist Paints Penises Around Potholes To Get Them Fixed
Practitioner:
Wanksy
Date:
Apr 10 2015
Armed with a can of washable spray paint, an artist in Greater Manchester, England, has embarked on a worthy crusade: to rid the region of potholes… by drawing penises on them. The anonymous artist, who goes by the name “Wanksy,” told the Manchester Evening News that he decided to draw attention to the “appalling” pothole-ridden streets after some of his cyclist friends were badly injured on the roads.
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