Projects tagged "Europe"

Theas Bryllup
Practitioner:
Charity Plan International
Date:
Oct 1 2014
The story behind Thea, the 12-year-old child bride from Norway By Andrew Russell - Global News WATCH ABOVE: Hear the whole story of Thea, a 12-year-old child bride from Norway. Her name is Thea. She is a 12-year-old girl living in Norway and on Saturday she is set to marry a 37-year-old man named Geir, becoming the country’s first official child bride.
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Brandalism: Street Artists' 600 Ad Takeovers in Paris Protest the COP21 Climate Conference
Practitioner:
The Brandalism Project
Date:
Dec 1 2015
In a massive act of ‘brand vandalism’ just two days before the launch of the UN COP21 Climate Conference, 600 anti-advertisement posters have been installed in outdoor media spaces throughout the streets of Paris. The posters display artwork from over 80 artists from 19 different countries, including big names such as Banksy-collaborator Paul Insect, Alex One, Know Hope, Escif, Cleon Peterson, Hyuro, Jimmy Cauty, Ron English and many others.
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Greenpeace Action at F1 Grand Prix in Belgium
Practitioner:
Greenpeace
Date:
Aug 25 2013
Greenpeace Action at F1 Grand Prix in Belgium By Marc van Gurp
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Celebrating the history of black creativity
Practitioner:
Lubaina Himid
Date:
Jan 1 1991
"A Tanzanian-born, Preston-based artist, curator and cultural activist, Lubaina Himid aims to 'fill in the gaps of history', giving representation to marginalised histories and to what was previously invisible or silenced. Significantly, Himid's art reinserts black narratives into the forefront of cultural practice and conversation.
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botanoadopt
Practitioner:
431art, Haike Rausch, Torsten Grosch
Date:
Dec 1 2008
botanoadopt – a Projekt by 431art.org
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Bus Regulation: The Musical – The Trilogy
Practitioner:
Ellie Harrison
Date:
Nov 13 2022
Bus Regulation: The Musical (2019 – 2023) is a Trilogy of roller-skating Musicals inspired by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Starlight Express’ performed in three of the UK’s biggest post-industrial city-regions – Greater Manchester, Strathclyde and Merseyside – in collaboration wi
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Income Inequality in Spain: The 15-M Housing Crisis Protests
Practitioner:
Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH)
Date:
Mar 19 2013
In May of 2011, tens of thousands of people crowded Puerta del Sol in the center of Madrid in the most visible manifestation of sit-in protests against austerity and corruption. 15-M was an expression of the devastating effects of the 2008 recession, which harshly affected the middle class and condemned millions of people to poverty because of the crash of the housing bubble (Altares, 2021).
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Talking Hands
Practitioner:
Fabrizio Urettini
Date:
Jan 1 2016
The project responds to the urgency that many asylum seekers and refugees have as soon as they touch a new country's soil: working and learning the language. The project, located in the former army barracks 'Caserma Piave' in Treviso, started as a grassroots initiative.
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Big Bang Big Boom
Practitioner:
Blu Art Collective
Date:
Jan 1 2010
"For those who haven’t seen it, Big Bang Big Boom (2010) is yet another fabulous animated graffiti parable from the Blu art collective. Their work is endlessly fascinating — animated creatures sliding seamlessly from walls, through sand, along pipes and under bridges into stop-motion interaction with beach garbage and
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"Within the Terms and Conditions"
Practitioner:
Caroline Sinders
Date:
Jul 15 2021
A popular theme throughout media is the relationship between technology and art. While art is often bolstered and disseminated through technology, discussions arise of how technology both positively and negatively affects content. Caroline Sinders’ exhibition Within the Terms and Conditions explores the way content has been spread online.
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Felipe Romero Beltrán captures young migrants coming-of-age in Seville
Practitioner:
Felipe Romero Beltrán
Date:
Apr 13 2021
Horror stories about treacherous boat journeys from Africa to the Mediterranean far too often make headline news. The men, women and children fleeing their homes to start a new life in Europe become faceless numbers in the media, and are ‘othered’ by conservative politicians for their own agenda.
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Dismaland
Practitioner:
Banksy
Date:
Aug 22 2015
In August 2015, Weston-Super-Mare - a sleepy seaside town in Somerset, England - suddenly became the top destination for the metropolitan elite, welcoming celebrity guests like Brad Pitt, Jack Black and Mark Ronson. Overnight this quaint town, just 18 miles from Bristol, was transformed by anonymous street artist Banksy when he opened his very own dystopian Disneyland style theme park called ‘Dismaland’.
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Money on an Island (Hip-hop video)
Practitioner:
The Apopalyptics
Date:
Jan 30 2013
The Apopalyptics take on tax-dodging multi-national corporations Lyrics below (for subtitles - click - clip sous-titré en français et anglais) Lyrics: Money on an island © O.McEldowney/D.Cole 2012 - www.apopalyptics.com
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Las Vulpes: Me gusta ser una zorra (I like being a whore)
Practitioner:
Las Vulpes
Date:
Apr 16 1983
Las Vulpes was the first spanish punk rock band formed only by women. It was founded in Baracaldo (Vizcaya, Basque Country) in the summer of 1982, as a result of the guitarist´s desire on creating an all women punk band. After a few changes, the final formation consisted on: Loles Vázquez (guitar), Mamen Rodrigo (voice), Begoña Astigarraga (bass) and Lupe Vázquez (drums), all between 17 and 22 years of age.
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The Mischief Makers
Practitioner:
Art & Activism Caravan
Date:
Aug 17 2006
The Mischief Makers built a giant bird as a symbolic way of opening up Serb borders and made an impressive mosaic on the same theme, possibly to be used in a new youth centre. Clowns trained and joked about at the final parade to end the week of workshops. An other impressive feature of the activities in Novi Sad was the quickly formed samba band, which did a couple of stunning performances in the centre of town.
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Photographing the hidden – Violence Unseen
Practitioner:
Alicia Bruce, Zero Tolerance
Date:
Sep 3 2018
UK photographer Alicia Bruce collaborated with Zero Tolerance, a Scottish non-profit to end GBV, to produce a new version of the Violence Unseen campaign, launched for the first time in the 1990s and created by Franki Raffles. The new one was launched in 2018, 25 years after the original iconic Zero Tolerance campaign, shot by the late Franki Raffles.
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Support
Practitioner:
Lorenzo Quinn
Date:
Jun 1 2017
From Public Delivery: "He calls his work Support, which involves two giant hands rising from a canal to support the building that houses Ca’ Sagredo Hotel. The idea is to depict that the sculpture is helping Venice. It also symbolizes humankind’s capability to destroy the world and an equal ability to save the world too."
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refuge for refugees
Practitioner:
coline declef and marie venon
Date:
May 23 2018
Two design students were awarded the Futurapolis prize last Wednesday for their project to adapt the Furan (underground river) , a response to the migration crisis.
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Zone à Défendre, or “zone to defend” (ZAD)
Practitioner:
local community groups
Date:
Jan 26 2017
The ZAD (zone à défendre, or “zone to defend”) in Western France is 4000 acres of wetland, farmland and forest that was originally intended to be built into an airport in 1965 but is now an autonomous territory occupied by 40 different collectives looking to reclaim the land. There are around 200 people living permanently on the zone, in addition to some 2,000 people coming and going.
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Birds Watching
Practitioner:
Jenny Kendler
Date:
May 1 2018
Birds Watching I, 2018 was created for Storm King Art Center's Indicators: Artists on Climate Change, in partnership with NRDC, which ran from May–Nov 2018, and featured 100 U.S. climate-threatened species derived from Audubon's first report. That work was reinstalled as a public sculpture in Chicago on the elevated 606 Bloomingdale Trail between St. Louis Ave. and Kimball Ave. and is fully-accessible via the Spaulding Ave. ramp.
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ACT UP protests
Practitioner:
ACT UP
Date:
Jan 15 1987
In 1987 with AIDS deaths in the thousands and government policy still criminally indifferent, activists formed ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) with the purpose of turning grief and fear into rage and action. 
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Thousands rally in Paris to protest slaying of Holocaust survivor
Practitioner:
public
Date:
Mar 28 2018
Thousands of people marched through Paris on Wednesday evening to protest the killing of a Holocaust survivor in her home over the weekend, in what investigators are treating as an anti-Semitic crime. Mireille Knoll, 85, was stabbed 11 times and her apartment was set on fire in the attack, French authorities said. Two men in their 20s have been arrested, one a neighbor of Knoll's and the other a homeless man, a judicial source told CNN.
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Tree Mountain-A Living Time Capsule
Practitioner:
Agnes Denes
Date:
Jun 5 1996
Denes's project "Tree Mountain-A Living Time Capsule" in Finland is a monumental earthwork involving the planting of 11,000 trees by 11,000 people on a reclaimed gravel pit. It's designed to grow over the next 400 years, serving as a testament to environmental stewardship and the potential for regeneration.
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HeadSpace Magazine
Practitioner:
HeadSpace
Date:
May 11 2013
Express and Create, Solidarity and Support" is a slogan that summarises the aims of HeadSpace, a new, non-profit, artistic magazine that accepts submissions on the theme of mental health. It is entirely run by volunteers and mostly distributed for free in psychiatric wards and other places that cater to people with mental health problems. The first issue was launched in May 2013 in Dublin.
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Publixtheatre Caravan
Practitioner:
Volxtheater Favoriten
Date:
May 1 2001
The Publixtheatre Caravan is the English name for a travelling project of the Volxtheater Favoriten, a Vienna-based international theatrical troupe that has been creating site-specific theatrical interventions in public space as well as stage-based performances since 1994. It is a political and artistic project that is part of the No Border Network and the Platform for a World Without Racism.
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