Projects tagged "North America"

Youth Activist Art Archive
Practitioner:
University of Utah
Date:
Jan 8 2022
The Youth Activist Art Archive (YAAA) is a dedicated platform that highlights and celebrates the creative efforts of young individuals (26 years old and younger) actively participating in diverse social movements and causes. YAAA acknowledges the vital role and innovative vision of young activists who employ their artistic talents to envision and advocate for a brighter future.
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GM Announces Climate Commitment
Practitioner:
Ailie Rutherford
Date:
Nov 29 2006
Concerned Citizens impersonated LA Autoshow hosts, interrupting a keynote speech from the General Motors' CEO. They present a pledge on behalf of GM, committing in writing to becoming an leader in fuel efficiency, and to follow through on all the environmental rhetoric promised in speech. The real CEO refuses.
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And babies.
Practitioner:
Ronald Haerble and the Art Worker's Coalition
Date:
Dec 26 1969
Ronald Haeberle took a color photograph of the bloody corpses of men, women, and children after the Mai Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War in in March 1968, initially publishing it in Life magazine. Later the image was used by the Art Worker's Coalition to create the infamous poster, "And babies.," which superimposed "Q: And babies? A: And babies" in red letter across the top and bottom of the image.
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Unhappily Ever
Practitioner:
Jeff Hong
Date:
Dec 6 2018
Jeff is an animation storyboard artist from Los Angeles, previously working as an animation artist on several famous Disney movies. He uses his talent to produce work highlighting environmental and social issues worldwide with Disney characters, called Unhappily Ever After. His work includes images of Elsa from Frozen on melting ice caps and Alice from Alice & Wonderland taking drugs down a dark alley.
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I want a president
Practitioner:
Zoe Leonard
Date:
Oct 11 2016
Installed on the occasion of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, I want a president renders a poignant portrait of the cultural and political climate in the early 1990s in New York City with words that still resonate today.
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Activists lay thousands of shoes outside Capitol for children killed by gun violence
Practitioner:
avaaz
Date:
Mar 13 2018
WASHINGTON -- Thousands of shoes were laid outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to represent children who have been killed by gun violence. Avaaz, an international advocacy group, planned the demonstration to honor victims killed since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.
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The Climate Clock
Practitioner:
Andrew Boyd & Gan Golan
Date:
Sep 15 2020
For more than 20 years, Metronome, which includes a 62-foot-wide 15-digit electronic clock that faces Union Square in Manhattan, has been one of the city’s most prominent and baffling public art projects.
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New Documents
Practitioner:
MOMA
Date:
Feb 28 1967
This modestly scaled exhibition, featuring work by three (then) young and relatively unknown photographers named Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, and Garry Winogrand, had a lasting influence on modern photography.
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Migration is Beautiful
Practitioner:
Favianna Rodriguez, Pharrell Williams
Date:
Jan 26 2013
Artist and social activist Favianna Rodriguez collaborated with musician Pharrell Williams to create a documentary series focusing on migrants in America. The documentary consists of 3 episodes that focus on the role of artists in the political realm. The goal of the documentary is to change the perception of immigrant workers in America.
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MFA Billboard
Practitioner:
Guerilla Girls
Date:
Sep 22 2012
The Guerrilla Girls tactic was well thought-out and was effective in creating a spectacle to draw attention to the issue at hand, which is the lack of female representation in the museum. Where I think the campaign has some drawbacks is in the actual message on the billboard. The rhetorical and ironic message is subtle and really only reaches those who are privy to the art world and/ or the museum.
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Joseph Beuys, Coyote: I like America and America Likes Me, May 1974
Practitioner:
Joseph Beuys
Date:
Mar 1 1974
It was 1974 when Beuys arrived in New York City, ready to tackle a whole new challenge and create what was to become one of the most famous works of art of the time. Upon arrival, his assistants wrapped him in a large piece of felt and transported him, by ambulance, to the René Block Gallery in SoHo. There, awaiting the artist, was a live coyote. Beuys spent three consecutive days, eight hours at a time, locked up with the wild animal.
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MTA 'See Something, Say Something' Posters Get #Resist Makeover
Practitioner:
Anonymous
Date:
Mar 9 2017
If you scanned the public service announcements in your subway car this morning—and happened to be adequately caffeinated—you might have noticed something slightly off. There's Melissa C., of small-time "See Something, Say Something" fame, with her gold hoops and salmon-pink hoodie. She's smiling next to the familiar MTA logo, but her message isn't just about reporting a suspicious bag on the platform and feeling heroic.
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'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' inspires real-life billboards
Practitioner:
avaaz, Justice 4 Grenfell
Date:
Feb 20 2018
A pair of activist groups have taken a tactic straight from the Oscar front-runner “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”
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Can Reddit Vote Down a Congressman?
Practitioner:
Test PAC
Date:
Apr 24 2012
By Tim Murphy, Mother Jones
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NYPD Drones
Practitioner:
Essam
Date:
Sep 16 2012
On Sunday, September 16th at around 1am, a white van—labelled with “Van Wagner’s” blue logo and topped by a yellow strobe light—circled through permanently lit Times Square. Inside the vehicle, the driver and passenger, both dressed as construction workers, were nervous. They had just vandalized one kiosk a few yards away from an NYPD tower, now they were about to hit another one right underneath the nose of a large white NYPD security camera.
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New Orleans students showcase their creativity with iPad and Mac
Practitioner:
Ellis Marsalis Center for Music (EMCM)
Date:
Feb 3 2025
On a drizzly, overcast afternoon, all is quiet at the intersection of Bartholomew and Prieur streets in New Orleans’ historic Ninth Ward. The quiet neighborhood around the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music (EMCM) feel worlds away from the historic French Quarter packed with jazz clubs, bars, restaurants, and markets.
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Moving Chains
Practitioner:
Charles Gaines
Date:
Oct 15 2022
Moving Chains is a monumental 110-foot long kinetic sculpture that evokes the hull of a ship, built from steel and Sapele, a tree native to West Africa commonly referred to as African Mahogany. Inside of the sculpture, nine chains run overhead: rotating on a maritime sprocket system, eight of the chains represent the pace of the currents in New York Harbor, while a ninth central chain moves more quickly, mimicking the pace of a ship in transit.
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Drake Donates $1 Million Budget for Music Video God's Plan to Schools in Impoverished Areas
Practitioner:
Drake
Date:
Feb 16 2018
Drake has released an emotional video for "God's Plan" in which he donates the music video budget to people in need. Shot in Miami and directed by Toronto's Karena Evans and Jordan Oram, the video features a bunch of generous, grand gestures.
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Beyond Braille: A History of Reading By Ear
Practitioner:
Eileen Reynolds, Mara Mills, Shafeka Hashash, Patricia Flores
Date:
Jan 29 2015
The Declaration of Independence. The Book of Psalms. Hamlet. Speeches by Helen Keller.
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On The Artistic Activism of Emory Douglas
Practitioner:
Emory Douglas, Black Panther Party
Date:
Feb 1 1960
“The solidarity came in the artwork—it spoke a language that transcended borders.” Emory Douglas
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Stop Frisk Tourist T- Shirts
Practitioner:
Aaron Gach and Center for Tactical Magic
Date:
Aug 28 2012
At Souvenir Stands, Selling Tourists on Ending Stop-and-Search By COREY KILGANNON New York Times, City Blog, August 27, 2012 Last week, a 37-year-old artist from Oakland, Calif., named Aaron Gach joined the crowds of tourists swarming the sidewalk souvenir stands set up around the perimeter of Battery Park in Lower Manhattan.
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Invincible: Detroit’s Homegrown, Hip-Hop Activism
Practitioner:
Ilana Weaver
Date:
Sep 20 2012
Invincible: Detroit’s Homegrown, Hip-Hop Activism: Powerful, passionate, and politically charged rhymes that speak for marginalized people. by Shannan Stoll Ilana Weaver started listening to hip hop when she was seven, after her family moved from Israel to Ann Arbor, Mich. She was trying to learn English, but soon became fascinated by how hip hop gives a voice to marginalized people.
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Vacated
Practitioner:
Justin Blinder
Date:
Jan 1 2014
Vacated reverse engineers Google Street View to highlight the changing landscape of various neighborhoods throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. The project finds buildings constructed in the past four years using the NYC Department of City Planning's PLUTO dataset, and it leverages Google Street View's cache to visualize absent lots just before new buildings were constructed.
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Bull Fight on Wall Street
Practitioner:
Yes Men
Date:
Nov 9 2011
Earlier today, a small group of Occupy Wall Street activists engaged in a near-successful corrida against the Wall Street Bull.
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Nadya Tolokonnikova - Pussy Riot: Punk's Not Dead
Practitioner:
Nadya Tolokonnikova
Date:
Jan 25 2025
Nadya Tolokonnikova is a Siberian artist and a creator of the feminist protest art collective Pussy Riot. Tolokonnikova’s political actions and wide-ranging performance interventions have established her as a leading voice in the fight against authoritarian power. During her residency, she will compose performances that demonstrate her multifaceted approach to resisting systems of oppression and dehumanization.
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