Projects tagged "Activism"

Daughter of a Temple
Practitioner:
ganavya doraiswamy
Date:
Mar 16 2024
“I sing because I genuinely think that if I don’t, I will die...The only thing that gives me relief is this.” - ganavya doraiswamy
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Art and Activism (TV Documentary)
Practitioner:
Leonidas Martin, Enmedio, Yomango
Date:
Feb 19 2012
A television report written, directed and produced by Enmedio members Leónidas Martín and Xavier Artigas. Collective projects that see art as a kind of social relationship. Artistic interventions that target consumption, media guerrilla tactics, creative mobilisations and protest, critical projects brimming with humour and disobedience, new narratives capable of changing the existing symbols and codes.
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Rock The Reactors
Practitioner:
Environmental Library Fund
Date:
Mar 7 2013
Founded in 2006, Rock The Reactors enlists the art and fashion community in support of organizations working to shut down the Indian Point nuclear power plant in NY. Shut Down Indian Point with Fashion!
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March to Close Slaughterhouses in France
Practitioner:
A coalition of animal advocacy groups
Date:
Jun 2 2012
By Judy Molland If you thought that France was a nation of meat-eaters, think again.
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Art and the Arab Awakening
Practitioner:
Faten Rouissi
Date:
Aug 2 2012
Art and the Arab Awakening By Nama Khalil, August 2, 2012 Revolutionary street art in Tunisia.
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#FUEELESTADO
Practitioner:
Lavinia Raccanello
Date:
Dec 5 2014
“Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.” Mahatma Gandhi #FUEELESTADO is a project about the lack of social justice and the gross human rights violations in Mexico. It examines the conflict between state power and personal autonomy and responsibility, a conflict that, in Mexico, involves missing persons and unidentified bodies and that can’t be silenced anymore.
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Nameless Vigilantes
Practitioner:
Anonymous
Date:
Apr 17 2003
Anonymous (used as a mass noun) is a loosely associated hacktivist group. It originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain.
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Julius Eastman: Gay Guerilla
Practitioner:
Julius Eastman
Date:
Jun 4 1980
Julius Eastman was a Black and Queer avant garde, minimalist composer and performer from the 1960s-1980s. He used his platform to advocate for the rights and livelihoods of Black and queer people through his unique musical aesthetic and the controversial naming of his pieces, including "Gay Guerrilla," "Evil N-word" and "Crazy N-Word"
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THE BAREFOOT ARTIST
Practitioner:
Lily Yeh
Date:
Feb 5 2013
Born in China in 1941, artist Lily Yeh experienced first-hand the ravages of that country’s civil war when her family became refugees, fleeing to Taiwan as the communists took over. That personal story and the story of Yeh’s global art activism with communities from North Philadelphia to Rwanda and China is the subject of a new documentary film, The Barefoot Artist, now in post-production and ready for viewing later this year.
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Between A Rock and A Hard Place
Practitioner:
Bik Van der Pol
Date:
May 13 2013
Between A Rock And A Hard Place is a project consisting of a cleaning performance, a film and a big event on August 18, 2012. From the material recorded on this day, a film and a vinyl record will be made.
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Circus Amok
Practitioner:
Jennifer Miller
Date:
Jan 1 1989
Circus Amok is a New York City based circus-theater company whose mission is to provide free public art addressing contemporary issues of social justice to the people of New York City.
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The Future Republic of Macedonia of the Former Republic of Macedonia
Practitioner:
Citizens of The Future Republic of Macedonia of the Former Republic of Macedoninia
Date:
Mar 22 2014
The Future Republic of Macedonia of the Former Republic of Macedonia Devised, constructed and carried out all within 24 hours, the Future Republic of Macedonia of the Former Republic of Macedonia opened its borders for 2 hours on Saturday 22nd March, 2014.
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Sudanese Activist Artist Breaks Down Borders
Practitioner:
Elshafei Dafalla Mohamed
Date:
Mar 29 2012
VOA NEWS  March 29, 2012  By Nico Colombant   WASHINGTON--A Sudanese artist from the restive Blue Nile region is using art and activism to promote the plight of people caught between borders and conflict. In an audio montage of memories from refugees, the sounds of gunfire and explosions mix with crying babies. Narrator Michelle Orecchio describes how to reverse war's grip on so much of humanity.
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Chalk it up Day with Bubbles at NYU
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Date:
May 2 2014
Last Friday, on May 2nd of 2014, a group called The Student Debt Resistance @NYU hosted its first public engagement at Washington Square Park. The co-creators coined this event Chalk Day. The goal of this special day was to raise student awareness to the massive amounts of debt that they undertake as NYU students.
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Undercover Investigation at Factory Farm
Practitioner:
The Humane Society of the United States
Date:
May 8 2012
By Joanna Zelman Piglets are haphazardly swung in circles, sows are beaten, and animals squirm with untreated abscesses in new footage alleging animal abuse at a Wyoming pig breeding facility.
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The Condom on Jesse Helms' House
Practitioner:
ACT UP
Date:
Sep 5 1991
On September 5th, 1991, I put a giant condom over Jesse Helms’ house. Why? Because, as the condom said, “Helms is deadlier than a virus.” Senator Jesse Helms was one of the chief architects of AIDS-related stigma in the U.S. He fought against any federal spending on HIV research, treatment or prevention.
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Coal Seam Greed - Coal Seam Gas Hoax
Practitioner:
Katso, Nowhereman
Date:
Dec 1 2012
Coal Seam Greed was going to be a simple satire showing Katso and Nowhereman posing as a mining company called Reed Gas and erecting notices stating their intent to explore for unconventional gas or CSG in inner-city Brisbane. The idea was that residents would see the signs, phone and leave messages in response, which would then be incorporated into the video.
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