Projects tagged "Writing & Manifestos"

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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Cheat Neutral
Practitioner:
Christian Hunt, Alex Randall
Date:
Nov 19 2009
Cheat Neutral satirizes the carbon offset model by offering people the opportunity to pay someone else not to cheat on their partner in order to neutralize their own infidelity. Cheatneutral allows you to pay £2.50 to carry on cheating while funding “monogamy-boosting offset projects”.
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Coal for the rich
Practitioner:
The Yes Men, Greenpeace, Colombia College
Date:
Apr 4 2011
Students from Colombia College teamed up with Greenpeace and The Yes Men to take on the Chicago coal industry in an elaborate, multi-layered hoax. The group created a scheme to announce that a new coal plant was planned—but instead of going in a poor neighborhood (like the two coal plants that already exist), this one would be built in a rich one.
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WE CHANT RESISTANCE!
Practitioner:
Mbizo Chirasha
Date:
Apr 19 0020
This special EDition is a revolutionary chant against the menacing cantankerous demonic , satanic COVID 19. And again doubles as a bold and poetic supplication to the great Almighty God to release us off this pandemic bondage. This Edition is a poetically driven spiritual prayer for freedom of expression and freedom after expression.
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A Dozen Writers Put Down Their Pens to Prove the Might of a March
Practitioner:
The people of Moscow
Date:
Mar 7 2014
There were no opposition leaders at the head of the vast column of people that peacefully wound its way through central Moscow on Sunday.
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Street Artist Blu Destroys 20 Years of His Work in Bologna to Protest an Exhibition
Practitioner:
Italian street artist Blu with the help of activist groups XM24 and Crash
Date:
Mar 12 2016
“Seeing street art exhibited in a museum is paradoxical and grotesque,” they [Blu and his comrades] wrote of Banksy and Co.
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Lesbianas Se Difunden and the Feminist Movement in Spain: Taking Back Ownership of the Female Body
Practitioner:
Lesbianas Se Difunden
Date:
Jun 1 1995
From 1993 to 1998, Spanish activist group Lesbianas Se Difunden (LSD) produced and published a collection of texts and visuals called Non-Grata (Snyder 10), using erotic images of the female body and sexual relationships to capture their audiences’ attention. Within these graphic publications would be calls for queer activism, female freedom, anti-capitalist critiques, and the overall necessity for protest (Snyder 10).
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COUNTERSPACE
Practitioner:
Cristina Morales
Date:
Aug 1 1919
Counterspace is an independent curatorial platform functioning as the first decolonial thinktank mapping cultural activism worldwide. It shapes collectively decolonial toolkits with common tools and resources, and a global directory browsable by continent, praxis, and social construct, as a Beuys-inspired ‘social sculpture’ revisited, and an alternative map of the universe.
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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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Truisms
Practitioner:
Jenny Holzer
Date:
Jul 5 1978
Holzer's Truisms have become part of the public domain, displayed in storefronts, on outdoor walls and billboards, and in digital displays in museums, galleries, and other public places, such as Times Square in New York. Multitudes of people have seen them, read them, laughed at them, and been provoked by them. That is precisely the artist's goal.
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Seventeen Says Thanks But No Thanks To Teen’s Photoshop Petition
Practitioner:
Julia Bluhm
Date:
May 3 2012
Seventeen editor Ann Shoket met yesterday with Julia Bluhm, the 14-year-old reader who started an online petition to ask the magazine to curb its use of Photoshop.
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"A Woman's Lens to Sexual Violence "
Practitioner:
Pilar Albarracin
Date:
Jul 10 2019
Spain is known for its beautiful scenic views, rich history, and rich culture. When we focus on Spain it mainly for the things that attract tourism. Often when living in paradise you forget the shadows that hold secrets are not far behind. I have uncovered a deep dark truth that hides within the cities - Sexual violence and the brutal inequality that women face in Spain.
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The SOA Cycle
Practitioner:
Carlos Motta
Date:
Jan 1 2015
"SOA Cycle, and what it later became, which is called the Democracy Cycle, is a group of seven large works that approach the question of democracy. What is democracy? How is it constructed? How is it implemented? Is it something that is to be thought of in relation to its political influence? Or is it something that plays out in terms of cultural and social, and even emotional terms, for instance?
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Subway Therapy
Practitioner:
Matthew Chavez
Date:
Oct 8 2016
Matthew “Levee” Chavez sits at a table in New York City’s Union Square, sporting a thrift store suit and tie, holding a sign that reads “Subway Therapy.” This act of social practice, which started as an invitation for conversation, went viral after he set up shop at the subway the day after the 2016 presidential election. He wrote “Express Yourself” on a Post-It and stuck it to the tiled wall.
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Hundreds of Pro-Palestine Protestors Stage Events at MoMA and Brooklyn Museum
Practitioner:
new yorkers
Date:
Feb 11 2024
As the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, hundreds of people gathered inside the Museum of Modern Art and outside of the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday for protests.
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Under the same sky
Practitioner:
Tahir Ün
Date:
Sep 1 2017
"Under the Same Sky" bearing the name and the first part of my project completed. I collected the letters written to 40 Armenian young people from 40 random Turkish young people. The mutual translations of all letters and video subtitles were made. Letters and photographs are handed out to young people, friendships are being established.
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Fake lives matter!
Practitioner:
Stu Tanquist
Date:
Sep 26 2017
The kidnapping and enslavement of African people was the life-blood of transnational corporations like the "Royal African Company." In law, these human resource corporations were called "artificial people." Their human cargo was called "cargo."
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Acción Poética
Practitioner:
Acción Poética
Date:
Feb 25 1996
The Acción Poética movement is a literary phenomenon that began in Monterrey, Mexico in 1996. It was founded by Mexican poet Armando Alanis Pulido and involves painting and intervening abandoned walls in cities with fragments of poetry. The content is usually love poems or optimistic phrases. Also, some phrases refer to the current situation in the cities (though one of their rules is to not talk about politics or religious beliefs).
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A Haunting Artistic Tribute to Garment Workers Killed in Bangladesh and the US
Practitioner:
Artist Rachel Breen, Poet Alison Morse
Date:
Apr 1 2018
NORTHFIELD, Minn. — Exactly 1,281 white garments hang from the ceiling of the Perlman Teaching Museum’s Braucher Gallery. The collared shirts, knit sweaters, tights, and other items of clothing glow with an eerie luminosity.
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Between the World and Me
Practitioner:
Richard Wright
Date:
Jul 1 1938
Between the World and Me by Richard Wright And one morning while in the woods I stumbled suddenly upon the thing, Stumbled upon it in a grassy clearing guarded by scaly oaks and elms And the sooty details of the scene rose, thrusting themselves between the world and me....
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Riot grrrl MANIFESTO
Practitioner:
Riot grrrl bands
Date:
Apr 27 1991
Riot grrrl is a feminist punk rock movement started in the early 90's, particularly in Washington DC, Olympia, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. Bands that follow the movement include Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Jack Off Jill, Bratmobile, Adickdid, The Butchies, Heavens to Betsy, Huggy Bear, Bangs, and Calamity Jane, amongst others.
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Art, Activism and the Age of AIDS
Practitioner:
David Wojnarowicz
Date:
May 15 1981
David Wojnarowicz as a Catalyst for Collective Action
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Bringing Awareness to the TGI Experience
Practitioner:
Kokumo, KOKUMOMEDIA
Date:
Jul 29 2012
Kokumo, pronounced "koh-koo-mah", is a trans gender activist whose very name embodies her bold path of resistance. Taken from the West African dialect Yoruba, Kokumo means "this woman will not die." Kokumo chose her name in response to constantly being told that she would die of AIDS while growing up.
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Nude Protests and Political Contradictions
Practitioner:
Bloggers
Date:
Apr 22 2013
Last month Amina Tyler, a 19 year old Tunisian blogger, posted a nude photo of herself as a protest; she is now under death threat. In her defense, the Ukrainian group Femen [13] staged a global "topless jihad" [14] on April 4, causing widespread debate [15] about nude protests [16], freedom of expression, and Femen's politics. [17]
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The Declaration of Sentiments from the First Women's Rights Convention
Practitioner:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Date:
Jul 20 1848
The Declaration of Sentiments, also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, is a document signed in 1848 at the first women's rights convention to be organized by women. Held in Seneca Falls, New York, the convention is now known as the Seneca Falls Convention. The principal author of the Declaration was Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who modeled it upon the United States Declaration of Independence.
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