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Face 2 Face
Practitioner:
JR
Date:
Mar 4 2007
In 2007, anonymous French photographer JR embarked on the Face2Face project - the largest unauthorized photo exhibition ever conceived. JR and his collaborator Marco engaged Israelis and Palestinians employed in the same profession to be photographed making funny faces. They then enlarged the photos to grand proportions and wheat pasted juxtaposed portraits onto both sides of the security Separation Wall and in surrounding cities.
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Artists Buy Trump Campaign Bus on Craigslist, Turn It Into Anti-Trump Art Project
Practitioner:
http://truttartist.com/
Date:
Oct 1 2015
Two artists have repurposed the presidential candidate’s campaign bus in order to critique his controversial views. In October 2015, the artists David Gleeson and Mary Mihelic purchased a Donald Trump tour bus on Craigslist.
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Dead Dove Publishing
Practitioner:
ArmoredSuperHeavy
Date:
May 5 2021
User @ArmoredSuperHeavy on Twitter recently posted a master document detailing their explorations into bookbinding, fanfiction preservation, and the online gift economy. Their bookbinding venture, named Dead Dove Publishing, is a project that seeks to preserve and legitimize fanworks and celebrate the fandom gift economy. The document explains their actions and the work they have done since they began two years ago.
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Walkthrough
Practitioner:
Walid Raad
Date:
Oct 12 2015
MoMA presents the first comprehensive American survey of the leading contemporary artist Walid Raad (b. 1967, Lebanon), featuring his work in photography, video, sculpture, and performance from the last 25 years.
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The Story of "The President Sang Amazing Grace"
Practitioner:
Zoe Mulford
Date:
Jan 10 2017
"The President Sang Amazing Grace" tells the story of the 2015 attack that claimed nine lives at the Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC. It first appeared on Zoe's 2017 album "Small Brown Birds" and was widely played on independent folk radio shows across the US. Since then, the song has taken on a larger life, inspiring a variety of artists and finding its way to new audiences.
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"I'm Just a Slave" parody from Black-ish/The Roots
Practitioner:
Black-ish/The Roots
Date:
Oct 3 2017
On Tuesday night, Black-ish, one of the best shows on TV, returned for its fourth season. As expected, the premiere was outstanding. The episode was a history lesson. The subject? June 19, 1865, better known as the Juneteenth, the official end of slavery.
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Art activist group Led by Donkeys paints Ukrainian flag in front of Russian embassy
Practitioner:
Led by Donkeys
Date:
Feb 23 2023
Wheelbarrows full of washable paint were poured along the Kensington road to mark a year since Russia launched its invasion. Four people have been arrested for the protest.
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Orixás
Practitioner:
Hugo Canuto
Date:
Jan 13 2017
Imagine if back in the 1960s, creators Jack Kirby and Stan Lee had found inspiration for The Avengers in Yoruba mythology. Instead of Iron Man, we'd have the warrior Oxaguiã. Taking the place of the blue-eyed, blonde-haired Norse god Thor would be the equally strong and black-skinned Xangô, the ruler of justice — who also happens to carry a hammer.
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What I Couldn't Say In Public
Practitioner:
Unknown
Date:
Mar 6 2015
"What I Couldn't Say in Public" transforms individual secrets into a public, anonymous spectacle. While origins and exact location of the "What I Couldn't Say in Public" project are unknown, awareness about the project has grown over the micro-blogging platform of Tumblr. Amassing over 132,480 notes on the website, this practice may have possibly inspired others to imitate the same or similar projects in different locations.
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BAN Protests Real Estate Summit
Practitioner:
Brooklyn Anti Gentrification Network
Date:
Nov 17 2015
The Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network is a grassroots movement and campaign to prevent the displacement of low-to-middle income people, elders, families and mom-and-pop businesses from Brooklyn. They say, “Not 1 more person displaced! Not 1 more luxury development, until we have affordable housing for all!”
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National AIDS Memorial
Practitioner:
JOHN CUNNINGHAM, DUANE CRAMER, MATT KENNEDY, STEVE SAGASER, GERT MCMULLIN, RODDY WILLIAMS, JADA HARRIS, OSCAR FABIAN, BRIAN HOLMAN, RACHELLE AXEL, KAREN HANZAWA, DIANNA CAMPBELL, MIKE FUNG
Date:
Oct 11 1988
The Quilt was conceived in November of 1985 by long-time human rights activist, author and lecturer Cleve Jones. Since the 1978 assassinations of gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone, Jones had helped organize the annual candlelight march honoring these men. While planning the 1985 march, he learned that over 1,000 San Franciscans had been lost to AIDS.
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Power: From the Mouths of the Occupied
Practitioner:
Patrisse Cullors
Date:
Oct 1 2015
Statistics are easy to remove ourselves from. A story, you are implicated in, and you have to choose what side you are going to be on.
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Sing for the Climate
Practitioner:
Nic Balthazar, The Belgian Climate Coalition
Date:
Sep 22 2012
Sing for the Climate is a big singing manifestation that first took place on September 22 and 23 2012 in Belgium.
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My World Is In Your Blindspot
Practitioner:
Tenzing Rigdol
Date:
Jul 1 2014
This is a series of paintings reflecting the struggle and sacrifices made by the Tibetan people for independence. The author is Tenzing Rigdol, who is a Tibetan and influenced a lot by the Dalai Lama and traditional Tibetan culture. The paintings are full of Tibetan cultural elements. For instance, the characters created in the paintings are Tibetan monks, who are the typical representatives of their culture.
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Art as therapy: Swiss doctors prescribe museum visits
Practitioner:
Neuchatel
Date:
Mar 11 2025
Swiss doctors are expanding the range of prescriptions for patients with mental health conditions and chronic illnesses to include strolls in public gardens, art galleries and museums. The city of Neuchatel, in western Switzerland, launched the pilot project with doctors last month to help struggling residents and to promote physical activity.
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Play Safe
Practitioner:
Eddie Einbinder
Date:
Jan 1 2012
Play Safe is a documentary film series created and directed by NYU alum Eddie Einbinder. The film, much of which now appears for free on YouTube, was originally released in 2013 after being filmed between 2011 and 2012. It debuted at the International Harm Reduction conference in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2013.
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Design4Peace
Practitioner:
Leslie Dwyer
Date:
Mar 8 2014
Design4Peace is a collection of political posters created by Leslie Dwyer. Images speak to issues of war and peace, prisons, solidarity and movement, immigration, economy and class, violence against women, ecology, agriculture, racism, and gender. Leslie works with movement and educational organizations, such as Veterans for Peace and Teaching for Change to support their work visually.
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Will Work for Empty Wallets
Practitioner:
Heather Hutton
Date:
Nov 11 2013
A mixture of a social cause with a creative vision, this visual art exhibit is dedicated to the millions of unemployed citizens and veteran’s in the United States. Constructed out of 1284 used empty wallets from over 2,000 donated nation wide; this project aims to have a voice about the economic problems our country is facing and show the potential of art to awaken our social consciousness.
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Camp Frack
Practitioner:
Frack Off
Date:
Jun 13 2011
Camp Frack was a protest festival in Lancashire, UK, an area near industrial energy plants that produce shale gas. Around 150 activists from both Frack Off and Campaign against Climate Control (CCC) set up the festival, featuring food, music and conversation on environmentalism.
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Colorful Revolution
Practitioner:
Anna Krukulj & Irena Stzeijovska
Date:
Apr 1 2016
A wiretapping scandal rocked the small Balkan nation in 2016 when opposition leader Zoran Zaev began publishing excerpts of secret recordings that were made by the national security service which targeted up to 20,000 people, including government officials, journalists and religious leaders. The leaked conversations appeared to expose widespread corruption among ministers, including alleged vote-rigging and a murder cover-up.
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