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Brazil’s Most Famous Art Movement Built on Racial Inequality
Practitioner:
various
Date:
Mar 13 2018
The Shifting View on Anthropofagia Tarsila is closely associated with the establishment of the Brazilian art movement known as cultural “cannibalism,” or “Anthropofagia”: the then-radical idea that a truly Brazilian art would emerge by ingesting all the different cultures that intermingled within the country, rather than simply copying European styles.
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We Animals
Practitioner:
Jo-Anne McArthur
Date:
May 11 2012
We Animals is an ambitious project which documents, through photography, animals in the human environment. Humans are as much animal as the sentient beings we use for food, clothing, research, experimentation, work, entertainment, slavery and companionship. With this as its premise, We Animals aims to break down the barriers that humans have built which allow us to treat nonhuman animals as objects and not as beings with moral significance.
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Project Row House
Practitioner:
Rob Lowe
Date:
Jan 1 1993
Project Row Houses (PRH) is a neighborhood-based nonprofit art and cultural organization in Houston’s Northern Third Ward, one of the city’s oldest African-American communities. PRH began in 1993 as a result of discussions among African-American artists who wanted to establish a positive, creative presence in their own community.
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How to Disrupt the Financial Order with Humour, Creativity and a dose of Mischief.
Practitioner:
Leonidas Martin, Enmedio
Date:
Oct 12 2012
Enmedio member Leonidas Martín at Creativetime 2012 (New York). His presentation “How to Disrupt the Financial Order with Humour, Creativity and a Dose of Mischief” is priceless. Watch the video and laugh.
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Theater for Incarcerated Women
Practitioner:
The Medea Project
Date:
Jan 1 1989
Creative Time, Social Practice Archive: In 1989 actress/writer Rhodessa Jones was conducting classes at the San Francisco County Jail. Working with female inmates, she developed material for a performance piece called Big Butt Girls, Hard-Headed Women based on their lives and shared experiences.
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TOMS One Day Without Shoes 2012
Practitioner:
TOMS Shoes
Date:
Apr 10 2012
One Day Without Shoes. It's that time again. We're going barefoot on April 10 and we hope you'll join us. 
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Wirikuta Fest
Practitioner:
Mexican Rock Bands
Date:
May 26 2012
It was a long time coming - but it was worth the wait. Nearly two years ago, more than a dozen of Mexico’s biggest performing artists came together in a mega-event aimed at saving Wirikuta, one of the country’s most sacred sites, from devastation at the hands of Canadian gold and silver mining operations.
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Art Cannot Provide a Way Out
Practitioner:
Claire Bishop
Date:
Aug 1 2012
In 2006, art historian Claire Bishop lit a fire under the collective seat of the art world with her Artforum piece “The Social Turn: Collaboration and its Discontents.” It set off — as much as any essay in the hermetic and staid world of contemporary art theory can — an uproar. The article inspired Grant Kester, an art historian also specializing in relational art practices, to respond:
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Chipko Movement
Practitioner:
Chipko Andolan
Date:
Apr 1 1973
The forests of India are a critical resource for the subsistence of rural peoples throughout the country, but especially in hill and mountain areas, both because of their direct provision of food, fuel and fodder and because of their role in stabilising soil and water resources.
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Wall Of Love
Practitioner:
University of Missouri
Date:
Feb 16 2014
"Divided we are weak. Together we are strong." Those were the words tweeted by openly gay football star Michael Sam, thanking his University of Missouri family for their support. He posted the message after arriving at the school and seeing a group of Mizzou students surrounding the perimeter in order to block out a Westboro Baptist Church protest.
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Ask a Muslim
Practitioner:
Mona Haydar
Date:
Mar 23 2016
Mona Haydar knows the way some people feel about Muslims in the wake of recent terrorist attacks. Just weeks after the horrific San Bernardino, Calif., shooting in December, where Islamic extremists killed 14 people and wounded 22 others, Haydar was at an airport looking to buy frozen yogurt. Suddenly, a man came up to her and whispered menacingly in her ear, "You killed my people."
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Water Bar
Practitioner:
Works Progress Studios
Date:
Mar 6 2016
Northeast Minneapolis is going to have the first full-fledged water bar of its kind, an establishment where you can sit and drink a variety of local tap waters to your heart’s content. Their delightful motto: “Water is all we have.”
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It's OK to Say Gay
Practitioner:
Ok to Say Gay
Date:
Apr 27 2012
Missourians are fighting against legislation that would essentially make it legal to bully against LGBT students in the state’s schools. From the activists' site (http://oktosaygay.org/):
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Step Into My Shoes And Sit In My Seat
Practitioner:
Participants of the Creativity and Change course Cork City
Date:
Mar 11 2017
Topic: Displaced people Concept: Explore and communicate some of the issues around displacement in a global, European and Irish context. Date of action: 11th March 2.30 to 4.20 pm Place: Emmett Place, Cork City, Ireland
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Street Art Project Uses Building Facades to Spread the Word About 314 Endangered Bird Species
Practitioner:
Audonon Mural Project
Date:
Jan 1 2016
In a visually captivating public art venture, the Audonon Mural Project seeks to raise awareness for species of birds threatened by climate change in a rather unconventional way—street art. A collaboration between the National Audubon Society and Gitler &_____ Gallery, scatterings of stunning avian themed murals are cropping up throughout John James Audubon’s old Manhattan neighbourhood.
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Brinco
Practitioner:
Judith Werthein
Date:
Jan 11 2005
Creative Time, Social Practice Archive: Brinco is an art project, product, and intervention created by the Argentinean artist Judith Werthein for the 2005 inSITE Biennial held on the border of Tijuana and San Diego. Brinco—Spanish for "jump"—is a specially designed shoe the artist created for illegal migrant workers and immigrants who navigate the border region at night.
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Human Cost, Tate Britain Performance – First anniversary of the Gulf of Mexico disaster
Practitioner:
Liberate Tate
Date:
Apr 20 2011
"Human Cost, Tate Britain Performance (87 minutes), charcoal and sunflower oil 20 April 2011 – First anniversary of the Gulf of Mexico disaster.
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Brooklyn College Stands Behind BDS Event
Practitioner:
BDS movement, students
Date:
Feb 7 2013
An event in support of the BDS movement( a "non-violent tool aimed at pressuring Israel to comply with international law and end its control over Palestinians") scheduled for FEBRUARY 7th, 2013 at Brooklyn college has been denounced by city politicians threatening to withdraw sponsorship funds. See Alex Kane's Feb 1st article in MONDOWEISS below:
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Visions From The Inside - Art project inspired by letters by detained migrants
Practitioner:
Visions From The Inside
Date:
Aug 3 2015
CultureStrike in partnership with Mariposas Sin Fronteras , End Family Detention and 15 artists from across the country, brings you Visions From The Inside, a visual art project inspired by letters penned by detained migrants.
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Mobile Homeless Homes
Practitioner:
Joey Skaggs
Date:
Apr 23 2012
Muppets Revenge 
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