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Former Dazed editor Rod Stanley launched ‘Good Trouble’: an online zine celebrating the culture of resistance
Practitioner:
Rod Stanley, Good Trouble
Date:
Jan 1 2017
If, like me, you spent the days after Trump’s election in a depressed stupor wondering what – if anything – would change, look no further than Good Trouble. Set up by former Dazed editor Rod Stanley, it’s a new collective arts platform dedicated to celebrating the culture of resistance and grassroots activists promoting positive change.
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Artist's self record of a Chinese marriage market
Practitioner:
Yingguang Guo
Date:
Aug 1 2015
A photography project on China's marriage market has recently reignited the debate about marriage in China, and the phenomenon of women deemed too old to marry, or "leftover women" in the country.
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Cross-Border Communication
Practitioner:
Broken City Lab
Date:
Nov 1 2009
From Creative Time, Social Practice Archive: Produced by the Windsor, Canada-based collective Broken City Lab—an artist-led interdisciplinary research group—Cross-Border Communication was a performative public art project that took place in November 2009 between the cities of Windsor and Detroit, which are separated by the Detroit River. For three nights, Broken City Lab projected a series of messages across the river which were visible in Detroit.
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Michael Moore demands nationwide boycott of Walgreens for not selling abortion pill: 'Bigotry and misogyny'
Practitioner:
Michael Moore
Date:
Mar 6 2023
Filmmaker Michael Moore has called for a nationwide boycott of Walgreens after the pharmacy chain announced it would not sell abortion pills in 20 states. n February, 20 Republican state attorneys general wrote to Walgreens Corp. threatening legal action if Walgreens provides the abortion pill, mifepristone, to consumers in their pharmacies across the U.S.
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The Exquisite Uterus
Practitioner:
Alison Gates, Helen Klebesadel
Date:
Sep 4 2012
This project served as an educational tool to demystify the female body and bring awareness to the issues of reproductive rights and the ignorance that sometimes plagues common misconceptions about the reproductive system. I think this campaign is very successful in its approach. It exhibits paintings and displays of uterus and the female form in a non-sexual way.
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New Walk Ways in New Bell
Practitioner:
Kamiel Verschuren
Date:
Dec 1 2010
The city of Douala in Cameroon had a huge problem associated with malfunctioning water drainage systems. This is due the fact that in many illegally constructed areas of the town, the sewers are without cover, and after heavy rainfall, this would generally lead to floods and related threats to public health.
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Soviet Lives of Uncle Tom
Practitioner:
Dmitry Borshch, Regina Khidekel
Date:
Feb 4 2019
"Soviet Lives of Uncle Tom" 105 NY-110, Melville, NY 11747 February 4, 11 am – March 1, 7 pm Monday – Friday, 11 am – 7 pm, free admission Artist talk – February 28, 2 pm Please write to racc.ny@mail.ru or call (347) 662 1456 The artist is available for interviews
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New Prints / Newsprints * Black Male / Blackmail
Practitioner:
Adam Void, Chelsea Ragan
Date:
Jun 7 2013
The prints exhibited June 2013 at Firestorm in Asheville NC, will comprise two separate bodies of work; Chelsea Ragan’s combination screen print / woodblock print / painting / drawings graphically detail police shootings of young black males from across the country, and Adam Void’s hand-painted screen prints state the facts of important national news stories that have been swept under the rug of mainstream corporate media.
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Monopoly Man
Practitioner:
Ian Madrigal
Date:
Dec 10 2018
On Tuesday morning, when Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified before the House Judiciary Committee about his company’s data collection practices, there was a familiar mustachioed face in the crowd. To most people, this person — also wearing a monocle and toting a bag of cash — is none other than the famous board game character most commonly known as Monopoly Man.
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Every Month: One Week. One Film. One Global Audience.
Practitioner:
SIMA RAMA
Date:
Mar 16 2017
For the past five years, we’ve screened SIMA juried films in communities and classrooms across six continents and witnessed an increasing demand to use the inspirational force of documentary filmmaking to build a global digital community around today’s most pressing issues.
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Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment
Practitioner:
Princeton University Art Museum
Date:
Feb 2 2019
“Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment” is an important exhibition organized by the Princeton University Art Museum is on view at the Peabody Essex Museum, in Salem, Massachusetts, from February 2 through May 5, 2019.
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The Harlem Festival of Culture
Practitioner:
Tony Cornelius, HFC
Date:
Jul 28 2023
The Harlem Festival of Culture not only pays homage to the past but also envisions a brighter future. It serves as a platform to showcase the rich diversity and dynamism of Harlem's artistic community, while also acting as a catalyst for social change and community empowerment. The festival boasts a lineup of artists from various genres and backgrounds, including jazz, soul, hip-hop, gospel, blues, rock, Latin, and Afrobeat.
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Share your water story
Practitioner:
Jacqueline Moreira, Tricia Hogan, Rachel Walsh, John Farragher, Veronica Wagner and Keelin Tobin
Date:
May 1 2020
Share Your Water Story invites every global citizen to participate in a creative conversation around the different ways in which water impacts our lives. The project encourages people to contribute original expression of any kind via online platforms on the global justice issue of water and sanitation.
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System Azure
Practitioner:
Jill Magid
Date:
Mar 22 2003
In 2003 Amsterdam police headquarters decided their security cameras needed a little bling after Jill Magid approached them through her company System Azure Security Ornamentation. Originally turned down as an artist proposal, Magid founded her company as a possible means of executing her project. It worked. Not only did she receive the proper permits to beautify police security cameras, but the city paid her to do it.
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2016 Pirelli Calendar May Signal a Cultural Shift
Practitioner:
Fran Lebowitz
Date:
Jun 30 2016
When Agnes Gund, the 77-year-old philanthropist and president emerita of the Museum of Modern Art, got the call, she thought: “That’s odd. What’s that got to do with someone like me?” When Fran Lebowitz, the 65-year-old author, got the call, she said, “I thought it was a joke.”
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Rebel Music: Native America
Practitioner:
Frank Waln
Date:
May 26 2013
Frank Waln, a 25 year old Native American hip hop artist, tours the country and Canada performing and teaching motivational workshops to students across the country. He took to rap at a young age when he found a cd (Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP) on the side of the road. Growing up on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation of South Dakota, he realized that the hip hop music genre was an outlet for expressing pain and frustration.
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Women's March Taiwan 2018
Practitioner:
Women's March Taiwan
Date:
Mar 8 2018
Women's March Taiwan 2018
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CFA San Francisco Member Brings Black Art and Activism to Students
Practitioner:
Mark Allan Davis
Date:
Feb 9 2023
“As an educator, I want people to have a sense of empowerment. I want them to have ownership of their own creative experience. It’s a very humane thing knowing we are inherently creative.”
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"Cuntrol"
Practitioner:
Marilyn Minter
Date:
Jan 21 2020
It’s almost no surprise that the Supreme Court overturning of Roe v. Wade happened this past week. Since its enaction in 1973, there have been numerous occasions where politicians and people alike have tried hacking away at its success in reaffirming a women’s right to choose.
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Unspeakable
Practitioner:
Vicente Ovalle
Date:
Jul 20 2017
As a visual art student, I’m interested in hearing your feedback about this project. Thanks We need to make a call to awaken humanity from their passivity and social indifference and acceptance of criminals who did commit crimes against humanity. When a human suffers we also suffer. Is only one Humankind I’m not from a different species.
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