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スーパー☆ラット (Super Rats)
Practitioner:
Chim↑Pom
Date:
Dec 8 2016
​Chim↑Pom, a Tokyo-based art collective, garnered significant attention with their provocative project "Super Rat," which debuted in 2011. This work involved capturing urban rats from Tokyo's bustling Shibuya district, taxidermying them, and transforming them into real-life representations of Pikachu, the iconic character from the Pokémon franchise.
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Free Breakfast Program for Children
Practitioner:
Black Panther Party for Self Defense
Date:
Aug 11 1968
The Free Breakfast for School Children Program was initiated at St. Augustine's Church in Oakland by the Black Panther Party. The Panthers would cook and serve food to the poor inner city youth of the area.
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#NoKidsInCages Artists Install 20 Cages With Models of Children Inside Across NYC
Practitioner:
Badger & Winters, Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES)
Date:
Jun 12 2019
The ad agency Badger & Winters in collaboration with immigrant rights nonprofit organization Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) installed 20 cages with mannequins representing immigrant children inside across New York City. Each cage had a sign that said #NoKidsInCages and played audio of a child crying.
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Artist Using Cameras inside Her Vagina to Explore Female Gaze and Body
Practitioner:
Dani Lessnau
Date:
Jan 31 2018
As the female gaze comes to the fore, artists are beginning to examine and explore the possibilities of what exists, what it is to be a woman looking at the world outside of her self. For American artist Dani Lessnau, the gaze opened the door into uncharted realms in search of the things that a camera can capture that the human eye might otherwise miss.
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Time/Bank
Practitioner:
Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle
Date:
Feb 26 2015
Time as currency is an interesting economic model related to artistic practice. According to the creators of Time/Bank, Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle, the project "is a tool by which people or a group of people can create an alternative economic model where they exchange their time and skills, rather than acquire goods and services through the use of money or any other state-backed value."
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Ghetto Film School
Practitioner:
Joe Hall
Date:
Sep 2 2000
The mission of The Ghetto Film School is to educate, develop and celebrate the next generation of great American storytellers.
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Republican climate sceptics face battle for re-election as green groups hit back
Practitioner:
green groups
Date:
Oct 3 2012
Republican climate sceptics face battle for re-election as green groups hit back: Activists plan targeted campaign to defeat 'Flat Earth Five' group of Republicans in congress who refuse to accept climate science
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Aftermath
Practitioner:
New York Theater Workshop, Erik Jensen, Jessica Blank
Date:
Sep 16 2009
The snapshots are thrust at us urgently, as if they were passports being shown at a border crossing, official proofs of national identity. Mostly, they are prosaic pictures of family members or houses. Sometimes a diploma will be offered up instead, or theater reviews clipped from newspapers or a membership card to a duck-hunting club. Later, other, more frightening, pictures will be shown, but they all serve the same function.
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Painting homes to strengthen a community
Practitioner:
Pintando Santa Catarina Palopó
Date:
Nov 15 2017
Nestled on the banks of Lake Atitlán in Guatemala, Santa Catarina Palopó is a small town brimming with vibrant colors and stunning natural views. Despite its natural beauty and cultural heritage, the community struggled with economic development and poverty for years until they had the opportunity to harness the power of art and transform the town.
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Black History: Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”
Practitioner:
Billie Holiday
Date:
Feb 5 1939
Many may not realize, but legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday was a big part of the Civil Rights Movement. In fact, her 1939 song about lynching, “Strange Fruit,” made her a target of the FBI.
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Russian ballerina dances on frozen waters to save Batareinaya Bay
Practitioner:
Ilmira Bagautdinova
Date:
Mar 14 2021
"A Russian ballerina from the renowned Mariinsky Theatre performed on the frozen waters of the Gulf of Finland in protest against a construction project that is likely to threaten the area’s natural habitat. Dancer Ilmira Bagautdinova traded some of the world’s most prestigious stages to perform on the frozen waters of Batareinaya Bay, after reports of plans to build a grain silo at the site emerged.
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BLM Mural in SLC
Practitioner:
Unnamed Artists, Justmedia Utah, Red Berets SLC
Date:
Jun 5 2020
Mural artists add color and flavor on 800 South in the Granary District of downtown Salt Lake City. There’s an old-fashioned bar on the side of a locally-owned brewery, and a Southern Utah landscape on another building. Down the street, on the south corner of 800 South and 300 West, there’s a new mural that’s far more potent.
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Bus Shelter Ads Confront San Francisco Eviction Crisis
Practitioner:
California Department of Corrections (CDC)
Date:
Feb 12 2014
The California Department of Corrections (CDC) has unveiled a new campaign of bus shelter ads to confront San Francisco’s eviction crisis.
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The Danish Girl
Practitioner:
Tom Hooper
Date:
Sep 1 2015
The trailer for The Danish Girl, released Tuesday, introduces the world to Lili Elbe and her wife, Gerda Wegener. Elbe was a transgender woman and one of the first recipients of transition-related surgeries, which she received over a course of two years starting in 1930 in Germany.
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Ice Bucket Challenge
Practitioner:
The ALS Association
Date:
Jul 1 2014
The Ice Bucket Challenge, sometimes called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, was an activity involving the pouring of a bucket of ice water over a person's head, either by another person or self-administered, to promote awareness of the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as motor neuron disease and in the U.S. as Lou Gehrig's disease) and encourage donations to research.
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Palestine: Cartography of an Occupation
Practitioner:
MTL
Date:
Sep 16 2013
From creativetimereports.org: Artist-activist collective MTL's clickable collages connect disparate aspects of Palestine's geographical and political landscape, offering provocative insight into "how Palestinians suffer and struggle in ways that are parallel to those elsewhere" according to philosopher Michael Hardt.
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Call out sites displaying ICE recruiitment adverstising
Practitioner:
Various independent actors in Santa Cruz, CA.
Date:
Sep 8 2025
ICE [Immigration & Customs Enforecement] is now heavily recruiting, in part with offers of a $50,000 signing bonus. ICE has run roughshod over the Constitution, targeting people via racial profiling, failing to give people their constitutional rights of due process, and whisking them off to prisons abroad.
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Resist developers with naked body in Macau
Practitioner:
Macau artists and activists, Art For All Society(AFA)
Date:
Jul 2 2011
In 2011, nine local artists staged a performance called “Let’s Add 1 Meter to Taipa Pequena (Sio Tam Hill)” in Macau, protesting against the controversial attempted rezoning of the mountain for high-rise construction by the developers. They lied on top of each other with their naked bodies, forming a one-meter-high pile of human nudity on the Taipa Pequena.
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William Shatner targets Hewlett-Packard for toxic waste
Practitioner:
Greenpeace
Date:
Jun 1 2009
Hewlett-Packard pledged to stop using dangerous plastics in its computers by 2009. It broke that promise. Will a company-wide voicemail from William Shatner make it change its mind?
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Flash Mob Block Party
Practitioner:
27Million
Date:
Jul 12 2013
27Million aims to combat human sex trafficking and modern day slavery. They state that they are "a group of passionate individuals that are on a mission to network and resource grassroots organizations that are the frontlines of rescuing, rehabilitating, and restoring human trafficking victims."
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