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Transparency and translation of scientific data to mitigate climate change
Practitioner:
Martin Gropius Bau
Date:
Jul 1 2020
Amongst the European network of cultural institutions there has been widespread recognition that the climate crisis is a cultural crisis. In 2019 members of the European Theatre Forum convened and adopted the Dresden Convention, a revolutionary text that aimed to lower the carbon footprint and better the sustainable practices of the theatre and cultural sector at large.
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Action Day Against Racism and Xenophobia in Spain - No Hate Speech
Practitioner:
Spanish Institute for Youth
Date:
Nov 12 2017
The No Hate Speech campaign has come to its fourth anniversary this week, because it was on the 18th of March 2013 when the Spanish Institute for Youth IMG_9707(INJUVE) officially launched the campaign in Spain, to commemorate the 21st of March, declared by the UN as Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination of that year.
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Art from Trash: Transforming How We See Waste and the Disappearing Reefs
Practitioner:
Institute For Figuring (IFF), Various Artists
Date:
May 25 2009
By John Ivanko
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How Bali punks Navicula took on the palm oil industry
Practitioner:
Navicula
Date:
Apr 27 2014
In Indonesia, a loud and politically committed generation of punk bands are shaking big business – and getting results
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This artist’s red shoes stand in for all the women lost to violence
Practitioner:
Elina Chauvet
Date:
Jan 11 2020
Elina Chauvet’s red shoes are worldly. They’ve been in Milan, Italy, and Grand Rapids, Michigan. Not just one pair, but hundreds — red boots, red heels, red toddler shoes. They’re not there to see the sights, but to take up space. Especially when the women or girls who would have worn them no longer take up any space, except in the lives of their loved ones.
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I Love You America
Practitioner:
Sarah Silverman
Date:
Oct 12 2017
Sarah Silverman Wants to Pop Your Bubble With her new political variety show, “I Love You, America,” the stand-up comic aims to unite red and blue. But can TV really change minds? By Jason Zinoman Oct. 4, 2017
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Clean and Reliable Water
Practitioner:
Art and Activism Caravan
Date:
Jul 13 2006
Today over 40 people gathered at the Ministry for Internal Affairs in the centre of Tirana, the capital of Albania. The issue is Tirana's drinking water, which is not clean, unreliable as it comes out of the tap only a few hours a day and that sewage systems continue to pollute the water sources.
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Twelve Square Meter
Practitioner:
Heng Zhang
Date:
Jul 1 1994
Zhang Huan is a very talented performance artist in China. In the famous work "Twelve Square Meters", he was covered with fish oil and honey sitting in a dirty public toilet in Beijing's East Village for an hour, not only making swarms of flies greedily surround him, but also People feel extremely uncomfortable and even nauseous.
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Sunflower Seeds by Ai Weiwei
Practitioner:
Ai Weiwei
Date:
Oct 12 2010
Ai Weiwei's installation Sunflower Seeds is a profound commentary on both historical and contemporary issues through the medium of art. First exhibited at Tate Modern in London from October 12, 2010, to May 2, 2011, the work features an astonishing one hundred million handcrafted porcelain sunflower seeds, spread across the gallery's 1,000 square meter Turbine Hall to a depth of ten centimeters.
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Meet the Italians Making Music Together Under Coronavirus
Practitioner:
Gioachino Rossini
Date:
Mar 20 2020
The language of music is common to all generations and nations,” Gioachino Rossini, the virtuosic opera composer, once said. “It is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.” In recent weeks, Italians have embraced the language of music as a means to communicate with their neighbors and endure the ravages of covid-19 as a collective.
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Threads of Resistance
Practitioner:
Artist Circle Alliance
Date:
Jul 15 2017
A juried exhibition of fiber art created by the Artist Circle Alliance to protest the Trump administration’s actions and policies. This is a traveling exhibition to 13 venues across the U.S. All work in the exhibition, as well as the nearly 560 pieces submitted for jurying, are shown on our website.
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826 Valencia
Practitioner:
Dave Eggers and Nínive Calegari
Date:
Mar 4 2002
826 Valencia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students ages six to eighteen with their creative and expository writing skills and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Their services are structured around the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success.
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GIMME THE POWER
Practitioner:
MOLOTOV
Date:
May 9 2012
Directed by Fernando Sariñana, Todo el poder centers around the politics and corruption that shroud the Mexican police system. Featuring Demián Bichir as Gabriel, a filmmaker whose career has left him assaulted and robbed in broad daylight more times than he cares to remember, the film itself was inspired by Sariñana's personal experience with urban crime oftentimes perpetrated by the police themselves. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
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Intervention #1
Practitioner:
Núria Güell
Date:
Jan 1 2012
58,241 evictions were conducted in Spain in 2011, mostly through real estate speculation by the Mediterranean Savings Bank. In Intervention #1, the artist created a cooperative through which she contracted a construction worker (who himself had been evicted from his own house) to remove the entrance doors to other foreclosed properties. In this way, houses were accessible and open to public use, and occupants were not liable for housebreaking.
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Spec Ops: The Line
Practitioner:
Walt Williams; Richard Pearsey
Date:
Jun 26 2012
Often in military style video games we kill without much regard for the enemy. They are faceless or stereotypical, the Nazi or evil Cold War–era Russian. They are enemies that were fought on the battlefields of great wars, or they are aliens that have no resemblance to humans save for a general humanoid form.
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The Quenelle
Practitioner:
Dieudonné M'bala M'bala
Date:
Sep 6 2013
The quenelle (French pronunciation: ​[kə.nɛl]) is a gesture created and popularized by French political activist and comedian Dieudonné.
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The Georgian artists at the forefront of anti-government protests
Practitioner:
Georgian Artists
Date:
Mar 1 2023
The Georgian government’s attempt in March to impose a repressive Russian-style “foreign agent” law has galvanised the cultural community in the country. Museum workers and artists have been at the forefront of dramatic protests during which police fired water cannons at crowds waving European Union flags, and say they plan to continue the battle despite the government backing down from the legislation.
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WHAT THE SUICIDE OF AUTHOR LIN YI HAN CAN TEACH US ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH
Practitioner:
Jessie Yang, University of Hong Kong, Break Study Magazine
Date:
May 19 2017
The author behind ‘The First Paradise of Fang Siqi,’ a novel that Han described as ‘a young girl falling in love with her rapist,’ has sent shockwaves through Taiwanese society. On April 27, aspiring Taiwanese author Lin Yi Han committed suicide, leaving behind only her first, and sadly last, novel. The story, entitled “The First Love Paradise of Fang Siqi,” concerns the mental struggles of a young girl who is raped by her teacher.
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Those Without Names
Practitioner:
Carlo Gabuco
Date:
Mar 1 2018
In an art fair in Manila in March last year, one installation caught everybody’s eye.
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Mareas
Practitioner:
various groups
Date:
Dec 6 2012
El movimiento 15M ha abierto la veda a una protesta insistente, que mantiene la presencia en la calle. Según la delegada de gobierno, Cristina Cifuentes, en Madrid hay ocho manifestaciones diarias.
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