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Fragility and Endurance: Yann Marussich's 'BAIN BRISÉ' and the Art of Vulnerability
Practitioner:
Yann Marussich
Date:
Apr 24 2010
Yann Marussich is a Swiss performance artist who does avant-garde and shocking work, going further into the relationships of the human body with the environment. His work explores such themes as endurance, vulnerability, and the intersection of physicality with philosophy.
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Petition against John Galliano's Class
Practitioner:
Parsons-New School Students
Date:
Apr 25 2013
Fashion designer and former head designer of Dior, John Galliano, in the past few years has failed to rise to his former glory in fashion. In 2011, a videotape of John Galliano shouting anti-semitic statements went viral, thus leading to his dismissal at Dior and the irreparable defamation of his fashion career.
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FreeAJStaff
Practitioner:
Al Jazeera, public
Date:
Feb 27 2014
All over the world, journalists and rights groups are protesting the detainment and muzzling of four Al Jazeera staff members in Egypt.
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Decolonize Me
Practitioner:
Foreman Art Gallery
Date:
Feb 5 2013
Decolonize Me features six contemporary Aboriginal artists whose works challenge, interrogate and reveal Canada’s long history of colonization in daring and innovative ways.
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The Great Wall of Los Angeles
Practitioner:
Judy Baca
Date:
Apr 11 2001
The Great Wall of Los Angeles represents a minority perspective/p.o.v. of the history of the city. Judy Baca first began the mural in 1974 through SPARC at the rise of the Chicano movement. The project was a part of the community and completed by Baca, other local artists and local youth volunteers. This mural is effective in depicting the racial tension of the past, but maybe it would be enhanced by a prospective future.
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'They Lied to us': Mom says police deceived her to get her DNA and charge her son with murder
Practitioner:
Jon Schuppe
Date:
Feb 22 2020
VALDOSTA, Ga. — On an October morning in 2018, Eleanor Holmes and her husband left home to run an errand and found two men inside their front gate. They introduced themselves as detectives from Orlando, Florida, and said they needed the couple’s help.
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"Whose Chinatown?" Exhibition
Practitioner:
Canadian artists
Date:
Jan 29 2021
Whose Chinatown? Examining Chinatown Gazes in Art, Archives, and Collections, brings together an art history of Chinatowns and their communities by historical and contemporary Canadian artists such Emily Carr, Unity Bainbridge, Yucho Chow, Fred Herzog, Paul Wong, Mary Sui Yee Wong, Morris Lum, and aiya哎呀, among others.
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Break Down
Practitioner:
Michael Landy
Date:
Jan 1 2001
Artist Michael Landy catalogued, inventoried, and systemically destroyed all of his possessions for the 2001 public installation Break Down, commissioned by British arts organization Artangel. It took him three years just to itemize the 7,227 objects included in the project.
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Street gas chamber
Practitioner:
Brother Nuts
Date:
Sep 27 2016
A minibus is parked on the side of the road with a series of pipelines wrapped around it. One end of the pipeline is connected to the exhaust port of the minibus, and the other end is put into the car, so that the exhaust gas can be directly introduced into the car, forming a " Street gas chamber".
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Same Love
Practitioner:
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
Date:
Jul 1 2013
The rap duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis has broken records with their hits “Thrift Shop” and “Can’t Hold Us.” And now, with their pro-marriage equality hit “Same Love,” which features out lesbian Mary Lambert, they’re shattering stereotypes.
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Ana Mendieta and Earth Art
Practitioner:
Ana Mendieta
Date:
Apr 20 2018
The works of Ana Mendieta tells a story of the power of the body and the earth, and methods of activism. ----
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The Inside Out Project
Practitioner:
JR
Date:
Mar 2 2011
"I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating in a global art project, and together we'll turn the world...INSIDE OUT." – JR, TED2011
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Just Fashion: Critical Cases on Social Justice and Fashion
Practitioner:
Otto Von Busch, Parsons-New School, Self Passage
Date:
Nov 23 2012
Over the course of a semester, fashion hactivist and fashion social justice scholar, Otto Von Busch, facilitated a course on "Critical Fashion and Social Justice," where graduate fashion students at Parsons design school researched, contextualized and at times critiqued case studies on various examples of "fashion social justice." Case studies included traditional fair trade companies and non profit organizations that have used fashi
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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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North Korean Artist Hopes Reverse Propaganda Will Change Lives Back Home
Practitioner:
Song Byeok
Date:
Jan 1 2018
Song Byeok is one of the most acclaimed Korean artists living today. He is from North Korea, where he was a propaganda artist for the North Korean government for two decades. After defecting in 2002, Byeok has turned his prolific creativity into powerful, satirical art using North Korea’s ruling culture as motifs.
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Faces of the Movement
Practitioner:
Faces of the Movement
Date:
Feb 12 2015
Faces of the Movement is a daily-release photo project that highlights the stories of everyday people who have joined together to fight for justice against police brutality in the United States.
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Complementary Currency Project
Practitioner:
Burners Without Borders
Date:
Nov 1 2012
Initially organized to respond to holes in service provision following Hurricane Katrina, Burners Without Borders has since 2005 "emerged as a community led, grassroots group that encourages innovative, civic participation that creates positive change locally." One ongoing project headed by BWB's Will Ruddick is a complementary currency program in Mombasa, Kenya.
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ACT UP is at it again
Practitioner:
ACT UP
Date:
Apr 26 2012
Long before the red ribbon became an innocuous symbol of AIDS “awareness” and celebrity philanthropy, there was the pink triangle and there was ACT UP and there were thousands of people taking to the streets for their lives. Once a symbol used to mark suspected queers for death in the Holocaust, ACT UP appropriated the pink triangle for
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Girls at Dhabas: challenging issues of safety, or ‘respectability’ in urban Pakistan?
Practitioner:
Girls at Dhabas
Date:
Apr 1 2018
We are sitting at a dhaba – a roadside tea-shop in Pakistan often frequented by lower-to-middle income men. At our table: four women and camera crew. The reporter from ‘one of the most globally viewed’ [read: western], mainstream British outlets looks me in the eye: “So, how safe do you feel at the moment? We were just surrounded by a group of little boys [because of the cameras], do you think the situation can ever turn on you?"
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Hypothetical Development Organization
Practitioner:
Hypothetical Development Organization
Date:
Dec 1 2010
Members of this organization begin the narrative process by examining city neighborhoods and commercial districts for compelling structures that appear to have fallen into disuse —“hidden gems” of the built environment. In varying states of repair, these buildings suggest only stories about the past, not the future.
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