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Power to the Patient
Practitioner:
Shepard Fairey and some winners of Academy Award
Date:
Mar 1 2021
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Activist and Academy-Award winning actress Susan Sarandon and Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning and Academy-Award nominated actress Cynthia Erivo starred in a new public service announcement (PSA) during the Oscars titled “Power to the Patients” which focuses on increasing awareness that hospital prices are now a patient’s right prior to receiving care.
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Multi-Story-Rite of Spring in a Car Park
Practitioner:
Multi-Storey
Date:
Jul 23 2011
On July 23rd 2011 a newly formed organization Multi-Story performed Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in a multi-story car park in Peckham Rye London. In doing so it completely subverted the entrenched traditions of the performance of classical music. The organization used student musicians and did not charge admission.
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Surf China’s Censored Web at an Internet Cafe in New York
Practitioner:
Dan Phiffer
Date:
Mar 1 2016
It may have been a while since you’ve set foot in an internet cafe, but a pop-up one on the Lower East Side offering free tea on top of free wifi is well worth a visit for a lesson in online freedoms.
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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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Silver Action
Practitioner:
Suzanne Lacy
Date:
May 13 2013
"Suzanne Lacy is an internationally known artist whose work includes installations, video, and large-scale performances on social themes and urban issues. One of her best-known works to date is The Crystal Quilt (Minneapolis, 1987) a performance with 430 older women, broadcast live on Public Television." (http://www.suzannelacy.com/)
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John Luther Adams: Inuksuit - A Border-Crossing Presentation
Practitioner:
San Diego Symphony Orchestra
Date:
Jan 27 2018
The San Diego Symphony performs John Luther Adams piece "Inuksuit" at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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#IfTheyGunnedMeDown
Practitioner:
CJ_Musick_Lawy
Date:
Aug 11 2014
#IfTheyGunnedMeDown Shows How Black People Are Portrayed in Mainstream Media. The hashtag demonstrates that the narrative the media continues to portray regarding black people isn’t always truthful.
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"I'm Here: A Chilean initiative that makes visible street dogs
Practitioner:
Felipe Carrasco and Violeta Caro
Date:
Dec 23 2012
This is one of the noblest urban interventions I've seen lately. Two girls who go to a subway station in Santiago, Chile with lots of colorful balloons with helium. In the balloons write messages like "touch me", "hold me", "adopt me", "love me" or "feed me".
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Oakland Wiki
Practitioner:
Oakland Wiki
Date:
Jan 1 2013
Oakland Wiki (oaklandwiki.org) is a free website about Oakland that anyone can edit. It's a wiki that can house any kind of information about Oakland, from historic figures to native plants to City Council meeting notes to your favorite leafy walk.
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Kinshasa Costumes
Practitioner:
Ndaku Ya La Vie Est Belle
Date:
Aug 20 2021
The collective Ndaku Ya La Vie Est Belle, a group of Kinshasa street performers turn their bodies into living sculptures, and use them to political ends. Among the artists is Jared, who regularly takes to the streets dressed as Robot Annonce. The costume, made from broken radio parts, is designed to raise awareness of fake news. “People receive so much incorrect information and many inaccuracies are spread. I want to fight this,” says Jared.
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Green Corners
Practitioner:
Negar Farajiani
Date:
Jan 1 2011
The project focuses on creating green spaces as effective elements which ameliorate air quality absorbing chemicals from the atmosphere.
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Meet Red Army Statue: Superman and hero friends
Practitioner:
Unknown
Date:
Jun 17 2011
This article was published on the guardian website: -Russia not amused at Red Army statue re-invented as Superman and friends- Clenched teeth in Moscow over 1950s war memorial in Sofia given makeover by spray-painting street artist By Tom Parfitt in Moscow The Guardian, Wednesday 22 June 2011
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Aqua Line
Practitioner:
Heavy Trash
Date:
Jan 1 2000
Creative Time, Social Practice Archive: In 2000 Heavy Trash, an anonymous arts organization of designers, architects, and urban planners, implemented its Aqua Line project throughout various parts of Los Angeles. The project involved the installation of false "Future Station Location" signs in the downtown area, notifying passersby of the impending construction of a subway that would connect the downtown to the Westside.
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Unprisoned: Stories From The System
Practitioner:
Eve Abrams
Date:
Feb 3 2016
Independent producer and longtime WWNO collaborator Eve Abrams brings us Unprisoned: Stories From The System. From New Orleans and Louisiana, the world’s incarceration capital, we meet those serving time inside and outside the criminal justice system.
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Repellent Fence: Art, Activism, and the U.S.-Mexico Border
Practitioner:
Postcommodity
Date:
Jan 1 2015
The Repellent Fence is a social collaborative project among individuals, communities, institutional organizations, publics, and sovereigns that culminate with the establishment of a large-scale temporary monument located near Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora. This 2 mile long ephemeral land-art installation is comprised of 26 tethered balloons, that are each 10 feet in diameter, and float 100 feet above the desert landscape.
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Silent River Film Festival
Practitioner:
Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
Date:
Oct 10 2011
Cinema is a popular medium for people to escape the real world. It provides comedy, drama, and endless entertainment. But Kalpna Singh-Chitnis saw an even greater potential for film. She believed that this art form could be utilized as a means to highlight social causes, so she created the Silent River Film Festival.
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Asgarda: Amazons of the Ukraine
Practitioner:
Katerina Tarnouska, Asgarda
Date:
Jan 1 2004
In the Ukraine, a country where females are victims of sexual trafficking and gender oppression, a new tribe of empowered women is emerging. Calling themselves the “Asgarda”, the women seek complete autonomy from men. Residing in the Carpathian Mountains, the tribe is comprised of 150 women of varying ages, primarily students, led by 30 year-old Katerina Tarnouska.
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People's History Markers
Practitioner:
The Howling Mob Society
Date:
Jan 1 2010
The Howling Mob Society has created ten historical markers representing history from the perspective of the working class. In particular, these markers detail events and significant locations from the Great Strike of 1877 - a historical event in Pittsburgh's labor history that ignited a popular uprising of workingmen, families, and neighbors alike as citizens stopped train services, burned railroad
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Use Art to heal the world
Practitioner:
Lynda Bell
Date:
Aug 29 2021
I must first come clean, I studied fine arts in high school from years nine to 12. Since my studies were concluded, I had never held a paintbrush again.
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Break-dancing for social justice in Tunisia
Practitioner:
Art Solution
Date:
Feb 1 2017
In Tunisia, a country gripped by economic uncertainty and still in the midst of rebuilding its identity after the Arab Spring, hip-hop culture is viewed as part of an ongoing dissident movement. Just a few events, such as the recent Mafia Wallitili Festival in the heart of downtown Tunis, offer the local hip-hop community an opportunity to share their values with the broader population.
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