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Rolezinho
Practitioner:
Brazilian Youths
Date:
Dec 9 2013
This description is taken from an article posted on dissidentvoice.org (link below):
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Operation Christmas
Practitioner:
Lowe SSP3/Columbian Military
Date:
Dec 25 2010
Operation Christmas was a campaign launched by the Colombian military during the Christmas season to encourage FARC guerrillas to demobilize.[1] The military selected nine 75-foot trees along paths the insurgents used and decorated them with Christmas lights and a message encouraging them to come home.
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Smog Ring - Pollution Transformed into Art
Practitioner:
Daan Roosegaarde
Date:
Jan 1 2014
“A Foreigner Makes Beijing’s Smog into Rings” has become a tittle used by a multitude of popular public accounts on Wechat, the most commonly used chatting app in China, which makes more and more Chinese netizens know the story of Daan Roosegaarde, a Dutch artist and “social designer”, who has been making effort to combine the energy saving technology with visually enjoyable art.
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Ana Masreya - Drag
Practitioner:
Ana Masreya
Date:
May 1 2020
‘I’m an Egyptian, Muslim drag queen who aims to raise issues about Middle Eastern / LBGTQ issues within the Arab world and Muslim community. For too long it was drilled in my head that I was wrong, that I was going to Hell, and that’s simply not fair. No one speaks about the harsh mistreatment we go through as gay people in the Arab world. The internal torture and shame is more than enough.
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Public Option Annie
Practitioner:
Agit-Pop
Date:
Oct 23 2009
The Guerilla Musical heard round the world
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Op-Doc A Conversation With Latinos on Race
Practitioner:
JOE BREWSTER, BLAIR FOSTER and MICHÈLE STEPHENSON
Date:
Feb 29 2016
In this short documentary, Latinos grapple with defining their ethnic and racial identities http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/29/opinion/a-conversation-with-latinos-on...
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'Alchemy' Series Spearheads Conversations on Sustainable Art
Practitioner:
Choi Jeong Hwa
Date:
Dec 18 2018
For one artist, the ugly and the beautiful are equivalent concepts. In 2018, designer and artist Choi Jeong Hwa featured an exhibition titled 'Alchemy' at The Artling where he uses recycled and non-biodegradable materials in his work that he has been collecting for 30 years, such as household trash, glass, and steel. 'Dandelion' is one of his masterpieces installed in the outdoors in Seoul, South Korea.
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Parliament in Exile
Practitioner:
Cressida Kocienski, Delfina Foundation Palestine & Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency
Date:
Jan 28 2012
Decolonizing Architecture/Art Residency (DAAR) is an art and architecture collective set up by Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal and Eyal Weizman, based in Palestine. Their work is a critical examination of the role played by architecture in the occupation of the Palestinian territories.
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Protect Nurses
Practitioner:
National Nurses United
Date:
Apr 21 2020
Registered Nurses will be holding a protest in front of the White House on Tuesday, April 21 to call attention to the tens of thousands of health care workers nationwide who have become infected with COVID-19 due to lack of personal protective equipment (PPE). The nurses, members of National Nurses United (NNU), the largest union of RNs in the country, will be practicing social distancing and will read aloud the names U.S.
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It Was Never A Dress
Practitioner:
Axosoft
Date:
May 2 2015
From Time Magazine: It's not a dress—it's a cape We’ve all seen the woman in the triangle dress that marks women’s bathrooms. But what if that triangle silhouette isn’t really a dress?
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“For People, Food is the First Necessity: Qiu Zhijie’s Writing in a Market”
Practitioner:
Zhijie Qiu
Date:
May 1 2021
During the public vacation of May Day, also called International Workers’ Day, “For People, Food is the First Necessity: Qiu Zhijie’s Writing in a Market” was launched at the crowded Sanyuanli market in Beijing.
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Prague's Lennon Wall
Practitioner:
public
Date:
Feb 8 2015
Prague's Lennon Wall is a tourist attraction to some, and a participatory street art haven for others. Directly opposite of the French embassy, the wall has been filled with evolving art and graffiti since the 80s. The wall received its first public inscription, a tribute to John Lennon, following Lennon's assassination in September 1980.
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The Monument Quilt Project
Practitioner:
Activist organization FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture.
Date:
May 31 2019
The Monument Quilt is a large quilt that serves as a memorial for survivors of rape and abuse. It contains over 3,000 stories from individuals who have experienced gender-based violence, and allows visitors to add their own stories by writing, painting, or stitching onto red fabric. The project took place over a span of six years, during which the organizers traveled to 49 states and 33 cities in the U.S.
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Art Behind Bars: Prison Art by Soudabeh Ardavan
Practitioner:
Soudabeh Ardavan
Date:
Nov 30 1985
Charged with participating in demonstrations against the Islamic Republic of Iran, Soudabeh Ardavan was held for eight years (1981-1989) in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison. She found sanity and solace through the forbidden activities of drawing and painting, secretly producing paint from flower petals and tea, using brushes made from toothpicks and human hair.
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Free Hugs Campaign
Practitioner:
Juan Mann
Date:
Dec 1 2004
The Free Hugs Campaign is a social movement involving individuals who offer hugs to strangers in public places.The hugs are meant to be random acts of kindness - selfless acts performed just to make others feel better. International Free Hugs Month is celebrated on the first Saturday of July and continues until August first.
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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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Under the same sky
Practitioner:
Tahir Ün
Date:
Sep 1 2017
"Under the Same Sky" bearing the name and the first part of my project completed. I collected the letters written to 40 Armenian young people from 40 random Turkish young people. The mutual translations of all letters and video subtitles were made. Letters and photographs are handed out to young people, friendships are being established.
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Above and Beyond Memorial
Practitioner:
Numerous artists and veterans Linden Allen, Rich Wharton, Francisco Martinez, Nate Jungheim and Ron Blasen.
Date:
Jan 25 2016
"The massive "Above and Beyond Memorial" will be installed at the National Veterans Art Museum, The Harold Washington Library, and go on display starting Feb. 20, culminating a painstaking search to find a suitable — although temporary — home for the 58,000 replica dog tags honoring those who died as a result of their service in the war that stretched from March 1965 to May 1975.
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Philadelphia Eagles' Malcolm Jenkins Silently Responds to Press Questions by Holding Up Signs on Criminal Justice System
Practitioner:
Malcolm Jenkins
Date:
Jun 6 2018
No description available
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Women of York: “Shared Dining”
Practitioner:
Women of York
Date:
Jan 1 2013
In 2013, a group of ten women incarcerated at York Correctional Institution in Connecticut, calling themselves “Women of York,” created this work of art inspired by Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party. The installation includes six entry banners and ten place settings arranged on a triangular table, each dedicated to a woman of personal significance to the artist.
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