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Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land
Practitioner:
Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land
Date:
Sep 13 2011
Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land
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Garbage Collectors
Practitioner:
Afrika ARTS Kollective
Date:
Jan 17 2015
Afrika ARTS Kollective is a group of artists that decided to face Uganda's demographic growth and the garbage problem of the capital, Kamala, with art. 30,000 tons of residues come out of this monthly and the Administration is being working on healthy and good environmental behaviors among citizens.
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Rolezinho Movement
Practitioner:
Brazilian Youths
Date:
Jan 10 2014
This description is taken from an article posted on dissidentvoice.org (link below):
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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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Bishan Project: Utopia in a Chinese Village
Practitioner:
Ou Ning
Date:
Jun 5 2011
“There are many problems in rural areas. For example, agriculture is declining, no one is farming, traditional things are falling apart, farmers are brainwashed by the idea of urbanization, and they don’t like their hometown. They all want to move to the city.”Activist Ou Ning said. Rural construction is an important issue. As an activist, he chose Bishan village in Anhui, China as the field to start his experiment, which is “Bishan Project”.
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The Police are Present
Practitioner:
Luzinterruptus
Date:
Aug 6 2014
If you happened to be walking in the neighborhood of Madrid's Congress of Deputies this month, you might have noticed a strange sight.
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Female Pressure
Practitioner:
Electric Indigo, Andrea Mayr
Date:
Jan 1 2013
female:pressure is an international network of female artists in the fields of electronic music and digital arts founded by Electric Indigo: from musicians, composers and DJs to visual artists, cultural workers and researchers. A worldwide resource of female talent that can be searched after criteria like location, profession, style or name.
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New Craft Artists in Action
Practitioner:
New Craft Artists in Action, Team Captain Maria Molteni, Institute for Infinitely Small Things, Office of Culture and Design (Manila)
Date:
Dec 22 2012
Maria was psyched to travel to the Philippines where her hand-made basketball nets were well received. Invited with the Institute for Infinitely Small Things (Boston/Mass based) by Clara Balaguer and the Office of Culture and Design (Manila) she worked in Zamboanga City with students of Western Mindanao State University to carry out a 6 day arts and activism workshop.
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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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Weaponizing pink glitter
Practitioner:
Feminist Organizations
Date:
Aug 16 2019
On August 16, 2019 thousands of women marched in various cities across Mexico. One particular case may have triggered them, but these marches were an answer to the systematic violence against women and girls in our country.
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It Looks Like Bansky Has Struck the Wall of England’s Reading Prison, Which Once Detained Oscar Wilde, in His Latest Mural
Practitioner:
Banksy
Date:
Mar 1 2021
"It appears that Banksy has struck again, this time painting the brick wall of the former Reading Prison in Berkshire, England, where Oscar Wilde was jailed for two years over his “indecent” affair with Lord Alfred Douglas.
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A Handmaid’s Tale of Protest
Practitioner:
women's rights activists
Date:
Jun 25 2017
In state capitals and street protests, women’s rights activists have been wearing red robes and white bonnets based on “The Handmaid's Tale,” the 1985 novel that is now a series on Hulu. Silent, heads bowed, the activists in crimson robes and white bonnets have been appearing at demonstrations against gender discrimination and the infringement of reproductive and civil rights.
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Coal Seam Greed - Coal Seam Gas Hoax
Practitioner:
Katso, Nowhereman
Date:
Dec 1 2012
Coal Seam Greed was going to be a simple satire showing Katso and Nowhereman posing as a mining company called Reed Gas and erecting notices stating their intent to explore for unconventional gas or CSG in inner-city Brisbane. The idea was that residents would see the signs, phone and leave messages in response, which would then be incorporated into the video.
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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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Project Row House
Practitioner:
Rob Lowe
Date:
Jan 1 1993
Project Row Houses (PRH) is a neighborhood-based nonprofit art and cultural organization in Houston’s Northern Third Ward, one of the city’s oldest African-American communities. PRH began in 1993 as a result of discussions among African-American artists who wanted to establish a positive, creative presence in their own community.
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Cheat Neutral
Practitioner:
Christian Hunt, Alex Randall
Date:
Nov 19 2009
Cheat Neutral satirizes the carbon offset model by offering people the opportunity to pay someone else not to cheat on their partner in order to neutralize their own infidelity. Cheatneutral allows you to pay £2.50 to carry on cheating while funding “monogamy-boosting offset projects”.
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With Red Lipstick, Indian Acid Attack Victim Makes a Bold Statement
Practitioner:
makelovenotscars.org
Date:
Sep 10 2015
In her peppy and helpful online video tutorial, Reshma Bano Quereshi promises to teach her viewers “how to get perfect red lips.” But unlike the more than 200,000 other online videos dedicated to the application of lipstick, this one goes beyond plumping and priming.
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Web sites go dark in SOPA protest against plans to ban online piracy
Practitioner:
Wikimedia, Google, Reddit, Craigslist, etc
Date:
Jan 18 2013
By Hayley Tsukayama, Published: January 18, 2012 Web users woke up this morning to find that, as promised, several prominent Web sites had gone dark or put up messages asking visitors to contact their members of Congress to vote against two online piracy measures: the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act.
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[Human Compliance Experiment] ‘The Push’: Netflix Special That Tests Human Compliance Is a Life-or-Death ‘Nathan for You’
Practitioner:
Derren Brown
Date:
Feb 23 2018
https://www.netflix.com/title/80220000http://www.indiewire.com/2018/02/the-push-netflix-review-ending-derren-b... Article from IndieWire by Steve Greene
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AIDS activism through billboards; Untitled (1991)
Practitioner:
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Date:
Feb 20 1991
In 1991, Gonzalez-Torres lost his partner Ross to AIDS (the artist would face the same fate in 1996). In a tragic and highly personal tribute to Ross, Gonzalez-Torres took a picture of his still-indented empty bed - an image of universal intimacy and loss - and placed it on two dozen commercial billboard spaces throughout New York.
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