Projects tagged "Activates (people)"

Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
Theas Bryllup
Practitioner:
Charity Plan International
Date:
Oct 1 2014
The story behind Thea, the 12-year-old child bride from Norway By Andrew Russell - Global News WATCH ABOVE: Hear the whole story of Thea, a 12-year-old child bride from Norway. Her name is Thea. She is a 12-year-old girl living in Norway and on Saturday she is set to marry a 37-year-old man named Geir, becoming the country’s first official child bride.
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Howardena Pindell; "Rope/Fire/Water"
Practitioner:
The Shed, Howardena Pindell
Date:
Oct 16 2020
Howardena Pindell presented her solo exhibition, “Rope/Fire/Water”, her first video in 25 years and a project utilized by the artist since the 1970s that The Shed commissioned and displayed in late 2020 and into early 2021. “Rope/Fire/Water” mines the history of violence against African-Americans and features Pindell’s personal anecdotes and anthropological and historical data related to lynchings and racist attacks in the United States.
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Shaming criminals in Argentina : "los escraches"
Practitioner:
HIJOS activist group and other argentinian activists
Date:
Jun 1 1995
Faced with a lack of prosecution of those accused of crimes against humanity committed during Argentina’s military dictatorship, family members and descendants of the country’s estimated 30,000 disappeared took action.
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Imagining Life after the Ravaging, Virulent COVID-19 Pandemic , A Special Journal.
Practitioner:
Mbizo Chirasha - Publisher/Curator and Jamie Dedes- Guest Editor
Date:
Jun 29 0020
The signature angst of our time was profoundly expressed in the poems submitted for WOMAWORDS Literary Press June 2020 edition, Imaging Life After COVID-19, offering women poets an opportunity to write about their experience of the pandemic and their vision of or for the future. The universal trauma wrought by this virus, invisible and silent and pouncing with madness and mendacity, brings us to a place we’d like to forget but never will.
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Ai Weiwei’s Colored Vases: Clever Artwork Or Vandalism?
Practitioner:
Ai Weiwei
Date:
Jan 1 2006
Exhibition visitors have expressed feelings of uneasiness or even pain and nostalgia when seeing Colored Vases by Ai Weiwei1. The 51 vases that make up the artwork are originally treasures from the Neolithic Age (5000–3000 BCE) and the artist has dunked them in common industrial paint. Why did Ai Weiwei do it?
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Mustang
Practitioner:
CG Cinéma
Date:
Nov 20 2015
Breaking the Silence: The Importance of Mustang Eylem Atakav on how Mustang offers an important challenge to perceptions of gender and female sexuality in Turkey. As Deniz Gamze Ergüven's acclaimed debut film Mustang screens at the ICA, Eylem Atakav discusses gender and female sexuality in Turkey, looking at the importance of film in making women's experiences visible and changing perceptions.
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Women to the Front: Perspectives on Equality, Gender, and Activism
Practitioner:
Nancy Rivera, Scotty Hill, Salt Lake City Arts Council
Date:
Mar 16 2020
Women to the Front: Perspectives on Equality, Gender, and Activism is an exhibit that showcases 15 female artists with ties to Utah who infuse their art with activism. The exhibit commemorates the centennial of the 19th Amendment and the 150th anniversary of the first vote cast by a woman in Utah.
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The Pussy Hat Project in The Women's March
Practitioner:
Jayna Zweiman and Krista Suh
Date:
Nov 11 2016
The pink "pussy hats" in The Women's March were created by a group of activists and knitters, including Krista Suh and Jayna Zweiman. The hats were designed as a form of protest and a symbol of resistance to the new administration and its policies.
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Kurokawa Cup: prank and protest against immunity of top Japanese prosecutor
Practitioner:
A group of citizens in Japan
Date:
May 30 2020
Kurokawa Cup is a protest against former head Tokyo prosecutor Hiromu Kurokawa's de facto immunity after he had played mahjong for money, which is an illegal act in Japan.
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Black Lives Matter Plaza in DC
Practitioner:
Rose Jaffe
Date:
Jun 5 2020
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser renamed a street in front of the White House “Black Lives Matter Plaza” and had the slogan painted on the asphalt in massive yellow letters, a pointed salvo in her escalating dispute with President Trump over control of D.C. streets.
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Lil Baby “The Bigger Picture”
Practitioner:
Lil Baby
Date:
Jun 12 2020
Lil Baby, a popular American rapper, released a song titled "The Bigger Picture" in 2020 in response to the Black Lives Matter movement and the protests that took place following the murder of George Floyd by a police officer.
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‘They’ve taken away my freedom’: the truth about the UK state’s crackdown on ​protesters
Practitioner:
Natasha Walter
Date:
Feb 5 2023
Melissa is a down-to-earth, friendly woman in her 50s, and it seems that she has always met life with a certain amount of courage. She grew up on another continent, and after early motherhood, then divorce and a first career in business, she moved to the UK with her second husband. She then built another career working with survivors of domestic violence, before setting up a climate emergency centre in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
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The Vivienne Foundation
Practitioner:
Vivienne Westwood
Date:
Dec 15 2022
The Vivienne Foundation exists to honour, protect and continue the legacy of Vivienne's creativity and activism. Since the start of her career in the 1970s, Vivienne was renowned not only for her fashion design, but also her activism. Vivienne always utilised her platform of prestige to make the world a better place.
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Huntsville Fighting Covid
Practitioner:
Smarter Every Day
Date:
Apr 7 2020
Destin from the Youtube channel Smarter Every Day has started the "Hunstville Fighting Covid" website in order to mobilize and teach those who have 3D printers how to print Personal Protective Equipment to aid medical professionals fighting the COVID-19 epidemic.
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Experimental Wall #27
Practitioner:
La Fiambrera
Date:
Jun 1 1999
This action was suggested in the workshop assembly by a neighbor of Arrayán street itself. At the end of this street giving the market there was a wall in a state of collapse that concerned the neighborhood. On several occasions, either neighbors or from the same Peña Bética in front of them, they had given by the City Council, but without results. And every day having to go all the way through that gorge with two
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Gay, Black, and Revolutionary: The Importance of 'Moonlight'
Practitioner:
Barry Jenkins
Date:
Nov 18 2016
The latest Academy Award for Best Picture was earned by a film depicting the story of a poor, gay, black boy in South Florida. Moonlight, by director Barry Jenkins, has achieved great recognition for its beautiful and honest depiction of a storyline which challenges itself at every turn.
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Students protest gender-based violence in Latin America
Practitioner:
Brandeis University
Date:
Mar 21 2023
For some, International Women’s Day is a day for the celebration of the social, cultural, and professional achievements of women. Many others, on the other hand, believe that we are not yet at the point of celebration, arguing that with gender inequality and gender-based violence rampant worldwide, celebrations are not what International Women’s Day should be about.
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BLOOD. by Kendrick Lamar
Practitioner:
Kendrick Lamar
Date:
Apr 14 2017
Kendick Lamar is known as one of the most prolific, and socially conscious, rappers of our time. 'BLOOD.' is the second track off of Lamar's iconic album 'DAMN.' from 2017. What makes this song stand out is the sample used at the end of part one of the song.
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Paint, Poems and Protest Anthems: Myanmar’s Coup Inspires the Art of Defiance
Practitioner:
Artists of Myanmar
Date:
Jan 17 2021
Most nights since a coup returned Myanmar to military rule on Feb. 1, a spectral symbol of protest has glowed on a mildewed side of a building. Where the next illumination will appear in Yangon, the country’s biggest city, is a mystery. But, suddenly, a projected image appears in the dark. Three fingers raised in a rebellious pose. A dove of peace. The smiling face of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, whose government was ousted in the army putsch.
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A Call to Action
Practitioner:
Unknown
Date:
Jul 1 2022
This piece is fascinating because of its use of just a few words and country names, muted colors, and the recreation of famous art. The artist used this canvas to depict a concern about events happening in the Gaza strip.
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Can’t Help Myself
Practitioner:
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu
Date:
Dec 29 2016
In 2016, the Guggenheim Museum commissioned its very first robotic artwork called Can’t Help Myself (Wannmann, 2016). The artwork is created by two of China’s most controversial artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu and can be described as a robotic arm that has one specific, life-long duty: to prevent the deep-red, bloodlike liquid, which constantly oozes outwards, from straying too far (Weng, n.d.).
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Professor tracks rise in racism linked to pandemic
Practitioner:
Russell Jeung, San Francisco State, the Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council (A3PCON) and Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA)
Date:
Mar 19 2020
Research from Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies Russell Jeung spurs launch of online reporting center to document COVID-19 discrimination.
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Cloud Studies
Practitioner:
Forensic Architecture
Date:
May 29 2020
Forensic Architecture's Cloud Studies is a project that investigates the impact of toxic clouds on colonised and oppressed communities. The clouds, originating from sources like tear gas, industrial emissions, chemical weapons, and forest fires, often go unaddressed due to doubt and denialism.
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Fake Air Force 1
Practitioner:
Putian shoe manufacturer
Date:
Apr 26 2021
Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) was registered in 2009 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It is a non-profit international membership organization with representative offices in China, India, Pakistan, and London. It has more than 400 member organizations around the world, mainly including cotton growers, cotton textile enterprises, and retail brands. The group aims to promote what it calls "Better Cotton" around the world.
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For the People Artists Collective: Virtual Quilt Project
Practitioner:
For the People Artists Collective
Date:
Jul 9 2020
During the COVID-19 pandemic, two Chicago-based organizations, For the People Artists Collective and Chicago Community Bond Fund, worked together to create Decarcerate Now, a virtual quilt honoring individuals who died of COVID-19 while in the custody of the Cook County Jail (CCJ).
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