Projects tagged "Activates (people)"

Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
Your body is a battleground
Practitioner:
Barbara Kruger
Date:
Apr 9 1989
Untitled (Your Body is a Battleground) is an iconic 1989 silkscreen portrait made by artist, feminist and activist Barbara Kruger . Though the poster was meant for the pro-choice march on April 9th, 1989, in DC, the portrait is now used mainly to voice the artist’s own opinion about gender inequality. The piece is much more relevant in today’s society, where it controls the way we view and treat women’s bodies.
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Caged 'Children' Appear Throughout Des Moines Amid Iowa Caucus to Remind Voters of 'The Terrors Enacted in Your Name'
Practitioner:
Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES)
Date:
Feb 3 2020
Caucus-goers in Des Moines will arrive to a disturbing sight on Monday, with dozens of chain-link cages appearing to hold migrant children cropping up across the city overnight.
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Hundreds Gather at Utah Capitol in Protest of New Transgender Rights Related Bills
Practitioner:
House Health and Human Services Committee, Equality Utah, Human Rights Commission, American Civil Liberties Union
Date:
Jan 25 2022
Lawmakers in a Utah House committee soundly rejected a bill that would have penalized doctors for giving gender-affirming health care to minors, then moments later approved legislation that included similar restrictions on transgender health care — minus the punishment — on party line during a lengthy committee meeting Tuesday.
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I shop therefore I am
Practitioner:
Barbara Kruger
Date:
Jan 1 1987
I Shop Therefore I Am (1987) is the work of Barbara Kruger . It became an iconic artwork, being reproduced on items such as shopping bags and other consumer products such as t-shirts. Kruger has often derived images from the mass media and pasted the words over them, particularly in Futura Bold . She then uses advertising to design her works.
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The Harlem Festival of Culture
Practitioner:
Tony Cornelius, HFC
Date:
Jul 28 2023
The Harlem Festival of Culture not only pays homage to the past but also envisions a brighter future. It serves as a platform to showcase the rich diversity and dynamism of Harlem's artistic community, while also acting as a catalyst for social change and community empowerment. The festival boasts a lineup of artists from various genres and backgrounds, including jazz, soul, hip-hop, gospel, blues, rock, Latin, and Afrobeat.
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Buses in Seoul install 'comfort women' statues to honour former sex slaves
Practitioner:
Dong-A Transit company
Date:
Aug 7 2017
Buses serving several routes in central Seoul have acquired a new and highly controversial passenger: a barefoot “comfort woman”, wearing a traditional hanbok dress with her hands resting on her knees.
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Dead Dove Publishing
Practitioner:
ArmoredSuperHeavy
Date:
May 5 2021
User @ArmoredSuperHeavy on Twitter recently posted a master document detailing their explorations into bookbinding, fanfiction preservation, and the online gift economy. Their bookbinding venture, named Dead Dove Publishing, is a project that seeks to preserve and legitimize fanworks and celebrate the fandom gift economy. The document explains their actions and the work they have done since they began two years ago.
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Fem Queen: The Evolution, The Revolution, The Celebration!
Practitioner:
NYU Steinhardt, Dominique Jackson
Date:
Apr 23 2024
For the completion of her residency as the NYU Steinhardt 2023-24 Scholar-in-Residence, Dominique Jackson collaborated with NYU students to honor the fem queen (trans women) and their historical meaning to not only ballroom but popular culture at large.
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"Si 8 Do" Seville Poop Project
Practitioner:
Seville Activists
Date:
Jan 1 2000
In the Si 8 Do project, Seville activists convened in a neglected barrio during the Euromediterranean Conference on Sustainable Cities, which was taking place in Seville.
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Coal for the rich
Practitioner:
The Yes Men, Greenpeace, Colombia College
Date:
Apr 4 2011
Students from Colombia College teamed up with Greenpeace and The Yes Men to take on the Chicago coal industry in an elaborate, multi-layered hoax. The group created a scheme to announce that a new coal plant was planned—but instead of going in a poor neighborhood (like the two coal plants that already exist), this one would be built in a rich one.
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With the Help of an Art Installation, Ukrainian Activists in NYC Canvass Voters for Support
Practitioner:
Ganna Smirnova, Vsevolod Myrnyi and Zhanna Galeyeva
Date:
Nov 4 2024
Four days before the U.S. presidential election, three Ukrainian activists gathered at a stranded fence in New York City’s East Village to hang an expansive information poster. “19546+ Ukrainian Children Abducted by Russia,” reads its headline in bold. From a black canvas, white letters jump out at the passersby, a haunting reminder of the toll the Russian invasion continues to inflict on Ukrainian families.
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The Apocalypse Project: The Ephemeral Marvels Perfume Store
Practitioner:
Catherine Sarah Young
Date:
Oct 9 2014
As climate change worsens, so will our collective sense of loss. Coastlines, cities, crops, and entire species will disappear. Artist Catherine Young has created a perfume line that bottles up the scents of things we enjoy today, but will be diminished–or gone–soon enough. During exhibitions, visitors are allowed to smell the perfumes.
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@muchachafanzine
Practitioner:
muchachafanzine
Date:
Jan 1 2011
The user muchachafanzine on instagram is an activist who writes a "decolonial native xicana feminist fanzine". They are an online activist and they spread their message through their page, the zine, and through merchandise. Daisy Salinas began Muchacha Fanzine as a feminist punk zine in 2011. Over the years, Muchacha has grown into a larger, submission-based compilation of work by marginalized voices from around the world.
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COVID-19 RELIEF FUND TO GIVE $10 MILLION TO ARTISTS
Practitioner:
Artist Relief fund
Date:
Apr 8 2020
A coalition of more than twenty national arts funders has launched an emergency relief fund that will provide millions of dollars to artists struggling financially in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, which has more than 400,000 confirmed cases of the virus. The Andrew W.
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Greta Thunberg launches video of family walking around burning house calling for action on climate change
Practitioner:
Fridays for Future
Date:
Apr 21 2020
Greta Thunberg has launched a campaign video of a housing burning to the ground as she calls for more action on climate change. The shocking clip shows a family waking up, having breakfast and talking as their home is engulfed by flames and clouds of smoke. The video was released by the Swedish climate activist's Fridays for Future, which has partnered with LA-based creative agency FF.
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‘Met Museum, you’re complicit’: artists and activists take over museum’s front steps with giant pro-Palestine quilt
Practitioner:
Palestinian Liberation
Date:
Mar 25 2024
Hundreds of artists, cultural workers and activists gathered on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue in New York on Sunday (24 March), demanding that the most visited museum in the US publicly call for a ceasefire in the war in Gaza and commit to preserving Palestinian cultural heritage.
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Becoming a Statue of Japanese Comfort Woman
Practitioner:
Yoshiko Shimada (嶋田美子)
Date:
Nov 30 2011
‘Since Plotinus’, writes Joseph Tanke (2019, p. 486), ‘Western art has been consecrated to beauty, and beautiful art has been understood as the achievement of good form’. But alongside this interest in beauty and form, art has been committed to politics and perspectives, equity and rights. Consequently, and particularly since the start of the modern era, artists frequently initiate or participate in ‘difficult conversations’.
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The Amplification Project: Digital Archive for Forced Migration, Contemporary Art, and Action
Practitioner:
Artists and Activists
Date:
Aug 1 2020
The Amplification Project: Digital Archive for Forced Migration, Contemporary Art, and Action (https://theamplificationproject.org) is a crowdsourced community digital archive aiming to raise the visibility of art and cultural productions inspired, influenced, or affected by forced migration and refugeehood.
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The Ugly Conference
Practitioner:
Vanessa Rochelle Lewis, Stephanie Gary
Date:
Mar 23 2019
Last November, when you Googled the phrase “ugly Black woman,” Vanessa Rochelle Lewis’s photograph was the second to come up. “Which I’m offended by,” says Lewis, a Bay Area–based artist and writer, “since I’m an Aries and I like to be number one in everything.”
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West Palm Beach arts community, drag queens protest against Clematis Street permit denial
Practitioner:
West Palm Beach arts community
Date:
Apr 18 2023
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Supporters of the LGBTQ+ and arts communities in West Palm Beach are protesting the closure of two popular spots for creatives in the city.
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“Supporting Ukraine Is Not a Choice, But Our Common Duty”: How a Group of Artist-Activists Is Supporting Ukraine From Warsaw
Practitioner:
Sunflower Solidarity Community Center
Date:
Feb 25 2023
In 2023, it is impossible to be an apolitical artist in Eastern Europe. As war rages on in Ukraine, art serves as a powerful and necessary tool, according the members of the Sunflower Solidary Community Center in Warsaw: Maria Beburia, Sebastian Cichocki, Kuba Depczyński, Taras Gembik, Yulia Krivich, Kaja Kusztra, Natalia Sielewicz, and Bogna Stefańska.
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The Baltic Way – the longest unbroken human chain in history
Practitioner:
citizens of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
Date:
Aug 23 1989
At 7:00 PM on 23 August 1989, approximately two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania joined hands, forming a human chain from Tallinn through Riga to Vilnius, spanning 675 kilometres, or 420 miles. It was a peaceful protest against the illegal Soviet occupation and also one of the earliest and longest unbroken human chains in history.
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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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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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A Story Like Mine
Practitioner:
Halsey
Date:
Jan 20 2018
Halsey Delivers Emotional Speech About Sexual Abuse, Rape at New York Women’s March: Here Is Her Full Poem Halsey penned a powerful, heart-wrenching poem about her own experiences with sexual assault and rape for the 2018 Women's March in New York City. Watch and read it here. By Ashley Iasimone 01/20/2018
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