Projects tagged "Amplifies (issue or campaign)"

Brings public and political attention to an issue or campaign.  Can include prefigurative action, making the invisible visible.

Seaspiracy
Practitioner:
Ali Tabrizi
Date:
Mar 24 2021
"Passionate about ocean life, a filmmaker sets out to document the harm that humans do to marine species - and uncovers alarming global corruption."
The Sewer Soaperie: Cities, Oil and Human Behavior
Practitioner:
Catherine Sarah Young
Date:
Sep 26 2016
Many artists are inspired to bring climate change into their work after a direct experience with it. Catherine Sarah Young hopes her work helps people understand and talk about their experiences with climate change.
Beautiful Women's Rights Walk
Practitioner:
Meili Xiao
Date:
Sep 15 2012
In 2012, the 24-year-old feminist activist Xiao Meili launched the "Beautiful Women's Rights Walk" anti-sexual assault activity. She set off from Beijing in mid-September and passed through Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Changsha and other cities along the way to reach the destination Guangzhou. She took 114 days and reaches more than 2500 kilometers in this tour.
Chinese Core Socialist Values Graffiti in London's Brick Lane
Practitioner:
Wang Hangzheng (Yi Que) and fellows
Date:
Aug 5 2023
The graffiti made up of 24 stenciled Chinese characters sprayed in red paint against a white backdrop across walls appeared in East London’s street art haven Brick Lane on August 5, 2023. It was created a group of young people from mainland China, including several art students at London’s Royal College of Art.
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.
Street Art Activism: What White People Call Vandalism
Practitioner:
Nancypili Hernandez, DeVante Brooks, Olek, Mona Caron
Date:
Oct 21 2020
In this article, author Caroline Choi highlights different grafiti artists and their stories. These artists use their talent to tell their stories, ones that might not get to be told otherwise. She goes into the history of grafiti, and how it ties into how rich and white the art world has become.
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Practitioner:
Prophet Bobby Henderson
Date:
Jun 10 2005
In the mid early 2000s, religious advocates tried a new strategy: promoting the theory of “intelligent design” to be taught in schools. As the Kansas School Board considered the argument, Prophet Bobby Henderson saw an opportunity. His now famous, “Open Letter to the Kansas School Board” began:
Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism and the AIDS Poster
Practitioner:
Donald Albrecht, Jessica Lacher-Feldman, William M. Valent
Date:
Mar 6 2022
Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster is the traveling version of the first major exhibition devoted to the University of Rochester's collection of HIV/AIDS-related posters. It illustrates to a broad audience that "AIDS affects everyone" and through the use of language and imagery, shows how messaging and information around HIV is shared to different groups, audiences, and people throughout the world.
La Casa Invisible Protests Against Gentrification
Practitioner:
La Casa Invisible
Date:
Dec 3 2002
La Casa Invisible project was started in 2007 in Malaga, Spain, when a group of socially involved participants squatted in a run-down building, aiming to eventually claim the legal rights to the property (Moor & Smart, 2016). The space was opened to local artists and creators, quickly becoming a hub for free local music, performances, and seminars as well as creating an important meeting space for social groups (Moor & Smart, 2016).
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.
Welcome World Sleep Day: Performance art calls for "Put down the phone and sleep at ease"
Practitioner:
Chongqing Fuling wine town square
Date:
Mar 20 2021
March 20, World Sleep Day is approaching, Chongqing Fuling wine town square placed 2 transparent sleep house, staff in the form of performance art to call on people to "put down the phone, sleep at ease". It is reported that the purpose of World Sleep Day is to make people pay attention to the importance of sleep and sleep quality, to remind people to pay attention to sleep health and quality.
Performance Art “Not to Leave the Cage Unless You Have to” in Beijing Film Academy
Practitioner:
An anonymous student from Beijing Film Academy
Date:
Nov 22 2021
Direct Cause: Students' freedom to enter and leave the campus has been restricted for two weeks, but the university has not even issued an official document, only a verbal rule of "not leaving the campus unless necessary." Objective: To protest the arbitrary closure policy of Beijing Film Academy.
Chile's protest street art
Practitioner:
Mr Owl
Date:
Mar 1 2020
"The walls of the streets of downtown Santiago are covered with stickers, art, words and posters. The messages are varied and range from "Feminist power" to "All cops are bastards". They have taken over the walls of Zona Cero (Ground Zero), the name given to the area around Plaza de la Dignidad, where anti-government protests have been held - and at times brutally repressed by police - since 18 October.
Tracking Transience
Practitioner:
Hasan Elahi
Date:
Jan 1 2002
An erroneous tip called into law enforcement authorities in 2002 subjected Hasan Elahi to an intensive investigation by the FBI and after undergoing months of interrogations, he was finally cleared of suspicions. After this harrowing experience, Elahi conceived “Tracking Transience” and opened just about every aspect of his life to the public.
Covert Gay Representation in Video Games
Practitioner:
Jacques Servin
Date:
Dec 15 1996
Upon the release of the 1996 Maxis Inc. computer game SimCopter, the company discovered programmer Jacques Servin had secretly added scantily clad male CPUs to appear in the game and make out with the player character.
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.
Global Jars of Joy
Practitioner:
The Joy Switchboard
Date:
Apr 25 2021
Our project aims to show people that joy can be an act of resistance and resilience in the face of global justice issues when harnessed in the right way. The sharing of joy can also act as a connector in a society that continues to grow more polarised through the division of social media and mainstream media.
European leaders visit Kyiv, and tell Russia: 30-day ceasefire now or face massive sanctions
Practitioner:
Andrew Carey, Nick Paton Walsh
Date:
May 10 2025
Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — The leaders of Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Poland have told Russian leader Vladimir Putin to agree to a 30-day ceasefire starting on Monday or face possible “massive” sanctions, according to French President Emmanuel Macron, on a highly symbolic visit to Kyiv. The demand comes with the backing of the White House after a joint phone call with President Donald Trump, the Europeans said.
HERE I AM festival.
Practitioner:
Aretha Brown, Claire Martin, Kaff-eine and Jane Gillings
Date:
Mar 27 2021
Four prominent Australian artists – Aretha Brown, Claire Martin, Kaff-eine and Jane Gillings – will gather in Canberra this Sunday, to discuss their art, activism and ideas, marking the closing weekend of Kambri’s HERE I AM festival. The Art Activism by Great Women Conference is a day-long event, involving artist talks, Q&A sessions, panel discussions, afternoon tea, wine tasting and networking.
Ice Watch
Practitioner:
Olafur Eliasson
Date:
Feb 13 2018
From Public Delivery: For Ice Watch (2014), he extracted 30 blocks of glacial ice from the waters of Greenland and in 2018 strategically placed them in front of Tate Modern in London . The ice was left here to melt. Ice Watch was to inspire public action against climate change, advocating for a rapid public response.
Why Cakes Can Be a Powerful Form of Protest
Practitioner:
multiple individuals
Date:
Jan 1 1920
LONG BEFORE WOMEN finally — though incompletely — won the right to vote in the United States in 1920, they were finding ways to influence politics. In late 18th-century New England, colonial women would make muster cakes — spiced, doorstop-heavy confections flecked with candied fruit and soaked in alcohol — for soldiers being gathered (or “mustered”) to fight in the Revolutionary War.
Irish Reactions to Palestine and Israel
Practitioner:
Pro-Palestinian Activists in Ireland
Date:
Nov 1 2023
Palestinian and Israeli flags flutter in pro-Irish and pro-UK neighbourhoods in Northern Ireland, tapping into its own history of conflict and division that still affects everyday life despite a 1998 peace deal that largely ended violence.
Calling Me a Hero Only Makes You Feel Better
Practitioner:
Grocery Store Workers, Essential Workers, Front Line Workers
Date:
Apr 18 2020
Working in a grocery store has earned me and my co-workers a temporary status. After years of being overlooked, we suddenly feel a sense of responsibility, solidarity, and pride. On a private Facebook group page for my company, Trader Joe’s, one employee from Washington State posted a picture of a company-issued work shirt hanging from the ceiling of the store. A sign attached to the shirt read not all heroes wear scrubs.
Climate activists painted murals on two blocks of San Francisco streets
Practitioner:
Sunrise Movement, Idle No More and Bay Area climate movement organizations
Date:
Sep 26 2019
Climate activists took to the streets in San Francisco and painted murals directly on two blocks of the city Financial District's main thoroughfare.
"That's not art it's Victorian porn!" - how one small Barbie doll took on the art world
Practitioner:
Sarah Williamson
Date:
Feb 10 2020
Museums and art galleries are not usually the sites of feminist political protest. Yet over the past couple of years, before the lockdown, gallery visitors all over the UK had noticed a small, determined activist whose modus operandi is “Small signs, big questions, fabulous wardrobe”.

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