Projects tagged "Strengthens (community)"

Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.

The Aesthetic and Conceptual Impact of El Anatsui's Sculptures
Practitioner:
El Anatsui
Date:
Jan 1 2004
El Anatsui, a visionary originally from Ghana, blends discarded materials into breathtaking sculptures that, in themselves, advocate for change and prompt us to reimagine our relationship with the environment.
Ricardo Levins Morales – Art for Environmental Justice
Practitioner:
Morales
Date:
Apr 27 2025
Based in Minnesota, Morales creates prints and posters that address environmental and social justice issues. His art is used in grassroots movements, combining vivid imagery with messages of resistance and hope.
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.
Subway Therapy
Practitioner:
Matthew Chavez
Date:
Oct 8 2016
Matthew “Levee” Chavez sits at a table in New York City’s Union Square, sporting a thrift store suit and tie, holding a sign that reads “Subway Therapy.” This act of social practice, which started as an invitation for conversation, went viral after he set up shop at the subway the day after the 2016 presidential election. He wrote “Express Yourself” on a Post-It and stuck it to the tiled wall.
Olivia Rodrigo's Fund 4 Good
Practitioner:
Olivia Rodrigo, National Network of Abortion Funds
Date:
Mar 12 2024
In conjunction with the GUTS world tour, Olivia has launched Olivia Rodrido’s Fund 4 Good, a global initiative committed to building an equitable and just future for all women, girls and people seeking reproductive health freedom. A portion of the proceeds from all ticket sales at the GUTS world tour will go towards the Fund 4 Good.
From K-pop musical fandom to political activism in Latin America
Practitioner:
K-Pop Fans in Latin America
Date:
Jan 1 2022
During the 2020 and 2021 social protests in Chile, Colombia, and Peru, Latin American fans of K-pop, Korean popular music and culture that mixes rhythms, styles, dance routines and has a defined aesthetic, went from using social networks to support their favorite artists to using them to sabotage the hashtags of conservative influencers that discredited the mobilizations.
"We stand in solidarity"-Asian American Artist Confront Racism
Practitioner:
Mike Keo, Monyee Chau, Godzilla: Asian American Art Network
Date:
Apr 2 2020
Unleashed by anxiety over the pandemic, the nationwide rise in anti-Asian hate has served as a call to action for many Asian American artists to take a stand: To actively challenge the historic negative stereotype of the vice- and disease-ridden Yellow Peril; to dismantle the pernicious and divisive myth of the model minority that pits achievements by Asian Americas as judgements against other communities of color; and to advocate for social justice, eq
AnAbhainnÁlainn
Practitioner:
Creativity and Change
Date:
Mar 22 2021
We designed a WaterWaysWalk with interactive activity suggestions linked to both a Website and a hardcopy Zine, either of which could be utilised on the walk to raise awareness about Water Sustainability. Below is an extract from the website explaining what the focus was:
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.
Htein Lin: A Show of Hands
Practitioner:
Htein Lin
Date:
Feb 16 2019
From 1998 to 2004, pro-democracy activist Htein Lin was jailed for challenging the military dictatorship in his home country of Myanmar (formerly Burma) in Southeast Asia. Prior to his imprisonment, Lin acted in films and with a theater troupe. While behind bars, he continued to organize performance artworks with his fellow prisoners.
Memes, Jokes and Cats: South Koreans Use Parody for Political Protest
Practitioner:
South Korean citizens
Date:
Dec 20 2024
As South Koreans took to the streets this month demanding the ousting of their president, some found an unexpected outlet to express their fury: jokes and satire. They hoisted banners and flags with whimsical messages about cats, sea otters and food. They waved signs joking that President Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration of martial law had forced them to leave the comfort of their beds. Pictures of the flags spread widely on social media.
Painting homes to strengthen a community
Practitioner:
Pintando Santa Catarina Palopó
Date:
Nov 15 2017
Nestled on the banks of Lake Atitlán in Guatemala, Santa Catarina Palopó is a small town brimming with vibrant colors and stunning natural views. Despite its natural beauty and cultural heritage, the community struggled with economic development and poverty for years until they had the opportunity to harness the power of art and transform the town.
Red Swing Project
Practitioner:
Andrew Danziger
Date:
Jan 1 2007
In 2007, Andrew Danziger had an architecture class assignment at the University of Texas at Austin to propose an urban intervention in Austin. The goal was to think about public art in unexpected ways. One classmate dreamed up a blank traffic sign; another suggested putting a bench at a bus stop that lacked one. Danziger hit on the idea of installing swings in surprising places, and then he went beyond the assignment by actually doing it.
Nara Yoshitomo “No Nukes (Untitled)”
Practitioner:
Nara Yoshitomo
Date:
Jul 1 2012
An early representation of Nara’s strong stance against nuclear weapons, No Nukes is now synonymous with the antinuclear protest movement. The work is painted over a promotional poster for bossa nova musician Vinicius Cantuária’s Amor Brasileiro (1998) among other printed ephemera.
Dumping Tea into the Sea - the Boston Tea Party
Practitioner:
The Boston Tea Party
Date:
Dec 16 1773
Forget Sarah Palin. And take a history class and learn from the daring early settlers!
The vital work of women street photographers
Practitioner:
Gulnara Samoilova
Date:
Mar 16 2021
In 2016, photojournalist Gulnara Samoilova was running a successful wedding photography business. Her diverse portfolio of work spans two decades — with images in the permanent collections of The New York Public Library, 9/11 Memorial Museum and Houston Museum of Fine Arts — but weddings had become her staple business. By the year's end, she'd decided to pack it in.
Pro-gun activists using Facebook groups to push anti-quarantine protests
Practitioner:
Ben Dorr
Date:
Apr 19 2020
A trio of far-right, pro-gun provocateurs is behind some of the largest Facebook groups calling for anti-quarantine protests around the country, offering the latest illustration that some seemingly organic demonstrations are being engineered by a network of conservative activists.
NYU Students' Response to COVID-19 Housing Closure
Practitioner:
NYU Student Body/NYU's Inter-Residential Hall Council
Date:
Mar 16 2020
This was a protest posted on Change.org in response to NYU's forced eviction deadline on students living in on-campus housing. The following was the information posted on the site: We, the undergraduate student body of New York University, strongly urge NYU to rescind the call for students to evacuate NYU residence halls before March 22nd.
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
Cowboy Carter - Beyoncé’s Act of Reclamation
Practitioner:
Beyonce
Date:
Mar 29 2024
Can’t say she didn’t warn us: As per her Instagram message last week, Cowboy Carter, the Act II sequel to 2022’s Renaissance, is a Beyoncé album, not a country album.
Felipe Romero Beltrán captures young migrants coming-of-age in Seville
Practitioner:
Felipe Romero Beltrán
Date:
Apr 13 2021
Horror stories about treacherous boat journeys from Africa to the Mediterranean far too often make headline news. The men, women and children fleeing their homes to start a new life in Europe become faceless numbers in the media, and are ‘othered’ by conservative politicians for their own agenda.
Support
Practitioner:
Lorenzo Quinn
Date:
Jun 1 2017
From Public Delivery: "He calls his work Support, which involves two giant hands rising from a canal to support the building that houses Ca’ Sagredo Hotel. The idea is to depict that the sculpture is helping Venice. It also symbolizes humankind’s capability to destroy the world and an equal ability to save the world too."
The Walk With Amal, Little Amal
Practitioner:
The Walk (Little Amal)
Date:
Jun 1 2021
Little Amal is the 12 foot puppet of a 10 year old Syrian refugee child at the heart of The Walk. Over the last year she has become a global symbol of human rights, especially those of refugees. Since July 2021, Amal has travelled over 9,000km and been welcomed by more than a million people on the street, including hundreds of artists and civil society and faith leaders, as well as by tens of millions online.
Washing the Flag
Practitioner:
People
Date:
May 1 2000
“It might not seem that an act of public laundry could unsettle a president with a well-deserved reputation for inflexibility, corruption, and brutality. But mass washing ceremonies were a key element in getting rid of Peru’s unpopular president, Alberto Fujimori, after more than a decade in power.
‘Memorial’
Practitioner:
Cherill Linnett and woman activists
Date:
Mar 8 2020
Cheril Linett is a female artist from Chile, with a background in performance art and stage performance, who primarily focuses her artwork on feminist issues in Chile, especially ones involving violence, murder, hate crime and different kinds of oppression and assault, but also creates artwork reflecting issues in other parts of Latin America.

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