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Parió Paula
Practitioner
Parió Paula
Date
Jan 15 2009

Parió Paula is an all women’s percussion group based in Lima, Peru. These women are truly artistic renegades defying the social norms of Lima’s predominantly male music scene. With a bold message on emphasizing female expression, these ladies have transformed their countless styles of drumming into something effective for their city.

(see full article and short documentary at link below)

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Bristol Activists Use Street Art to Fight Gentrification
Practitioner
The People's Republic of Stokes Croft
Date
Feb 8 2016

The People’s Republic of Stokes Croft is using street art to preserve the identity of Bristol’s most culturally diverse neighbourhood.

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Artists Buy Trump Campaign Bus on Craigslist, Turn It Into Anti-Trump Art Project
Practitioner
http://truttartist.com/
Date
Oct 1 2015

Two artists have repurposed the presidential candidate’s campaign bus in order to critique his controversial views.

In October 2015, the artists David Gleeson and Mary Mihelic purchased a Donald Trump tour bus on Craigslist.

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An Artist Strikes Back Against Foul Subway Smells
Practitioner
Angela H. Kim
Date
Feb 8 2016

The New York City subway is many things, but clean isn’t necessarily one of them.

It doesn’t exactly smell great, either.

While the MTA hedges on solutions (and continues to debate whether eliminating trash cans from the stations actually solves sanitary issues), the artist and School of Visual Arts student Angela H. Kim is waging a personal guerilla war against the olfactory offensiveness of it all.

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100 'Radioactive Figures' Haunt Hamburg Landscape
Practitioner
Luzinterruptus
Date
Aug 28 2011

ART COLLECTIVE LUZINTERRUPTUS has created an installation made up of 100 glowing “radioactive” figures for the Dockville Festival in Hamburg.

The human-size figures appear to be wearing special white protective clothing and marching, heads down, across the landscape. The eerie structures contain a number of lights which make them appear to glow ominously in the dark.

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Piano Stairs - A New Reason for Choosing Staircases
Practitioner
Wolkswagen
Date
Feb 11 2013

“Piano Stairs” is an interactive playful musical stairway installation created into the Odenplan underground station of Stockholm to make people use stairs more often than elevator. The project was part of a Wolkswagen initiative called “The fun theory” whose main objective and mission is to “change people’s behaviour for the better by making it fun to do.”

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The Art of Heroin Bags
Practitioner
VICE
Date
Mar 28 2012

Heroin sold in the northeast, specifically in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey tends to come in little glassine baggies. The art comes from the individual and unique "stamp" on said baggie sold to a user.

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Play Safe
Practitioner
Eddie Einbinder
Date
Jan 1 2012

Play Safe is a documentary film series created and directed by NYU alum Eddie Einbinder. The film, much of which now appears for free on YouTube, was originally released in 2013 after being filmed between 2011 and 2012. It debuted at the International Harm Reduction conference in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2013.

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Operation Christmas - Demobilizing FARC Guerrilla members
Practitioner
Jose Miguel Sokoloff Lowe SSP3
Date
Dec 3 2011

Colombian ad agency Lowe SSP3 is starting a Christmas-themed campaign to entice guerrilla fighters out of the jungle to turn themselves in. The agency may have created an advertising-to-guerrillas award category after winning a gold Cannes Lion in the outdoor category and half a dozen Grand Prix awards at other shows this year for its first holiday effort, last December.

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Human Syria
Practitioner
persnal photos
Date
Feb 7 2016

The wreckage of the Syrian city of Homs became the bittersweet backdrop for a young couple’s wedding pictures.
Nada Merhi, 18, wore a traditional white gown when she married camouflage-clad Hassan Youssef, 27, on Friday. Youssef is a soldier in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s army, which took Homs from rebels in November.

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I'm Not A Joke
Practitioner
Daniel Arzola
Date
Aug 1 2015

The "I'm Not A Joke" campaign from Daniel Arzola is a series of images inscribed with compelling truths about human diversity that encourages individuals to live as their authentic selves. He wants the images to eventually appear on buses and subways, exposing audiences to the realities of queer experiences in an attempt to break down prejudice in a form of activism that he calls "Artivism."

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Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate
Practitioner
Katie Knight
Date
Feb 14 2008

The Creativity Movement (formerly known as the World Church of the Creater) is a self proclaimed white supremacist organization with factions across the United States. In 2004, a high ranking leader of the Montana based faction defected from the group, but not before donating over 4,000 of the group's bibles called the 'RAHOWA' (acronym for racial holy war) to the Montana Human Rights Network.

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