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Gallery Projects

Life Pods
Practitioner
Karl Mattson
Date
Jan 25 2016

In Jan. 2016 Karl Mattson from Rolla, BC displayed some of his unique sculptures for exhibition at Lantern Gallery in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His 'Life Pods' are sculptures constructed using only found objects.Tools, metal fragments, debris, and fuel tanks are some of the components welded together forming both the solo pod, and the family size pod. The larger pieces were acquired near the pipeline embedding site near to his farm.

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#ANOTHERLIGHTUP
Practitioner
Faith47, Design Indaba Trust, Thinking
Date
Feb 25 2014

In Cape Town, South Africa the design firms Design Indaba Trust and Thinking have teamed up with artist Faith47 to help raise funds to bring more light to their urban city. Their goal is to raise funds to light up 700 meters of Manwabisi Park, which will ultimately reduce the crime rate in the area through more light. In order to get the community involved in the project, they have combined street art with community engagement.

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Facebook: Visual Platform for Marriage Equality Activism
Practitioner
Global
Date
Mar 26 2013

Marriage equality activism has taken aim at a new platform for global exposure: facebook.

The social media website has seen swarms of users change their profile picture to a red image with a pink equal sign on top, signifying the user's support of marriage equality. Other users are using a blue image with a yellow equal sign, the Human Rights Campaign logo.

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Palestine: Cartography of an Occupation
Practitioner
MTL
Date
Sep 16 2013

From creativetimereports.org:
Artist-activist collective MTL's clickable collages connect disparate aspects of Palestine's geographical and political landscape, offering provocative insight into "how Palestinians suffer and struggle in ways that are parallel to those elsewhere" according to philosopher Michael Hardt.

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Walkthrough
Practitioner
Walid Raad
Date
Oct 12 2015

MoMA presents the first comprehensive American survey of the leading contemporary artist Walid Raad (b. 1967, Lebanon), featuring his work in photography, video, sculpture, and performance from the last 25 years.

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A Map of Error
Practitioner
The Errorist Movement
Date
Jan 15 2005

Buenos Aires in Argentina is the only city in the world where streets named Palestine and Israel intersect on the city grid. Taking advantage of this situation, The Errorist Movement decided to protest against the conflict in Gaza in that location in Buenos Aires.

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First Hologram Protest in Spain against Gag Law
Practitioner
Holograms for Freedom
Date
Apr 11 2015

Spanish citizens held the first hologram protest in history in order to protest without violating the new draconian guidelines of the National Security Act, the new amendments to the Penal Code and the Anti-terror law. Thousands of people marched past a Spanish parliament building in Madrid over the weekend weekend to protest the new law that they say endangers civil liberties. But none of them were actually there.

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