Projects tagged "Cities"

JEREMIAH'S VANISHING NEW YORK
Practitioner:
JEREMIAH MOSS
Date:
Jan 3 1997
This blogger documents all the cool things that are on their way to extinction in New York. A mix of preserving history and nostalgia through old school photography and new media. This website creates a nostalgic internet record of pre-internet New York. 
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At War With São Paulo’s Establishment, Black Paint in Hand
Practitioner:
pichação
Date:
Jan 1 2012
New York Times January 28, 2012 By SIMON ROMERO SÃO PAULO, Brazil — This mega-city’s authorities have waged war for years against what they call “visual pollution,” banning billboard advertising, demolishing abandoned skyscrapers and planning to raze concrete eyesores like the elevated highway known as the Big Worm.
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Nostalgia for the Light
Practitioner:
Patricio Guzmán
Date:
Mar 17 2011
The Atacama Desert in northern Chile — the setting of Patricio Guzmán’s transfixing cinematic essay “Nostalgia for the Light” — is a place where heaven and earth converge. Or some might say heaven and hell.
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#SaveNYC
Practitioner:
JEREMIAH MOSS, new yorkers
Date:
Mar 23 2015
#SaveNYC is a grassroots, crowd-sourced, DIY movement to protect and preserve the diversity and uniqueness of the urban fabric in New York City. As our vibrant streetscapes and neighborhoods are turned into bland, suburban-style shopping malls, filled with chain stores and glossy luxury retail, #SaveNYC is fighting for small businesses and cultural institutions to remain in place.
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Xincun
Practitioner:
Birdhead(Song Tao& Ji Weiyu)
Date:
Jan 1 2010
Song Tao and Ji Weiyu, established their collaborative named Birdhead in 2004. Both natives of Shanghai, their work is deeply rooted in their hometown and its evolution amid China’s growth into a global power. The duo takes diaristic snapshots, highlighting their everyday lives in the quickly changing city.
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Anti Eviction Mapping Project
Practitioner:
Anti Eviction Mapping Project
Date:
Jan 1 2013
The project consists of a website for data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective formed to document and make visible the dispossession of San Francisco Bay Area residents and to facilitate and organized collective resistance. The project studies the displacement of people and the way in which evictions and gentrification target specific communities in the Bay Area.
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Rare public protest in China's Shanghai over property rule change
Practitioner:
n/a
Date:
Jun 11 2017
Hundreds of demonstrators have marched through a shopping district in the Chinese city of Shanghai to protest against changes to housing regulations, in a rare show of public dissent in the financial hub. Footage of the late Saturday protests shared on social media showed hundreds of demonstrators holding placards and shouting slogans while marching along Nanjing Road, a glitzy shopping strip in the city center.
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ŠTO TE NEMA (WHY ARE NOT YOU HERE)
Practitioner:
Aida Šehović
Date:
Jul 11 2018
ŠTO TE NEMA is a public monument created as a response to Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II - the systematic killing of 8,372 Muslim men and boys in the UN-protected safe area of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina in July of 1995.
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"The Body Of Water"
Practitioner:
Desiree Duell
Date:
Jun 19 2015
In November 2016, citizens of Flint, MI filed a historic class action law suit against both city and state for the damages wrought by lead contaminants in the water supply. The city's 100 thousand inhabitants have faced damages not only to their homes for the corrosive qualities of the water, but in myriad physical ailments; skin lesions, hair loss, high lead blood levels, vision loss, depression and anxiety are all reported symptoms.
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Beauty In Transition
Practitioner:
Jody Wood
Date:
Jan 5 2006
Beauty in Transition is an artistic project created by multi-media artist Jody Wood, that established a pop-up mobile hair salon providing beauty services including a hair wash, cut, color and/or style service to willing participants living in homeless shelters. By provoking face-to-face dialogue in a calming recuperative salon environment, this project aims to facilitate empathetic understanding and to unravel the reductive label of homelessness.
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Ai Weiwei launches controversial public art project focused on immigration
Practitioner:
Ai Weiwei
Date:
Oct 11 2017
The artist has assembled a set of 300 installations around New York City, based around the concept of fences and borders, to showcase the ‘narrow-minded’ attempts used to ‘create some kind of hatred between people’
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Turning a public toilet into a spa
Practitioner:
Ruben Santiago
Date:
Jun 14 2007
For three days, Ruben Santiago installed, without any official authorization, a hydro-massage shower in a public bathroom in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona. The installation also made available to users bath gel, shampoo and towels that were regularly replaced.
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Blind Ones
Practitioner:
Sao Paulo Art Students
Date:
Dec 9 2013
Students from the School of Communication and Art of the University of Sao Paulo perform a skit titled 'Blind Ones' as a protest against consumerism inside a shopping mall of Natal, capital of Rio Grande do Norte state, December 9, 2013. Related Story: Brazil shopping malls: New epicenter for social protest?
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Nats Never Die/The Zombies are Coming!
Practitioner:
The Yes Men and Reclaim the City
Date:
Sep 30 2019
The Yes Men join Reclaim the City in their fight against unjust housing policy. On September 30, 2019, a horde of zombies attended a "#natsneverdie rally" at the Cape Town Civic Centre in order to celebrate Mayor Dan Plato and the Mayoral Committee and to support their policies, which are increasingly similar to those of the National Party under Apartheid.
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Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet
Practitioner:
Cool Globes
Date:
Jun 1 2006
A public art exhibition designed to raise awareness of solutions to climate change. Cool Globes grew out of a commitment at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2005, and was incorporated as a non-profit organization in 2006. Since that time, Cool Globes premiered in Chicago and went on tour across the country from Washington DC to San Francisco, San Diego, Sundance, Los Angeles, Houston and Cleveland.
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Murales Imborrables
Practitioner:
Murales Imborrables
Date:
Mar 20 2015
In March this year, less than 100 days since he took office again, Luis Castañeda Lossio, Mayor of Lima, announced that the Municipality would remove the street art murals painted on the walls of downtown Lima’s historical city streets. “Lima has to recover all the architectural quality it has. They have chosen us and we will comply with the obligation that the population has consigned us,” said the mayor.
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Occupy Sandy relief effort puts Occupy Wall Street activists in the spotlight again a year after Zuccotti Park
Practitioner:
Occupy Wall Street
Date:
Dec 5 2012
By Rebecca Davis and Meena Hart Duerson Those who believed the Occupy Wall Street movement was all but dead after its dramatic removal from Zuccotti Park last fall may have been surprised to see the group pop up again in the days after Hurricane Sandy. But this time, they weren’t organizing protests – they were calling on their large network to come to the aid of those hit hardest by the storm.
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I Have a Right Too...
Practitioner:
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Date:
Oct 10 2014
CAM brings contemporary art and ideas directly to Saint Louis Public High School and Middle School students through its ArtReach program. Tailored to meet the needs of individual schools and teachers, ArtReach is designed to raise awareness of contemporary issues through an exploration of contemporary art. The program includes a curriculum-based offering of museum tours, school visits, and creative workshops for students and teachers alike.
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The Bushwick Collective transforms neighborhood
Practitioner:
Joe Ficalora, The Bushwick Collective
Date:
Jan 1 2011
Conceived and curated by Bushwick native Joe Ficalora, the Bushwick Collective has evolved into an extraordinary open-air gallery since its first mural surfaced in 2011. Attracting a wondrous array of local, national and international artists, it showcases first-rate street art -- from legendary Blek Le Rat stencils to huge collaborative walls by such world-renowned artists as Case Ma'Claim and Pixel Pancho.
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East Side Gallery
Practitioner:
Graffiti artists
Date:
Apr 17 1990
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9th, 1989, the cement segments that remain have stood as something more symbolic than just a wall. With installations in every continent, except for Antarctica, the East Side Gallery is the most authentic existing part of the Berlin Wall.
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Circus Amok
Practitioner:
Jennifer Miller
Date:
Jan 1 1989
Circus Amok is a New York City based circus-theater company whose mission is to provide free public art addressing contemporary issues of social justice to the people of New York City.
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The City: Pedestrian and Cyclist Cemetery
Practitioner:
Bicicleta Blanca Guadalajara
Date:
Jan 8 2009
The City: Pedestrian and Cyclist Cemetery 
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GLOBAL PEACE WALKWAY VR PEACE MUSEUM PROJECT
Practitioner:
PAUL=FELIX MONTEZ
Date:
Aug 15 2015
Imagine affecting the global cultural Landscape through art and technology use. Imagine one-mile long installation in 100 city locations worldwide, each mile-long install is of 250 bronze plaques of different Peacemakers. Then imagine its own App that when any smartphone is pointed at one of the plaques an entire timeline biographical history of that peacemaker becomes available.
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Nazi control room reopens as Topography of Terror museum in Berlin
Practitioner:
Berlin Artist
Date:
May 6 2010
It was once the most feared address in Berlin, a place easy to enter but very hard to leave. Now the ruins of the former engine room of Nazi terror at Prinz Albrecht Strasse in Berlin have been preserved in a new exhibition space open to the public from tomorrow.
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Art in Odd Places
Practitioner:
AiOP
Date:
Jul 19 1996
Art in Odd Places (AiOP) presents visual and performance art in unexpected public spaces. AiOP also produces an annual festival along 14th Street in Manhattan, NYC from Avenue C to the Hudson River each October.
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