Projects tagged "Community"

Santa Claus Army
Practitioner:
Solvognen
Date:
Dec 25 1974
In the lead-up to Christmas 1974, an army of about seventy Santa Clauses, male and female, paraded through the city of Copenhagen, singing carols, handing out sweets and hot chocolate, and asking everyone what they wanted for Christmas.
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#CronicaDaMorteAnunciada
Practitioner:
Ecossistema Tropical / Colectivo rede[aparelho]
Date:
Nov 4 2016
Acción #CronicaDaMorteAnunciada que consistió en la creación de 9 estandartes con informaciones sobre asesinatos a “País do Santo” para denunciar sus muertes por motivos de racismo afroreligioso en la ciudad de Belém, Brasil.
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Tibetan Self-immolation Portraits
Practitioner:
Liu Yi
Date:
Jan 1 2013
Beijing-based artist Liu Yi is working on a series of black-and-white portraits he knows will never be shown in a Chinese gallery. His varied subjects — men and women, young and old, smiling and pensive — have one thing in common: They are Tibetans who have set themselves on fire to protest repressive Chinese rule.
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Reclaim the Streets occupy Camden High Street
Practitioner:
Reclaim the Streets
Date:
May 14 1995
A collective resistance movement dedicated to reasserting communal ownership of common spaces, Reclaim the Streets staged its first action on Camden High Street in 1995, when activists closed the road to vehicle traffic to make way for a street party. Combining the tactics of non-violent direct action with 90's UK rave culture, organizers kept the location secret until the last moment to preempt police interception.
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Multi-Story-Rite of Spring in a Car Park
Practitioner:
Multi-Storey
Date:
Jul 23 2011
On July 23rd 2011 a newly formed organization Multi-Story performed Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in a multi-story car park in Peckham Rye London. In doing so it completely subverted the entrenched traditions of the performance of classical music. The organization used student musicians and did not charge admission.
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STYLELIKEU
Practitioner:
Elisa Goodkind & Lily Mandelbaum
Date:
Jan 26 2009
Elisa and Lily chose to create StyleLikeU as an alternative to this disempowering status quo. In 2009, the duo picked up a home video camera and launched their "Closet" series, documenting diverse individuals who were challenging fashion industry norms in their style.
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NYC Marathoners Organize to Aid Staten Island
Practitioner:
Dr. Jordan D. Metzl, Runners
Date:
Nov 4 2012
"Once the New York City Marathon was cancelled, a group of New York City marathon runners decided to turn their personal loss of not being able to compete into a much bigger win by organizing volunteers to help the storm-ravaged communities on Staten Island, the race’s starting point. “Let’s put these legs and healthy spirit to good use,” says the group’s Facebook page.
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Kind Coins Pakistan, Kids for Peace School and Peace Centre
Practitioner:
Kids for Peace Global USA and Kids for Peace Pakistan
Date:
Jan 23 2017
Dear Team Please find below the links of the video and detail of Kind Coins Pakistan, Kids for Peace Pakistan School and Peace Centre, hope you will publish it on your website and circulate it at large, your this publication and circulation can change the lives of Pakistani kids and children Kind Coins for Pakistan
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FOKAL
Practitioner:
UNESCO, the French Institute, Fondation Culture Création, and Africamérica
Date:
Apr 1 1995
ARTS/CULTURE FOKAL is the hub in Haiti where locals and international visitors from all walks of life -- artists, writers, citizens, activists-- come together to discuss the most pressing nation- and community-building issues, enjoy cutting edge artistic expressions, and share their ideas.
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The LES vs. Hurricane Sandy
Practitioner:
Good Old Lower East Side
Date:
Sep 16 2014
In anticipation of Climate March NYC 2014, Good Old Lower East Side, a non-profit focused on defending tenants rights and disaster preparedness outreach following the wake of Hurricane Sandy, implemented a arts-based intervention called "The LES vs. Hurricane Sandy".
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Shine MSD
Practitioner:
Sawyer Garrity, Andrea Peña, Brittani Kagan, students and faculty of MSD
Date:
May 4 2018
Shine, written by Stoneman Douglas students Sawyer Garrity and Andrea Peña in response to the tragic shooting at their school on February 14, 2018 to inspire unity, hope, and change. MSD alum Brittani Kagan collaborated with students and faculty to create this music video to honor the victims and the school.
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Grandmas resignifying public space
Practitioner:
Corpovisionarios por Colombia, Health Ministry of Colombia, OIM
Date:
May 6 2014
This project consisted of an articulation between research, public policy and art. Corpovisionarios por Colombia was implementing a social change initiative in one of the poorest and most violents neighborhoods in Cali, Colombia. The demographic information showed that the most implicated population in the violence and murder cases were young men. They informed their masculinity through ideas of territory and its violent protection.
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Centros Sociales Okupados Autogestionados (CSOAs) in Spain: From abandoned houses to activist enclaves
Practitioner:
Movimiento Okupa
Date:
Jan 1 1980
A Centro Social Okupado Autogestionado (Self-Managed Occupied Social Center) or CSOA is an occupied building dedicated to the development of social and cultural activities. They are part of the “movimiento okupa” (“squatter movement”), a label created and circulated by the mainstream press.
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Children should be seen and heard
Practitioner:
Creativity & Change, Empathy 2 Action
Date:
Apr 13 2017
NAME OF PROJECT: ‘CHILDREN SHOULD BE SEEN AND HEARD’ TEAM MEMBERS: Caroline, Yasir, Sile, Audrey & Mary GLOBAL CHALLENGE: To give children a voice and create empathy among adults for children ♯childrenshouldbeseenandheard
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The Bank
Practitioner:
SUPERFLEX
Date:
Oct 2 2013
Many of the banks originally situated on Bank Street in Sharjah have left for more lucrative locations, so we have imagined a new, non-monetary banking model for the street. What if we were to regard the sum total of memories and stories of the people in this area as the real capital of the street? And what if this new currency could be invested in the new Bank Street and converted into physical objects?
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Small World Machines
Practitioner:
Coca-Cola
Date:
May 19 2013
A new, three-minute ad by Coca-Cola, "Small World Machines," starts with a relatively straightforward premise: India and Pakistan do not get along so well. It ends with the promise of peace: "Togetherness, humanity, this is what we all want, more and more exchange," a woman, either Indian or Pakistani, narrates as the music swells. Sounds great. How do we get there? By buying Coke, of course.
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Pyongyang Racer
Practitioner:
North Korean Government
Date:
Dec 23 2012
North Korea Releases Country’s First-Ever Video Game North Korea has just released the country’s first-ever video game titled 'Pyongyang Racer'. The racing game was created by a developer known only as Nosotek, and was commissioned by Koryo, a British tour company that takes travelers to North Korea.
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Flexin' in My Complexion
Practitioner:
Kheris Rogers
Date:
Sep 13 2017
Kheris Rogers, an 11-year-old entrepreneur from Los Angeles, has made history at New York Fashion Week as the youngest fashion designer ever to present. Kheris became an internet sensation earlier this year after her sister posted photos of her promoting her unapologetic Flexin' in My Complexion apparel line.
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Claiming Territory with Ink_ a street calligraphy graffiti artist in Hong Kong
Practitioner:
Tsang Tsou-Choi
Date:
Jul 5 1980
A toothless garbageman who once wandered Hong Kong’s streets with dingy bags of ink and brushes tied to his crutches is now the subject of a major retrospective. About 300 calligraphic works by the late Tsang Tsou-choi — who is best known by his self-dubbed title, the King of Kowloon — are showing at the ArtisTree art space in a high glass tower.
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Project Catalyst
Practitioner:
Artel Great
Date:
Apr 9 2014
Project Catalyst specializes in designing culturally rich entertainment experiences that re-imagine the empowering possibilities of cinema and media from a multicultural perspective. Project Catalyst exemplifies the efficacy and essential value of art and cinema at the intersections of social justice and the modern technologies of everyday life.
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Ask First - A Competition in Disconnect
Practitioner:
localflux, joshua kogan
Date:
Mar 15 2013
VIDEO LINK: http://vimeo.com/61959560 when i recently heard about moma ps1's 'call for ideas' juried competition, i was initially very excited -- i thought maybe i had an idea that could help the recovery, but when i sat down to put pencil to paper, and stared at the blank canvas, i froze.
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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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Navdanya
Practitioner:
Vandana Shiva
Date:
Apr 21 1987
Navdanya has a primary membership of more than 6,50,000 farmer families in seventeen states of India namely Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Jammu & Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Orissa, West Bengal, Manipur, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka. It has also established 111 Community Seed Banks (CSBs) in 17 States across India.
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Stop the Rupert River Dam Project
Practitioner:
Project Laundry List
Date:
Sep 14 2007
Organized in large part by Project Laundry List, in 2007 a four-hundred foot clothesline was strung in front of Hydro-Quebec headquarters to protest their destruction of the Rupert River and the traditional hunting grounds of the Cree and Innu so that people in the US and along the border can dry their clothes in a tumble dryer. Project Laundry List promotes clotheslines as a simple way for America to save 10% on its residential energy bill!
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A Gift for Amsterdam
Practitioner:
Op de Valreep and The Yes Men
Date:
Jan 7 2012
In the summer of 2011, squatters take over an unused building, once an animal shelter, and begin renovating it into a social and cultural center for a neighborhood on the outskirts of Amsterdam. They call it Op de Valreep ("in the nick of time").
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