Projects tagged "Environment"

Visual Sovereignty: Unpacking Nicholas Galanin’s 'Never Forget' Installation
Practitioner:
Nicholas Galanin
Date:
Mar 12 2021
For Nicholas Galanin, a Tlingit and Unangax̂ artist and musician, memory and land are inevitably entwined. The 45-foot letters of Never Forget reference the Hollywood sign, which initially spelled out HOLLYWOODLAND and was erected to promote a whites-only development.
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Tree Felling in Bialowieza Forest
Practitioner:
Greenpeace
Date:
Aug 11 2010
Greenpeace advocates displayed a banner outside of the Ministry of the Environment in Warsaw. The banner reads "I love primeval forests" to protest against tree felling in Bialowieza Forest. Protesters dressed as construction workers wearing hard hats and scaling the Ministry of the Environment building on harnesses.
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EVOKE: Can young adults help solve global problems?
Practitioner:
World Bank
Date:
Mar 1 2010
What happens when a game designer from the Institute of the Future teams up with the World Bank to create a "game for change"? EVOKE is what happens. 
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Tim DeChristopher Thwarts a Land Auction (Bidder 70)
Practitioner:
Tim DeChristopher
Date:
Jul 27 2011
In December 2008, Tim DeChristopher, along with his church group, was protesting outside a Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease auction of 116 parcels of public land in Utah's red rock country. Tim decided to take his protest inside and disrupt the auction itself. Instead, at the door, he was offered a bidder's paddle — which, after a split second of hesitation, he accepted.
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Range Studio
Practitioner:
David Szlasa
Date:
Jan 1 2014
The project consists of a small mobile workspace and a micro artist residency program composed by two tiny art studios founded in Oakland. Studio 1 is a solar powered art studio which was built on the back of a flatbed trailer and Studio 2 was built in collaboration with students at Stanford University, both spaces are composed of second-hand materials.
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Coal Seam Greed - Coal Seam Gas Hoax
Practitioner:
Katso, Nowhereman
Date:
Dec 1 2012
Coal Seam Greed was going to be a simple satire showing Katso and Nowhereman posing as a mining company called Reed Gas and erecting notices stating their intent to explore for unconventional gas or CSG in inner-city Brisbane. The idea was that residents would see the signs, phone and leave messages in response, which would then be incorporated into the video.
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From a Universe of Trash
Practitioner:
Vik Muniz
Date:
Oct 28 2010
From a Universe of Trash, Recycling Art and Hope By STEPHEN HOLDEN “We are not pickers of garbage; we are pickers of recyclable materials,” Tião, an impoverished Brazilian catadore, or trash picker, declares to a talk-show host in Lucy Walker’s inspiring documentary “Waste Land.”
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Shift Change Dress
Practitioner:
Anyone!
Date:
Jan 31 2016
Shift Change Dress is a community fashion & art project that utilizes a shift dress sewing pattern as a medium for communication and action. Participants are encouraged to use the pattern as a blank canvas for their art or message and to share their work with the community.
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Art Not Oil: Ending Oil Industry Sponsorship of the Arts
Practitioner:
Art Not Oil UK
Date:
Apr 3 2016
On Sunday April 3rd, Art Not Oil coalition member group BP or not BP? occupied the Great Court of the BP-sponsored British Museum with a 'disobedient exhibition'. Called 'A History of BP in 10 Objects', the exhibition featured artifacts submitted by frontline communities around the world who are fighting back against the impacts of BP's operations.
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Twelve Square Meter
Practitioner:
Heng Zhang
Date:
Jul 1 1994
Zhang Huan is a very talented performance artist in China. In the famous work "Twelve Square Meters", he was covered with fish oil and honey sitting in a dirty public toilet in Beijing's East Village for an hour, not only making swarms of flies greedily surround him, but also People feel extremely uncomfortable and even nauseous.
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A Long March to Save Asia’s Largest Mangrove Forest In Bangladesh
Practitioner:
women
Date:
Mar 11 2016
A group of women walked from Barisal, Bangladesh to Khulna to join up with the long march that was crossing the city that day. By long, I really mean long: this march traveled a distance of 145 kms, walking most of the way, meeting people, holding street meetings and telling people why the Rampal coal plant shouldn’t be built in the Sundarbans.
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Conscious Lee
Practitioner:
Bog Fingers, student group in MTU's Creativity and Change course
Date:
Apr 2 2021
Conscious Lee is a public awareness project to help people value and protect their rivers. Rivers are rich sources of life and are vital for clean water. They are beautiful spaces to connect with nature. We all need to appreciate our rivers. We can all help river wildlife and protect this natural amenity for future generations.
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Enroute Extinction
Practitioner:
Anjali Mehta
Date:
Jun 20 2021
Anjali Mehta is an illustrator from New Delhi, India. She is primarily known for her graphic shapes, gentle lines, bold colors, and strong female subjects. She is also designing a series titled Enroute Extinction that uses the same bright colors and familiar layout of a postage stamp. This series highlights animal species in India that are at risk of extinction.
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Western Flag (Spingletop,Texas) 2017
Practitioner:
John Gerrard
Date:
Feb 9 2019
Western Flag depicts the site of the 'Lucas Gusher' - the world's first major oil find - in Spindletop, Texas in 1901, now barren and exhausted. The site is recreated as a digital simulation the center of which is marked by a flagpole spewing and endless stream of black smoke.
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Nun, 82, 'shut down NUCLEAR facility after breaking in and splattering uranium complex with blood'
Practitioner:
Plowshares Movement
Date:
Jul 28 2012
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
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Lines
Practitioner:
Pekka Niittyvirta and Timo Aho
Date:
Jan 1 2017
Located off the west coast of Scotland are the Outer Hebrides, an island chain where Finnish artists Pekka Niittyvirta and Timo Aho decided to install their piece, Lines. The installation is composed of lines of light wrapped around buildings or hovering on a grass field. At high tide, the lights turn on, illuminating the serene landscape, and marking the height of future sea-level rise on the low-lying archipelago.
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The Bread Tank
Practitioner:
World Future Council
Date:
Jun 19 2014
At Rio+20 we present a bread tank with a garden inside to underline the realistic possibility of eradicating hunger and extreme poverty by redirecting military spending.
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Fuck for Forest: Erotic Ecology
Practitioner:
Leona Johansson and Tommy Hol Ellingsen
Date:
Jan 1 2004
Fuck for Forest (FFF) is a non-profit environmental organisation founded in 2004 in Norway by Leona Johansson and Tommy Hol Ellingsen. It funds itself through a website of sexually explicit videos and photographs, charging a membership fee for access. A portion of funds are donated to the cause of rescuing the world's rainforests.
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Climate strikes continue online: 'We want to keep the momentum going'
Practitioner:
Climate Change Activists, Fridays for Future
Date:
Apr 22 2020
The large crowds and brightly coloured placards of the school climate strikes became some of the defining images of 2019. “There would be lots of chanting and the energy was always amazing,” says Dominique Palmer, a 20-year-old climate activist from London who has been involved with the strikes for more than a year. “Being there with everyone in that moment is truly an electrifying feeling. It’s very different now.”
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Be Clean!
Practitioner:
Hi-Red Center
Date:
Oct 16 1964
On October 16, 1964, the artist collective Hi Red Center, clad in sanitation masks and white uniforms and wielding small brooms and toothbrushes, spent several hours meticulously cleaning the streets of the Tokyo district of Ginza, amid the hustle and bustle of a “normal” day.
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Climate Case Ireland Punch & Judy
Practitioner:
Creativity & Change 2019
Date:
Apr 27 2019
This piece draws on the agit-pop theatre tradition of a short pop-up provocative & disruptive intervention in familiar spaces. The purpose of Punch & Judy style short piece is to inform and raise awareness Ireland’s failure to meet its carbon emission targets and to emphasise the inadequacy of our government’s N.M.P. (National Mitigation Plan).
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Vetements old clothes piles against fast fashion
Practitioner:
Vetements
Date:
Feb 8 2018
Vetements' trademark is for subverting the fashion industry’s ways of doing things. Following its recent return to the runway after a short one season break, designer Demna Gvasalia has unveiled his latest project.
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UNLESS
Practitioner:
Stephanie Cardon and others
Date:
Sep 19 2018
UNLESS by Stephanie Cardon is a vibrant floor-to-ceiling installation that fills the main entryway of Boston’s landmark Prudential Center. Commissioned by Boston Properties and curated and produced by Now + There, UNLESS explores sustainability, climate justice, and how taking action together can create positive change.
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Bus Regulation: The Musical – The Trilogy
Practitioner:
Ellie Harrison
Date:
Nov 13 2022
Bus Regulation: The Musical (2019 – 2023) is a Trilogy of roller-skating Musicals inspired by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Starlight Express’ performed in three of the UK’s biggest post-industrial city-regions – Greater Manchester, Strathclyde and Merseyside – in collaboration wi
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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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