Projects tagged "Revolution"

Invisible Women - A World Designed for Men
Practitioner:
Caroline Criado Perez
Date:
Mar 7 2019
The problem with feminism is that it’s just too familiar. The attention of a jaded public and neophiliac media may have been aroused by #MeToo, with its connotations of youth, sex and celebrity, but for the most part it has drifted recently towards other forms of prejudice, such as transphobia. Unfortunately for women, though, the hoary old problems of discrimination, violence and unpaid labour are still very much with us.
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Protests and Posters in Kafranbel, Syria
Practitioner:
Activists in Kafranbel, Raed Fares
Date:
Dec 30 2011
A town in northwestern Syria has become the creative center of the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad. Since the beginning of the uprising, the residents of Kafr Anbel have drawn signs that skewer the Assad regime and express outrage that the world has not done more to stop the killing in Syria.
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Global Poetry Response#blacklivesmatter
Practitioner:
Mbizo Chirasha
Date:
Jul 7 0020
To state or chant ‘BLACK LIFE’S MATTER’ is not to say other lives don’t matter, it’s a reminder that four hundred years and counting, black lives didn’t matter enough. Not during the dark era of slave trade and its horrors on the African, not after slavery ended and blacks were left holding the short end of the stick.
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The Rap That Sparked a Revolution
Practitioner:
El Général
Date:
Dec 10 2010
As the world watches Cairo burn, I can’t help but think that the flames of protest engulfing Egypt were sparked by Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire on December 17 after police confiscated his vegetable cart. The desperation that he expressed through his act of self-immolation caught on, literally, and spread across the country, into Algeria, and now to Egypt.
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How Détournement Was Used as a Weapon in 15-M Protests
Practitioner:
15-M
Date:
May 15 2011
Just over a decade ago on May 15, 2011, a wave of social outrage began as the Spanish people collectively decided that they had had enough of the corruption, cuts, and inequalities affecting their country.
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Art Therapist for Human Rights
Practitioner:
Art therapists
Date:
Jan 13 2017
We demand that AATA respond to Karen Pence's stated commitment to our field by asking her to publicly take action for the rights of LGBTQIA people, Native people, Black and Brown people, Muslims, survivors of sexual assault, people with disabilities, immigrants, refugees and all people who are in danger as a result of the policies of the current administration.
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The “Radical Edits” of Alexandra Bell
Practitioner:
Alexandra Bell
Date:
May 4 2017
The artist Alexandra Bell‘s “Counternarratives” series highlights journalism’s tendency toward obfuscation and slant.
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Not All Like That
Practitioner:
John Shore, all Netizens
Date:
Aug 1 2013
John Shore and his wife Catherine had been attending the First Presbyterian Church of San Diego for six years when they were nominated to serve as deacons. But before they could be ordained, they were asked to sign a document agreeing that no person in a same-sex relationship should hold any position of authority within the church, which is one of the city’s oldest. It was 1990.
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Artist Statement
Practitioner:
Mbizo Chirasha
Date:
May 7 0020
Mine is not Arts for the sake of Arts. It is a revolutionary INSGINA carved into the artistic plaque of my DNA to speak FREEDOM of expression and then freedom after EXPRESSION. The footprints of my revolutionary walk are dipped in the paths of RESISTANCE. My Ideological Swag -word is CREATIVITY. My spiritual birth mark is RESILIENCE. My revolutionary slogan is a nonviolent but a poetic fist of MASS INSTRUCTION. I am non-selfish believer.
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The Protest Banner Lending Library
Practitioner:
Aram Han Sifuentes
Date:
Jan 1 2017
The Protest Banner Lending Library is a space for people to gain skills to learn to make their own banners, a communal sewing space where we support each other’s voices, and a place where people can check out handmade banners to use in protests.
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#BeyChella
Practitioner:
Beyonce
Date:
Apr 14 2018
Beyoncé delivered an intensely, unapologetic celebration of Black and HBCU culture at the Coachella Festival 2 weekends in a row. Not only were her performances some of the best live performances to date but they sent a pretty significant message to the world. Here are some assessments of this beautiful demonstration of Blackness and Black Girl Magic: From BBC News:
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post (r)evolutionary exercises
Practitioner:
Kultivator
Date:
Feb 16 2014
The post (r)evolutionary exercises are the outcome of a meeting/friendship/project that started in summer 2010, when we took part in "Goings on" seminar in Beirut, Lebanon. In this seminar, curated by Cecilia Andersson, Scandinavian and Middle east art groups were invited to meet and learn about each others practices. That's what we did, we got along really well, and we started at once to think of ways to do something together again.
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Artists mark Trump's inauguration anniversary with day of protest art
Practitioner:
The Federation, a volunteer-run arts organization spearheaded by artist Laurie Anderson and producers Tanya Selvaratnam and Laura Michalchyshyn
Date:
Jan 19 2018
This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump's inauguration. It also marks the one-year anniversary of the Women's March his election inspired, the largest single-day protest in the nation's history.
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Street Art in the Neighborhood
Practitioner:
Faten Rouissi
Date:
Feb 27 2011
Art dans la rue - Art dans le quartier
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Your life is woth more than 5 pesos. Boycott against the subway fare
Practitioner:
Anonymous group
Date:
May 5 2021
On the 5th of May 2021, the subway's 12-line partially collapsed, killing 24 people and injuring more than 70. Onboard, were children, young women and men, and the elderly. The accident also killed a man and injured a woman who was driving a car, upon which the train fell. The poorly conditions of the subway structure had been repeatedly reported by neighbors living nearby. No institutional response was given.
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The New Culture Movement
Practitioner:
Chinese progessive writers
Date:
Sep 15 1915
The New Culture Movement was initiated by Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao, Lu Xun, Hu Shi, Cai Yuanpei, Qian Xuan and other writers who had received Western education (called the new-style education at the time). It is an ideological and cultural innovation and literary revolutionary movement.
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Finding Black Owned Businesses
Practitioner:
Jay-Z/Sean Combs
Date:
Mar 3 2018
An inspired story of artists who have made millions engaging their communities of using their artistic influence to create change for others! **** Over the last few years or so, Diddy and Jay-Z have continually found themselves near the very top of Forbes' wealthiest acts in hip-hop list. Now, it looks like the two are combining their immense wealth to help Black people across the U.S.
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Tunisians dance in defiance
Practitioner:
Art Solution
Date:
Dec 1 2012
The flashmob ‘’I will dance despite everything’’ was organized in Tunis's old medina on December 2012 by “Art Solution", a Tunisian group aiming to promote street art as a form of resistance.
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Red Paint Splashed on Roosevelt Statue after second “Anti-Columbus Day Tour”
Practitioner:
Monument Removal Brigade
Date:
Oct 26 2017
Just weeks after activists staged an alternative tour of the American Museum of Natural History to call for its removal, among other things, the equestrian statue of Teddy Roosevelt was vandalized early Thursday morning.
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Dismaland
Practitioner:
Banksy
Date:
Aug 20 2015
“He describes it as a “family theme park unsuitable for small children” – and with the Grim Reaper whooping it up on the dodgems and Cinderella horribly mangled in a pumpkin carriage crash, it is easy to see why. Banksy’s new show, Dismaland, which opened on Thursday on the Weston-super-Mare seafront, is sometimes hilarious, sometimes eye-opening and occasionally breathtakingly shocking.
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Artists React to the Pandemic, George Floyd and the Election
Practitioner:
Patricia Dahlman
Date:
Jul 3 2020
“Artists React to the Pandemic, George Floyd and the Election”
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Josep Renau Berenguer (Valencia, Spain, 1907 – Berlin, Germany, 1982): Art and political engagement
Practitioner:
Josep Renau Berenguer
Date:
Jul 18 1936
Josep Renau Berenguer was a Spanish painter, photomontager, muralist and communist militant. Renau was the son of an Art teacher. Due to his father’s low income, he had to work various jobs during his youth and teenage years to maintain a middle class position.
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Santiago Sierra will soak British flag in blood of colonised peoples
Practitioner:
Santiago Sierra
Date:
Mar 19 2021
The Spanish artist Santiago Sierra is planning to immerse a British flag in blood donated by indigenous peoples from countries colonised by the British Empire. The resulting artwork, titled Union Flag, is intended to be an “acknowledgement of the pain and destruction colonialism has caused First Nations peoples, devastating entire cultures and civilisations,” the artist said in a statement.
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TIME OF THE POET:Second Name of Earth is PEACE.
Practitioner:
Mbizo Chirasha
Date:
Jan 16 0020
MOTHER EARTH is broken from incessant decadent wars carelessly perpetuated by mindless ,vicious political imbeciles. Our natural wealth plundered by greedy ,gluttonous economic dare-devils, imbibing crude oil and fresh blood . Warlord-ism set the suns of our freedom, our earth is torn naked . War is ravaging the beauty of African diamond fields ,We are now Wretched Vagabonds . Warlords are frying peace in oil springs of the Gulf.
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Occupy Love
Practitioner:
Velcrow Ripper
Date:
May 3 2013
Join acclaimed director Velcrow Ripper (Scared Sacred, Fierce Light) on a journey deep inside the revolution of the heart that is erupting around the planet, as he asks the question, “How could the crisis we are facing become a love story?”
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