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2016
CaroTimm

Projects tagged "Violence & War"

Rubble Bucket Challenge aims to raise awareness about Gaza
Practitioner:
Palastinians and allies
Date:
Aug 26 2014
As the rest of the world continues to dump buckets of cold water over their heads in support of ALS research, some Palestinians have created their own version of the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness about the ongoing crisis in Gaza.
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THE NAMES OF THOSE KILLED IN THE SYRIAN CONFLICT, BETWEEN 15th OF MARCH 2011 AND 31st OF DECEMBER 2016
Practitioner:
Santiago Sierra
Date:
May 21 2017
A performance by artist Santiago Sierra, titled THE NAMES OF THOSE KILLED IN THE SYRIAN CONFLICT, BETWEEN 15th OF MARCH 2011 AND 31st OF DECEMBER 2016, took place for a total duration of eight days from May 21 to 29, across four cities on three continents.
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MIS(S)PLACED WOMEN?
Practitioner:
Tanja Ostojić
Date:
May 10 2009
Mis(s)placed Women? (2009-2022), is a collaborative art project, consisting of performances, performance series, performance art workshops and delegated performances, including contributions by over 180 individuals from six continents. Many of them are artists, mainly identifying themselves as women from diverse backgrounds. Mis(s)placed Women?
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‘Zombie’: The Story Behind The Cranberries’ Deathless Classic
Practitioner:
The Cranberries
Date:
Sep 19 1994
Presaged by shimmering spin-off hits “Dreams” and “Linger,” The Cranberries’ landmark debut album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?, suggested its creators had taken up the baton handed down by jangly indie-pop classicists The Smiths and The Sundays.
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United States of Attica
Practitioner:
Faith Ringgold
Date:
Sep 15 1971
In September 1971, after years of mistreatment and months of simmering tensions, more than 1,200 of the 2,200 inmates at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York took control of the prison in protest of its substandard conditions and openly racist corrections officers.
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Running for Peace
Practitioner:
Reza Baluchi
Date:
Sep 1 2002
"He's been running all his life, running for freedom, running for peace.It started when he ran away from home at the age of eight. Later he ran away from his homeland, Iran, and spent seven years on a bicycle, pedaling 49,700 miles across 55 countries. In 2002, he reached America. He now lives in a tent in Death Valley. It's been nearly 10 years since Reza Baluchi escaped from Iran.
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Aftermath
Practitioner:
New York Theater Workshop, Erik Jensen, Jessica Blank
Date:
Sep 16 2009
The snapshots are thrust at us urgently, as if they were passports being shown at a border crossing, official proofs of national identity. Mostly, they are prosaic pictures of family members or houses. Sometimes a diploma will be offered up instead, or theater reviews clipped from newspapers or a membership card to a duck-hunting club. Later, other, more frightening, pictures will be shown, but they all serve the same function.
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Kurdish Artist Zehra Doğan Has Been Freed in Turkey After 3 Years for Illustrating Turkey's Violence
Practitioner:
Zehra Doğan
Date:
Feb 28 2019
The Kurdish journalist and artist Zehra Doğan was freed yesterday after nearly three years in prison, Hyperallergic reports. Doğan first caught the attention of the Turkish authorities back in 2017 with a watercolor that depicted a Kurdish district after Turkish security forces set it on fire and largely destroyed it.
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Theater for Incarcerated Women
Practitioner:
The Medea Project
Date:
Jan 1 1989
Creative Time, Social Practice Archive: In 1989 actress/writer Rhodessa Jones was conducting classes at the San Francisco County Jail. Working with female inmates, she developed material for a performance piece called Big Butt Girls, Hard-Headed Women based on their lives and shared experiences.
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Israel, Palestine groups clash on College Walk
Practitioner:
Student for Justice in Palestine - Columbia University
Date:
Nov 20 2010
Students dressed as Israeli soldiers stopped other students, ordered them to the ground, and blindfolded them in a demonstration that drew multiple campus groups to a standoff on College Walk Thursday afternoon. The Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine set up mock checkpoints—to resemble those manned by the Israeli army in the West Bank—drawing crowds and counter-protests for several hours.
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Mother’s Day Eve Noise Demo Against the Prison Industrial Complex
Practitioner:
NYC Anarchist Black Cross
Date:
May 12 2012
WHAT: Noise Demo WHEN: 8:00pm, Saturday, May 12th WHERE: Bayview Correctional Facility – West 20th Street & 11th Avenue New York, New York COST: Free
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Eric Bouvet’s Chechnya On Stage
Practitioner:
Theatre company Map
Date:
Mar 15 2013
"On Friday, March 15, 2013, for the launch of the 20th edition of the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, the theatre company Map performed Jusqu’au bout, a play directed by David Ropars based on a text by the photojournalist Eric Bouvet. It was a great success! The monologue was given a magnificent interpretation by the actor Jean-Pierre Morice.
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Vietnam comes to Washington
Practitioner:
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Date:
Jun 15 1971
It’s the summer of 1971 and tourists flock around one of Washington DC’s most famous hotspots – the Capitol steps. Journalist Art Goldberg recalls ‘a squad of soldiers moving through the space. They are grubby-looking troopers, clad in jungle fatigues. Jumping a low fence, they begin shouting at a group of tourists. “All right! Hold it! Hold it! Nobody move. Nobody move!” Their voices full of tension and anger. A man runs from the crowd.
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Drawing For Peace
Practitioner:
Aaron Hughes
Date:
Oct 1 2006
Aaron Hughes, an artist-activist and Iraq War veteran walked into the middle of a busy intersection in Champaign, Il. where he was then going to college, and propped up a signboard that read: “I am an Iraq War Veteran. I am guilty. I am alone. I am drawing for peace.”
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Activism by Duplication: "Untitled" (Death by Gun) (1990)
Practitioner:
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Date:
Jan 1 1991
Activism through print media is often done through duplication: posters, flyers, magazines, manifestos. But with these media, each individual duplicate holds the same, political message. In Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled" (Death by Gun) (1990), a stack of posters are placed in the gallery space for people to take with them. As the pile is depleted, more posters are printed.
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Two Female Graffiti Artists in Afghanistan
Practitioner:
Shamsia Hassani and Malina Suliman
Date:
Apr 3 2013
Meet Shamsia Hassani. At age 24, she is one of Afghanistan's first female graffiti artists. An associate professor of sculpture at Kabul University, she was first introduced to graffiti in 2010 by British artist, Chu, during a week-long course in street art. Meet also Malina Suliman, 23, who has been receiving threats from extremists due to her work in graffiti.
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Tatlin's Whisper #6
Practitioner:
Tania Bruguera
Date:
Mar 1 2009
This is the sixth piece of the series Tatlin’s Whisper which examines the relationship between apathy and anaesthetization of the images in the mass media. This series intends to activate images, well-known because of having been repeatedly seen in the press, but are here decontextualized from the original event that gave way to the news and staged as realistically as possible in an art institution.
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Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, 1964
Practitioner:
Yoko Ono
Date:
Jan 1 1964
In Cut Piece—one of Yoko Ono’s early performance works—the artist sat alone on a stage, dressed in her best suit, with a pair of scissors in front of her. The audience had been instructed that they could take turns approaching her and use the scissors to cut off a small piece of her clothing, which was theirs to keep. Some people approached hesitantly, cutting a small square of fabric from her sleeve or the hem of her skirt.
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Somalia guerrilla artists dare to paint reality
Practitioner:
Muhiyidin Sharif Ibrahim
Date:
Mar 5 2013
“I want to show the people how bad the troubles were," says artist Muhiyidin Sharif Ibrahim of Mogadishu, Somalia. "That’s the message we’re going to send to people.” (Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times)
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ISIS-chan : Anime nerds' efforts to influence online search results for ISIS-related messages
Practitioner:
Anime fans from Japan and around the world
Date:
Jan 24 2015
Her name is ISIS-chan. And she's how nerds around the world are trying to silence violent ISIS terrorist propaganda. It starts with the vibrant worldwide community that loves Japanese anime. Some of them have created a cute animated character as a sort of ISIS mascot. The goal? Hijack the terrorist group's message and replace it with a girl that's oh-so-adorable.
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Spec Ops: The Line
Practitioner:
Walt Williams; Richard Pearsey
Date:
Jun 26 2012
Often in military style video games we kill without much regard for the enemy. They are faceless or stereotypical, the Nazi or evil Cold War–era Russian. They are enemies that were fought on the battlefields of great wars, or they are aliens that have no resemblance to humans save for a general humanoid form.
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Hansel and Gretel (Have Guns)
Practitioner:
National Rifle Association
Date:
Mar 28 2016
The N.R.A. Reimagines Classic Fairy Tales, With Guns. The world of make-believe can be a scary place, but never fear: Thanks to a series of reimagined fairy tales published online by the National Rifle Association, classic characters like Hansel and Gretel are now packing heat.
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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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A TikTok Watermelon Filter Raising Money for Gaza Highlights the Platform’s Potential for Fundraising
Practitioner:
Jourdan Johnson
Date:
Nov 16 2023
A watermelon filter on TikTok is allowing users to raise funds to support civilians in Gaza, where more than 11,000 people have been killed since Israel began an offensive military attack on the Gaza Strip in October, after a Hamas attack killed 1,400 people in Israel and saw roughly 200 civilians taken hostage.
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Don't Cover Up, Set Up - Chinese Women Against Domestic Violence
Practitioner:
Justice4her
Date:
Jan 1 2017
The video DON’T COVER UP, STEP UP is a public service announcement raising the issue of gender-based violence. In the video, a vlogger teaches her fans how to cover up bruises with makeup after she has been beaten by her husband. There is a twist in the story as the husband enters the scene at the end of the video.
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