Projects tagged "Violence & War"

campaign Poetry Against Arms
Practitioner:
Committee for the Defense of the Weak Nervous System
Date:
Dec 31 2017
We are asking you to help spreading the campaign POETRY AGAINST ARMS on your websites and mailing lists.http://www.poetry-against-arms.world/ see also the campaign trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km-2sUVvxLM
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Chicago Gun Share Program
Practitioner:
The Escape Pod, The Brady Center To Prevent Gun Violence
Date:
May 10 2018
'Gun-sharing' stations in Chicago use art to make a point about gun violence. Users can’t actually grab a gun from the stations, but its creators hope the installation will send a message about how disturbingly easy it is for a citizen to acquire an assault weapon—as easy as renting a bike. They can also make a donation to the Brady Center and learn more about the campaign's gun safety efforts.
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Procedure Room
Practitioner:
Nikita Kadan
Date:
Jan 1 2009
The project (created in 2009-2010) consists of painted plats and posters depicted with drawings of police torture scenes. Images also include snippets of email exchanges. The plates have been exhibited in numerous galleries in Ukraine, and posters were hung in public spaces.
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Untitled
Practitioner:
Hans Haacke
Date:
Mar 11 2002
Marking the six month anniversary of September 11th, a poster designed by artist Hans Haacke appeared on scaffolding and media walls throughout New York City. The poster itself was blank and white, consisting only of die-cut silhouettes of the World Trade Center towers. The posters effectively reminded the pubic that September 11th created a ubiquitous filter through which everyday realities have become measured or seen.
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The Confined Hearts Project
Practitioner:
Penny Ryan, 400 heartmakers
Date:
Sep 28 2016
The Confined Hearts Project is creating 1468 terracotta anatomical human hearts, one for each person seeking asylum in Australia but being held in detention on Manus Island and in Nauru. Hundreds of people of all ages, backgrounds and cultures have been involved in making the hearts to date.
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National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Practitioner:
Equal Justice Initiative
Date:
Apr 26 2018
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening to the public on April 26, 2018, will become the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and Jim Crow, and people of color burdened with contemporary presumptions of guilt and police violence.
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And Counting...
Practitioner:
Wafaa Bilal
Date:
Mar 9 2010
Wafaa Bilal’s brother, Haji, was killed by a missile at a checkpoint in their hometown of Kufa, Iraq in 2004. Bilal feels the pain of both American and Iraqi families who have lost loved ones in the war, but the deaths of Iraqis like his brother are largely invisible to the American public.
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
Practitioner:
United States Continental Army
Date:
Jul 4 1776
The Fourth of July is upon us, so it’s time once again to sing what is arguably our most baffling national ditty, “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” Maybe you’ve noticed: Some of the lyrics seem like the work of a prankster on acid. Who else could have conceived a vignette as bizarre as a man riding a pony into town, then sticking a feather in his cap that, for unknown reasons, he insists on calling “macaroni”?
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A 'new poetry' emerges from Syria's civil war
Practitioner:
poets
Date:
Sep 10 2013
"Today there is literature coming out of Syria that we could have never even dreamed of just a few years ago," Atrash says.Rather than relying on metaphors and allegorical images, these new poems rely on literal, visceral descriptions, with a newfound emphasis on a united Syrian identity instead of religious symbols. Ghada al-Atrash, a Syrian-Canadian writer and translator, has been studying Syrian poetry for decades.
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Disarm the Gallery: Protests end National Gallery's arms trade links
Practitioner:
Stop the Arms Fair
Date:
Oct 10 2012
The National Gallery's long-standing sponsorship arrangement with weapons manufacturer Finmeccanica has ended, following a campaign by Campaign Against Arms Trade to 'Disarm the Gallery.' The arrangement has been terminated one year early and just weeks before the next protest event was planned.
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When Verbal Abuse Becomes Real Weapon...
Practitioner:
Institute of psychology, Shenyang
Date:
Apr 1 2014
Institute of psychology in Shenyang, a major city of China, recently reveals 6 most frequently used utterances in verbal abuse of children among local parents: “Garbage”, “You know nothing but eating”, “Pig head”, “Shame on you”, “Why don’t you die”, “No one else is lamer than you”.
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Domestic Tension
Practitioner:
Wafaa Bilal
Date:
May 1 2007
Wafaa Bilal's childhood in Iraq was defined by the horrific rule of Saddam Hussein, two wars, a bloody uprising, and time spent interned in chaotic refugee camps in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bilal eventually made it to the U.S. to become a professor and a successful artist, but when his brother was killed at a U.S. checkpoint in 2005, he decided to use his art to confront those in the comfort zone with the realities of life in a conflict zone.
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Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate
Practitioner:
Katie Knight
Date:
Feb 14 2008
The Creativity Movement (formerly known as the World Church of the Creater) is a self proclaimed white supremacist organization with factions across the United States. In 2004, a high ranking leader of the Montana based faction defected from the group, but not before donating over 4,000 of the group's bibles called the 'RAHOWA' (acronym for racial holy war) to the Montana Human Rights Network.
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I-75 Project
Practitioner:
Norm Magnusson
Date:
Jan 1 2018
For the past few years, I've been creating what I call "art of social conscience:" tv spots, viral emails, paintings and posters, but none of it has engaged viewers as much as this series of "historical" markers, each one a small story containing a discrete point of view.
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The Drone Project - A Participatory Memorial
Practitioner:
Joseph DeLappe
Date:
Apr 6 2014
Media artist Joseph DeLappe announces the completion of “The Drone Project: A Participatory Memorial” on the campus of Fresno State University in California.
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Where is Ankara's 'Je suis' moment?
Practitioner:
Liz Cookman Photo by Sedat Suna/EPA
Date:
Oct 15 2015
In five months Ankara has seen more blood spilled by terror than many places do in a lifetime.’ A protest after a bombing in Ankara in October 2015. On Sunday evening, a bomb exploded near a bus stop at a busy transport hub in central Ankara. At least 37 people died and many more were injured. Innocent people who were just trying to go about their day-to-day business had their lives blown apart.
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Weapons Of Mass Instruction
Practitioner:
Raul Lemesoff
Date:
Apr 9 2012
If you're a bibliophile you'll get a kick out of the car-turned-library that can be found in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Artist Raul Lemesoff took an old 1979 Ford Falcon, a popular mode of transport amongst the military forces of its time, and transformed it into a mobile library shaped like a tank.
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Soviet Army Monument - REDUX
Practitioner:
various activists
Date:
Feb 23 2014
Since the beginning of Bulgaria's transition to democracy, the monument’s meaning and future has been the subject of heated debates. Opponents to the monument aren’t happy about the presence of such a dominating foreign army monument in the country that is situated higher and more central than national symbols. In recent years, the monument has turned into a canvas for anonymous political statements on multiple occasions.
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Secret Anti-Abuse Advertisement
Practitioner:
Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk Foundation
Date:
May 12 2013
In an effort to provide abused children with a safe way to reach out for help, a Spanish organization called the Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk Foundation, or ANAR for short, created an ad that displays a different message for adults and children at the same time.
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Yoga Joes
Practitioner:
Dan Abramson
Date:
Sep 9 2015
If something is a total opposite to war, that is the practice of yoga. Concentrating or relaxing your muscles and mind in order to release tension, is something a soldier would never have the luxury to do under the dangerous circumstances of war. Inventor Dan Abramson thought of a amazingly creative and beautiful way to connect the two, by creating “Yoga Joes”, a series of simple green plastic army men that have some killer… yoga moves.
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Operation Christmas
Practitioner:
Lowe SSP3/Columbian Military
Date:
Dec 25 2010
Operation Christmas was a campaign launched by the Colombian military during the Christmas season to encourage FARC guerrillas to demobilize.[1] The military selected nine 75-foot trees along paths the insurgents used and decorated them with Christmas lights and a message encouraging them to come home.
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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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Walkthrough
Practitioner:
Walid Raad
Date:
Oct 12 2015
MoMA presents the first comprehensive American survey of the leading contemporary artist Walid Raad (b. 1967, Lebanon), featuring his work in photography, video, sculpture, and performance from the last 25 years.
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I Paint, I Protest: Mary Perry Stone
Practitioner:
video
Date:
Dec 26 2016
Video of Mary Perry Stone's social protest art created in the 1960s . Civil Rights, and the Vietnam War were her subjects. Mary never stopped being an activist and a few of her later works are also in the video.
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Saught
Practitioner:
Pamela Yeo
Date:
Nov 1 2012
Seeking to use war-time waste for social good, Saught was set up by Pamela Yeo, Adeline Heng and Ng Sook Zhen in December 2010. Based in Singapore, the company uses the metal from de-activated landmines to create pieces of jewellery. The organisation employs citizens from conflict-ravaged regions, offering a source of employment for those who may have lost as a result of the fighting in their nation.
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