Projects tagged "New York"

Help Staten Island Save Mount Manresa (Art Intervention and Rallies)
Practitioner:
Save Mount Manresa
Date:
Dec 15 2013
Ongoing efforts to Save Mount Manresa:
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Art in Odd Places
Practitioner:
AiOP
Date:
Jul 19 1996
Art in Odd Places (AiOP) presents visual and performance art in unexpected public spaces. AiOP also produces an annual festival along 14th Street in Manhattan, NYC from Avenue C to the Hudson River each October.
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Art, Activism and the Age of AIDS
Practitioner:
David Wojnarowicz
Date:
May 15 1981
David Wojnarowicz as a Catalyst for Collective Action
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How Selective Enforcement of Illegal Advertising Laws Punishes Creative Activism
Practitioner:
The Illuminator, Occupy Museums
Date:
Sep 29 2014
The enforcement of city and state law pertaining to graffiti, advertising, and other signage has enormous power to visually shape public space. In New York City, enforcement is heavily skewed to ignore illegal commercial advertising, while simultaneously aggressively targeting graffiti and, in some cases, symbols of dissent.
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Students Protest John Galliano
Practitioner:
Parsons Jewish Student Union
Date:
Apr 25 2013
In 2011, a video displaying fashion designer and former lead designer at Dior, John Galliano, shouting anti-Semitic remarks, went viral on the internet, leading to his subsequent dismissal from Dior and the subsequent defamation of his career. Nonetheless, Parsons at the New School extended Galliano an offer to teach a specialized design seminar, which was scheduled to begin this year.
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Eco-Music Big Band
Practitioner:
Eco-Music Big Band, Fred Ho, Marie Incontrera
Date:
Jan 3 2015
"Writing Political Music in Today's World" I began studying composition with Fred Ho without knowing quite what I was getting myself into. I was 25 with a fresh graduate degree in composition under my belt, lost in that special way only millennial twenty-somethings get to be. I knew I wanted to write political works and, having met Fred twice before, I knew that he was the one who could help me do it.
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Women of the World Poetry Slam
Practitioner:
Women Writers of Color
Date:
Mar 12 2016
To foster interests and understanding of the accomplishments of women writers of color. To bring together the Student body of Pratt to explore the literary contribution, showcase the artistic quality and celebrate the contributions of women writers of...
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Gumby for President
Practitioner:
Gumby and Anti-folkers
Date:
Nov 4 2012
In the 2012 presidential election, did you know that one of the underdog anti-party runners was Gumby?! In the attached video, you will hear Gumby offer transportation alternatives (Pokey and friends), challenges of not believing in vice presidents, and the importance of people and clay-people working together.
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Lament of the Images
Practitioner:
Alfredo Jaar
Date:
Jan 1 2002
You enter a narrow corridor where backlit Plexiglas panels offer three compelling narratives about whiteness and blindness: Nelson Mandela’s imprisonment and hard labor in Robben Island’s limestone quarry under a blinding sun; Bill Gates’ purchase of the Bettmann and United Press International archives, consisting of 17 million images, and their subsequent burial deep underground in a limestone vault for the sake of preservation, after Gates’s company C
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Bread and Puppet Theater Founder Peter Schumann on 50 Years of Art and Resistance
Practitioner:
Bread and Puppet
Date:
Dec 26 2013
This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of this country’s most beloved theater companies. Founded in New York City in 1963, the Bread and Puppet Theater’s first productions ranged from puppet shows for children to pieces opposing poor housing conditions. The group’s processions, involving monstrous puppets, some about 20 feet high, became a fixture of protests against the Vietnam War. "We don’t have playwrights in the theater.
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Oxycontin Protest at the Met
Practitioner:
Nan Goldin and Prescription Addiction Intervention Now (PAIN)
Date:
Mar 10 2018
The US artist Nan Goldin has staged her first public protest since she launched her activist group PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now), shaming members of the Sackler family who have profited from the sale of Oxycontin and institutions that have accepted their philanthropy.
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Entheon
Practitioner:
Alex Grey
Date:
May 15 2016
A striking new cultural space is taking shape in New York’s Hudson Valley. Alex Grey and Allyson Grey, co-founders of CoSM, Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, have launched a Kickstarter campaign to build Entheon, sanctuary of visionary art, to ask for support to complete the build.
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#NOSFALTAN43
Practitioner:
Lavinia Raccanello
Date:
Dec 11 2014
On December 2014 I've been artist in residence at MANY MINI RESIDENCY a short-term residency program organized by Sarrita Hunn and Ryan Thayer and hosted by GYB BYG in Mexico City. During my 12 hour residency I’ve worked on the case of the 43 students from Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa who went missing while in the custody of Iguala’s police force in September 2014.
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Asian and black communities square off over cop prosecution
Practitioner:
Chinese activists, Asian-American protesters
Date:
Feb 20 2016
Nearly 15,000 mostly Asian-American protesters rallied in Brooklyn Saturday for former NYPD Officer Peter Liang, claiming that the rookie cop was a “pawn” of anti-police politics and was wrongly prosecuted for a tragic accident.The crowd filled Cadman Plaza Park, with many carrying signs with slogans like, “One tragedy, two victims” and, “Scapegoating won’t bring peace.” Many placards bore Martin Luther King Jr.’s photo and quote, “Injustice anywhere is
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Photo Requests from Solitary
Practitioner:
Tamms Year Ten, Parsons The New School for Design, Solitary Watch, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, and the New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement, the Open Society Foundations, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Jean Casella, Jeanine Oleson, Rachel Herman
Date:
Sep 20 2013
Featuring photographs that represent a unique collaboration between men held in supermax prisons and the photographers who fulfilled their requests. Curated by Laurie Jo Reynolds, Tamms Year Ten, Jeanine Oleson, Parsons The New School for Design, and Jean Casella, Solitary Watch.
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¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York exhibition
Practitioner:
Bronx Museum, Museo del Barrio, Loisaida INC
Date:
Jul 1 2015
Spread over three institutions — the Bronx Museum of the Arts; El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem; and Loisaida Inc., a cultural center in the East Village — this show departs from straight political history by presenting the Young Lords as a cultural phenomenon as well as an ideological one, with a highly developed instinct for visual self-projection, right down to having an official party photographer, the gifted Hiram Maristany.
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Bruce High Quality Foundation University
Practitioner:
Bruce High Quality Foundation
Date:
Sep 19 2009
The Bruce High Quality Foundation University (BHQFU) is an unaccredited, free collaborative school founded by the eponymous artist collective and presented by Creative Time.
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This Ain't a Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering
Practitioner:
Taja Lindley
Date:
Apr 30 2016
"This Ain't a Eulogy" is both a staged performance and a durational, outdoor, public performance that reclaims and takes public space. The artist statement is as follows:
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Brooklyn deli re-brands as artisanal emporium to protest rent hike
Practitioner:
Jesse's Deli
Date:
Jun 12 2015
Brooklyn deli re-brands as artisanal emporium to protest rent hike The owners of an imperiled Boerum Hill deli have staged an “artisanal takeover” of their 25-year-old corner store, re-branding products with yuppified names and jacking up prices to illustrate the kind of shop that could afford the 250-percent rent hike they say the store’s landlord is demanding.
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activists culture jam anti-Muslim ads in NYC subways
Practitioner:
New York Activists
Date:
Jan 11 2013
New York activists responded to a recent anti-Muslim subway campaign by plastering stickers over ads depicting the World Trade Center in flames, juxtaposed with text quoting the Koran. The day-glow orange and yellow stickers warn "Caution: This is war propaganda. You're the target". The ads were paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, led by notorious anti-Muslim crusader Pamela Geller, reportedly costing $70,000.
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Trivia Site
Practitioner:
Sporcle
Date:
Jan 2 2010
Sporcle is a website deisgned with an endless array of trivia games that aim to boost your knowledge and perhaps increase your useless information understandings. These games, designed rather simply in most cases, were actually very useful in getting me to learn things like maps, countries, cities, populations, and beyond.
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The Spring 2014 Talks Series: Sam Durant
Practitioner:
Sam Durant
Date:
Apr 23 2014
Sam Durant is an LA based artist who engages in social, cultural and political issues through his interactive public sculptures. Durant is interested in investigating historical narratives and their contemporary communities. From 2005-2010 Durant was part of the collective Transforma Projects, a grassroots cultural rebuilding initiative in New Orleans. One of his most recent interactive public sculptures Scaffold is on view at the Hague.
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190 Bowery Street
Practitioner:
Unknown
Date:
Feb 18 2014
I went on a graffiti tour that went through NOHO, SOHO and the Lower East Side last weekend. We saw works by street artists - Space Invader and Roa - that were remarkable. Roa had created a commissioned mural of a bird on the side of a building, and the former artist derived his work from the unforgettable arcade game, Space Invader.
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Foreigners Everywhere
Practitioner:
Claire Fontaine
Date:
May 30 2012
The Paris-based collective Claire Fontaine displays a neon sign that spells the words ‘Foreigners Everywhere’ in Arabic. Since this sign was installed strategically above the gallery’s wall-length window – facing in the street – in the edition of the show I saw, at Parsons in New York, it interacted not only with Parsons’ exhibition site but also with the urban environment beyond it.
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Meatless Monday
Practitioner:
University of Rochester Dining Services
Date:
Jan 22 2016
Meatless Monday occurs every week in the Douglass Dining Hall. This event is meant to promote alternatives to consuming animal products. The dining hall offers vegetarian and vegan options in place of the regular meals for lunch and dinner in order to educate students about vegetarian alternative protein sources, healthy eating and the environmental impact of eating meat.
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