Projects tagged "NY"

A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby...
Practitioner:
Kara Walker, commissioned by Creative Time
Date:
May 10 2014
Text taken from Creative Time website:
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Women's Voices for (a) Change
Practitioner:
Livingkindness Foundation
Date:
Jun 20 2013
A 3 DAY body/mind/spirit symposium on USING YOUR CREATIVITY AS A TOOL FOR CULTURAL CHANGE
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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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Bernie Sanders Gets His Own Video Game
Practitioner:
Illuminator, Act.TV, NYC Light Brigade
Date:
Apr 17 2016
Bernie Sanders supporters know how to bring the party! And they did it big time for the Democratic Debate in New York this week, with help from The Illuminator & the NYC Light Brigade. They installed an interactive video game featuring Bernie jumping over obstacles and WINNING!
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Women In the Making (WIM)
Practitioner:
Desi K. Robinson
Date:
Jan 1 2009
Desi is giving all she has to the project Women In the Making (WIM). From rooftop farming and summer education, to her radio show and online presence. She is an advocate for better health, food, and policy in Brooklyn, and nurturing young activists.
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Artist Wages Drone War on Thomas Kinkade
Practitioner:
FredaTheArt
Date:
Jul 15 2013
There are few artists more innocuous, more neutered, more universally loved and reviled than Thomas Kinkade. His soft-focus images present an idyllic vision of America and of Christianity, like Norman Rockwell without the blue-collar populism, where everything is beautiful, nothing hurts, and there’s always a warm fire going in the Lincoln-Log cabin just down the trail.
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This is America
Practitioner:
Donald Glover/ Childish Gambino
Date:
May 6 2018
(NEWS 8) — A day after pulling double-duty as both the host and musical guest on "Saturday Night Live," actor-writer-comedian-musician Donald Glover was garnering attention on Sunday for another reason. Social media blew up this weekend with reactions to Glover's new music video for "This is America," released under the name of his musical alter ego, Childish Gambino.
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The Democracy Wall in Carroll Gardens Ten Year Anniversary 2007-2017
Practitioner:
CG CORD/Carroll Gardens Coalition for Respectful Development
Date:
Mar 25 2017
Did you know? It is the Ten Year Anniversary of the "Democracy Wall" in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, NY 2007-2017. What was the Democracy Wall?
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The Real Estate Show Was Then: 1980
Practitioner:
James Fuentes
Date:
Apr 17 2014
James Fuentes 55 Delancey Street Lower East Side Through April 27
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Gowanus Art Collective Is The Epicenter of ‘Occupy’ Art
Practitioner:
Occuprint
Date:
Mar 26 2012
The Brooklyn Paper March 26, 2012 BY ELI ROSENBERG Occupy Wall Street wants to occupy your wall space. A collective of poster printers in Gowanus is attempting to help reignite the social movement’s flames for a May 1 “General Strike,” with a handful of new pin-ups it hopes will be as arresting as the image of a ballerina atop a bull that kicked off the whole protest in September.
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Thrive Collective
Practitioner:
Jeremy R. Del Rio, Esq
Date:
Jan 1 2011
Thrive Collective mobilizes students, parents, artists, and community stakeholders to partner with public schools for transformational change. They function both as a matchmaker and direct service provider of arts and mentoring programs that cultivate the character and competencies necessary for students to thrive in today’s world.
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The Grace Period Blog/Performance
Practitioner:
The Grace Period Blog: 7 Anonymous Artists/Activists
Date:
Nov 21 2013
“The Grace Period” is a live blogging platform with seven anonymous contributing bloggers called: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Through, videos, writings, and visuals they present multiple perspectives of landing/creating a meaningful job after school in a country where personal and national debt is high and jobs are few. In this environment, will our creative spirits be resilient?
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Unknown
Practitioner:
Unknown
Date:
Apr 21 2015
I've decided to post about a recent experience, considerable an "action" in its nature, and how it felt, which was comparable to solicitation rather than activism. However, there was a sense for consciousness-raising regardless of any tangible outcome.
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Teen Actors Keep Playwright August Wilson’s Legacy Alive
Practitioner:
The National August Wilson Monologue Competition
Date:
May 6 2013
Eight years after his death, the annual August Wilson Monologue Competition provides high school students from around the country an opportunity to carry on the African-American playwright’s legacy. That legacy includes Pulitzer Prizes for “Fences” and “The Piano Lesson,” two installments of Wilson’s 10-play series set in his hometown of Pittsburgh that examined 20th-century black life through the personal and political struggles of everyday people.
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Activists and Residents Light Up Bushwick with Anti-Gentrification Signs
Practitioner:
NYC Light Brigade
Date:
Dec 31 2015
Since Christmas Eve, some lights along the streets and in the houses of Bushwick have spelled out a number of messages quite different from the festive wishes one usually finds during the holiday season. “GENTRIFICATION IS THE NEW COLONIALISM,” “NOT 4 SALE,” and “NO EVICTION ZONE,” some read.
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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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The SOA Cycle
Practitioner:
Carlos Motta
Date:
Jan 1 2015
"SOA Cycle, and what it later became, which is called the Democracy Cycle, is a group of seven large works that approach the question of democracy. What is democracy? How is it constructed? How is it implemented? Is it something that is to be thought of in relation to its political influence? Or is it something that plays out in terms of cultural and social, and even emotional terms, for instance?
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#SaveNYC
Practitioner:
JEREMIAH MOSS, new yorkers
Date:
Mar 23 2015
#SaveNYC is a grassroots, crowd-sourced, DIY movement to protect and preserve the diversity and uniqueness of the urban fabric in New York City. As our vibrant streetscapes and neighborhoods are turned into bland, suburban-style shopping malls, filled with chain stores and glossy luxury retail, #SaveNYC is fighting for small businesses and cultural institutions to remain in place.
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Artistic Activism at the NYC iSchool
Practitioner:
NYC iSchool
Date:
Nov 12 2013
Students at the NYC iSchool, a high school in Manhattan, worked for 9 weeks to create works of activist art with art teacher Gretel Smith. We were lucky enough to have Stephen Duncomb and Steve Lambert from the Center for Artistic Activism come to our class to teach a lesson inspiring students to think like activists; they came back later to critique students’ works-in-progress.
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Interactivist.com
Practitioner:
Steve Englander, Eric Goldhagen
Date:
Sep 18 2000
THE INDUSTRY STANDARD September 18, 2000 'Community Interactivism' by Colin Moynihan Broadcasting civil disobedience on the Net can be a powerful outlet for activists.
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Stop Telling Women to Smile
Practitioner:
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Date:
Mar 1 2013
Stop Telling Women to Smile is a street art project by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh that addresses gender based street harassment. Street harassment is a serious issue that affects women world wide. This project attempts to take women's voices, and faces, and put them in the street - creating a presence for women in an environment where women are a lot of times made to feel uncomfortable and unsafe - outside in the street.
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How Can Images Tell the Story of Mass Incarceration in the US?
Practitioner:
Apeture, Aliya Hana Hussain, Bruce Jackson, Sable Elyse Smith, Johnny Perez, Laurie Jo Reynolds, and Stephen Tourlentes, Jesse Krimes, Joseph Rodriguez, Jamel Shabazz, Lorenzo Steele Jr., Katherine Cheairs, Nigel Poor, Virginia Grise, Vee Bravo, Russell Craig, Deborah Luster, Zachary Lazar, Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick
Date:
Feb 7 2018
"Most prisons and jails across the United States do not allow prisoners to have access to cameras. At a moment when 2.2 million people are incarcerated in the US, 3.8 million people are on probation, and 870,000 former prisoners are on parole, how can images tell the story of mass incarceration when the imprisoned don’t have control over their own representation?
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RAISE IT UP, MAKE AN IMPACT!
Practitioner:
IMPACT Repertory Theatre Performance Company
Date:
Jan 12 2018
IMAPCT are youth activists who view the creative arts and leadership training as a way to develop ourselves and change the world in a positive way. They believe that they must be the message that bring through hardwork, focus, discipline, unity and the principles of S.O.S. safe space, outstanding effort and service to their family friends and community.
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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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Games for Change
Practitioner:
Games for Change
Date:
Jun 8 2004
Games for Change is a community of game designers, activists, artists and individuals focused on creating and using digital games for purposes of social change. Games for Change is a large and loose community, but it has a major nonprofit organization at its center, who organizes the majority of the meetups and work of the movement.
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