Projects tagged "Clothing & Costumes"

You don't like me? I'm gonna throw a party in front of your office window
Practitioner:
Trans children and teenagers
Date:
May 22 2023
On Monday, May 22nd, trans children and teenagers from across the country threw a prom on the National Mall, a youth-led public celebration of trans joy at a time when more and more states are adopting viciously anti-trans legislation. The Meteor’s Mik Bean spoke to Daniel Trujillo, 15, one of the event’s organizers, about the power a little party can have.
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Articulo 6 (Action 5)
Practitioner:
Lucia Cuba
Date:
Aug 15 2012
MFA Fashion Parsons graduate and fashion designer Lucia Cuba, for her senior collection, created a fashion collection inspired by the victims and used to raise awareness of forced sterilization in Peru.
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Kinshasa Costumes
Practitioner:
Ndaku Ya La Vie Est Belle
Date:
Aug 20 2021
The collective Ndaku Ya La Vie Est Belle, a group of Kinshasa street performers turn their bodies into living sculptures, and use them to political ends. Among the artists is Jared, who regularly takes to the streets dressed as Robot Annonce. The costume, made from broken radio parts, is designed to raise awareness of fake news. “People receive so much incorrect information and many inaccuracies are spread. I want to fight this,” says Jared.
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Fashion In Action!
Practitioner:
Michaela Angela Davis
Date:
Sep 9 2010
On the opening day of the Spring/Summer 2011's season of Mercedes Benz's New York Fashion Week, former fashion editor, speaker, and fashion activist Michaela Angela Davis led a protest of approximately 20 black women, dressed in black suits, carrying signs with the names of every fashion editor in the 40 year history of African American fashion and lifestyle magazine, Essence Magazine.
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The Aphrodite Project
Practitioner:
Norene Leddy
Date:
Jan 1 2000
In the past, prostitution was intrinsically tied to religion ritual and public policy, and it wasn't considered a taboo. Taking up from the idea of ancient sandals worn by prostitutes, the artist has created platform shoes that specifically focused on their protection and safety nowadays, with a GPS tracker that can send emergency signals to 911 or a sex workers' rights group.
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SWIMMING CITIES OF SWITCHBACK SEA
Practitioner:
Swoon Studio
Date:
Sep 7 2008
TROY, N.Y. — Three loud blasts from a steam whistle screamed out as the rain drizzled on the riverbank here. And the fleet of seven eclectic handmade ships slowly moved away.
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Performative Radicalism: the Kumbi PSYOP
Practitioner:
BG Kumbi
Date:
Jul 16 2017
The internet has reshaped the ways we learn and communicate. Information becomes heuristic, concomitantly - knowledge becomes protean. If you dedicate enough time to any particular platform, you are likely to acquire a community with congenial individuals. Social media’s proliferation has obfuscated the lines between reality and fiction. Embraced as a tool for many, these digital spaces typically have no monitoring process.
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#HateIsAVirus
Practitioner:
Activists against COVID-19-related hate crimes
Date:
Apr 6 2020
Activists fighting coronavirus-driven hate crimes are rallying on social media to turn masks into a symbol, rather than a target in racist attacks Jeff Elder Apr 6, 2020, 2:03 PM Activists against COVID-19-related hate crimes are leading a social media campaign using images of people in masks to fight back against attacks on Asian-Americans, which Congress and the FBI say are increasing.
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Decolonize this Museum: Anti-Columbus Day Tour Attended by Hundreds at the American Museum of Natural History
Practitioner:
Decolonize This Place
Date:
Oct 9 2017
About: Hundreds of people came out to attend a decolonization tour of one of New York’s most popular museums. Written by Elena Goukassian on October 10, 2017
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Fenced-In Nativity Scene
Practitioner:
Rev. Chris Moore
Date:
Dec 25 2018
The nativity scene at Fellowship Congregational Church in Tulsa, Okla., looks a little different this year: There is a chain-link fence surrounding Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus. The display has been up since the beginning of December, but it drew news coverage this week after the church changed the message on its marquee to read, “The holy family was a migrant family,” and posted photos of the nativity on Facebook.
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Arruinados
Practitioner:
O Teatrão/Companhia Fantasma
Date:
Aug 1 2013
In July and August 2013, O Teatrão, a Coimbra based theatre company, presented the project Arruinados, comprising three theatre performances in three abandoned spaces (‘ruins’), one in each of three cities in the Centre region of Portugal located along the Mondego River:Coimbra, Montemoro Velho, and Figueira da Foz.
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Chinese 'naked' wedding celebrations focus on love - not money
Practitioner:
Ten couple from Zhejiang
Date:
Mar 24 2015
Ten couples covered in body paint wearing only their underwear have celebrated their “naked weddings” at Hangzhou Paradise amusement park in Zhejiang province. The couples, some of whom have been married for many years, said they were rejecting modern Chinese values, which place greater value on money than love. In China, a naked wedding involves a couple marrying without owning a house or car.
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Missile Dick Chicks Take America
Practitioner:
Missile Dick Chicks
Date:
Oct 6 2002
Shortly after the events of 9/11, a group of NYC women came together in protest of the Bush Administration's use of the terror attacks to justify war. Seeking out a new form of political protest, the women decided to respond to what they believed were the absurd reactions of Bush by attaching paper maché missile "dicks" and demonstrating in public.
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Halima Aden: Milan fashion week's star of the season
Practitioner:
Halima Aden
Date:
Feb 22 2017
A woman dressed in western clothes and a hijab is a common sight across Europe’s capital cities – a fact now reflected on the catwalk at Milan fashion week. Halima Aden, a Somali-American model, is fast becoming fashion’s face of 2017, currently stealing the show at fashion week from the catwalk superstar Gigi Hadid.
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ARTICULO 6: Narratives of gender, strength and politics
Practitioner:
Lucia Cuba
Date:
Nov 30 2011
“ARTICULO 6: narratives of gender, strength and politics” is an activist design project that aims to raise awareness about the case of forced sterilizations implemented during the government of Alberto Fujimori in Peru.
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One Dress Protest
Practitioner:
Kristy Powell
Date:
Jan 3 2011
Independent blogger, Kristy Powell, decided to begin a digital action, beginning on January 3rd, 2011 and ending on January 3rd, 2012, where she would wear one dress for an entire year to call attention to the politics of fashion's dominance over our quotidian lives and relationships with our own bodies.
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Tletl (Mexican Nahua Dance) Performance
Practitioner:
Kalpulli Yaocenoxtli
Date:
May 31 2020
The group known as Kalpulli Yaocenoxtli, which practices Mexican Nahua dance, song and drumming, is a frequent presence at Black Lives Matter protests in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Its dancers first took to the streets in solidarity with the movement after the death of Jamar Clark, who was shot and killed by Minneapolis police in 2015.
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The Clothesline Project
Practitioner:
Rachel Carey-Harper
Date:
Oct 1 1990
According to the Men's Rape Prevention Project in Washington DC, 58,000 soldiers died in the Vietnam war. During that same period of time, 51,000 women were killed mostly by men who supposedly loved them.
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Anatomic Explosion
Practitioner:
Yayoi Kusama
Date:
Oct 15 1968
OBLITERATE WALL STREET MEN WITH POLKA DOTS
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Guerilla Girls
Practitioner:
Guerilla Girls
Date:
Feb 13 1985
The Guerilla Girls are masked art activists who seek to bring attention to women in the art world and expose the unfair dominance of white males in the field. Their research into the racial and gender inequality in the art world is exposed through ironically worded public posters and billboards.
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Fanged Wilds and Women
Practitioner:
VC Bestor
Date:
Jan 1 2015
grrrRoar! Ecology is sexier when you focus on women and fanged beasts. Fashions in leopard print help us make that connection globally and online. Polluters at least pause at the reminder that nature isn't dead yet and in fact stirs the same passion as the woman you just met who's saying something about "Fanged Wilds"!
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Putting a Trans Mark on the City of Berlin
Practitioner:
TGEU and international trans activist collective
Date:
Oct 12 2015
As part of an international workshop (10-11 October 2015) with the Center for Artistic Activism, 17 trans activists and artists from 13 European countries developed a creative campaign to mark some of the spaces in Berlin which have symbolic significance for trans people.
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Monopoly Man
Practitioner:
Amanda Werner
Date:
Oct 4 2017
During Wednesday’s Senate hearing on the Equifax data breach, a protester dressed as the “Monopoly Man” from the board game photobombed Equifax CEO Richard Smith’s testimony. While the CEO discussed his company’s breach that affected 145.5 million people, the protester gazed skeptically through a monocle at the back of his head.
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General Idea and the AIDS crises
Practitioner:
General Idea Collective
Date:
Jan 27 2017
The Canadian artist collective General Idea found its drive in the AIDS epidemic, becoming aesthetically and conceptually refined in the in the 1970s and ’80s, after long forays into absurdity and performances evocative of Dada and Fluxus.
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ECO Fashionable Collectibles- Made From Recycled Plastic
Practitioner:
Adeyemi Emmanuel
Date:
Nov 11 2019
In 2019, Adeyemi Emmanuel began collecting bits of discarded plastic and used them to make a backpack. Seeing a way to raise environmental awareness in fashion-conscious Nigeria, Emmanuel in November launched a line of bags, wallets and gift boxes made of 20% leather and around 80% plastic waste, called ECO. He collects chips of used plastic by hand, such as leftovers from picture frames, primarily from craft workshops.
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