Projects tagged "Clothing & Costumes"

The "marriage effect"
Practitioner:
Amnesty International
Date:
Mar 20 2014
Rights activists in Mozambique have marched through the capital Maputo to protest a colonial era law still included in new legislation that allows rapists to go unpunished if they marry their victims. The "marriage effect" clause sees convicted rapists given a five-year suspended sentence if they marry their victims and stipulates that the perpetrator should stay married to the victim for at least five years.
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VIHDA Means Life
Practitioner:
Tamara Leacock
Date:
Feb 9 2009
With the support of the Amy Rossborough Foundation and several other Yale University affiliated departments, Tamara Leacock, while a senior at Yale University, designed a collection and produced a fashion show that explored through fashion, dance, and carnival an intimate portrait of HIV. The goal of the production was to display HIV in a setting that was intimate, personalized, and displayed with a human face.
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Bloody Bridal Gown Protest
Practitioner:
Resource Center for Gender Equality
Date:
Dec 6 2016
Women took to the streets of Beirut wearing blood-stained wedding dresses with signs that said "A white dress does not cover up rape. Undress 522," referring to the number of the penal article in question. The demonstration was an act by the Beirut-based Resource Center for Gender Equality (ABAAD) association on December 6.
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Nadia Plesner v Commercialism
Practitioner:
Nadia Plesner
Date:
Feb 6 2013
Danish 26-year-old art student Nadia Plesner designed this T-shirt depicting a Darfurian child holding a Louis Vuitton handbag as commentary on global disparity as it relates to war, developing nations, commercialism, and media. In 2006, the fashion house sued Plesner for her appropriation of their trademark. The case was subsequently dismissed.
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Tunisian Human Rights Activists Take to the Streets with Art
Practitioner:
Fanni Raghman Anni
Date:
Feb 1 2015
Post revolution Tunisia is all too familiar with protest – usually through demonstrations - but one group of activists are using the power of street art to get their message across. Calling themselves “Fanni Raghman Anni” (Arabic for “My Art in Spite of Myself”), the group simply scouts the streets of Tunisia bringing theater and drama to random passers-by.
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Do Not Pass Go: Monopolize Bank of America
Practitioner:
MicCheckWallSt
Date:
Jul 14 2012
(Taken from Group's Event Statement): "The big banks have been playing monopoly with our money & our homes. On Saturday July 14th, as part of #J20 Bring the Fight Back to the Banks Week, let's return the favor..."
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Clothesline Project
Practitioner:
Tennessee Correctional Services, Lane College Wellness Program
Date:
Apr 23 2014
“Stop hitting me,” “Please help,” and “Abuse is wrong” were just a few phrases painted and scribbled onto T-shirts by victims of sexual and domestic abuse to express how it felt to go through that pain. The shirts are part of the Clothesline Project and were on display at Lane College on Wednesday.
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Lady Gaga's Meat dress
Practitioner:
Lady Gaga
Date:
Sep 12 2010
Lady Gaga showed up to the 2010 MTV Music Video Awards wearing a dress made out of raw meat. She claimed that the dress showed her disgust towards the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, but missed the media opportunity to clearly string her thoughts together.
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Angel Action
Practitioner:
Romaine Patterson
Date:
Oct 17 1998
Matthew Shepard was attacked by Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson on October 7, 1998, the victim of an anti-gay hate crime. He was pronounced dead on October 12th. Shepard's funeral was protested by Fred Phelps, notorious leader of the Westboro Baptist Church. The protesters bore signs with phrases such as, "God hates Fags", "No tears for Queens", and "Fag Matt in hell".
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The Peace Piece
Practitioner:
Adelle Lutz
Date:
Apr 1 2003
The Peace Piece was conceived by artist Adelle Lutz as a reaction to the declaration of the American war with Iraq in the Spring of 2003. Lutz combined her talents as a costume designer and artist to create a project that would remind the Americna public that the majority of war victims suffering in Iraq were women and children.
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Young Women For Change: Fashion as Activism
Practitioner:
Young Women For Change
Date:
Feb 2 2013
Founded in April 2011, Young Women for Change (YWC) is an independent non-profit organization committed to empowering Afghan women and improving their lives through social, economical , political empowerment, participation, awareness and advocacy. YWC was co-founded by Noorjahan Akbar and Anita Haidary and consists of dozens of volunteer women and male advocates across Afghanistan.
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Street Artists Turn Fur Coats into Wild Animal Graffiti Protest
Practitioner:
Neozoon
Date:
Dec 15 2010
By Joe Laur Members of the creative collective Neozoon, a group of artists based in Paris and Berlin, are staging a protest against using animal furs as fashion by turning fur coats into street art graffiti. Apparently, they are taking furs and fur garments and reshaping them into animals in action on streets, along alleyways, against walls and even on trees in parks.
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Billionaires for Bush
Practitioner:
Billionaires for Bush
Date:
Jun 13 2004
“Some people call you the elite,” George W. Bush joked to his wealthy funders, “I call you my base.” Whether candidate Bush meant it as a joke or not, the Billionaires for Bush (B4B) campaign used humor, street theater and creative media actions to show the country how true the quip was.
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Thriller Protest
Practitioner:
Chilean students
Date:
Jun 24 2011
The following is a description of the action that Huffington post published online on 6/25/2011: "Student demonstrators took to the streets of Santiago dressed as goblins and ghouls from Michael Jackson’s 'Thriller' video in their latest spirited pursuit of higher education reforms."
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Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Practitioner:
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Date:
Apr 9 1979
"The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence® is a leading-edge Order of queer nuns. Since our first appearance in San Francisco on Easter Sunday, 1979, the Sisters have devoted ourselves to community service, ministry and outreach to those on the edges, and to promoting human rights, respect for diversity and spiritual enlightenment.
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Pink Chaddi Campaign
Practitioner:
Consortium of Pub-going, Loose, and Forward Women
Date:
Feb 2 2015
In late January 2009, a group of 40 members of right-wing Hindu group Sri Ram Sena attacked women and men in a pub in the Indian city of Mangalore. They were upset with the women for engaging in behavior they found immoral, claiming that the girls were disrepecting traditional Indian values. Video footage of the event spread across Youtube in India, sparking outrage among many at the attack on innocent women.
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Stop Frisk Tourist T- Shirts
Practitioner:
Aaron Gach and Center for Tactical Magic
Date:
Aug 28 2012
At Souvenir Stands, Selling Tourists on Ending Stop-and-Search By COREY KILGANNON New York Times, City Blog, August 27, 2012 Last week, a 37-year-old artist from Oakland, Calif., named Aaron Gach joined the crowds of tourists swarming the sidewalk souvenir stands set up around the perimeter of Battery Park in Lower Manhattan.
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"The shoes are marching for us"
Practitioner:
avaaz
Date:
Nov 29 2015
A 7-year-old's sneakers. An accountant's slippers. Gold heels with spikes and a piece of paper carrying a message: "Invest in renewable (energy) ... now." Thousands of shoes stood in silent protest on Sunday in Paris.
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Happy Hippie
Practitioner:
Miley Cyrus
Date:
May 1 2014
Happy Hippie Foundation was created by American singer Miley Cyrus in 2014. The organization based out of Los Angeles is an initiative geared toward ending abuse, intolerance, and discrimination facing LGBTQ youth - often leading to homelessness. By using her visual and vocal artistry to raise awareness concerning homelessness and AIDS prevention, Cyrus is able to set an example and create lasting influence.
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Stella McCartney Designs Shirts for Red Nose Day
Practitioner:
Stella McCartney
Date:
Jan 31 2013
This action, to be released to the wider public this Friday, March 15th, was the design of t-shirts in support of British Charity, Comic Relief, an organization dedicated to bringing positive and lasting change to vulnerable youth communities in Europe (specifically in the U.K.) and various countries in Africa and, most critically, addressing the root causes of their poverty.
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With Red Lipstick, Indian Acid Attack Victim Makes a Bold Statement
Practitioner:
makelovenotscars.org
Date:
Sep 10 2015
In her peppy and helpful online video tutorial, Reshma Bano Quereshi promises to teach her viewers “how to get perfect red lips.” But unlike the more than 200,000 other online videos dedicated to the application of lipstick, this one goes beyond plumping and priming.
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'Pharma - Greed - Kills'
Practitioner:
ACT UP, london
Date:
Apr 2 2016
April 2nd, 2016, organized by members of the Aids Coalition to Unleash Power faction in London, five activists stormed London's Gilead Pharmaceutical offices and frantically disrobed to reveal painted backs spelling out the word 'Greed." About 30 other activists rallied outside the building.
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One Dress Movement
Practitioner:
Kristy Powell
Date:
Feb 23 2016
For an entire year, Kristy Powell wore the same dress everyday. She completed this act in order to take a stand against the fashion industry and the standards of status quo. She challenged the ideas of fashion, beauty, and our own body. Kristy mirrored this movement off of Sheena Matheiken, who also wore one dress for a year. Unlike Sheena, Kristy wrote of her experience while Sheena took photos.
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Pussy Riot Was Carefully Calibrated for Protest
Practitioner:
Pussy Riot
Date:
Aug 22 2012
DEPENDING on your taste, punk died in 1979, or maybe 1994, or whenever studded leather cuffs became a must-have mall-girl accessory. Now, suddenly, punk has been resurrected, stitched together anew in the form of the well-accessorized Russian women who call themselves Pussy Riot.
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Articulo 6 (Action 1)
Practitioner:
Lucia Cuba
Date:
Apr 20 2012
Fashion designer and social scientist, Lucia Cuba, has taken up the task of using fashion as a vehicle to bring attention and awareness around Articulo 6, an article in the Peruvian constitution that declared a law of forced sterilization of women in the country. Cuba has taken the testimonies of the victims of this article and integrated them into the very fabric of her designs.
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