Projects tagged "Demonstration & Protest"

Call for Local Artwork Exhibition
Practitioner:
Maximo Caminero
Date:
Feb 18 2014
MIAMI — Officials at the recently inaugurated Pérez Art Museum Miami confirmed on Monday that a valuable vase by the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei had been deliberately destroyed by a visitor in what appeared to be an act of protest.
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Pork Bun Restaurant Turned Protest Site
Practitioner:
Chinese petitioners
Date:
Jan 4 2014
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s latest attempt to cultivate his image as a man of the people is creating some unintended consequences. Qingfeng Restaurant, an unassuming local eatery where Xi ate a meal of pork buns, fried pig liver and vegetables last month, has since become a staging ground for residents to protest against their local governments.
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Bogota Performance Piece - No Name
Practitioner:
Tania Bruguera
Date:
Nov 5 2009
Renowned Cuban artist Tania Bruguera surprised a Bogota audience in September when she lined up three people directly involved in the Colombian conflict for a chat. The real performance however, started when a waitress emerged with a tray of neatly organised lines of cocaine, and began offering them to members of the audience.
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#CronicaDaMorteAnunciada
Practitioner:
Ecossistema Tropical / Colectivo rede[aparelho]
Date:
Nov 4 2016
Acción #CronicaDaMorteAnunciada que consistió en la creación de 9 estandartes con informaciones sobre asesinatos a “País do Santo” para denunciar sus muertes por motivos de racismo afroreligioso en la ciudad de Belém, Brasil.
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Rolezinho Pretoi/Black Stroll
Practitioner:
Coletivo Preto and the Grupo Emú
Date:
Feb 28 2018
“How different. Exotic,” commented one women as she watched a group of almost 50 people — mostly young and black, many wearing bright fabrics with African designs — stroll through the Shopping Leblon mall.
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Art Therapist for Human Rights
Practitioner:
Art therapists
Date:
Jan 13 2017
We demand that AATA respond to Karen Pence's stated commitment to our field by asking her to publicly take action for the rights of LGBTQIA people, Native people, Black and Brown people, Muslims, survivors of sexual assault, people with disabilities, immigrants, refugees and all people who are in danger as a result of the policies of the current administration.
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SlutWalk
Practitioner:
SlutWalk Co-Founders Sonya Barnett and Heather Jarvis
Date:
Apr 3 2011
The SlutWalk protest marches began on April 3, 2011, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and became a movement of rallies across the world. Participants protest against explaining or excusing rape by referring to any aspect of a woman's appearance.
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Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds
Practitioner:
Ai Weiwei
Date:
Oct 12 2010
Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain.
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Blind Ones
Practitioner:
Sao Paulo Art Students
Date:
Dec 9 2013
Students from the School of Communication and Art of the University of Sao Paulo perform a skit titled 'Blind Ones' as a protest against consumerism inside a shopping mall of Natal, capital of Rio Grande do Norte state, December 9, 2013. Related Story: Brazil shopping malls: New epicenter for social protest?
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Bread and Puppet Theater
Practitioner:
Peter Schumann
Date:
Jan 1 1963
The Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side. Besides rod-puppet and hand puppet shows for children, the concerns of the first productions were rents, rats, police, and other problems of the neighborhood. More complex theater pieces followed, in which sculpture, music, dance and language were equal partners. The puppets grew bigger and bigger.
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Discongreso
Practitioner:
Enmedio
Date:
Sep 25 2012
"Surround Congress”: as soon as we’d heard this, in our minds we were there. To make the Government resign and demand they start a new constituent process seemed like a great idea. We immediately got to work.
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The Whole World Is An Art School
Practitioner:
Bob and Roberta Smith
Date:
Feb 13 2018
Bob and Roberta Smith has been at the forefront of activist art for 2 decades; so who better to ask about how art is responding to these politically bleak times?
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Art Not Oil: Ending Oil Industry Sponsorship of the Arts
Practitioner:
Art Not Oil UK
Date:
Apr 3 2016
On Sunday April 3rd, Art Not Oil coalition member group BP or not BP? occupied the Great Court of the BP-sponsored British Museum with a 'disobedient exhibition'. Called 'A History of BP in 10 Objects', the exhibition featured artifacts submitted by frontline communities around the world who are fighting back against the impacts of BP's operations.
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All Eyes on 'Sparrow': Documenting the Dangers of Activism in China
Practitioner:
Nanfu Wang/ Haiyan Ye
Date:
May 1 2013
Nanfu Wang feels safe in New York. Surveillance, that essential preoccupation of the documentarian in America, is a chokehold from which she has been temporarily released. From her Brooklyn apartment, the Chinese filmmaker prepares for the release of her debut feature documentary, Hooligan Sparrow.
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'Forward On Climate' Rally Brings Climate Change Activists To National Mall In Washington, D.C.
Practitioner:
Sierra Club, 350.org, Hip-Hop Caucus
Date:
Feb 17 2013
By James Gerken An estimated 40,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C. on Sunday for the Forward on Climate Rally on the National Mall. The rally preceded a march to the White House to urge President Barack Obama to take action against climate change and reject the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Instant Grant Program
Practitioner:
The Federation of Students and Nominally or Unemployed Artists
Date:
May 12 2008
We all learn art in school. Every kid loves to draw at some point. People get fascinated with the details of their new camera, or spend free time writing poems. But eventually, there’s a not a teacher telling you how great your are, or the camera gets put away, or you just plain get busy and stop. Years could go by before you start again, if you ever do at all.
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‘Triple Talaq’ Abolition Is Only The Start Of A Larger Campaign For Gender Justice In India
Practitioner:
Shayara Bano, Gulshan Parveen, Afreen Rehman, Atiya Sabri and Ishrat Jahan, other Muslin women
Date:
Oct 6 2017
The egregious practice that some Muslim men employ to divorce their wives instantaneously and without their consent, merely by uttering the word talaq (divorce) three times, has finally been declared unconstitutional and illegal by the Indian Supreme Court. The country’s ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) party claims that the ban is a victory for its administration, which had been advocating its abolition since it came to power in 2014.
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Unemployed Man Is the Unofficial Superhero of Occupy Wall Street
Practitioner:
Gan Golan
Date:
Oct 31 2011
Unemployed Man and his costumed colleagues stormed Wall Street on Monday morning, bringing some superhero street theater — and a 16-foot evil robot known as the Slot Bot — to the Occupy protests in New York.The Superheroes versus Economic Supervillains smackdown was staged by Gan Golan, 37, co-author of the 2010 graphic novel The Adventures of
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Walmart Worker Flash Mob
Practitioner:
Walmart Employees
Date:
Sep 5 2013
September 5th, 2013, Raleigh, NC - As Walmart workers petition managers to reinstate employees who have been unfairly treated, a flash mob breaks out. SEE VIDEO.
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Environmental group to carve Donald Trump’s face into the side of Arctic iceberg
Practitioner:
Melting Ice
Date:
Dec 1 2018
The stunt aims to show the impact of climate change by live streaming the sculpture melting. A climate change group is raising half a million dollars with the goal of carving President Donald Trump’s face into an arctic iceberg. The Finnish group Melting Ice is spearheading the initiative with the intention of carving a 115-foot ice sculpture of Mr Trump’s face, and have dubbed the effort “Project Trumpmore”.
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Greenpeace Protests Apple’s Energy Practices By Releasing Balloons
Practitioner:
Greenpeace
Date:
Apr 24 2012
By C.J. HUGHESThe skies over the glass cube that serves as the entrance to the Apple store on Fifth Avenue turned a bit dark on Tuesday afternoon, at least for some
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Activists allege forced abortions, sterilizations in China
Practitioner:
All Girls Allowed
Date:
Apr 30 2012
By Ashley Hayes , CNN April 30, 2012 -- Updated 2340 GMT (0740 HKT)
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A Long March to Save Asia’s Largest Mangrove Forest In Bangladesh
Practitioner:
women
Date:
Mar 11 2016
A group of women walked from Barisal, Bangladesh to Khulna to join up with the long march that was crossing the city that day. By long, I really mean long: this march traveled a distance of 145 kms, walking most of the way, meeting people, holding street meetings and telling people why the Rampal coal plant shouldn’t be built in the Sundarbans.
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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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Taco Bell Boycott
Practitioner:
Coalition of Imolakee Workers
Date:
Jan 1 2001
For years, workers in Florida’s tomato fields have endured poverty wages and terrible working conditions. In 1993, a small, community-based organization called the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) formed to demand an end to these unfair labor practices.
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