Projects tagged "Film, Video & Photo"

#FreeTheNipple Icelandic Style
Practitioner:
Women in Iceland
Date:
Mar 23 2015
It all started when an Icelandic girl took off her top on Twitter in a bid to promote sexual equality, only for her to be verbally attacked by some male Icelandic tit troll. Despite both comments being deleted, Twitter was suddenly awash with bare breasted ladies ("Th?"s one here is for feeding babies.
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The Inside Out Project
Practitioner:
JR
Date:
Mar 2 2011
"I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating in a global art project, and together we'll turn the world...INSIDE OUT." – JR, TED2011
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10 Rappers Turned Social Activists-Vince Staples
Practitioner:
Vince Staples
Date:
Jul 11 2016
Vince Staples mentioned Long Beach's Ramona Park approximately 80 times on his debut album Summertime '06 and even allotted the park two of its own tracks: "Ramona Park Legend Pt. 1" and "Ramona Park Legend Pt. 2." "The sun come down and guns come out, you know Ramona Park."
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FESPACO
Practitioner:
The Pan-African Festival of Cinema and Television
Date:
Dec 2 2017
Fespaco is a meeting place put to good use to promote the development of black cinematography. From 1973, topics of discussion are introduced at each edition.
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Untitled - Ongoing series
Practitioner:
JillisBlack
Date:
May 7 2018
Sarcastic delivery spoken to black people talking about issues regarding black "progress" , media, consumption among other things https://www.instagram.com/jillisblack/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/p/Bb3Y-bQFc2a/?hl=en&taken-by=jillisblack
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Ice Watch
Practitioner:
Olafur Eliasson
Date:
Dec 11 2018
Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has extracted 30 blocks of glacial ice from the waters surrounding Greenland and placed them in public spaces across London, where they will be left to melt. Called Ice Watch, the temporary installation is meant to serve as a visual reminder of the impact of climate change on the environment.
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People of Japan is a snapshot of daily life across Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka
Practitioner:
Mark Manzi
Date:
Mar 1 2021
For his latest project, Mark Manzi found himself outside of his comfort zone. For the Amsterdam-based photographer and designer, People of Japan was an attempt to break from his photography-first portfolio. “In the past, my work was very image-focused, whereas with this book I wanted to scan objects, collect receipts, record noises, add copy, and really create something visually striking,” he says.
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Uncle Sam's Cultural Dissonance
Practitioner:
Justin Quinn
Date:
Mar 10 2014
Uncle Sam's Cultural Dissonance looks at the issues facing The United States, including Canada and Mexico. In countries like the United States, where some states are dotted with countless lakes and many people live within easy reach of an ocean, it may be easy to assume that drinking and recreational waters are limitless. This is absurd. This series focuses in on excessive overuse in by agricultural, residential, and industrial sectors.
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#DearMe
Practitioner:
YouTube, YouTube users
Date:
Mar 3 2015
From Variety: YouTube launched a campaign with the hashtag #DearMe — encouraging users to upload “video letters” with advice to their younger selves, aimed at helping girls deal with problems — and within an hour it became the No. 1 trending topic on Twitter both in the U.S. and worldwide.
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Nazi control room reopens as Topography of Terror museum in Berlin
Practitioner:
Berlin Artist
Date:
May 6 2010
It was once the most feared address in Berlin, a place easy to enter but very hard to leave. Now the ruins of the former engine room of Nazi terror at Prinz Albrecht Strasse in Berlin have been preserved in a new exhibition space open to the public from tomorrow.
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Blanke Bedenken, or Naked Qualms
Practitioner:
German Doctors
Date:
Apr 27 2020
A group of German doctors have posed naked in an attempt to draw attention to shortages of protective clothing and equipment. Calling their protest Blanke Bedenken, or Naked Qualms, members of the group said they felt at risk from coronavirus and claimed their calls for help over several months had gone unheeded.
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The Fight Against AIDS, La Radical Gai in 1994
Practitioner:
La Radical Gai
Date:
Dec 1 1994
This act of art and activism displayed in the photograph was created in 1994 by the group La Radical Gai at the height of the HIV and AIDS epidemic that decimated many communities in Madrid. The first case of AIDS in Spain was documented in 1982. Since that time, 85,000 people in Spain have been diagnosed with AIDS and 60,000 people have died from the deadly virus (Soriano, Ramos, Barreiro, Fernandez-Montero, 2018).
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Anti-Abortion ‘Magical Birth Canal’ Videos
Practitioner:
Laura Klassen, CHOICE42
Date:
Jun 2 2018
This Anti-Abortion Influencer Is Using ‘Magical Birth Canal’ Videos to Supercharge the Movement Laura Klassen is using props, satire, and a pink wig to pioneer a young and edgy approach to anti-abortion messaging in Canada. By Valerie Kipnis and Elizabeth Landers May 4 2020, 12:45pm
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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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La Fiera en Sevilla
Practitioner:
Isaías Griñolo
Date:
Jan 1 2016
During the economic crisis of 2008, bankers in Spain took advantage of the economically disadvantaged, and the artwork La Fiera en Sevilla, or the Wild Animal in Sevilla in English, brings attention to this money-centric act from the bankers. La Fiera refers to the bankers at the time that used predatory methods in their actions to forcibly evict poor people from their houses.
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The vital work of women street photographers
Practitioner:
Gulnara Samoilova
Date:
Mar 16 2021
In 2016, photojournalist Gulnara Samoilova was running a successful wedding photography business. Her diverse portfolio of work spans two decades — with images in the permanent collections of The New York Public Library, 9/11 Memorial Museum and Houston Museum of Fine Arts — but weddings had become her staple business. By the year's end, she'd decided to pack it in.
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Daughter
Practitioner:
Audi
Date:
Feb 5 2017
Audi of America is committed to supporting pay equality, inclusivity, and the growth and development of all employees. The company has publically pledged to support ongoing commitment to women’s pay equality in the workplace and to foster a work environment that drives equality for all employees. Audi also instituted a graduate internship program where 50 percent of enrollment must be female establishing greater equality for our future workforce.
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Per os
Practitioner:
Markus Sjöborg
Date:
Jun 11 2020
Per os is a research-based art project about the pharmaceutical companies' role in our society, psychiatry and healthcare. Using surveys I have conducted over the past three years and a large amount of anger at how wrong and corrupt the system is, I would like to interpret this research artistically in order to develop material for an exhibition and interventions.
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3 Billboards Outside Grenfell, London
Practitioner:
Justice 4 Grenfell
Date:
Feb 16 2018
Activism imitated art when Justice 4 Grenfell protesters drove three provocative signs through the streets of London. In a clever nod to Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, the Oscar-nominated film directed by Martin McDonagh, the billboards were bright red, with black letters that read: 71 DEAD AND STILL NO ARRESTS? HOW COME?
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Crazy Rich Asians
Practitioner:
Jon M. Chu
Date:
Aug 15 2018
Crazy Rich Asians is a 2018 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Jon M. Chu, from a screenplay by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim, based on the 2013 novel of the same title by Kevin Kwan. The film stars Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Gemma Chan, Lisa Lu, Awkwafina, Ken Jeong, and Michelle Yeoh.
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Chinese See Themselves in a Chained Woman
Practitioner:
netizens, journalists, lawyers, academics...
Date:
Jan 25 2022
The Xuzhou chained woman incident, also known as the Xuzhou eight-child mother incident, is a case of human trafficking, false imprisonment, sexual assault, severe mistreatment, and subsequent events that came to light in late January 2022 in Xuzhou's Feng County, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.
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Resist developers with naked body in Macau
Practitioner:
Macau artists and activists, Art For All Society(AFA)
Date:
Jul 2 2011
In 2011, nine local artists staged a performance called “Let’s Add 1 Meter to Taipa Pequena (Sio Tam Hill)” in Macau, protesting against the controversial attempted rezoning of the mountain for high-rise construction by the developers. They lied on top of each other with their naked bodies, forming a one-meter-high pile of human nudity on the Taipa Pequena.
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Two young Black Chicago women are using art and activism to change narratives about Black communities
Practitioner:
Another Life
Date:
Jul 31 2017
Both Johnson and Lewis recognize that the personal is political, and vice versa. By making connections between storytelling and activism, the two young women are using creative approaches to achieving justice and equity.
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A Period Coloring Book Now Exists And It’s Bloody Delightful
Practitioner:
Andrea Yip
Date:
Nov 2 2016
A new coloring book is making menstruation easier to talk about, one sex-positive illustration at a time.
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Palestine: Cartography of an Occupation
Practitioner:
MTL
Date:
Sep 16 2013
From creativetimereports.org: Artist-activist collective MTL's clickable collages connect disparate aspects of Palestine's geographical and political landscape, offering provocative insight into "how Palestinians suffer and struggle in ways that are parallel to those elsewhere" according to philosopher Michael Hardt.
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