Projects tagged "Installation"

Free Subway Ride
Practitioner:
Occupy Wall Street
Date:
Mar 28 2012
Wednesday's Free Subway Ride? That Was Occupy Wall Street
what is missing?
Practitioner:
Maya Lin
Date:
Jan 1 2009
“What Is Missing?” is a multi-sited memorial created by Maya Lin to raise awareness through science-based artworks about the present sixth mass extinction of species, connect this loss of species to habitat degradation and loss, and emphasize that by protecting and restoring habitat, we can both reduce carbon emissions and protect species.
A Vegan Meat Locker with a Heartbeat
Practitioner:
Jonathon Horowitz
Date:
May 13 2010
"Brooke Shields is one of 200 famous faces that the artist Jonathan Horowitz identifies as vegetarian in head shots he has hung on the white-tile walls of a former meat locker in the south Village. Horowitz, 44, swore off meat at the age of 12, after his parents took him to a bullfight on a vacation in Mexico.
Raising Awareness of Migration and COVID 19 through Graffiti and Street Art in Accra
Practitioner:
Ghana Graffiti Collective, Accra Metropolitan Assembly
Date:
May 29 2020
In a bid to fight the spread of COVID-19, the EU Delegation to Ghana on Wednesday 27 May joined the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and artists from the Ghana Graffiti Collective, to launch an initiative to use street art and graffiti to create awareness about coronavirus and migration. The artwork created by the Ghana Graffiti collective speak about hope, tolerance, love and solidarity.
Crack is Wack
Practitioner:
Keith Haring
Date:
Jun 27 1986
Without having been commissioned—or even given legal permission at all—Haring set out to create Crack Is Wack on the wall of an abandoned handball court in a park at 2nd Avenue and East 128th Street on June 27, 1986. Upon the completion of the mural, Haring was arrested by the New York City Police Department for vandalism of city property and faced potential jail time in addition to heavy fines.
A Well Within
Practitioner:
Christopher Babers, DigDeep
Date:
May 14 2012
A Well Within" is a collaborative art and education project that inspires people - young and old - to confront the global water crisis in a personal way. This interactive experience tells the story of Alile, a young East African girl affected by drought, who struggles to give her grandmother a precious drink of water.
Tournons le dos ! / Turn our back ! [April 22, 2012 – April 23, 2017]
Practitioner:
Lino Tonelotto, the 22avril2012 collective, the 23avril2017 collective.
Date:
Apr 15 2012
In France, abstention, vote of protest, lassitude or violent reactions rise from all over the crisis of our "representative democracy ». What about thinking the other way round ? What if we reappropriate the iconography of the election?
This Artist Captured the Non-Stop Flow of Plastic Pollution
Practitioner:
Benjamin Von Wong
Date:
Oct 14 2021
Benjamin Von Wong’s latest art-as-activism installation looks like something Photoshopped onto reality. A large brass-looking faucet, suspended in the air, pours a river of plastic out of its spout.
NYC Artist Is Using Her Unapologetically Brown Identity to Empower Others
Practitioner:
Johanna Toruno
Date:
Jul 1 2017
You’ll find Johanna Toruno on the streets of NYC plastering pictures of her flower-filtered poetry, Kendrick Lamar, and Selena on blank walls, street lights and buildings. When I came across The Unapologetically Brown Series on Instagram I was intrigued not only by the name but by the concept of being unapologetic and brown as the premise for a body of street art.
Marta Minujín’s The Parthenon of Books: A Living Elevation of Social and Cultural Relations
Practitioner:
Marta Minujín
Date:
Jan 1 1983
A collective endeavor of Greek antiquity — no less than eighty different artists worked on the frieze alone — the Parthenon was built between 447 BC and 438 BC under the orders of Pericles, following a democratic debate, and overseen by the sculptor Phidias. It measures ten meters high and approximately seventy meters long by thirty meters wide.
Walkthrough
Practitioner:
Walid Raad
Date:
Oct 12 2015
MoMA presents the first comprehensive American survey of the leading contemporary artist Walid Raad (b. 1967, Lebanon), featuring his work in photography, video, sculpture, and performance from the last 25 years.
The Privilege of Escape
Practitioner:
Risa Puno, Creative Time
Date:
Jul 18 2019
For an art project about the effects of white privilege and the disturbing ways in which its effects are built into our society, Risa Puno’s The Privilege of Escape is a surprisingly fun, even enjoyable experience.
Platform
Practitioner:
Michael Kienzer
Date:
Oct 3 2009
"As of October 2009, Retznei boasts a new centre. In the middle of the square the black contours of a concrete surface stand out, reminiscent of the shape of a pond. If you step on the Platform, you notice that the ground gives slightly and that it sways. Invisibly but noticeably, water reveals itself as a key component of this art work by Michael Kienzer. The water carries the Platform and us, while we are walking or standing on it.
The Gate
Practitioner:
Igor Toshevski
Date:
Jan 1 2016
A site specific intervention аs part of the group exhibition Sculptural, organized and partly financed by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje. The text INVEST IN FUTURISM is a quotation of a gaffe uttered by the Macedonian PM on public TV stating his plans to incorporate contemporary art in their right wing populist programme and the infamous project Skopje 2014.
Tatlin's Whisper #6
Practitioner:
Tania Bruguera
Date:
Mar 1 2009
This is the sixth piece of the series Tatlin’s Whisper which examines the relationship between apathy and anaesthetization of the images in the mass media. This series intends to activate images, well-known because of having been repeatedly seen in the press, but are here decontextualized from the original event that gave way to the news and staged as realistically as possible in an art institution.
Open Plan: Andrea Fraser at the Whitney
Practitioner:
Andrea Fraser
Date:
Mar 17 2016
The average crow takes less than two hours to travel from Sing Sing maximum-security prison to the Whitney Museum of American Art, institutions separated by just 32 miles of land along New York’s Hudson river. Yet few humans journey between them – museums and prison are at opposite ends of our society’s self-imaginings, and their populations tend not to intersect.
Life Pods
Practitioner:
Karl Mattson
Date:
Jan 25 2016
In Jan. 2016 Karl Mattson from Rolla, BC displayed some of his unique sculptures for exhibition at Lantern Gallery in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His 'Life Pods' are sculptures constructed using only found objects.Tools, metal fragments, debris, and fuel tanks are some of the components welded together forming both the solo pod, and the family size pod. The larger pieces were acquired near the pipeline embedding site near to his farm.
Brooklyn deli re-brands as artisanal emporium to protest rent hike
Practitioner:
Jesse's Deli
Date:
Jun 12 2015
Brooklyn deli re-brands as artisanal emporium to protest rent hike The owners of an imperiled Boerum Hill deli have staged an “artisanal takeover” of their 25-year-old corner store, re-branding products with yuppified names and jacking up prices to illustrate the kind of shop that could afford the 250-percent rent hike they say the store’s landlord is demanding.
Migrant crisis: Charities make massive peace sign out of life jackets on Lesbos
Practitioner:
Greenpeace, Doctors Without Borders, Sea-Watch, the Dutch Refugee Boat Foundation, local community groups
Date:
Jan 1 2016
Charities working on the Greek island of Lesbos have made a massive peace sign out of discarded life jackets to honour refugees who've died trying to cross the Mediterranean. More than 100 volunteers used 3,000 vests to form the symbol on a hill outside the village of Molyvos. More than one million refugees and migrants have reached Europe by sea since the start of 2015.
Sex at the Specs
Practitioner:
School for Creative Activism
Date:
Apr 2 2015
The “Perceiving Freedom” glasses sculpture on Cape Town’s Sea Point promenade looking towards Robben Island, commemorates late President Nelson Mandela and the values of freedom and equality.
Monuments to Illegal Garbage
Practitioner:
CAC
Date:
Mar 15 2019
This urban action was consisted from mapping of over 50 locations of illegal garbage disposing sights and signing of 16 places across Macedonia where people dispose large amounts of heavy garbage and constructive waste.
Art Activists Use Sex Dolls To Protest Spain's Controversial Anti-Abortion Law
Practitioner:
Luzinterruptus
Date:
Mar 24 2014
In response to Spain's increasingly restrictive legislation limiting access to abortion in the country, a group of art activists known for their bold, disruptive flair are taking action.
Social Reintegration of Prisoners in Spain
Practitioner:
Jhafis Quintero
Date:
Oct 5 2006
Máximas de Seguridad, a survival manual written and illustrated by Jhafis Quintero creates a new voice for the voiceless, vulnerable and underprivileged groups in prisons and creates empathy for those that are labeled as dangerous by society. The manual aims to provide empathy and humanity in light of the public scrutiny that ex-prisoners endure in the transition to social reintegration.
Rainbow Crossing
Practitioner:
Local LGBT activists
Date:
Aug 12 2013
Swedish lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights advocates offered their colorful stance on Russia's controversial anti-gay legislation over the weekend.
Pro-Choice Trolling
Practitioner:
Jasmine Shea, Nathaniel Peck
Date:
Jul 9 2014
Fun Craft Idea: Pro-Choice Trolling in Hobby Lobby Aisles Jezebel By Callie Beusman

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