Projects tagged "Installation"

Howardena Pindell; "Rope/Fire/Water"
Practitioner:
The Shed, Howardena Pindell
Date:
Oct 16 2020
Howardena Pindell presented her solo exhibition, “Rope/Fire/Water”, her first video in 25 years and a project utilized by the artist since the 1970s that The Shed commissioned and displayed in late 2020 and into early 2021. “Rope/Fire/Water” mines the history of violence against African-Americans and features Pindell’s personal anecdotes and anthropological and historical data related to lynchings and racist attacks in the United States.
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Dismaland
Practitioner:
Banksy
Date:
Aug 22 2015
In August 2015, Weston-Super-Mare - a sleepy seaside town in Somerset, England - suddenly became the top destination for the metropolitan elite, welcoming celebrity guests like Brad Pitt, Jack Black and Mark Ronson. Overnight this quaint town, just 18 miles from Bristol, was transformed by anonymous street artist Banksy when he opened his very own dystopian Disneyland style theme park called ‘Dismaland’.
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ANZ is Out of Order Campaign - Grassroots action against ANZ Bank in Australia
Practitioner:
Katso, Climate Change Activists
Date:
Feb 6 2013
On the 6th February 2013, 40 activists across 6 states plastered 110 ANZ ATMs with 'Out of Order' notices, sharing them on social media the following day. The objective was to use a hoax style action to exploit mainstream media sensitivity around ANZ Bank's unethical funding of fossil fuel projects that had been generated by Jonathan Moylan's Whitehaven Hoax a week earlier.
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COUNTERSPACE
Practitioner:
Cristina Morales
Date:
Aug 1 1919
Counterspace is an independent curatorial platform functioning as the first decolonial thinktank mapping cultural activism worldwide. It shapes collectively decolonial toolkits with common tools and resources, and a global directory browsable by continent, praxis, and social construct, as a Beuys-inspired ‘social sculpture’ revisited, and an alternative map of the universe.
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Unforgotten Campaign
Practitioner:
Unforgotten Campaign
Date:
Apr 27 2015
Blair Holt was shot and killed while he shielded another classmate from the bullets a gunman sprayed on a CTA bus in Chicago in 2007. His father is a police officer and his mother is a fire department chief, and that’s what they had taught him to do.
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“To See If I Could Go Home: A True History Paste-Up”
Practitioner:
Nathaniel Ruleaux
Date:
Mar 2 2023
Artist Nathaniel Ruleaux leads a community project called “To See If I Could Go Home: A True History Paste-Up” at the Union for Contemporary Art in Omaha on Thursday. His son, Luca, 3, walks away after handing Ruleaux a print to use to demonstrate the project. A member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, Ruleaux often uses his art to bring attention and activism to Native stories.
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Molson’s newest red beer fridge touts Canada’s multicultural side
Practitioner:
Molson Canadian and Google
Date:
Jun 25 2015
The Globe and Mail Inc. Written by SUSAN KRASHINSKY MARKETING REPORTER TORONTO PUBLISHED JUNE 25, 2015 UPDATED MARCH 25, 2017 This is one persnickety refrigerator. Molson Coors Brewing Co.'s newest instalment of a now two-year campaign is attempting a new take on national pride in time for Canada Day.
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The Fearless Girl Statue
Practitioner:
State Street Global Advisors, Kristen Visbal
Date:
Mar 8 2017
On the eve of International Women’s Day and the one-year anniversary of its SPDR®SSGA Gender Diversity Index ETF (ticker: SHE), State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), the asset management business of State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is calling on the more than 3,500 companies that SSGA invests on behalf of clients, representing more than $30 trillion in market capitalization1 to take intentional steps to increase the number of women on their corporate
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art in odd places festival NORMAL
Practitioner:
art in odd places
Date:
May 14 2021
Immersing in the art is what they are known for. As they slowly reopen, so is their annual public art and performance festival. Their mission statement says:“AiOP reminds us that public spaces function as the epicenter for diverse social interactions and the unfettered exchange of ideas.” The title of NORMAL is to push the boundary of what is.
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Centros Sociales Okupados Autogestionados (CSOAs) in Spain: From abandoned houses to activist enclaves
Practitioner:
Movimiento Okupa
Date:
Jan 1 1980
A Centro Social Okupado Autogestionado (Self-Managed Occupied Social Center) or CSOA is an occupied building dedicated to the development of social and cultural activities. They are part of the “movimiento okupa” (“squatter movement”), a label created and circulated by the mainstream press.
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HOME
Practitioner:
Julia Vogl
Date:
Jul 27 2012
In partnership with Southwark Council, Peckham Settlement, Peckham Space and Resonance FM. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and Kickstarter Campaign supporters.
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Support for birds in Skopje
Practitioner:
Anonymous urban artists
Date:
Apr 12 2017
Anonymous urban artists set up art installations, large nest eggs, at several locations in Skopje, wanting to alarm the growing number of trees in the city. In the nest read a message "You cut all the trees, where do we make nests? Birds".
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Occupiers Set Up Living Room in Bank of America Lobby
Practitioner:
Occupy Wall Street
Date:
Mar 12 2012
A crew of occupiers makes a home of a Bank of Americalobby with a couch, a coffee table, a rug and a pottedplant. "Bank of America took our homes so we though we'dmove in here!"  
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Street gas chamber
Practitioner:
Brother Nuts
Date:
Sep 27 2016
A minibus is parked on the side of the road with a series of pipelines wrapped around it. One end of the pipeline is connected to the exhaust port of the minibus, and the other end is put into the car, so that the exhaust gas can be directly introduced into the car, forming a " Street gas chamber".
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Fall in Love With Nature
Practitioner:
Nature's Cupids
Date:
Apr 28 2018
We set up a gazebo and table in a public park. The gazebo had two notice boards in the shape of trees where reflections were encouraged. We had a sign with the name of the action "Fall in Love With Nature" painted upon it. On the table were resource lists for the public to take away with links to books and websites on the topic of forest bathing and connecting with nature.
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APEX: Ed Bereal
Practitioner:
Portland Art Museum, Ed Bereal
Date:
Apr 16 2021
Legendary activist and artist Ed Bereal will be able to have his work displayed again in the newly reopened Portland Art Museum. He is a complex figure, gaining fame in LA in the 1960s for his abstract works and radical performances. His work also includes critiquing politicians in a satirical way.
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Judy Chicago Launches ‘Create Art for Earth’ Campaign With Help From Jane Fonda
Practitioner:
Judy Chicago
Date:
Apr 20 2020
Judy Chicago, the pioneering feminist artist who made the iconic 1970s work The Dinner Party, has enjoyed a long and illustrious career rife with critical approval. Now, in anticipation of Earth Day 2020, Chicago is launching a new project called Create Art For Earth, wherein people from all over the world can submit their own creations to the campaign via a corresponding hashtag. “This is no time for abstractions,” the call for art reads.
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This Subway Is Too Small
Practitioner:
Ahora Buenos Aires (Now Buenos Aires)
Date:
Jun 1 2017
In 2017, the political party Ahora Buenos Aires (Now Buenos Aires) was running in the legislative election for the first time. It is not easy being a small left-wing party in the City of Buenos Aires, therefore imagination is an essential part of a campaign if you want to get the attention of the media and voters.
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Three billboards in Florida target Rubio on guns
Practitioner:
n/a
Date:
Feb 18 2018
An online activist group is mimicking the critically acclaimed film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri to troll Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., with three rolling billboards in Florida calling for gun control.
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Project Ukko
Practitioner:
Moritz Stefaner, FutureEverything Festival, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Euporias
Date:
Mar 30 2016
Alex King describes Project Ukko in detail for Huck Magazine (March 17, 2016): "Moritz Stefaner’s Project Ukko turns climate and wind data into an immersive art installation that allows viewers to explore the future of the planet."
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Gardens Speak
Practitioner:
Tania El Khoury
Date:
Jan 1 2015
"Gardens Speak is an interactive sound installation containing the oral histories of ten ordinary people who were buried in Syrian gardens. Each narrative has been carefully constructed with the friends and family members of the deceased to retell their stories as they themselves may have recounted it. They are compiled with found audio that evidences their final moments.
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The Reality of Small Differences
Practitioner:
Gill Crawshaw; disabled artists in Yorkshire
Date:
Aug 23 2014
An exhibition of textile-based work by disabled artists, organised in protest at the inaccessibility of an exhibition by a popular artist, when it came to Leeds.
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Left Litter in the Park? Thailand Officials Will Mail It to Your Home
Practitioner:
Varawut Silpa-archa, Environment Minister of Thailand
Date:
Sep 15 2020
Officials in Thailand had an unorthodox approach to deal with visitors who left a tent filled with litter in a national park: mail the trash to the offenders.
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Yoga Joes
Practitioner:
Dan Abramson
Date:
Sep 9 2015
If something is a total opposite to war, that is the practice of yoga. Concentrating or relaxing your muscles and mind in order to release tension, is something a soldier would never have the luxury to do under the dangerous circumstances of war. Inventor Dan Abramson thought of a amazingly creative and beautiful way to connect the two, by creating “Yoga Joes”, a series of simple green plastic army men that have some killer… yoga moves.
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Muro
Practitioner:
Bosco Sodi
Date:
Sep 7 2017
A wall will go up in Washington Square Park on Sept. 7, but come down by the end of the day. Called “Muro,” this wall will be the artist Bosco Sodi’s first public installation in New York, in partnership with Paul Kasmin Gallery. It will be more than 6 feet high and about 26 feet long, made with 1,600 clay timbers fired in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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