Projects tagged "Print & Design"

A Man Was Lynched By Police Yesterday
Practitioner:
Dread Scott
Date:
Jan 1 2015
In 2015, Walter Scott fled for his life, stalked by a policeman who then cold bloodedly shot him in the back. We all saw the video and in response to this murder I made the artwork, “A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday.” This simple banner, printed with the eponymous words, is an update of an iconic flag that the NAACP flew from their national headquarters window in New York in the nineteen-twenties and thirties the day after someone was lynched.
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Powerful Anti-Drug Ads Are Consumed By Live Mealworms Over Time
Practitioner:
Talent Ad Agency
Date:
May 24 2013
To show the harmful effects of cocaine on a drug addict, Brazilian advertising agency Talent created ‘living’ poster ads that are consumed by live mealworms over time. Printed on dough, the ads initially show the faces of drug addicts. However, as time passes, the mealworms slowly eat away at the posters, causing holes to form on the printed faces—highlighting the harmful effects of the drug.
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Brandalism
Practitioner:
Brandalism
Date:
Nov 27 2015
Brandalism, an organization out of the UK that aims to reclaim public spaces from advertisers, used Black Friday to protest "partner" brands to the COP21 Climate Conference. Anonymous artists contributed subvertisements that criticized these brand for their hypocrisy in saying they are advocates for the environment when more often than not they are the worst contributors to the problem.
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Something Terrible
Practitioner:
Dean Trippe
Date:
Sep 24 2013
Something Terrible is the story of Trippe’s childhood sexual abuse and painful struggle with its psychological aftermath. Though the comic itself is sparsely scripted and free of gory details, Trippe provides an afterword that relates the hard facts: he was raped as a child by a teenager, and for three days. The older boy, who took advantage of the trust of someone much too young, threatened Trippe’s family and used a gun as persuasion.
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Of Death and Disco Balls: Nightlife Art
Practitioner:
Emily Colucci, Osman Can Yerebakan
Date:
Oct 1 2015
An oversized facsimile of Rush poppers, tipped over, pouring out its viscous contents: this example of underground gay iconography blown up to almost belligerent proportions perfectly represents the aims of Party Out of Bounds: Nightlife as Activism Since 1980, a new exhibition at La MaMa’s La Galleria. The group show, curated by Emily Colucci and Osman Can Yerebakan, gathers together works by a small yet distinct menagerie of queer artists.
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Politics, activism and cool cats by artist Meredith Stern at AS220 Project Space
Practitioner:
Meredith Stern
Date:
Feb 1 2020
“I really wanted to highlight the strength of the human condition. When we work together we’re stronger,” Meredith Stern says of her exhibition “Cooperation Cats: 10 years, 20 prints” at AS220’s Project Space, 93 Mathewson St., Providence, from Feb. 1 to 29.
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Women of Allah
Practitioner:
Shrine Neshat
Date:
Apr 7 1993
Shirin Neshat’s Women of Allah is a photographic series exploring the complex identities of Muslim women in post-revolutionary Iran. Combining black-and-white portraits, Persian calligraphy, and symbolic elements such as guns and veils, Neshat interrogates themes of martyrdom, violence, femininity, and resistance.
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Even in Solitary Confinement Kevin "Rashid" Johnson is Educating, Organizing, and Mobilizing
Practitioner:
Kevin
Date:
Jun 1 1993
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson is a revolutionary, writer, social activist and founding member and Minister of Defense of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party, and member of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee. At 18 years old, in 1990, he was convicted of murder, which he has consistently challenged on the grounds of misidentification.
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"Say No to Pig Hand": Anti Public Transport Sexual Harassment
Practitioner:
Leilei Zhang, Xie Shuang, Miss Shi, Miss Hu
Date:
May 17 2017
Leilei Zhang was harassed on a public bus when a man gripped her hand, glared at her and refused to let go. With the determination to raise public awareness, Leilei began a crowd-funding campaign to raise money for what could have been China's first public anti-sexual harassment advertisement. She approached the authorities of her home city, Guangzhou, but it did not want to take on the advertising for fear it would panic the public.
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Namo Nazi
Practitioner:
Namo Nazi
Date:
Oct 12 2013
Namo Nazi Namo Nazi is a group which is dedicated to the cause of spreading awareness about fascism. They create anti-fascist T-Shirts and say this about themselves:
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Land O Rape Culture Stickers Replace Land O Lakes Butter Packaging
Practitioner:
Recycled Propaganda
Date:
Feb 4 2018
Stickers imitating the Land O Lakes Butter packaging are being placed in grocery stores over the original packaging. The packaging has been altered to say "Land O Rape - Culture" by street artist Recycled Propaganda.
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Paint the Protest at Off Paradise
Practitioner:
Nancy Spector, curator
Date:
Jan 30 2023
What happens to explicitly political art when it’s placed inside of the White Cube? Paint the Protest, a group show curated by Nancy Spector at Off Paradise self-consciously poses this question, and further aims to reveal the place and purpose of activist art in general.
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Gota D'Agua
Practitioner:
Ronald Duarte and Emerging Collective
Date:
Mar 21 2015
A site-specific art intervention intended as a call to action in response to Brazil's water crisis. Strategically planned to coincide with UN World Water Day, Gota D'Agua gathered onlookers around an abandoned Olympic size swimming pool at the foot of Edificio Raposo Lopes, a towering luxury condominium building situated on a steep incline overlooking Rio de Janeiro.
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Slammed in the Butt by My Hugo Award Nomination
Practitioner:
Chuck Tingle
Date:
May 5 2016
Chuck Tingle is the Internet's most beloved author of bizarre niche erotica, perhaps best known for his masterwork Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt. The Hugo Awards are a formerly prestigious sci-fi honor, hijacked in recent years by racist neoreactionaries and Gamergaters aiming to Make Science Fiction Not Diverse Again.
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Art, Activism and the Age of AIDS
Practitioner:
David Wojnarowicz
Date:
May 15 1981
David Wojnarowicz as a Catalyst for Collective Action
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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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Vienna Rye's Zine and Instagram: A Space for Education
Practitioner:
Vienna Rye
Date:
Feb 1 2018
Instagram and Zines have become a tool for activists worldwide, and Vienna Rye (@vrye) has amassed over 126,000 followers by promoting education, mutual aid, and advocacy. They are a self-taught visual artist and revolutionary community organizer, which translates into their artwork. Vienna visualized a better world to build it. To do this, they use her art to confront settler colonialism, racism, and patriarchy.
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Land Minds: spreading internet freedom and privacy
Practitioner:
Minds.com
Date:
Jan 27 2016
In the past few years we have seen a growing awareness and concern with Internet freedom and privacy, fuelled by Edward Snowden’s revelations of the vast U.S.
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#MuslimVDay
Practitioner:
Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed
Date:
Feb 14 2018
“In these apocalyptic Islamophobic times, laughing in the face of the resistance can sometimes be the best medicine.” That may sound like the trailer to a good-bad movie, but that’s how Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed describes her awesome Muslim Valentine’s Day cards.
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Street Advertising Takeover - Artist turns billboards into democratic spaces
Practitioner:
Jordan Seiler
Date:
Apr 3 2016
"Two weekends ago, a loose network of these artists and activists, under the name Subvertisers International, launched their first global effort to reclaim our shared public environment from its monopolization by commercial media. The demand was not for better or more truthful advertising, but to imagine what a city would look like when the stories we told ourselves in public space reflected a democratic voice.
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You’d Better Watch Your Step In Madrid
Practitioner:
Luzinterruptus
Date:
Feb 20 2015
Luzinterruptus turns their art activism towards the overabundance of dog doo littering the city’s streets. The studio inflated 500 poop-scoopin' plastic bags and placed a lightbulb inside each one. Installation lasted nine hours.
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Former Dazed editor Rod Stanley launched ‘Good Trouble’: an online zine celebrating the culture of resistance
Practitioner:
Rod Stanley, Good Trouble
Date:
Jan 1 2017
If, like me, you spent the days after Trump’s election in a depressed stupor wondering what – if anything – would change, look no further than Good Trouble. Set up by former Dazed editor Rod Stanley, it’s a new collective arts platform dedicated to celebrating the culture of resistance and grassroots activists promoting positive change.
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New Prints / Newsprints * Black Male / Blackmail
Practitioner:
Adam Void, Chelsea Ragan
Date:
Jun 7 2013
The prints exhibited June 2013 at Firestorm in Asheville NC, will comprise two separate bodies of work; Chelsea Ragan’s combination screen print / woodblock print / painting / drawings graphically detail police shootings of young black males from across the country, and Adam Void’s hand-painted screen prints state the facts of important national news stories that have been swept under the rug of mainstream corporate media.
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Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land
Practitioner:
Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land
Date:
Sep 13 2011
Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land
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"Jesus Was The First To Decriminalize Sex Work"
Practitioner:
Asijiki Coalition for the Decriminalisation of Sex Work
Date:
Mar 1 2017
A big yellow banner hangs off the Central Methodist Church in Cape Town, South Africa proclaiming that *"Jesus was the first to decriminalise sex work - John 8:7"*
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