Projects tagged "Latin America & Caribbean"

Migratón México
Practitioner:
Hemispheric Institute
Date:
Dec 18 2017
Migratón México es un proyecto satírico que se creó colaborativamente en 2017 a partir de un Laboratorio de Artivismo y Humor que organizó el Hemi en San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México, con un un grupo de más de 30 artistas y activistas de México, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua y Estados Unidos.
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Clean Up Day
Practitioner:
Oskar Metsavaht
Date:
Jul 19 2012
Through his environmental, social justice organization, Instituto-E, Dr. Oskar Metsavaht, the creative director behind ethical fashion brand, Osklen, joined forces with Rainer Nolvak, founder of international civic sanitation movement, Let's Do it and Umer Pter, head of External Relations and Estonian delegate at the Rio+20 U.N.
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Pretend to govern while playing and pretend to play while governing
Practitioner:
Antanas Mockus
Date:
Apr 14 1995
In 1995, Bogota was a chaotic city. Among others, it presented high ranges of homicides, delinquency, corruption, no sense of belonging, traffic chaos and financial problems.
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Taxi drivers make a caravan protesting against apps "They are stealing our jobs"
Practitioner:
Mexican taxi drivers
Date:
Oct 12 2020
Hundreds of taxi drivers gathered together on the streets of Mexico City protesting against Virtual apps like Uber and Cabify. They formed a caravan and stopped the traffic for hours, as a way of denouncing unfair price competition.
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Expectations
Practitioner:
Jorge Rodriguez Gerarda
Date:
May 13 2015
Jorge Rodríguez-Gerarda is a cuban Artist that was born in 1966. One of his projects was naed Expectations in which he did with sand and grave a massive image of Barack Obama, as a way to reflect all what this presidential candidate representated in terms of change.
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Palas Por Pistolas, or “Shovels for Guns"
Practitioner:
Pedro Reyes
Date:
Jan 1 2007
An artist in Culiacan, Mexico—which has the highest rate of gun deaths in the country—has found a way to transform the agents of death into seeds of life. In 2008, artist Pedro Reyes started running television ads urging locals to exchange their guns for food coupons to be redeemed at local stores. The campaign—Palas Por Pistolas, or “Shovels for Guns"—collected 1,527 guns, which Reyes publicly smashed with a steamroller.
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In Mexico City, Comedians Punish Society’s Scofflaws With Humiliation
Practitioner:
Supercívicos
Date:
Mar 3 2016
Acting on a tip from a disgruntled neighbor, two comedians dressed as drag queens confronted parking officers in broad daylight. The pair wanted to know why the officers, who so ruthlessly enforced parking limits, had never so much as given a warning to the local fruit salesman, whose battered Ford Explorer sat illegally parked all day, every day, in the upper-class neighborhood of Polanco.
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Acción Poética
Practitioner:
Acción Poética
Date:
Feb 25 1996
The Acción Poética movement is a literary phenomenon that began in Monterrey, Mexico in 1996. It was founded by Mexican poet Armando Alanis Pulido and involves painting and intervening abandoned walls in cities with fragments of poetry. The content is usually love poems or optimistic phrases. Also, some phrases refer to the current situation in the cities (though one of their rules is to not talk about politics or religious beliefs).
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How Snowden Canceled the 4th of July Diplomatic Reception in Bolivia
Practitioner:
Julian Assange
Date:
Jul 2 2013
On July 2nd, 2013, after attending the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) conference, Bolivian President Evo Morales departed Russia from Vnukovo Airport in Moscow aboard his presidential plane. However, a "leak" suggested that Edward Snowden was aboard, which led Spain, France, and Portugal to close their airspace to the aircraft, to then be grounded in Austria.
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International Errorist Movement
Practitioner:
Colectivo Etcétera, International Errorist Movement
Date:
Nov 14 2005
errare humanum est 
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Blurring Boundaries Between Art and Activism in Cuba
Practitioner:
Tania Bruguera
Date:
Jan 23 2015
MEXICO CITY — Of the half-dozen pieces that form Tania Bruguera’s series “Tatlin’s Whisper,” the one that the Cuban government silenced may have resounded most.
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Secret Anti-Abuse Message That Only Kids Can See
Practitioner:
Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk Foundation, or ANAR
Date:
May 4 2013
Spanish organization the ANAR Foundation (Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk) releases a campaign that takes advantage of the process of lenticular printing to send an offer of help to abused children without alerting their abusers, even if they’re walking together. Lenticular printing is a process that allows for different photos to be seen depending on the angle the image is viewed from.
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Movimento Vem Pra Rua (Come to the Streets)
Practitioner:
Rogério Chequer / People in Brazil
Date:
Dec 1 2014
Vem Pra Rua is a nonpartisan, democratic, and pluralist movement that emerged in response to society’s fight for a better Brazil. Brazilians of all regions, social classes, and ages began mobilizing at the end of 2014—building on the 2013 marches that protested corruption, inequality, and other socio-economic and political problems.
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The Eye that Cries
Practitioner:
Lika Mutal
Date:
Jan 1 2005
The Eye that Cries (El Ojo que Llora, in Spanish) is a memorial that was born as a private initiative designed to honor the thousands of victims as a result of terrorism in Peru, to strengthen the collective memory of all Peruvians and to promote peace and reconciliation in the country.
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Fotokonbit (Putting Cameras in Haitian Hands) - ONGOING working organization
Practitioner:
fotokonbit
Date:
Jun 10 2011
The Haitian Creole word "konbit" denotes the idea of similar talents joining together to work towards a common goal. The founders — a group of photographers, educators, and artists — came up with the idea for Fotokonbit a few years ago to "empower Haitians to tell their own stories and document their community", but it was the 2010 earthquake that gave the group new urgency.
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GuggenSITO
Practitioner:
Antimuseo
Date:
Apr 8 2011
El Antimuseo es un proyecto curatorial que questiona los mecanismos de legitimación del arte. El grupo considera su trabajo " el proceso social donde se produce el valor simbólico y económico de la obra de arte, así como en el análisis de la estructura y límites de la institución." En las palabras de ANTIMUSEO:
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Thousands of Shoes Honor Hurricane Maria’s Victims in San Juan
Practitioner:
Rafael Acevedo, Puerto Rican citizens
Date:
Jun 1 2018
Walking the rows of shoes—favorite slippers, old Army boots, gold stilettos—it’s the baby shoes that stop you cold. Shoes began to fill a plaza opposite Puerto Rico’s Capitol building, and by Sunday morning, there were more than 3,000 pairs, a growing memorial to the roughly 4,645 people estimated to have died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
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Los Intocables
Practitioner:
Erik Ravelo
Date:
Sep 1 2013
A CUBAN artist's controversial photographs of children being hung from crosses has landed him in hot water. Erik Ravelo took a series of photos of children hung like Jesus from a cross, but in the place of the cross were soldiers, surgeons, priests and Ronald McDonald.
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Artists in Seven South American Cities Reflect on Past Dictatorships
Practitioner:
various groups
Date:
Mar 23 2018
*image* Gabriela Golder, “Letters” (photo by Federico Lo Bianco, courtesy Parque de la Memoria)
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Big street barbecue for the distinct people
Practitioner:
“Gente Diferenciada”
Date:
May 14 2011
In São Paulo, just like in many other metropolitan regions, public transport is not as effective as it could be. Buses and trains usually run overcrowded, late and on limited hours, so that owning a car increases a lot one’s comfort. But not everybody can afford to have one, so a clear and recurrent class distinction occurs: public transport is mostly used by poor people.
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Primavera Violeta en Mexico
Practitioner:
#vivasnosqueremos
Date:
Apr 24 2016
El acoso sexual a las mujeres en México, no es novedad. Desde un chiflido o grito de “mamacita” en la calle hasta una alarmante cifra de seis feminicidios diarios, la violencia machista es un asunto cotidiano. Lo que sí es novedad es que este año las mujeres no se estén quedando calladas, y que salgan a las calles, ya no con miedo, sino con determinación de defender su derecho a ser respetadas.
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Projeto Axé
Practitioner:
Cesare de Florio La Rocca (founder)
Date:
Jan 1 1990
“Children and youngsters who are invisible to society are made visible through Art”
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Blu Gets Political in Mexico
Practitioner:
Blu /Fifty24MX
Date:
Mar 3 2015
Italian street artist Blu was recently in Mexico to participate at the ManifestoMX Street Art Festival where he completed this intense and politically charged mural in opposition to the Mexican authorities.
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Melting Man: Red Cross-Sponsored Activist "Melts" On Sidewalk
Practitioner:
Red Cross
Date:
Dec 10 2008
A young man melting into a puddle of himself is something you don’t see everyday, much less in a busy public square. Yet this humourous but surprisingly effective spectacle is the latest effort by the Red Cross of Argentina to raise awareness about climate change.
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Silent Strikes in Venezuelan Universities
Practitioner:
Autonomous universities in Venezuela
Date:
Mar 5 2014
In Venezuela, the far right opposition has protested against the leftist regime of Maduro. Violence has swept through the capital, Caracas, and other cities throughout the country. Meanwhile, the Western world has had its eye on Ukraine, and received relatively little news coverage of what is actually going on in Venezuela. An epidemic of misinformation has spread as a result.
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