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2016
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Projects tagged "North America"

Subway Therapy
Practitioner:
a rogue therapist
Date:
Nov 10 2016
During her concession speech yesterday, Hillary Clinton uttered a simple, terrifying sentence: "Donald Trump is going to be our president." For many Americans—New Yorkers especially—the sickening reality of a Trump presidency is impossible to fathom. A few hours later, a rogue therapist set up shop in the 14th Street tunnel between Sixth and Seventh Avenues.
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Party with Playboy
Practitioner:
Force
Date:
Sep 1 2013
"Every year Playboy releases the ultimate guide to campus life: our infamous party school list. Over the years, it has been brought to our attention that some of our long-standing party picks have a not-so-toast-worthy, rape-ridden side to their campus life."
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Feminist Theatre!
Practitioner:
Wow Cafe Theatre
Date:
Oct 1 1980
WOW started as an international women's theatre festival in October of 1980 in NYC. Within 18 months Wow found a permanent location and produced works by women and trans people all year around. In 1984 it moved into its current home at 59-61 East 4th Street.
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UC BERKELEY STUDENT DEMONSTRATION PROBLEMATIZES SYRIAN WAR: Questioning the Obama Binary
Practitioner:
a group of concerned students at UC Berkeley
Date:
Sep 9 2013
Berkeley, CA 9/9/13
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Art Show Captures the Wrenching Effects of Closing a School
Practitioner:
reForm
Date:
Aug 28 2015
A school may be made of bricks and mortar, but when one closes, the loss can feel like a death in the family. So, when Philadelphia started to close 31 public schools three years ago, there was an outpouring of protests, grief and tears — emotions captured in “reForm,” a show that opened on Friday and focuses on one shuttered school and its neighborhood.
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March For Our Lives Keeps Going, Despite the Pandemic
Practitioner:
March for Our Lives
Date:
Mar 25 2020
The original March For Our Lives event in 2018 formed the largest youth-led protests in American history, with turnout estimated at more than 2 million in 387 districts across the nation, protesting the lack of gun control legislation. Since then, the group that started locally in Parkland, Florida, has expanded, organizing more marches, sit-ins, and bus tours. They’ve become as a disrupting force in the fight against gun violence.
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Waste Turned Into Homeless Shelters
Practitioner:
Gregory Kloehn’s Read More: http://www.trueactivist.com/people-turn-garbage-into-cool-stuff-all-the-time-but-this/
Date:
Jan 1 2014
The following description is taken from Amanda Froelich's article on www.trueactivist.com (link below): "Dumpster diving is a topic that is rising in popularity. Just take a peek at Rob Greenfield! This activist won’t hesitate before jumping in a dumpster, but he’ll also take time to spout reasoning behind why we should work hard to ‘waste less’.
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Art Cannot Provide a Way Out
Practitioner:
Claire Bishop
Date:
Aug 1 2012
In 2006, art historian Claire Bishop lit a fire under the collective seat of the art world with her Artforum piece “The Social Turn: Collaboration and its Discontents.” It set off — as much as any essay in the hermetic and staid world of contemporary art theory can — an uproar. The article inspired Grant Kester, an art historian also specializing in relational art practices, to respond:
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Amazon May Day Strike
Practitioner:
Amazon Employees
Date:
May 1 2020
Essential workers at major companies like Amazon, Instacart, and Target across the United States on Friday protested for better safety protections, working conditions, and pay during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Dove Real Beauty Campaign
Practitioner:
Dove
Date:
Apr 6 2014
The Photoshop action — a downloadable file that applies an action with a single click — is aimed at art directors who may be creating such ads. The action, which was disseminated on Reddit and other places where Dove thought such art directors might visit, promised to add a skin glow effect, but actually reverted the image to its original state.
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Russell Brand Mocks MSNBC News Anchors and the Mainstream Media on Live Television and in Print
Practitioner:
Russell Brand
Date:
Jun 17 2013
On June 17, 2013, Russell Brand (a stand-up comedian and actor) visited MSNBC’s 'Morning Joe' news show to promote his international stand-up tour, 'The Messiah Complex', but he also managed to mock the 'Morning Joe' news anchors, as well as the mainstream media. Clips of this particular interview immediately went viral on YouTube, and one of the videos is linked to this page (see the first link below).
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Idle No More
Practitioner:
Idle No More
Date:
Nov 1 2012
MISSION To Support and encourage grassroots to create their own forums to learn more about Indigenous rights and our responsibilities to our Nationhood via teach-ins, rallies and social media. Build relationships and create understanding with allies across Canada.
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Sit-in at Veterans Memorial
Practitioner:
Veterans for Peace
Date:
Oct 7 2014
The Veterans Memorial in New York City, located at 55 Water Street, closes every day at 10pm. However, veterans often find themselves wanting to come to the memorial at all hours of the day and night. The organization Veterans for Peace organizes a sit-in every year on October 7th to protest their limited access to the memorial. That's not the only aim of the action, though.
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Eco-Music Big Band
Practitioner:
Eco-Music Big Band, Fred Ho, Marie Incontrera
Date:
Jan 3 2015
"Writing Political Music in Today's World" I began studying composition with Fred Ho without knowing quite what I was getting myself into. I was 25 with a fresh graduate degree in composition under my belt, lost in that special way only millennial twenty-somethings get to be. I knew I wanted to write political works and, having met Fred twice before, I knew that he was the one who could help me do it.
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@realDonaldTrump
Practitioner:
Dmitry Borshch, Regina Khidekel
Date:
Jan 20 2018
"@realDonaldTrump" 105 NY-110, Melville, NY 11747 January 20, 11 am – February 24, 7 pm Tuesday – Saturday, 11 am – 7 pm Please write to racc.ny@mail.ru or call (347) 662 1456 The artist is available for interviews.
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The Peace Piece
Practitioner:
Adelle Lutz
Date:
Apr 1 2003
The Peace Piece was conceived by artist Adelle Lutz as a reaction to the declaration of the American war with Iraq in the Spring of 2003. Lutz combined her talents as a costume designer and artist to create a project that would remind the Americna public that the majority of war victims suffering in Iraq were women and children.
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Tequiografías
Practitioner:
Daniel Godínez Nivón
Date:
Jan 1 2010
The artist in close collaboration with AMI (Assembly of Indigenous Migrants of Mexico City) has created a series of monographs made by students, through ‘tequio’: a communal system of organisation expressed in collaborative practices, mandatory and unpaid work. The goal of the project is to offer information about the lifestyle and culture of these indigenous communities, which live in Mexico City.
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Ghost Forrest Installation
Practitioner:
Maya Lin
Date:
Jun 8 2020
From an Art Net News Article: ""The installation is called Ghost Forest, a term used to describe vast acreages of woodland that have died out–often due to rising sea tides, which overwhelm forests near estuaries with saltwater, choking out their ability to get nutrients from the earth. In 2012, Sandy caused seawater levels to surge, leaving swaths of ghost forests in its wake.
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Range Studio
Practitioner:
David Szlasa
Date:
Jan 1 2014
The project consists of a small mobile workspace and a micro artist residency program composed by two tiny art studios founded in Oakland. Studio 1 is a solar powered art studio which was built on the back of a flatbed trailer and Studio 2 was built in collaboration with students at Stanford University, both spaces are composed of second-hand materials.
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Band Invoices US Government for Using their Music at Guantanamo
Practitioner:
Skinny Puppy
Date:
Feb 1 2014
Veteran Industrial band Skinny Puppy have objected to their disturbingly dark music being played to discombobulate inmates at Guantanamo, and plan to “charge” the government for doing so. They are not the first band to express such objections.
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The Activist Introducing Intersectionality to Hospitality
Practitioner:
Ashtin Berry
Date:
Mar 8 2019
Welcome to Doing It Right, a column where Eater meets chefs, restaurateurs, and entrepreneurs who recognize challenges in their communities — and are actually doing something about it. In this installment, we head to New Orleans to focus on the work of activist Ashtin Berry.
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WHO SUCKS THE MOST?
Practitioner:
gumelection.com
Date:
Jan 1 2008
Gum Election Gum Election is a guerilla art project which started in New York City in October 2008. It encouraged people to vote during the presidential election in 2008 and also not to spit out their chewing gum carelessly on New York Cities already dirty streets. Now the Gum Election is back and New Yorkers are voting again “who’s sucking the most”.
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Conflict Kitchen
Practitioner:
Jon Rubin and Dawn Weleski
Date:
Sep 1 2010
Conflict Kitchen is a restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict. Each Conflict Kitchen iteration is augmented by events, performances, publications, and discussions that seek to expand the engagement the public has with the culture, politics, and issues at stake within the focus region. The restaurant rotates identities in relation to current geopolitical events.
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Zaria Forman Artistic Practice
Practitioner:
Zaria Forman
Date:
Jan 1 2019
TED TALK: I consider it my life's mission to convey the urgency of climate change through my work. I've traveled north to the Arctic to the capture the unfolding story of polar melt, and south to the Equator to document the subsequent rising seas. Most recently, I visited the icy coast of Greenland and the low-lying islands of the Maldives, connecting two seemingly disparate but equally endangered parts of our planet.
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The Bell Podcast
Practitioner:
The Bell, Taylor McGraw
Date:
May 1 2017
"We envision a nation that provides students from underprivileged backgrounds the same caliber of public education as students from privileged backgrounds.
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