Projects tagged "USA"

Lies for Less: Vermin Supreme for President
Practitioner:
Vermin Supreme
Date:
Jan 26 1988
Vermin Supreme is an American performance artist, anarchist and activist who is known for running as an alternative candidate in various local, state, and national elections in the United States since 1988. Supreme is known for wearing a boot shaped hat and carrying a large toothbrush.  Vermin Supreme's four-plank platform is simple, yet elegant: 1) Mandatory tooth-brushing laws. 2) Zombie preparedness.
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Getting Your Sh*t Together/GYSTInk
Practitioner:
Karen Atkinson and the GYST Team
Date:
Mar 7 2013
"Making Life Better For Artists" (on ongoing project) http://www.gyst-ink.com
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Eugene Lee Yang’s "I'm Gay" Video
Practitioner:
Eugene Lee Yang
Date:
Jun 15 2019
Eugene Lee Yang is an actor, filmmaker, producer, author, dancer, and digital content creator from Pflugerville, Texas. He received his education at the University of Southern California, and is most known for his contribution to the popular Youtube group, The Try Guys.
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The Role of Graphic Novels in Social Activism
Practitioner:
Marjane Satrapi, Art Spiegelman, others
Date:
Feb 20 2017
By Jessie Blaeser
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Professor tracks rise in racism linked to pandemic
Practitioner:
Russell Jeung, San Francisco State, the Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council (A3PCON) and Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA)
Date:
Mar 19 2020
Research from Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies Russell Jeung spurs launch of online reporting center to document COVID-19 discrimination.
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Billionaires for Bush
Practitioner:
Billionaires for Bush
Date:
Jun 13 2004
“Some people call you the elite,” George W. Bush joked to his wealthy funders, “I call you my base.” Whether candidate Bush meant it as a joke or not, the Billionaires for Bush (B4B) campaign used humor, street theater and creative media actions to show the country how true the quip was.
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Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart)
Practitioner:
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Date:
Oct 1 1983
“It could have been me,” Jean-Michel Basquiat would say at the mere mention of the untimely death of Michael Stewart. Stewart, a 25-year-old artist, was allegedly drawing on the walls of the subway on 15 September 1983 when he was approached by transit cops who then placed him under arrest.
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Barbie Liberation Organization
Practitioner:
Barbie Liberation Organization
Date:
Dec 1 2003
New York Times, DAVID FIRESTONE, Published: December 31, 1993 Your son tears the wrapping paper off his fierce new "Talking Duke" G. I. Joe doll and eagerly presses the talk button. Out comes a painfully chirpy voice that sounds astonishingly like Barbie's saying, "Let's go shopping!" Does your son: A) Furiously vaporize the doll with his own phaser rifle? B) Go shopping with Joe?
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Naming the Lost Memorials
Practitioner:
Naming the Lost, Make the Road, CityLore, Great Small Works, Fund Excluded Workers coalition, artists around the country, folklorists around the country
Date:
May 25 2020
In May 2020, a team of artists, activists, folklorists, and people who lost loved ones to Covid-19 came together to make monthly memorial sites in New York City to remember victims of the Covid-19 pandemic. They continued installing memorials around New York City every month during the summer of 2020.
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All of Us or None - Responses and Resistance to Militarism
Practitioner:
American Friends Service Committee
Date:
Jun 1 2015
A CALL TO ARTISTS: The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has created a new, nationally touring poster exhibit called All of Us or None: Responses and Resistance to Militarism. The exhibit will launch in June and is already scheduled to travel to Chicago, Greensboro, Providence, and San Francisco with many other stops anticipated. We are looking for some additional work to include in this show.
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Ex-Con Shareholder Goes After World's Biggest Prison Corporations
Practitioner:
Alex Friedmann
Date:
May 10 2012
From Mother JonesBy James RidgewayTomorrow, at the annual meeting of Corrections Corporation of America, the nation's largest private prison company,
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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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Red Swing Project
Practitioner:
Andrew Danziger
Date:
Jan 1 2007
In 2007, Andrew Danziger had an architecture class assignment at the University of Texas at Austin to propose an urban intervention in Austin. The goal was to think about public art in unexpected ways. One classmate dreamed up a blank traffic sign; another suggested putting a bench at a bus stop that lacked one. Danziger hit on the idea of installing swings in surprising places, and then he went beyond the assignment by actually doing it.
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Emojis to stop teen drinking and drugs
Practitioner:
Partnership for Drug-free Kids
Date:
Jul 16 2015
The Partnership for Drug-Free Kids, a national nonprofit dedicated to reducing substance abuse among adolescents, launched a new multimedia campaign for teens that uses emojis to communicate the challenges of negative influences, empowering them to live Above the Influence.
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Unprisoned: Stories From The System
Practitioner:
Eve Abrams
Date:
Feb 3 2016
Independent producer and longtime WWNO collaborator Eve Abrams brings us Unprisoned: Stories From The System. From New Orleans and Louisiana, the world’s incarceration capital, we meet those serving time inside and outside the criminal justice system.
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'What Would Thoreau Do?' Community Builds Replica of Walden Pond Cabin to Block Pipeline
Practitioner:
Will Elwell
Date:
Mar 18 2016
"The authority of government... is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed."
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North Korean Artist Hopes Reverse Propaganda Will Change Lives Back Home
Practitioner:
Song Byeok
Date:
Jan 1 2018
Song Byeok is one of the most acclaimed Korean artists living today. He is from North Korea, where he was a propaganda artist for the North Korean government for two decades. After defecting in 2002, Byeok has turned his prolific creativity into powerful, satirical art using North Korea’s ruling culture as motifs.
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Fairy Tales (with guns)
Practitioner:
National Rifle Association
Date:
Mar 25 2016
The National Rifle Association has recently decided that the way to promote their gun rights among the American people is to retell the classic stories with guns. Thus far, they have rewritten The Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel, handing guns into the hands of the children protagonists, resulting in, surprisingly, significantly less bloodshed.
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In Drones We Trust
Practitioner:
Joseph DeLappe
Date:
Nov 13 2014
In Drones We Trust, 2014 - Joseph DeLappe Crowd Sourced, Participatory Rubber Stamp Currency Intervention FOR FULL PROJECT DOCUMENTATION VISIT: http://indroneswetrust.tumblr.com/
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Tupac's “Changes”
Practitioner:
Tupac
Date:
Oct 13 1998
Late last year, the New York Times published an op-ed short film written and narrated by Jay Z. The clip was called “The War on Drugs Is an Epic Fail,” and that kind of title was explicit enough for everyone to grasp the entertainment mogul’s general argument, whether they knew anything about drug war or not.
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The Dark Side: O'Keefe
Practitioner:
James O'Keefe, Hannah Giles
Date:
Sep 3 2009
Trickery and disguise, usually followed by revealing the truth, are often tactics used by liberal activism, like the Yes Men for example. When used by the right, however, it can have different implications. Pretending to be a CEO or billionaire in order to expose corporate greed and corruption is clearly different then pretending to be a minority. The use of disguise can manipulate and shed light on hierarchies of power.
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I Am My White Ancestors: Claiming the Legacy of Oppression
Practitioner:
Anne Mavor
Date:
Oct 6 2016
This installation of 13 photographic self-portraits explores European-American heritage, my family and their role in the history of racism, colonization, genocide, and classism. The ancestors, real and imagined, span over 2000 years from the Celtic Iron Age to the present day. The life size portraits are accompanied by audio diaries from the perspective of each character.
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Suffrage
Practitioner:
Alice Paul
Date:
Mar 3 1913
Alice Paul, along with Lucy Burns, joined the National American Woman suffrage Association (NAWSA) in 1912. They were allowed to take over the NAWSA Congressional Committee in DC but were given no office or funds. For months Paul and Burns fundraised and significantly increased awareness for the cause. On March 3, 1913 (the eve of President Wilson's inauguration) Paul organized a parade, unparalleled in the capital.
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Starbucks Customers Are Insisting ‘Black Lives Matter’ Is Heard
Practitioner:
Lex Cross
Date:
Jul 18 2016
In the wake of the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, Black Lives Matter supporters are finding creative ways to make sure the movement is acknowledged everywhere. When ordering at Starbucks, people have changed their name to “Black Lives Matter” so that, when their order is up, the baristas have to yell out their new moniker.
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Barbie Liberation Organization
Practitioner:
Barbie Liberation Organization
Date:
Dec 25 1993
On Christmas day in 1993, kids were finding more than they bargained for under their trees: Mattel’s new talking Barbie dolls growled “Dead men tell no lies,” while Hasbro’s macho GI Joe’s chirped “I love to shop with you.”
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