Projects tagged "USA"

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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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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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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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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Hansel and Gretel (Have Guns)
Practitioner:
National Rifle Association
Date:
Mar 28 2016
The N.R.A. Reimagines Classic Fairy Tales, With Guns. The world of make-believe can be a scary place, but never fear: Thanks to a series of reimagined fairy tales published online by the National Rifle Association, classic characters like Hansel and Gretel are now packing heat.
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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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"Get Out"
Practitioner:
Jordan Peele
Date:
Feb 24 2017
Jordan Peele discovered halfway through the making of “Get Out” what story he wanted to tell: A horror-thriller for black audiences that delivered a searing satirical critique of systemic racism.
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There Will Be Blood
Practitioner:
Emma Arvida Bystrom
Date:
May 17 2012
"I got my period in the store!" "I got my period on the car seat!" "My mom talked about my period in front of a cute guy!"
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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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Can’t Help Myself
Practitioner:
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu
Date:
Dec 29 2016
In 2016, the Guggenheim Museum commissioned its very first robotic artwork called Can’t Help Myself (Wannmann, 2016). The artwork is created by two of China’s most controversial artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu and can be described as a robotic arm that has one specific, life-long duty: to prevent the deep-red, bloodlike liquid, which constantly oozes outwards, from straying too far (Weng, n.d.).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Speculative Fiction: Global Warming to the Extreme
Practitioner:
Josh Keyes
Date:
Jan 1 2010
Josh Keyes is a contemporary artist who takes a "satirical look at the impact urban sprawl has on the environment and surmises, with the aid of scientific slices and core samples, what could happen if we continue to infiltrate and encroach on our rural surroundings."
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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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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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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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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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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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