Projects tagged "Amplifies (issue or campaign)"

Brings public and political attention to an issue or campaign.  Can include prefigurative action, making the invisible visible.

This Is Why Keith Haring Got Arrested Numerous Times
Practitioner:
Keith Haring
Date:
Jul 1 1982
In the early 1980s Keith Haring created hundreds of drawings in the New York subway system. He used chalk to paint on unused advertising space, which was covered with black sheets of paper. Haring was caught and fined numerous times.
Call out sites displaying ICE recruiitment adverstising
Practitioner:
Various independent actors in Santa Cruz, CA.
Date:
Sep 8 2025
ICE [Immigration & Customs Enforecement] is now heavily recruiting, in part with offers of a $50,000 signing bonus. ICE has run roughshod over the Constitution, targeting people via racial profiling, failing to give people their constitutional rights of due process, and whisking them off to prisons abroad.
Enroute Extinction
Practitioner:
Anjali Mehta
Date:
Jun 20 2021
Anjali Mehta is an illustrator from New Delhi, India. She is primarily known for her graphic shapes, gentle lines, bold colors, and strong female subjects. She is also designing a series titled Enroute Extinction that uses the same bright colors and familiar layout of a postage stamp. This series highlights animal species in India that are at risk of extinction.
"Printing Lost Culture of Ukraine" and "The Man Who Flew Into Space From His Brooklyn Apartment"
Practitioner:
Dmitry Borshch
Date:
Nov 13 2023
Both shows are supported by funds from New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and Materials for the Arts (MFTA). "Printing Lost Culture of Ukraine" November 13 – December 15, 2023 Monday – Friday, 10 am – 7 pm, free admission Ukraine House New York, 360 Merrick Road, 3rd Floor, Lynbrook, NY 11563
Heritage loss and the Importance of the Past
Practitioner:
Ai Weiwei
Date:
Jan 1 1995
Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn (1995) by Ai Weiwei is a highly provocative work of art. This series of three black and white photographs portray the artist holding a 2,000-year-old Han dynasty urn that, frame by frame, he drops, it falls, and shatters. As much a work of photography as a work of performance art, in each still an unaffected Ai looks directly at the camera aware of his destructiveness.
Mother Pigeon—Tina Piña Trachtenburg
Practitioner:
Tina Piña Trachtenburg
Date:
Oct 11 2014
Tina Piña, better known as Mother Pigeon (@motherpigeonbrooklyn), is an artist and self-described “high priestess of the pigeon religion,” whose passion for New York City’s often-overlooked bird has helped her carve out a unique creative niche centered around pigeons—as well as a lifestyle geared towards helping New Yorkers appreciate the misunderstood creatures.
Protests, sainthoods and unapologetic queer joy: The secret history of the secular LGBT+ nuns
Practitioner:
Sister Polly Amorosa, the founder of the Trans Pennine Travelling Sisters
Date:
Jun 1 2021
As she puts the finishing touches to her habit, Sister Clarita, a Mexican immigrant living in Los Angeles, tells me that there are more than 3,000 LGBT+ nuns around the world. They’re part of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an international network of activists who identify as secular nuns.
“Herstory” is the first comprehensive New York museum survey of work by Judy Chicago
Practitioner:
Judy Chicago
Date:
Oct 12 2023
“Judy Chicago: Herstory” will span Judy Chicago’s sixty-year career to encompass the full breadth of the artist’s contributions across painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, textiles, photography, stained glass, needlework, and printmaking. Expanding the boundaries of a traditional museum survey, the exhibition will place six decades of Chicago’s work in dialogue with work by other women across centuries in a unique Fourth Floor installation.
Mika Rottenberg: Cosmic Generator
Practitioner:
Mika Rottenberg
Date:
Jan 1 2017
Cosmic Generator presents a network of characters working in nonsensical, and at times absurd, economies. Artist Mika Rottenberg uses footage from actual discount dollar stores in Calexico, CA; Mexicali, Mexico; and Yiwu, China to recreate the imaginary “life” of a product, from its production in the factory to the moment it is sold.
"Yes I'm Hot of This" Explores the Experience of Muslim American Women One Panel at a Time
Practitioner:
Huda Fahmy, Adams Media
Date:
Dec 11 2018
Comic artist Huda Fahmy has been breaking down walls with her hilarious comic "Yes, I'm Hot in This." In her own words, "What started as my therapeutic way of dealing with the Islamophobia and prejudice I encounter on the daily has now turned into this amazing opportunity to tell the story of the American hijabi."
Those Without Names
Practitioner:
Carlo Gabuco
Date:
Mar 1 2018
In an art fair in Manila in March last year, one installation caught everybody’s eye.
Mattress Protest/Carry That Weight
Practitioner:
Emma Sulkowicz
Date:
Sep 1 2014
Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) (2014–2015) was a work of endurance/performance art which Emma Sulkowicz conducted as a senior thesis during the final year of a visual arts degree at Columbia University in New York City.[1]
London’s “Free Butt Plug Catalogue” Confronts Hostile Architecture
Practitioner:
A Chinese Artist
Date:
May 16 2025
Hostile architecture—urban design features like ground spikes that deter the homeless from lying down or slanted benches that prevent lingering—inscribes exclusion into our streets. In response, a Chinese artist will launch the Free Butt Plug Catalogue, an art-activism project that documents fifteen such spikes and anti–loitering benches across London and pairs each with a commercially available butt plug of the same shape.
Chile's protest street art
Practitioner:
Mr Owl
Date:
Mar 1 2020
"The walls of the streets of downtown Santiago are covered with stickers, art, words and posters. The messages are varied and range from "Feminist power" to "All cops are bastards". They have taken over the walls of Zona Cero (Ground Zero), the name given to the area around Plaza de la Dignidad, where anti-government protests have been held - and at times brutally repressed by police - since 18 October.
Fur in Madrid: Controversy and Critique
Practitioner:
Animanaturalis
Date:
Jan 21 2020
During a cold January morning in 2020, Animanaturalis, a nonprofit group focused on ending the suffering of animals across Spain and Latin America gathered to protest the use, production, and sale of fur in Spain. In a blog post on their website, the group discusses the horrid living conditions on fur farms as well as statistics and alternatives related to fur sales (Animanaturalis, n.d.).
Fuck for Forest: Erotic Ecology
Practitioner:
Leona Johansson and Tommy Hol Ellingsen
Date:
Jan 1 2004
Fuck for Forest (FFF) is a non-profit environmental organisation founded in 2004 in Norway by Leona Johansson and Tommy Hol Ellingsen. It funds itself through a website of sexually explicit videos and photographs, charging a membership fee for access. A portion of funds are donated to the cause of rescuing the world's rainforests.
Not Your Honor
Practitioner:
ABAAD
Date:
Dec 4 2019
To honor their battle, Lebanese women's rights organization ABAAD launched a powerful song and music video titled Not Your Honor. The clip was launched on the occasion of the "16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence" initiative which took off on Nov. 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
Zero Abuse Project
Practitioner:
Jacob Wetterling Resource Center, Zero Abuse Project Headquarters, Virginia Office
Date:
Dec 1 2018
Zero Abuse Project is a 501(c)(3) organization committed to transforming institutions in order to effectively prevent, recognize, and respond to child sexual abuse.
Brief History of US Interventions in Latin America Since 1946
Practitioner:
Carlos Motta
Date:
Jan 1 2004
Brief History is part of a series produced by Carlos Motta between 2005 and 2009 that presents two chronologies of events in Latin America: one of U.S. interventions in the region since 1946, and one of the area’s leftist guerrilla movements. One side of the print outlines the interventions’ interconnected narratives in text; the other depicts two bloody handprints and the symbol of the Mano Blanco death squads from 1980s El Salvador.
Calvin Klein, Mother's Day
Practitioner:
Calvin Klein
Date:
May 8 2022
Text by David Artavia - An ad from Calvin Klein on Mother's Day featuring a pregnant transgender man and his trans partner has sparked a wave of backlash on social media.
#HateIsAVirus
Practitioner:
Activists against COVID-19-related hate crimes
Date:
Apr 6 2020
Activists fighting coronavirus-driven hate crimes are rallying on social media to turn masks into a symbol, rather than a target in racist attacks Jeff Elder Apr 6, 2020, 2:03 PM Activists against COVID-19-related hate crimes are leading a social media campaign using images of people in masks to fight back against attacks on Asian-Americans, which Congress and the FBI say are increasing.
1.5 °C is Dead! Climate Revolution Now!
Practitioner:
Scientist Rebellion
Date:
Apr 6 2022
A NASA scientist and three others were arrested in Los Angeles on Wednesday after chaining themselves to the doors of a Chase Bank office building.
Aquatic Protests Against Climate Inaction
Practitioner:
Greenpeace
Date:
Jun 18 2022
A protest on June 18, 2022 took place in the Guadalquivir River in Seville, where fifty Greenpeace activists used their bodies and environment to stage a demonstrative performance, highlighting the water crisis that the Andalusian region is predicted to face as a result of anthropogenic climate change. The area is at extreme risk of increased temperatures and pervasive droughts, which will impact the river that is the subject of the demonstration.
Balls Across America
Practitioner:
The Yes Men
Date:
Jan 1 2008
The Survivaball made its first appearance in 2006, when "Halliburton representatives" attended a conference on catastrophic climate change and demonstrated the functionality of the large inflatable suits ("a gated community for one"), which keep corporate managers safe from global warming. Not long afterward, in Berlin, the Yes Men learned they also work as disruptive, arrest-resistant tools.
Free the vaccine for COVID-19
Practitioner:
Universities Allied for Essential Medicines and the Center for Artistic Activism
Date:
Feb 1 2020
Free the Vaccine for COVID-19 is a campaign aimed at securing everyone access to Covid-19 vaccine.

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