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Global Earth Exchange
Practitioner:
Radical Joy for Hard Times
Date:
Jun 22 2013
Once a year people all over the Earth go to places that they love and where they live that have been damaged, and they bring attention, curiosity, a sense of adventure, and beauty there. In the process we give back to the places that have given so much to us.
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Pandora's Project
Practitioner:
TECHO International
Date:
Oct 31 2012
It was October 31st, 2012, when a new artist appeared on social media. In a series of video clips, she proposed with a soft and slow speech that Peru hide its poverty. Her project consisted of installing vinyl pieces to avoid what she called "the visual pollution." She titled the project Don't be poor, be fashion(able).
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Ridiculously Rich for Rove
Practitioner:
Act Everywhere
Date:
Dec 3 2009
In 2009, the College Republicans used tens of thousands of dollars from student fees to bring Karl Rove to speak at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Many groups of activists responded.
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UndocuNation gathers artists at International House
Practitioner:
UndocuNation
Date:
Feb 18 2013
UndocuNation, a performance and visual art conglomeration, took place this past Friday at International House. The Center for Race and Gender at Berkeley, CultureStr/ke, and the Theater and Dance Performance Studies department here at UC Berkeley helped put on the show specifically for Berkeley students. The show’s main focus was on the complex issues of undocumented immigration, and what that can mean for students especially.
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Gangnam Style Used in Protests in China
Practitioner:
Chinese construction workers in Wuhan, and people of Henan Provence
Date:
Jan 13 2013
In early January, constructions workers in Wuhan, China staged a Gangnam Style protest in front of their employer's building. Using the Gangnam Style dance, the men sought to bring media attention to their mounting unpaid wages.
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Sue the discrimination on homosexual in Chinese educational books
Practitioner:
Qiu Bai
Date:
Mar 10 2014
Qiu Bai is a student of Zhongshan University.
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University of Corrupted Sciences
Practitioner:
Faculty of University of Corrupted Sciences
Date:
Jan 23 2020
On the International Day of Education with students we have organized that creative action to ironizing the phenomenon of corruption in education. We founded “University of Corrupted Sciences” as a symbol of all the issues that have characterized the education system in our transition years.
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The Project Filoctetes
Practitioner:
Emilio García Wehbi
Date:
Nov 15 2002
The protagonism of the body in the dramatization of marginalized groups is also central to Emilio García Wehbi's Proyecto Filoctetes, an urban intervention staged November 15, 2002, on the streets of Buenos Aires. The project consisted in placing twenty-five lifelike latex mannequins in central, highly trafficked locations around the city in varying positions of injury, physical distress, and abandonment.
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This App Lets You Request a Stalker For 24 Hours
Practitioner:
Lauren McCarthy
Date:
Mar 2 2016
Artist Lauren McCarthy wants to challenge our obsession with getting followers on social media by letting you request a real-life follower, for one day at a time.
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Chinese Rock Music in 1990s for Freedom
Practitioner:
Cui Jian
Date:
Jun 4 1989
The rise of rock and roll in the late 1980 was largely associated with the student movements taking place at the same time. Cui Jian, considered by many to be the godfather of Chinese rock, even performed for the students on hunger strike in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
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Animal Man Comics
Practitioner:
Jeff Lemire
Date:
Jun 14 2012
By Mariann Sullivan
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This Is Not Your Body
Practitioner:
This Is Not Your Body
Date:
Nov 25 2014
Two reflective stickers in a bathroom stall. When you sit down you can see your face in the bottom one. When you stand you can see your face in the top one, your groin in the bottom one. The top one says "Public", the bottom one says "Private". Or maybe the top one says "Private", and the bottom one says "Public". Which one is correct?
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Detox Levis - Vertical Catwalk
Practitioner:
Greenpeace
Date:
Dec 6 2012
Detox Levi's: 6th December: Greenpeace activists staged a vertical catwalk action in front of the levi's store in the biggest mall in Copenhagen, Denmark. Greenpeace calls Levi's to engage fully in the process of ending the use and release of hazardous chemicals in connection with the production of their clothing.
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Sex at the Specs
Practitioner:
School for Creative Activism
Date:
Apr 2 2015
The “Perceiving Freedom” glasses sculpture on Cape Town’s Sea Point promenade looking towards Robben Island, commemorates late President Nelson Mandela and the values of freedom and equality.
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Doll Protest / Mini Protest
Practitioner:
Lyudmila Alexandrova
Date:
Jan 7 2012
This demonstration was in response to a new law (as of June, 2012) imposing fines for unauthorized protest of up to $20,000 for organizers and $10,000 for participants. After activists were turned down for a more traditional protest, Lyudmila Alexandrova and others set up small dolls, teddy bears, and figurines with demonstration slogans. Two mini protests took place in January 7 and January 14, 2012.
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Endangered Species Take Over Empire State Building
Practitioner:
Oceanic Preservation Society
Date:
Jul 31 2015
In July 2015, the Empire State Building's famous light displays were used to draw attention endangered wildlife. Along with Cecil, whose death has sparked international outrage, a snow leopard, tigers, lemurs, and various snakes, birds and sea creatures were projected onto the building.
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Pimp My Carroça
Practitioner:
The Pimp My Carroça Project, Mundano
Date:
Jun 10 2012
With the intention of recognizing the work of the Latin American carreteros (garbage pickers) that collect recyclable materials in wheel carts, and increase environmental consciousness, artist Mundano created “Pimp My Carroça"
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Viande de Brousse: a Bushmeat Food-Cart Project
Practitioner:
Roger Peet and Ryan Burns
Date:
May 5 2011
This is a project about bushmeat: the hunting of wild meat in the forests of sub-Saharan Africa, for our purposes specifically the Democratic Republic of Congo. This bushmeat food-cart serves up information and interpretations of the
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H&M Ad-busting
Practitioner:
Daniel Soares
Date:
Jan 1 2014
Artist Daniel Soares pasted Photoshop toolbar stickers on these H&M posters as a nice little reminder that not all is as it seems. Y'all know how Photoshop messes with our perception of beauty, and I think this is a smart little stunt to snap us back into reality when we start to wonder why we never look like the girls on the posters we walk past every day.
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#IAmMySong
Practitioner:
Ahmad Sarmast, Afghan girls
Date:
Mar 11 2021
In response to a memo from Afghanistan's education ministry, Ahmad Sarmast, the founder of Afghanistan's Institute of Music, began a Twitter campaign with the hashtag #IAmMySong. In response to the hashtag, Afghan girls have taken to Twitter with videos of themselves singing tagged with Sarmast's hashtag and spreading petitions against the ban. The ministry memo banned girls 12 years old and older from singing at school functions.
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