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Red Envelope Movement in London
Practitioner:
World Microphone (Chinese 世界麦克风)
Date:
Feb 14 2021
World Microphone (世界麦克风) is an organization created by students (most of them are Chinese) located in London. The organization has an account in RED, which is a popular social media in China. It often holds interviews and movements on the street in London, talking about world culture, food, and travel. Then, it makes short videos based on these interviews and movements and posts the videos on RED.
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14,000 Refugee Life Jackets
Practitioner:
Ai Weiwei
Date:
Feb 14 2016
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei covered a Berlin landmark with thousands of refugee life jackets for his latest installation. The striking display was the activist's attempt to highlight the scale of migrants taking to the seas every day.
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Pam Geller Wanted Us to Draw Muhammad. So We Did. #DM2015
Practitioner:
Muslim Girl, Mohammed Barakat
Date:
Apr 27 2015
Pam Geller doesn’t know much about Islam or Muslims, that much is clear. What she does know, however, is how to rally the troops to incite racism. From funding Islamophobic bus ads to maximizing offensive Muslim stereotypes, it’s clear that there’s only one thing on her agenda — and that’s hate.
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Notice Nature
Practitioner:
Creativity and Change CIT
Date:
Apr 13 2017
Notice Nature was a public engagement action undertaken by participants in the Erasmus+ funded training 'Creativity and Change: Empathy 2 Action - nurturing response-able global citizens' which took place in Cork from 8th - 13th April 2017. The team members were Marie-Michele Tessier, Aoife Dare, Ann Foulds, Zsofi Toth and Claire Faithorn.
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"Dying to Survive": A Movie on Generic Drugs
Practitioner:
Director Muye Wen (文牧野), Yong Lu (陆勇)
Date:
Aug 7 2019
The screen portrayal of a cancer sufferer whose illegal import of foreign medicines into China spurred national policy changes has become a box-office smash as audiences flock to a rare Chinese film on a hot-button issue. Dying To Survive is based on Lu Yong, who was arrested in 2013 after illegally importing a generic cancer drug in a case that sparked public debate about high medical costs.
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Poop Protest
Practitioner:
Hongkongers
Date:
Apr 27 2014
A mainland couple allowed their 2-year-old son to relieve himself by the road at Mangkok, Hong Kong and conflicted with local pedestrians who took photos of the child caused quite a stir among Chinese netizens. While the majority of mainland netizens show understanding for the couple, HongKongers think differently.
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Lyrical Thirst
Practitioner:
Elle Azul Duncombe-Mills
Date:
Apr 25 2014
Without water, life would not exist. And yet, those of us in developed countries take it for granted; our shelves are stocked with hundreds of branded bottles, and it is freely given at restaurants, at schools, and even in parks. We seem to have an unslakable thirst for it; attained in excess, we throw it away like dirt—just as many developing countries liken its value to gold.
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Grand Theft Auto V becomes battleground of Hong Kong protests
Practitioner:
Hong Kong Gamers
Date:
Dec 27 2019
The Hong Kong political crisis is now playing out in the virtual world. Popular online video game "Grand Theft Auto V" has become a battleground between protesters in the semi-autonomous Chinese city and their rival players in mainland China.
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An Artist Strikes Back Against Foul Subway Smells
Practitioner:
Angela H. Kim
Date:
Feb 8 2016
The New York City subway is many things, but clean isn’t necessarily one of them. It doesn’t exactly smell great, either. While the MTA hedges on solutions (and continues to debate whether eliminating trash cans from the stations actually solves sanitary issues), the artist and School of Visual Arts student Angela H. Kim is waging a personal guerilla war against the olfactory offensiveness of it all.
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Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land
Practitioner:
Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land
Date:
Sep 13 2011
Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land
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Green Map UAE
Practitioner:
Green Map UAE
Date:
May 7 2012
Green Map UAE is a place to pin, share, and quite literally, map out locations or events that are unique ecologically, culturally and considered civic resources near home or while traveling within the UAE. This portal, apart of a larger mapmaking community across more than 63 countries, uses the same tools and mapping widgets as the major Green Maps projects in the United States and Europe.
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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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Occupy Ikea: A great tactic behind a questionable cause.
Practitioner:
Unnamed
Date:
Jan 28 2013
Woman Spent 15 Days And Nights Occupying IKEA A woman, with the help of Portuguese creative agency TBWA Lisboa, went on 'protest' at an IKEA store in Portugal. Called ‘Occupy IKEA’, the movement was to urge IKEA to set up a store in Madeira. The woman spent 15 days and nights living in IKEA, setting up a live blog and a reality TV show about her days of protesting in the store.
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Ai Weiwei poses as drowned Syrian infant refugee in 'haunting' photo
Practitioner:
Ai Wei Wei
Date:
Feb 1 2016
Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has recreated the image of drowned infant Alan Kurdi that in 2015 became the defining symbol of the plight of Syria’s refugees. For the recreation, Ai lay on a pebbled beach on the Greek island of Lesbos. His pose was similar to that of Kurdi’s lifeless body, which washed up on a beach near the Turkish town of Bodrum and was captured in a September 2015 photo.
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Artist Relocates Abandoned Detroit Home
Practitioner:
Ryan Mendoza
Date:
Feb 26 2016
As art projects go, it's pretty audacious.
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Theatre. Immersion. Education. [T.I.E.]
Practitioner:
Nandita Dinesh
Date:
Jul 1 2017
T.I.E. is a residential, 24-hour, intensive experience during which participants will be: introduced to aesthetics of Immersive Theatre, guided through a practical exploration of these strategies, and mentored in the creation of an immersive, theatrical experience about a social justice issue -- a piece that can be shared at the end of the workshop with an invited audience of their choice
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Remembering Photographer and Activist Kwame Brathwaite, Who Gave a Visual Language to the ‘Black Is Beautiful’ Movement
Practitioner:
Kwame Brathwaite
Date:
Apr 7 2023
Kwame Brathwaite, the photographer and activist whose work gave a visual identity to the “Black is Beautiful” movement, died on April 1. He was 85. The news was shared by his son, Kwame Brathwaite, Jr., in an Instagram post. “I am deeply saddened to share that my Baba, the patriarch of our family, our rock and my hero has transitioned,” Brathwaite, Jr. wrote. “Thank you for your love and support during this difficult time.”
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Ge Yulu: Eye Contact
Practitioner:
Ge Yulu
Date:
May 1 2016
Ge Yulu’s artistic practice playfully pulls at the strings of a social system that, although seemingly all-encompassing, is in fact a malleable structure consisting of individual human beings. For his 2016 project Eye Contact, Ge positioned himself in front of a surveillance camera and stared directly into the lens for hours, then negotiated with a security guard to buy the footage.
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Cats Against Cat Calling
Practitioner:
Hollaback!
Date:
Mar 20 2012
"Cats Against Cat Calling" began online as a movement under same slogan, powered through Hollaback! Hollaback! is an activist collective seeking to end street harassment. Working through a network of activists in various locations, Hollaback! encourages individuals to stand up for themselves against uncomfortable interactions in public.
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Alternative News Agency: revolution's visual narratives revisited
Practitioner:
Alternative News Agency
Date:
May 14 2012
from ahramonlineby Sara ElkamelAn indelible link has materialised between artistic expression and revolution. Maybe it is the features they share: freedom, deviance and fluidity, which bring them so close together. In any case, Egypt’s January 25 Revolution undeniably led to a surge of creativity across the country; a rebel’s passion merges with an
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