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Valie Export, TAPP und TASTKINO (TAP and TOUCH CINEMA) 1968/1989
Practitioner:
VALIE EXPORT
Date:
Jan 1 1968
At age twenty-eight, Waltraud Hollinger changed her name to VALIE EXPORT, in all uppercase letters, to announce her presence in the Viennese art scene. Eager to counter the male–dominated group of artists known as the Vienna Actionists—including Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler—she sought a new identity that was not bound by her father's name (Lehner) or her former husband's name (Hollinger).
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World Art Day 2022: Ghanaian graffiti artists launch environmental protection campaign in Ada
Practitioner:
Tapioca Foundation, Imposters Art Collective
Date:
Apr 15 2022
As part of the commemoration of this year’s World Art Day (April 15), Ghanaian-based Tapioca Foundation and Imposters Art Collective have embarked on a campaign to educate the public about environmental sustainability. The project, which was launched in Ada in the Greater Accra Region, is intended to use art pieces to highlight issues relating to environmental protection and climate action to boost awareness in local communities.
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Sad Girl Theory
Practitioner:
Audrey Wollen
Date:
May 1 2016
During a moment when the facade of social media seems to be cracking, it’s easy to look to Instagram stars and wonder what’s real and what’s fake. Last month, Essena O’Neill, the Australian teenager who racked up more than half a million Instagram followers, quit Instagram after claiming that social media is “not real life.”
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The Rap That Sparked a Revolution
Practitioner:
El Général
Date:
Dec 10 2010
As the world watches Cairo burn, I can’t help but think that the flames of protest engulfing Egypt were sparked by Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire on December 17 after police confiscated his vegetable cart. The desperation that he expressed through his act of self-immolation caught on, literally, and spread across the country, into Algeria, and now to Egypt.
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For China’s Halloween of Discontent, He Went as a Surveillance Camera
Practitioner:
Wenxin Fan, Rachel Liang, Shen Lu, WSJ
Date:
Nov 1 2023
Several nights of Halloween celebration in Shanghai provided a vivid, if indirect, commentary this week on the malaise gripping the world’s second-largest economy.
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The Democracy Machine
Practitioner:
Adam J Scarborough
Date:
Jun 27 2015
The Democracy Machine! is a performative sculpture that gives participants the opportunity to experience the thrill of democracy in action, in a competitive game that challenges people to work together toward understanding a better society. Using the spectacle and play of performance drawn from Las Vegas Casinos, gambling machines and game shows, The Democracy Machine!
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It Looks Like Bansky Has Struck the Wall of England’s Reading Prison, Which Once Detained Oscar Wilde, in His Latest Mural
Practitioner:
Banksy
Date:
Mar 1 2021
"It appears that Banksy has struck again, this time painting the brick wall of the former Reading Prison in Berkshire, England, where Oscar Wilde was jailed for two years over his “indecent” affair with Lord Alfred Douglas.
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First Hologram Protest in Spain against Gag Law
Practitioner:
Holograms for Freedom
Date:
Apr 11 2015
Spanish citizens held the first hologram protest in history in order to protest without violating the new draconian guidelines of the National Security Act, the new amendments to the Penal Code and the Anti-terror law. Thousands of people marched past a Spanish parliament building in Madrid over the weekend weekend to protest the new law that they say endangers civil liberties. But none of them were actually there.
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How 'Animal Farm' Gave Hope to Stalin's Refugees
Practitioner:
George Orwell
Date:
Feb 16 1946
Reading the introduction to Animal Farm by Christopher Hitchens a few years ago, I was stunned to learn that George Orwell, then a struggling writer in London, worked by letter with a group of refugees to publish the novel in Ukrainian in the displaced persons camps of postwar Europe.
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YOU ARE NOT A SKETCH: Fashion modeling ad campaign
Practitioner:
Star Models
Date:
Apr 27 2013
Lexi Nisita from Refinery 29 writes in her article "Not A Sketch: The Most Creative Anti-ED Message We've Seen Yet,"
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A Viral Dance and ‘Happiness Campaign’ Frustrates Iran’s Clerics
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Date:
Dec 16 2023
It all started when a 70-year-old fish market stall owner nicknamed “Booghy” was grooving in public, in violation of Iranian law. A new form of protest against the government is rocking Iran: a viral dance craze set to an upbeat folk song where crowds clap and chant the rhythmic chorus, ‘oh, oh, oh, oh.’
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How Nina Simone turned the movement into music
Practitioner:
Nina Simone
Date:
Jul 4 1965
My skin is black,” the first woman’s story begins, “my arms are long.” And, to a slow and steady beat, “my hair is woolly, my back is strong.” Singing in a club in Holland, in 1965, Nina Simone introduced a song she had written about what she called “four Negro women” to a young, homogeneously white, and transfixed crowd.
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This Was The Year “Girl’s Day” Really Stopped Being Cute
Practitioner:
Unknown Chinese undergraduates
Date:
Mar 7 2016
“Girl’s Day” in China was supposed to be a way for boys on college campuses to show the girls how much they care. This year it went too far. Have you heard about “Girl’s Day?” It’s a big holiday for Chinese college students. Every year on March 7, students throughout the country celebrate the day as a campus version of International Women’s Day.
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Dismaland
Practitioner:
Banksy
Date:
Aug 17 2015
Dismaland was an experimental and interactive art installation that mimicked and mocked similar attractions and characters of the Disney franchise. He later referred to it as a ‘bemusement park.’ Although the bemusement park seemed to disappear as suddenly as it arrived, the exhibition lives on in the collective memory of the British public.
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El banquero solitario
Practitioner:
El banquero solitario
Date:
Nov 23 2012
Un hombre trajeado viaja en el Metro. Utilizando frases clásicamente asociadas a la mendicidad, las invierte. En vez de anunciar precariedad económica y un estado de necesidad, afirma ser un banquero, sin cargas familiares, que no está perseguido por la justicia. Ofrece monedas a los viajeros, diciendo que si las cogen, ello le hará sentir mejor.
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Korean women are fighting back against deepfakes
Practitioner:
Korean Gender Activist
Date:
Aug 22 2024
A few dozen women, wearing white masks, held up signs protesting against pornographic deepfakes. On the afternoon of Friday, August 30, several South Korean feminist collectives demonstrated in Seoul to fight these sex crimes that are flooding the country.
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Climate activists bring Trojan horse to British Museum in BP protest
Practitioner:
Climate Activists, Theatrical protest group: BP or not BP?
Date:
Feb 7 2020
Activists have taken a Trojan horse into the grounds of the British Museum to protest against its sponsorship deal with the oil corporation BP. Protesters dressed as ancient Greek warriors snuck their 13ft-tall wooden horse through a side gate at 7.30am on Friday and pulled it on to the forecourt in front of the museum’s entrance.
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Civil disobedience in support of animals to progress social change
Practitioner:
The University of Melbourne
Date:
May 10 2013
By Dr. S. O'Sullivan and C. McCausland
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Dare to Connect
Practitioner:
Creativity & Change
Date:
Apr 13 2017
We were aiming to raise awareness and empathy around the theme of loneliness and disconnection, by engaging with passers by on a personal level and helping them to think about what they could do to make others feel less disconnected.
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Emory Douglas, “Afro-American Solidarity With the Oppressed People of the World,” 1969
Practitioner:
Emory Douglas, The Black Panthers
Date:
Jan 1 1969
Emory Douglas joined the Black Panthers in January 1967 at the age of 23, just three months after Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the party. Douglas, who had studied graphic design at San Francisco City College, swiftly became the organization’s minister of culture and the art director in charge of its eponymous newspaper.
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