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The Guerrilla Girls: 'We upend the art world's notion of what's good and what's right'
Practitioner:
Guerilla Girls
Date:
Jan 1 1985
In 1984, a group of women in New York gathered outside the Museum of Modern Art as part of a protest. A group show, An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, was showing 165 artists, 152 male artists exhibited alongside just 13 women. Outraged, they attended the protest, bringing placards and chanting outside the museum. But a handful of women within the larger crowd learned something.
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Work of Chinese Artist and Activist Ai Weiwei in Princeton
Practitioner:
Ai Weiwei
Date:
Jan 23 2013
Work of Chinese Artist and Activist Ai Weiwei in Princeton Posted on January 24, 2013 By Susan Wallner State of the Arts
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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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Discongreso
Practitioner:
Enmedio
Date:
Sep 25 2012
"Surround Congress”: as soon as we’d heard this, in our minds we were there. To make the Government resign and demand they start a new constituent process seemed like a great idea. We immediately got to work.
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This area will be photographed
Practitioner:
Laura Napier
Date:
Oct 11 2015
"This area will be photographed" is a public performance of implied photographic consent, inspired by Google's street view and satellite surveillance. Posted signs and handbills alerted the public present in Union Square, New York, NY that a photograph would be taken of the area at a precise time.
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How do you get to Flushing Creek?
Practitioner:
Cody Ann Herrmann
Date:
Dec 1 2018
Flushing Creek is so hidden by industrial sites and highways, it’s almost invisible to those passing through the Flushing neighborhood of Queens. “I lived in Flushing my whole life and didn’t know that I lived near waterways until I was 20 years old,” Cody Ann Herrmann told Hyperallergic.
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Play Safe
Practitioner:
Eddie Einbinder
Date:
Jan 1 2012
Play Safe is a documentary film series created and directed by NYU alum Eddie Einbinder. The film, much of which now appears for free on YouTube, was originally released in 2013 after being filmed between 2011 and 2012. It debuted at the International Harm Reduction conference in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2013.
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Drawing with gunpowder ink: Interview with Carlos Latuff
Practitioner:
Ana Barata (interviewer), Carlos Latuff (interviewed activist artist)
Date:
Oct 10 2012
In the context of the PhD research “Consciousness-raising: Activism in Digital Art” (by Ana Barata, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da UNL, Lisbon, Portugal) Carlos Latuff was interviewed concerning his political graphical work that focuses on present conflicts and issues.
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"White Square" Activists Gather in Red Square
Practitioner:
White Square
Date:
Apr 9 2012
<br>Care2.com April 9, 2012 By Sarah Vrba There have been regular protests in Moscow in the wake of Vladimir Putin’s re-election to the presidential seat in March. Early last month, thousands of protesters gathered in downtown Moscow in response to what they felt were rigged elections in favor of Putin. Over the last month, organizers have faced an uphill battle as they have attempted to keep protesters motivated.
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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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Unknown
Practitioner:
Unknown
Date:
Apr 21 2015
I've decided to post about a recent experience, considerable an "action" in its nature, and how it felt, which was comparable to solicitation rather than activism. However, there was a sense for consciousness-raising regardless of any tangible outcome.
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This Private Network For Creatives Is Also A Safe Space For Women
Practitioner:
Mixer; the app’s co-founder, Anis Bennaceur, and marketing director, Cory Kennedy
Date:
Jan 1 2016
How would you describe Mixer? Anis Bennaceur: It’s a professional network for creatives—people working in arts, fashion, film and media, and music. You can showcase your work, past projects to everyone else on the platform, and you can search, discover, connect, and collaborate with a lot of other incredible and talented people working in those industries. Also, every member is vetted by our team, so we ensure the quality of the userbase.
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In/on The Way: Story Time
Practitioner:
SKART
Date:
Oct 12 2017
"Story Time" emphasizes the significance of knowing the cultural histories of various nations and milieus, for it is precisely this knowledge that represents the first common point on the way towards understanding other cultures arriving in Europe with migratory flows. The invited artists will reinterpret cultural histories and cultural contexts from both European and Arabic worlds.
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Ticketing Jessica Lappin
Practitioner:
undefined
Date:
Jun 16 2010
The initiators collaborated with the Street Vendor Project (SVP) of the Urban Justice Center to campaign against New York City Council Member Jessica Lappin’s 2010 law project. The bill, intended to revoke permits issued to street vendor trucks if they got parking tickets, was so restrictive that it threatened to put most food trucks out of business.
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"Your body is a battleground"
Practitioner:
Barbara Kruger
Date:
Jun 30 1989
A woman’s head is bisected by a line that splits her face into positive and negative halves. Over the image, a commanding text, stated in the second person, reads: “Your body is a battleground.”
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#YesAllWomen
Practitioner:
#YesAllWomen
Date:
May 15 2014
In May, the horrific mass shooting in Isla Vista, CA, triggered national conversations about violent misogyny. After some Twitter users began using the hashtag #NotAllMen to defensively derail the conversation, the hugely popular hashtag #YesAllWomen emerged, getting tweeted over 1 million times within just a few days.
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Riot grrrl MANIFESTO
Practitioner:
Riot grrrl bands
Date:
Apr 27 1991
Riot grrrl is a feminist punk rock movement started in the early 90's, particularly in Washington DC, Olympia, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. Bands that follow the movement include Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Jack Off Jill, Bratmobile, Adickdid, The Butchies, Heavens to Betsy, Huggy Bear, Bangs, and Calamity Jane, amongst others.
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Literatura Exposta (Literature Exposed)
Practitioner:
Álvaro Figueiredo
Date:
Jan 15 2019
Artists in Rio de Janeiro have staged a pop-up street show to protest against the closure by the new far-right state government of an exhibition because of a performance attacking dictatorship-era torture.
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In Response to Controversial Funder, Protestors Rechristen Met Museum Plaza
Practitioner:
Occupy Museums, The Illuminator
Date:
Sep 9 2014
On Tuesday evening, at the end of an action staged by Occupy Museums at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to protest the unveiling of the David H. Koch Plaza, three members of The Illuminator were arrested. Earlier in the evening, police had moved protestors to a cordoned area on the opposite side of the street from the museum; a substantial police presence remained throughout the evening, but no other arrests took place.
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#NoMásMáscaras - campaña contra ataques con ácido
Practitioner:
Fundación Natalia Ponce de León
Date:
Mar 29 2016
Entre el 2004 y el 2014 se registraron 982 víctimas de ataque con ácido en Colombia. En el 41 por ciento de los casos, el agresor no fue identificado. El aumento de casos llevó a que en enero pasado se promulgara una ley que endurece los castigos contra ese flagelo y con la que se busca reducir al máximo esta situación en todo el país.
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