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I’ve just received an honorary doctorate at 18 – but that doesn’t matter
Practitioner:
Scarlett Westbrook
Date:
Dec 3 2022
This week, I got to make history. At 18 years of age, I received an honorary doctorate from the University of London for my work in climate justice, making me the current youngest holder of the award globally.
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Bristol Activists Use Street Art to Fight Gentrification
Practitioner:
The People's Republic of Stokes Croft
Date:
Feb 8 2016
The People’s Republic of Stokes Croft is using street art to preserve the identity of Bristol’s most culturally diverse neighbourhood.
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Voices of Freedom: The Impact and Legacy of Tania Bruguera’s #YoTambienExijo
Practitioner:
Tania Bruguera
Date:
Dec 17 2014
The beginnings of the #YoTambienExijo movement were born on 17 December 2014, when President Obama announcement a landmark warming of the 53-year chill between the United States and Cuba.
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Art as a Mirror: Zhang Huan’s 'Family Tree' and Its Reflections on Cultural Identity
Practitioner:
Zhang Huan
Date:
Oct 11 2000
One of the most critical artists on the contemporary art scene is Zhang Huan. His works are of great social insight and unique in how he applies his artistic expression. He thus makes them an almost visual feast with a peek into the multilevel structure of modern society. One such work is the masterpiece "Family Tree," which shows how art can mould our social cognition through multilayered symbolism and profound imagery.
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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.
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Finally, OWS gets police to arrest the people in suits
Practitioner:
Disrupt Dirty Power
Date:
Mar 26 2012
Sometimes justice requires a little imagination. On Saturday, when much of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York was loudly denouncing police violence against minorities and protesters, a small group of environmentalists dreamed up a way to get the police to focus on the crimes of the 1 percent, to the point of arresting five corporate suits on United Nations property.
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MTA 'See Something, Say Something' Posters Get #Resist Makeover
Practitioner:
Anonymous
Date:
Mar 9 2017
If you scanned the public service announcements in your subway car this morning—and happened to be adequately caffeinated—you might have noticed something slightly off. There's Melissa C., of small-time "See Something, Say Something" fame, with her gold hoops and salmon-pink hoodie. She's smiling next to the familiar MTA logo, but her message isn't just about reporting a suspicious bag on the platform and feeling heroic.
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Hong Kong Apple Store met with protest over supply chain violations on iPhone 6 launch day
Practitioner:
SACOM
Date:
Sep 3 2015
Apple implemented improved reservation procedures and policies for employees dealing with the iPhone 6 launch at retail stores on September 19th, 2014, but the launch at the company’s Hong Kong store hadn't gone quite as smooth as elsewhere. The store was hit by protesters from the Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) and also required police to help disperse customers that had waited in line without reservations.
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HarassMap
Practitioner:
HarassMap
Date:
Jan 1 2012
Acknowledging that sexual harassment is a serious problem in Egypt, the volunteer based organization HarassMap has created a series of strategies -both on site and online- to stamp out the social acceptability of sexual harassment in the country.
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When Luxury Stores Decorate Their Riot Barricades With Protest Art
Practitioner:
Various Artists
Date:
Jun 22 2020
Three months ago, when New York government officials ordered nonessential businesses closed to slow the spread of coronavirus, high-end retailers sheathed their stores in plywood barriers, as though readying for civil unrest.
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Books (Please)! In All Branches of Knowledge, 1924
Practitioner:
Alexander Rodchenko
Date:
Jul 8 1924
Seattle Times: In 1921, just four years after the Bolshevik Revolution, American journalist Albert Rhys Williams wrote: “The visitor to Russia is struck by the multitude of posters — in factories and barracks, on walls and railway-cars, on telegraph poles — everywhere.”
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Barbed Wire Protest
Practitioner:
Petr Pavlensky
Date:
May 2 2013
In May, 2013, Russian performance artist Petr Pavlovsky wrapped his body, nude, in barbed wire and lay outside the St. Petersburg legislative assembly. The act was in protest of restrictions imposed on freedom of speech and assembly. Police officers were forced to attempt to disengage him from the wire. After medical officials also arrived, Pavlovsky refused to be taken to the hospital and was brought to jail, where he was held for several weeks.
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Exploring Silence and Connection: Marina Abramović's 'The Artist Is Present' Unveiled
Practitioner:
Marina Abramović
Date:
Mar 14 2010
Marina Abramović is the synonym for performance art. Throughout their career, she has constantly pushed her way through endurance art and further pushed the boundaries of the artist's role in the audience. One of the most compelling and exciting works is "The Artist Is Present," which she presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Deconstructing The 1975’s ‘Love It If We Made It’
Practitioner:
The 1975
Date:
Jul 19 2018
The 1975’s ‘Love It If We Made It’ is a dystopian love story that feels appropriate for the last 18 months. Even though it was written before the pandemic, its relevancy has only increased tenfold since its release in 2018.
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Nara Yoshitomo “No Nukes (Untitled)”
Practitioner:
Nara Yoshitomo
Date:
Jul 1 2012
An early representation of Nara’s strong stance against nuclear weapons, No Nukes is now synonymous with the antinuclear protest movement. The work is painted over a promotional poster for bossa nova musician Vinicius Cantuária’s Amor Brasileiro (1998) among other printed ephemera.
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The Sea of Escape
Practitioner:
Qiong Zhang
Date:
Nov 19 2022
"I collected 83 images of disappeared women from Chinese social media. I printed them out, cut them, organized them, and made them into a tarot deck called "Missing Persons Notice.'"
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Shake Girl, The Graphic Novel
Practitioner:
Adam Johnson and Tom Kealey, Stanford students
Date:
Dec 2 2008
Shake Girl is a massive collaborative effort between fifteen students and two instructors over the course of one quarter (Winter 2008). These students comprise the first edition of the Stanford Graphic Novel Project -- a group dedicated to acheiving this monumental task on an annual basis.
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United States of Attica
Practitioner:
Faith Ringgold
Date:
Sep 15 1971
In September 1971, after years of mistreatment and months of simmering tensions, more than 1,200 of the 2,200 inmates at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York took control of the prison in protest of its substandard conditions and openly racist corrections officers.
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White paper protest
Practitioner:
Nanjing Media College Student; People in China
Date:
Nov 26 2022
The White Paper Movement was a large-scale, decentralized protest movement that erupted across China in late November 2022, initially sparked by a student demonstration at the Communication University of China, Nanjing.
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CRIPPING CHOREOGRAPHY
Practitioner:
Yvonne Rainer
Date:
Mar 9 2021
"Rainer’s early choreography celebrated, among other things, ordinary movements: the expressive capacities of kneeling, of shaking your head, of rolling on the floor. And when she went through periods of sickness, those movements became an even more important part of her repertoire. In her 1966 Hand Movie, an 8mm film she shot on her sickbed, we see a dance she choreographed for just her hand, while her body rests.
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