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Feb 13 2013

This past Valentine's Day the Fresh Juice Party pulled another "art prank;" this time sending chocolate shaped as dead American soldiers and sent them to U.S. government officials, especially to the previous Bush administration. This prank while very effective in its message, is not so effective in terms of timing.

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Courthouse Protest

Practitioner:

Maret Anne Sara

Date:

Mar 20 2022

he tundra of northern Norway is a long way from the Venice Biennale. Indeed, it is a long way from anywhere, at least viewed through western eyes.

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This Clothing Line Tricks AI Cameras Without Covering Your Face

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Cap_able

Date:

Jan 20 2023

A start-up has launched a line of clothing that confuses artificial intelligence (AI) cameras and stops them from recognizing the wearer. Italian start-up Cap_able is offering its first collection of knitted garments that shields the wearer from the facial recognition software in AI cameras without the need to cover their face. Called the Manifesto Collection, the clothing line includes hoodies, pants, t-shirts, and dresses.

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Resistance to the stereotypes of poetry

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Applied Clinical Sociology and Arts, Department of Sociology at the University of the Aegean, Department of Fine and Applied Arts, School of Fine Arts Florina Greece

Date:

Jan 1 2021

The aim of the action is to create a fractal network of poets, where their poems will be recited, recorded, set to music, will be activistically acted as performance material in order to resist the censorship of art. The field of action is the poets who will be born and the network that will be created by the restless artists.

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Students at March for Our Lives Wear $1.05 Price Tags to Call Out Marco Rubio

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March for Our Lives

Date:

Mar 24 2018

Students at the March for Our Lives rallies across the country and world today, March 24, are wearing a “price tag” of $1.05. The reason? March organizers have argued that $1.05 is the amount each student is worth to Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio.

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UCT Students Strip Down to Highlight Concerns Over Rape Culture

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UTC Students

Date:

May 10 2016

Students have accused university management of having a lack of concern about the issue. CAPE TOWN – University of Cape Town (UCT) students have stripped to their underwear to highlight their concerns over rape culture on campus. Dozens of students have gathered outside the Bremner Building to discuss sexual assault and sexual harassment at the university.

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Silent vigil at Saudi Embassy to Free Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja

Practitioner:

Front Line Defenders

Date:

Apr 10 2012

Former colleagues of Abdulhadi Al Khawaja from Front Line Defenders today held a silent vigil at the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Dublin to urge the King of Saudi Arabia to use his influence with Bahrain to enable Abdulhadi to travel to Denmark for medical treatment.

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THEY Still want to kill us: Film of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre to Air at Arts Center

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UMass Amherst Arts Center, Yoram Savion

Date:

May 13 2021

Joining art institutes nationally, a film on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre will premiere at the UMass Amherst Arts Center. This is especially important given its will be the 100th anniversary of the tragic event of when "Black Wall Street" was burned to the ground. It is widely known as one of the most violent events, let alone racially charged ones, in US History.

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Beauty In Transition

Practitioner:

Jody Wood

Date:

Jan 5 2006

Beauty in Transition is an artistic project created by multi-media artist Jody Wood, that established a pop-up mobile hair salon providing beauty services including a hair wash, cut, color and/or style service to willing participants living in homeless shelters. By provoking face-to-face dialogue in a calming recuperative salon environment, this project aims to facilitate empathetic understanding and to unravel the reductive label of homelessness.

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Give a Beat

Practitioner:

Lauren Segal

Date:

Nov 10 2012

Music energizes us, lifts us up when we're down, reaches deep within us to release emotions, creates cultural understanding, and makes us more open and receptive to new ideas. Studies show that when people are listening and dancing together, they are more likely to feel a sense of togetherness, be inspired, show empathy, and be more giving.

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The Wack Donalds Project and Mr One Teas

Practitioner:

Mr One Teas

Date:

Apr 13 2011

A French illustrator/painter/graphic designer from Nice who also has had shows in galleries in Monaco, Mr OneTeas is known to some as a graffiti artist who samples pop culture on his canvasses and appropriates commonly recognizable images of Hollywood names like Liz Taylor, Princess Grace, and Alfred Hitchcock. He also presents 80s television culture ironically (spotlighting Gary Coleman, Alf, Mr.

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Waste Land Project

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Vik Muniz

Date:

Feb 5 2008

The project involved creating portraits of garbage pickers from the Jardim Gramacho landfill near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, using materials found in the landfill itself. Muniz worked with the garbage pickers to create the portraits, which were then photographed and exhibited in galleries around the world. The project aimed to raise awareness of the plight of the garbage pickers and the environmental issues associated with landfill waste.

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Malcolm X Street

Practitioner:

Group X

Date:

May 7 1991

At a time when the city of Portland was considering stripping Martin Luther King Jr.'s name off a local street, a covert organization calling itself Group X changed the name of another downtown street to Malcolm X Street in a clandestine overnight action.

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Protesters Unfurl Three-Story Banner

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G.U.L.F.

Date:

Nov 5 2014

A thirty-nine-foot banner was unfurled in the rotunda of a sparsely-attended Guggenheim Museum this evening, the latest action carried out by the Gulf Ultra Luxury Front (G.U.L.F.) activist group. Decrying labor abuse at the museum’s planned Abu Dhabi outpost, the banner announced the forthcoming “Countdown” campaign by Gulf Labor, the larger collective of artists and activists of which G.U.L.F. is an offshoot.

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Teatro x la identidad

Practitioner:

Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo

Date:

Apr 10 2001

The Search for Identity in a Country of ‘Disappeared’ By Marcela Valente ‘Theatre for Identity’ is the theme of a novel undertaking in the Argentine capital, where 41 plays are being put on every Monday in 14 theatres.

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Dior accused of ‘culturally appropriating’ centuries-old Chinese skirt

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Oscar Holland, CNN

Date:

Jul 28 2022

CNN — Dior is facing accusations of cultural appropriation after Chinese social media users – and protesters outside one of the label’s Paris stores – claimed that a $3,800 skirt was inspired by a centuries-old traditional garment.

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"I'm Just a Slave" parody from Black-ish/The Roots

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Black-ish/The Roots

Date:

Oct 3 2017

On Tuesday night, Black-ish, one of the best shows on TV, returned for its fourth season. As expected, the premiere was outstanding. The episode was a history lesson. The subject? June 19, 1865, better known as the Juneteenth, the official end of slavery.

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Pyongyang Racer

Practitioner:

North Korean Government

Date:

Dec 23 2012

North Korea Releases Country’s First-Ever Video Game North Korea has just released the country’s first-ever video game titled 'Pyongyang Racer'. The racing game was created by a developer known only as Nosotek, and was commissioned by Koryo, a British tour company that takes travelers to North Korea.

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