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Living and Killing in Modern China: "A Touch of Sin"

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May 17 2013

"May you live in interesting times" is the familiar Chinese saying, usually spat out as a curse. You can see why in "A Touch of Sin," a film by renowned director Jia Zhang-ke. That kind of time is now, in the history of his country. With four vignettes inspired by real-life "ripped from the headline" events, he shows what the great economic expansion of China is doing to the majority of its people.

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Estados de excepción

Practitioner:

Lorena Wolffer

Date:

Nov 25 2013

Estados de excepción (States of Exception) is series of participatory cultural interventions created for women to freely and joyfully exercise our rights in public and secure environments, currently being produced in Mexico and abroad.

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"Superheros" Occupy the NYC Halloween Parade

Practitioner:

Occupy Wall Street, Occupy

Date:

Oct 31 2011

No matter how nuanced current superhero comics may be, to the general public they are still fairly simple. Superheroes are the good guys, supervillians are the bad guys, and it’s easy to see who is who. That’s why kids like to dress up as superheroes on Halloween — and why should they have all the fun?

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FUBAR for Valentine's Day

Practitioner:

Fresh Juice Party

Date:

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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Paremos el acoso sexual callejero

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Paremos el acoso sexual callejero

Date:

Jan 1 2012

This is an organization and online platform that registers cases of street harassment in Peru and disseminates information about the subject. People can report cases and get in touch with the organization to talk or learn more about what to do when being sexually harassed.

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Face Your World

Practitioner:

Jeanne van Heeswijk

Date:

Jan 1 2005

Face Your World was set up as a tailor-made educational program for the youngster to explore and participate in the process of city renewal. The project used Interactor software, an interactive tool to enable users to rebuild their neighborhood. The software creates a virtual environment which represents the neighborhood and enables users to see the result of its modification while it has been used.

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‘Framing Britney Spears’

Practitioner:

Samantha Stark

Date:

Feb 12 2021

"Spears entered the conservatorship in 2008, at age 26, when her struggles were on public display. Now she is 39, and a growing number of her fans are agitating on her behalf, raising questions about civil liberties while trying to deduce what Spears wants.

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In the wake of Trayvon Martin’s death, the hoodie takes on a greater meaning

Practitioner:

Robert Samuels

Date:

Mar 29 2012

I was just shy of 18 when I bought the hooded sweatshirt — a metallic silver thing that cost about $10 on the Aeropostale clearance rack — to take with me to Northwestern University in the Chicago suburbs, knowing my parents would be worried when they saw it.

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Do Not Pass Go: Monopolize Bank of America

Practitioner:

MicCheckWallSt

Date:

Jul 14 2012

(Taken from Group's Event Statement): "The big banks have been playing monopoly with our money & our homes. On Saturday July 14th, as part of #J20 Bring the Fight Back to the Banks Week, let's return the favor..."

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Tequiografías

Practitioner:

Daniel Godínez Nivón

Date:

Jan 1 2010

The artist in close collaboration with AMI (Assembly of Indigenous Migrants of Mexico City) has created a series of monographs made by students, through ‘tequio’: a communal system of organisation expressed in collaborative practices, mandatory and unpaid work. The goal of the project is to offer information about the lifestyle and culture of these indigenous communities, which live in Mexico City.

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"RE.ACTIVIUM SILVESTRE"

Practitioner:

Re.Colectivo Association, Yetooponese Association, Masta Platform

Date:

Feb 14 2014

COLLABORATIVE LABORATORY FOR ANALYZE PASSIVE ATTITUDES AND CREATIVE STRATEGIES OF ACTIVATION. 14-15-16 February 2014 Meeting to discuss experiences and reflect on the concept of creativity as a tool for transformation.

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Rundberg's 'Running Man' Looks to Take His Message Beyond Austin

Practitioner:

Broderick James

Date:

Feb 18 2014

He's everyone's favorite cardio-loving community activist — a relatively new emissary of Austin weird.

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A Maze in Philadelphia Focuses Attention on the Hidden Cruelty of US Prisons

Practitioner:

Sam Durant

Date:

Oct 30 2015

The US prison system is one of the world’s great shames. A quarter of the world’s prisoners are being detained in a country that represents only 5% of the world’s population. It is a system that has been compared to a modern-day version of the Jim Crow laws.

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Occu-bot and Management-bot

Practitioner:

Taeyoon Choi

Date:

Dec 26 2011

Occu-bot can protest in places that human civil disobedience is not allowed, and it can also replace human protesters.

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From a Universe of Trash

Practitioner:

Vik Muniz

Date:

Oct 28 2010

From a Universe of Trash, Recycling Art and Hope By STEPHEN HOLDEN “We are not pickers of garbage; we are pickers of recyclable materials,” Tião, an impoverished Brazilian catadore, or trash picker, declares to a talk-show host in Lucy Walker’s inspiring documentary “Waste Land.”

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‘Met Museum, you’re complicit’: artists and activists take over museum’s front steps with giant pro-Palestine quilt

Practitioner:

Artists, cultural workers and activists

Date:

Mar 24 2024

A two-hour rally at the New York museum drew many supportive cheers and honks, plus a handful of antagonistic shouts Benjamin Sutton 25 March 2024

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Intervention #1

Practitioner:

Núria Güell

Date:

Jan 1 2012

58,241 evictions were conducted in Spain in 2011, mostly through real estate speculation by the Mediterranean Savings Bank. In Intervention #1, the artist created a cooperative through which she contracted a construction worker (who himself had been evicted from his own house) to remove the entrance doors to other foreclosed properties. In this way, houses were accessible and open to public use, and occupants were not liable for housebreaking.

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Support

Practitioner:

Lorenzo Quinn

Date:

Jun 1 2017

From Public Delivery: "He calls his work Support, which involves two giant hands rising from a canal to support the building that houses Ca’ Sagredo Hotel. The idea is to depict that the sculpture is helping Venice. It also symbolizes humankind’s capability to destroy the world and an equal ability to save the world too."

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