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Guerrilla Girls- Twin Cities “takeover”
Practitioner:
Kahlo and Kollwitz
Date:
Jan 20 2016
A project as expansive as the Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover is a first for them. Kicking off on January 21, the festival will comprise a series of events by 30 different groups, which will take place until March 6 at more than 20 arts and cultural organizations in and around Minneapolis/St. Paul. A network of local art activists will be mobilized, and the Guerrilla Girls have been working in tandem with the area’s youth groups to prepare.
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Mercury Poisoning by Unilever in Kodaikanal
Practitioner:
Jhatkaa
Date:
Jul 30 2015
Global corporation Unilever dumped toxic and contaminated waste behind its thermometer factory located in Kodaikanal, a city in the South Indian state Tamil Nadu. In 2001, once word spread about this breach in environmental precautions, Unilever closed its factory. However, it is yet to adequately compensate its workers, many of whom suffered mercury poisoning. The corporation has also yet to clean up its mess and remediate the land.
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"Las sinsombrero": Bare heads against the tyranny of being respectable.
Practitioner:
Las sinsombrero
Date:
Jan 1 1925
"Las sinsombrero" ("without hat") were a group of spanish women formed by the artists Maruja Mallo, Margarita Manso, Concha Méndez and the socialist activist Margarita Nelken.
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Activist Hackers Temporarily Block Putin's Website
Practitioner:
Anonymous
Date:
May 14 2012
From ReutersBy Vladimir SoldatkinHackers temporarily blocked President Vladimir Putin's web site on Wednesday, carrying out a promise to disrupt government information portals two days after his swearing-in for another six-year term that has drawn street protests. The hacker activist group Anonymous used the "Op_Russia" twitter account to publicize the
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呼吸之痛 The Pain of Breath
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Date:
Sep 11 2018
Pneumoconiosis has become the most serious occupational disease in China, and the vast majority of sufferers, nearly 6 million, are migrant workers. Because of the long-term inhalation of dust caused by pulmonary fibrosis, they usually breathing if not oxygen machine help, easy to suffocate.
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Orixás
Practitioner:
Hugo Canuto
Date:
Jan 13 2017
Imagine if back in the 1960s, creators Jack Kirby and Stan Lee had found inspiration for The Avengers in Yoruba mythology. Instead of Iron Man, we'd have the warrior Oxaguiã. Taking the place of the blue-eyed, blonde-haired Norse god Thor would be the equally strong and black-skinned Xangô, the ruler of justice — who also happens to carry a hammer.
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Josep Renau Berenguer (Valencia, Spain, 1907 – Berlin, Germany, 1982): Art and political engagement
Practitioner:
Josep Renau Berenguer
Date:
Jul 18 1936
Josep Renau Berenguer was a Spanish painter, photomontager, muralist and communist militant. Renau was the son of an Art teacher. Due to his father’s low income, he had to work various jobs during his youth and teenage years to maintain a middle class position.
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Menstruation Terrorism
Practitioner:
Kashafa Khan
Date:
Feb 7 2006
Menstruation Terrorism is the act of frightening folks with the visibility of menstruation.
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Immigrant Movement International
Practitioner:
Tania Bruguera, Partnership with Queens Museum of Art
Date:
Jan 1 2011
Tania Bruguera, in partnership with the Queens Museum of Art, began a long term art project in form of an artist initiated socio-political movement. Immigrant Movement International is an organization headquartered in the multinational neighborhood of Corona, Queens. The organization engages local, national and international audiences and focuses on the issues of immigration reform.
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¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York exhibition
Practitioner:
Bronx Museum, Museo del Barrio, Loisaida INC
Date:
Jul 1 2015
Spread over three institutions — the Bronx Museum of the Arts; El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem; and Loisaida Inc., a cultural center in the East Village — this show departs from straight political history by presenting the Young Lords as a cultural phenomenon as well as an ideological one, with a highly developed instinct for visual self-projection, right down to having an official party photographer, the gifted Hiram Maristany.
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Fully Automated Nikon (Object/Objection/Objectivity)
Practitioner:
Laurie Anderson
Date:
Apr 16 1973
"I decided to shoot pictures of men who made comments to me on the street. I had always hated this invasion of my privacy and now I had the means of my revenge. As I walked along Houston Street with my fully automated Nikon, I felt armed, ready. I passed a man who muttered ‘Wanna fuck?’ This was standard technique: the female passes and the male strikes at the last possible moment forcing the woman to backtrack if she should dare to object.
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Contest Backfires on Social Security Privatizer
Practitioner:
Social Security Works - WA & The Economic Opportunity Institute
Date:
Oct 18 2011
Oh, the sweet irony. Pete Peterson is the conservative billionaire who is a major financier in the effort to dismantle, cut and privatize Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Recently he and his foundation held a contest asking folks to submit videos on why it is important to “fix” the national debtof which, he and his foundation falsely claim, Social Security is a major contributor.
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Philando Castile: remembering his life through the power of art
Practitioner:
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Date:
Jun 28 2018
It all started a few months ago, when the Minneapolis Institute of Art got a phone call from Valerie Castile. Castile is the mother of Philando Castile, the 32-year-old black man who was shot and killed by a police officer in 2016. Valerie Castile has since founded the Philando Castile Relief Foundation, which helps victims of gun violence.
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Autonomous Zones
Practitioner:
Student Plenum
Date:
Feb 11 2015
After winning the parliamentary elections of 2014 Gruevski was accused by the opposition of rigging the elections, which led the latter to boycott the sessions of the legislative. Mass protests followed with the government – though nominally pro-EU and pro-NATO – making innuendo about ‘foreign influence’ prompting similar concerns from Russia.
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Take a Photo, Save a Child
Practitioner:
Jianrong Yu
Date:
Jan 25 2012
On January 17, 2011, Hong Yuping (洪玉萍), from Fujian Province, contacted Yu Jianrong (于建嵘), at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), about her family’s plight and requested assistance: In June 2009, their son, Yang Weixin (杨伟鑫), then age six, was abducted from their hometown, Quanzhou, and they had been searching for him ever since.1 In early 2010, Hong had recognized Yang Weixin in a photo of three children begging outside a Xiamen train statio
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On The Artistic Activism of Emory Douglas
Practitioner:
Emory Douglas, Black Panther Party
Date:
Feb 1 1960
“The solidarity came in the artwork—it spoke a language that transcended borders.” Emory Douglas
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Tied and Tested: Miles Greenberg's 'Sebastian' and the Art of Endurance
Practitioner:
Miles Greenberg
Date:
Apr 24 2024
Miles Greenberg is a performance artist from Canada who specializes in time, endurance, and the human body. His art is often complicated and deep into the human experience, with physical endurance mixed into visual metaphors that create deep, profound statements of the human condition.
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The Trials of Spring
Practitioner:
Fork Films
Date:
Jun 7 2015
The Trials of Spring is a major documentary event that chronicles the stories of nine women who played central roles in the Arab Spring uprisings and their aftermaths in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen. It includes a feature-length documentary, six short films, articles by award-winning journalists, and a robust social media conversation about women and their unwavering quest for social justice and freedom.
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Shift Change Dress
Practitioner:
Anyone!
Date:
Jan 31 2016
Shift Change Dress is a community fashion & art project that utilizes a shift dress sewing pattern as a medium for communication and action. Participants are encouraged to use the pattern as a blank canvas for their art or message and to share their work with the community.
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Xincun
Practitioner:
Birdhead(Song Tao& Ji Weiyu)
Date:
Jan 1 2010
Song Tao and Ji Weiyu, established their collaborative named Birdhead in 2004. Both natives of Shanghai, their work is deeply rooted in their hometown and its evolution amid China’s growth into a global power. The duo takes diaristic snapshots, highlighting their everyday lives in the quickly changing city.
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