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Television Commercial for Communism
Practitioner:
The Propeller Group
Date:
Jan 1 2012
Television Commercial for Communism: https://vimeo.com/129592556
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Those Without Names
Practitioner:
Carlo Gabuco
Date:
Mar 1 2018
In an art fair in Manila in March last year, one installation caught everybody’s eye.
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New Craft Artists in Action
Practitioner:
New Craft Artists in Action, Team Captain Maria Molteni, Institute for Infinitely Small Things, Office of Culture and Design (Manila)
Date:
Dec 22 2012
Maria was psyched to travel to the Philippines where her hand-made basketball nets were well received. Invited with the Institute for Infinitely Small Things (Boston/Mass based) by Clara Balaguer and the Office of Culture and Design (Manila) she worked in Zamboanga City with students of Western Mindanao State University to carry out a 6 day arts and activism workshop.
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Fake lives matter!
Practitioner:
Stu Tanquist
Date:
Sep 26 2017
The kidnapping and enslavement of African people was the life-blood of transnational corporations like the "Royal African Company." In law, these human resource corporations were called "artificial people." Their human cargo was called "cargo."
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I shop therefore I am
Practitioner:
Barbara Kruger
Date:
Jan 1 1987
I Shop Therefore I Am (1987) is the work of Barbara Kruger . It became an iconic artwork, being reproduced on items such as shopping bags and other consumer products such as t-shirts. Kruger has often derived images from the mass media and pasted the words over them, particularly in Futura Bold . She then uses advertising to design her works.
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Unpacking the 21st Century: Artists Engaging the World
Practitioner:
Aliza Augustine, Aileen Bassis, Patricia Cazorla, Patricia Dahlman, Nancy Saleme
Date:
Jun 4 2016
The exhibition "Unpacking the 21st Century: Artists Engaging the World" included work by five New York City area artists that examined a range of social and political issues and offered companion special events.
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Italian museum burns artworks in protest of budget cut
Practitioner:
The Casoria Contemporary Art Museum
Date:
Apr 18 2012
Italian museum burns artworks in protest of budget cut An Italian museum on Tuesday began burning its collection of contemporary artworks in a singular protest against harsh budget cuts that have left many cultural institutions out of pocket.
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Primavera Violeta en Mexico
Practitioner:
#vivasnosqueremos
Date:
Apr 24 2016
El acoso sexual a las mujeres en México, no es novedad. Desde un chiflido o grito de “mamacita” en la calle hasta una alarmante cifra de seis feminicidios diarios, la violencia machista es un asunto cotidiano. Lo que sí es novedad es que este año las mujeres no se estén quedando calladas, y que salgan a las calles, ya no con miedo, sino con determinación de defender su derecho a ser respetadas.
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Zero Abuse Project
Practitioner:
Jacob Wetterling Resource Center, Zero Abuse Project Headquarters, Virginia Office
Date:
Dec 1 2018
Zero Abuse Project is a 501(c)(3) organization committed to transforming institutions in order to effectively prevent, recognize, and respond to child sexual abuse.
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I Paint, I Protest: Mary Perry Stone
Practitioner:
video
Date:
Dec 26 2016
Video of Mary Perry Stone's social protest art created in the 1960s . Civil Rights, and the Vietnam War were her subjects. Mary never stopped being an activist and a few of her later works are also in the video.
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Church protest reveals realities of life in modern Bethlehem
Practitioner:
St James's Church
Date:
Dec 27 2013
The Rev Lucy Winkett is having trouble sleeping. This is because her church on Piccadilly has decided to erect a full-size copy of the Israeli separation barrier to block off her Christopher Wren church. And because she lives above the shop, the grim presence of this temporary structure is with her all the time. "Politics aside, living beside the 26ft wall is having a curious effect on those who are here.
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The Danish Girl
Practitioner:
Tom Hooper
Date:
Sep 1 2015
The trailer for The Danish Girl, released Tuesday, introduces the world to Lili Elbe and her wife, Gerda Wegener. Elbe was a transgender woman and one of the first recipients of transition-related surgeries, which she received over a course of two years starting in 1930 in Germany.
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Chinese Feminist Occupy the Men's Toilets
Practitioner:
Li Maizi
Date:
Jun 25 2014
Women around the world fed up with long lines for the ladies’ restroom have a new folk hero: a Beijing college student leading her own version of an “occupy” movement in southern China.
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Much Ado About BP
Practitioner:
Reclaim Shakespeare Company
Date:
Oct 24 2012
"Members of the Reclaim Shakespeare Company jumped on stage at the Noël Coward theatre to deliver another surprise anti-BP performance. Just before the second half of a BP-sponsored Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) performance of Much Ado About Nothing was due to begin, the three actor-vists performed a short Shakespeare-inspired piece.
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Stitching Solitude: Bea Camacho's 'Enclose' and the Art of Isolation
Practitioner:
Bea Camacho
Date:
Jan 1 2005
Bea Camacho is a visual and performance artist from the Philippines, the provocation of whose work is described as exciting and strikingly into identity, intimacy, and isolation. Her art is known to delve into the human complex of experiences and offer a layered narrative within its visual and performance medium.
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Brides March Against Domestic Violence
Practitioner:
Josie Ashton, group
Date:
Sep 26 2017
"Over 200 women, many dressed in bridal gowns, joined the Brides March through Manhattan on Tuesday, an annual event aiming to draw public spotlight on the often hidden scourge of domestic violence.
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Colorful Revolution
Practitioner:
Anna Krukulj & Irena Stzeijovska
Date:
Apr 1 2016
A wiretapping scandal rocked the small Balkan nation in 2016 when opposition leader Zoran Zaev began publishing excerpts of secret recordings that were made by the national security service which targeted up to 20,000 people, including government officials, journalists and religious leaders. The leaked conversations appeared to expose widespread corruption among ministers, including alleged vote-rigging and a murder cover-up.
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ESTUDIANTE MILITANTE: University of Puerto Rico Student Movement and campus occupation.
Practitioner:
AgitArte
Date:
Apr 20 2010
El Estudiante Militante is a giant puppet built by the members of Papel Machete and students of the University of Puerto Rico during the first three days of the 2010 student strike at a cultural camp established by the theater group in solidarity with the striking students. The puppet was built with materials inside the campus of the University.
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Partido de la Red, Argentina's Internet Party
Practitioner:
Partido de la Red (in English, Internet Party)
Date:
Oct 1 2014
The following is Alex King's description of the founding of the Partido de la Red in Buenos Aires, Argentina:
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HOODsisters
Practitioner:
HOODsisters
Date:
Jan 1 2015
(Honoring our Origins, Ourselves and our Dreams) is an all-womyn and womyn-identified crew from the northeast San Fernando Valley dedicated to creating awareness through public art.
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