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2016
Anna Chaborai

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Corset
Practitioner:
Cindy Maguire, Artistic Noise
Date:
Mar 14 2013
Artists: Cindy Maguire, Assistant Professor Art Education Adelphi University and Teaching Artist with Artistic Noise and girls ages 13-17 from the Brentwood Residential Center on Long Island.
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Support for birds in Skopje
Practitioner:
Anonymous urban artists
Date:
Apr 12 2017
Anonymous urban artists set up art installations, large nest eggs, at several locations in Skopje, wanting to alarm the growing number of trees in the city. In the nest read a message "You cut all the trees, where do we make nests? Birds".
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A Night Of Philosophy And Ideas
Practitioner:
various
Date:
Jan 27 2018
"A Night of Philosophy and Ideas is a thinker’s lollapalooza. The free, 12-hour weekend lyceum at the Brooklyn Public Library includes spirited debate, live music, theater, performance art pieces, and film screenings. At any given hour, five or six different events will be taking place simultaneously. Visitors are encouraged to come and go as the spirit moves them.
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Nihilist subway performances
Practitioner:
Kalan Sherrard
Date:
Apr 30 2014
The latest episode in Nicolas Heller's documentary web series "No Your City," as published by Gothamist, features the arguably pretentious, inarguably earnest street performer Kalan Sherrard, who was recently arrested during his peaceful anarchist puppet show. Functioning as a video manifesto for his peculiar ways, the clip is at least compelling.
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Scheiß AfD Jodler (Shit AfD Yodellers)
Practitioner:
Corner Chor
Date:
Jul 21 2025
"A live interview with the leader of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland was interrupted by protesters. During the live television interview with ARD, Alice Weidel, co-leader of AfD, appeared at times to struggle to hear the questions being asked of her as protesters gathered below the provisional stage for the interview in Berlin.
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The New York Times Special Edition
Practitioner:
Steve Lambert, The Yes Men, Not an Alternative!, CODEPINK, Packard Jennings, May First/People Link, Improv Everywhere, Joseph DeLappe, L.M. Bogad, FAIR, Stephen Duncombe
Date:
Nov 9 2008
On November twelfth, 2008, over 80,000 copies of a replica of the New York Times were distributed in several cities around the United States. The paper included 14 pages of “best case scenario” news set nine months in the future. See the The New York Times Special Edition website.
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175 HECTARS
Practitioner:
community
Date:
Jan 27 2013
On 27th January 2013, the participatory project titled 175 hectares has run through the streets of the city of Trento (Italy). All the community has traced a line of white chalk that measures 6.3 km and the area included was 175 hectares: the exact surface area of the extermination camp of Birkenau (Auschwitz II, Poland).
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The Peoples Bank of Govanhill
Practitioner:
Ailie Rutherford, Katherine MacKinnon, Carmen Sawers
Date:
Sep 21 2019
The People’s Bank of Govanhill uses social and activist art practices to involve people in re-imagining the local economy, looking at how we can put feminist economics into practice in the local community.
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Vil Du - a therapeutic tool for victims of sexual abuse
Practitioner:
De Rading, Fontys ICT
Date:
Dec 20 2016
"Vil Du?! is a rather explicit game. You can undress characters until they are fully naked. The action-icons are based on physical parameters of the characters. Amongst others there is a vagina, a penis, a hand, a tongue and a mouth.
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Families Of The Uvalde Shooting Victims Are Camping Outside The School District's Office Demanding Action
Practitioner:
Uvalde Families
Date:
Sep 30 2022
Brett Cross has been camping outside the school district administrative office in Uvalde, Texas, for 78 hours.
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‘Triple Talaq’ Abolition Is Only The Start Of A Larger Campaign For Gender Justice In India
Practitioner:
Shayara Bano, Gulshan Parveen, Afreen Rehman, Atiya Sabri and Ishrat Jahan, other Muslin women
Date:
Oct 6 2017
The egregious practice that some Muslim men employ to divorce their wives instantaneously and without their consent, merely by uttering the word talaq (divorce) three times, has finally been declared unconstitutional and illegal by the Indian Supreme Court. The country’s ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) party claims that the ban is a victory for its administration, which had been advocating its abolition since it came to power in 2014.
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North Carolina "Pray In"
Practitioner:
NAACP
Date:
Apr 29 2013
By Adam Owens Seventeen people were arrested Monday evening during what the state chapter of the NAACP called a nonviolent "pray in" protest at the General Assembly. The protest was directed at Republican action on health care, unemployment benefits, education and voting rights.
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Pedestrian Critical Mass
Practitioner:
Ser Urbano, Caracas a Pie, Various individuals
Date:
Jun 29 2013
INVITATION Pedestrian Critical Mass We walk for pedestrians rights Saturday, June 29th @ 3:33 pm From Plaza Venezuela to Chacaíto Caracas, Venezuela
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Nats Never Die/The Zombies are Coming!
Practitioner:
The Yes Men and Reclaim the City
Date:
Sep 30 2019
The Yes Men join Reclaim the City in their fight against unjust housing policy. On September 30, 2019, a horde of zombies attended a "#natsneverdie rally" at the Cape Town Civic Centre in order to celebrate Mayor Dan Plato and the Mayoral Committee and to support their policies, which are increasingly similar to those of the National Party under Apartheid.
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1,001 chairs for Aiweiwei in Taipei
Practitioner:
Taiwanese artists and activists
Date:
Jun 4 2011
A large chair installation work featuring the Chinese name of detained artist and activist Ai Weiwei was set up in Taipei Saturday --the 22nd anniversary of the Tiananmen SquareMassacre -- to call for Ai's release. Bei Ling, an artist from China who has been barred from enteringhis home country since 2000, used 1,001 empty chairs to piece together the three characters of Ai's name in Liberty Square at 6: 04p.m.
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Send it On Disney Channel Project
Practitioner:
Disney
Date:
Aug 11 2009
"Send It On" is a song recorded by American recording artists Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez from charity project Disney's Friends for Change. The track's producers Adam Anders and Peer Åström co-wrote it with Nikki Hassman. The song was released on August 11, 2009 by Walt Disney and Hollywood Records as a charity single in order to benefit international environmental associations.
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True Connection
Practitioner:
Nadine Heimann
Date:
Mar 4 2012
True Connection is a non-profit organization based in Los Angeles, driven by young female visionaries who set out to reach new horizons in healing, empowerment, education, and community building. We are pioneering a truly innovative “Healing Arts Program,” which integrates trauma education, expressive arts therapy, and natural healing techniques and modalities to help children recover, learn and grow from their traumatic life experiences.
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Brazil Introduces Stipend for Culture Spending
Practitioner:
National government
Date:
Apr 2 2013
While governmental support for arts and culture is often meager, the Brazilian national government has recently demonstrated great interest in the industry. They've just introduced a "cultural stipend," which provides workers with 50 real (roughly $25) per month for arts and cultural expenses. The allowance covers personal spending on things like movies, concerts, books or museums.
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Pink Chaddi Campaign
Practitioner:
Consortium of Pub-going, Loose, and Forward Women
Date:
Jan 25 2009
In late January 2009, a group of 40 members of right-wing Hindu group Sri Ram Sena attacked women and men in a pub in the Indian city of Mangalore. They were upset with the women for engaging in behavior they found immoral, claiming that the girls were disrespecting traditional Indian values. Video footage of the event spread across Youtube in India, sparking outrage among many at the attack on innocent women.
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Ngapartji Ngapartji
Practitioner:
Big hART
Date:
Jan 1 2005
From 2005-2010 the Ngapartji Ngapartji project was based out of Alice Springs, working with Pitjantjatjara communities throughout Central Australia. The project created an online Pitjantjatjara language site, two touring theatre works and a documentary Nothing Rhymes with Ngapartji; http://www.nothingrhymeswithngapartji.com/
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