Projects tagged "Amplifies (issue or campaign)"

Brings public and political attention to an issue or campaign.  Can include prefigurative action, making the invisible visible.

"Within the Terms and Conditions"
Practitioner:
Caroline Sinders
Date:
Jul 15 2021
A popular theme throughout media is the relationship between technology and art. While art is often bolstered and disseminated through technology, discussions arise of how technology both positively and negatively affects content. Caroline Sinders’ exhibition Within the Terms and Conditions explores the way content has been spread online.
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World Art Day 2022: Ghanaian graffiti artists launch environmental protection campaign in Ada
Practitioner:
Tapioca Foundation, Imposters Art Collective
Date:
Apr 15 2022
As part of the commemoration of this year’s World Art Day (April 15), Ghanaian-based Tapioca Foundation and Imposters Art Collective have embarked on a campaign to educate the public about environmental sustainability. The project, which was launched in Ada in the Greater Accra Region, is intended to use art pieces to highlight issues relating to environmental protection and climate action to boost awareness in local communities.
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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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Beijing Sitong Bridge protest
Practitioner:
Peng Lifa
Date:
Oct 13 2022
The Beijing Sitong Bridge protest was a protest in China during the prelude to the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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Mattress Protest/Carry That Weight
Practitioner:
Emma Sulkowicz
Date:
Sep 1 2014
Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) (2014–2015) was a work of endurance/performance art which Emma Sulkowicz conducted as a senior thesis during the final year of a visual arts degree at Columbia University in New York City.[1]
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Bike Church
Practitioner:
Nowness
Date:
May 18 2022
Watch Gabriel Frilando (aka CheatDeathNYC) cycle through the streets of New York City in this short film of remembrance made by NYC based, Argentinian born, director/ cinematographer Nicolás de Miranda. Speaking about this personal project Nicolás says:
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Breathing lights
Practitioner:
Adam Frelin and architect Barbara Nelson
Date:
Nov 1 2016
In October and November 2016, Breathing Lights illuminated the windows of hundreds of vacant buildings in Albany, Schenectady and Troy, NY. Warm light filled each window with a diffuse glow that mimicked the gentle rhythm of human breathing. Concentrated in neighborhoods with high levels of vacancy, Breathing Lights transformed abandoned structures from pockets of shadows into places of warmth.
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Paint the Protest at Off Paradise
Practitioner:
Nancy Spector, curator
Date:
Jan 30 2023
What happens to explicitly political art when it’s placed inside of the White Cube? Paint the Protest, a group show curated by Nancy Spector at Off Paradise self-consciously poses this question, and further aims to reveal the place and purpose of activist art in general.
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Reagan has died of AIDS
Practitioner:
Oliviero Toscani
Date:
Jan 15 1994
Ronald Reagan was elected President of the United States on November 4, 1980. In less than a year, in the Summer of 1981, AIDS was first identified in medical journals. However, it took until 1987 before he would give his first major address on AIDS.
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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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How Détournement Was Used as a Weapon in 15-M Protests
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Date:
May 15 2011
Just over a decade ago on May 15, 2011, a wave of social outrage began as the Spanish people collectively decided that they had had enough of the corruption, cuts, and inequalities affecting their country.
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Cruel
Practitioner:
Sue Coe
Date:
Aug 2 2012
"Cruel" is a book written by Sue Coe, an activist illustrator known for her dedication to animal rights. It continues her mission of shedding light on how animals are mistreated in the food industry. The book is filled with striking paintings and drawings that vividly portray both the beauty and suffering of these animals and the workers who handle them.
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Un-Daily Bread
Practitioner:
Gregg Segal
Date:
Dec 30 2019
In response to an earlier project called "Daily Bread, Gregg Segal collaborated with the United Nations Refugee Agency to bring awareness to the crisis of refugees fleeing Venezuela through his project "Un-Daily Bread."
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Fuck for Forest: Erotic Ecology
Practitioner:
Leona Johansson and Tommy Hol Ellingsen
Date:
Jan 1 2004
Fuck for Forest (FFF) is a non-profit environmental organisation founded in 2004 in Norway by Leona Johansson and Tommy Hol Ellingsen. It funds itself through a website of sexually explicit videos and photographs, charging a membership fee for access. A portion of funds are donated to the cause of rescuing the world's rainforests.
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IT IS GUNS
Practitioner:
Jenny Holzer
Date:
Mar 1 2018
In response to shootings across the United States, and in sympathy with students’ demands for more gun control, artist Jenny Holzer wrote text that animates issues of the firearms industry and gun violence. Her hyperactive black-and-white writing flashed on mobile LED screens, with text popping in quick succession like free-association poetry, and sometimes in the awful rapid-fire of semi-automatic weapons.
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The Hunting Ground
Practitioner:
Chain Camera Pictures
Date:
Feb 27 2015
The Hunting Ground Is Shifting the Culture on Campuses Despite the white noise campaign to discredit, there has been tremendous and unprecedented progress in new campus policies and regulations. The backlash claims that some of the campus rape date was exaggerated or simply false has been disproved over and over again.
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Hundreds Gather at Utah Capitol in Protest of New Transgender Rights Related Bills
Practitioner:
House Health and Human Services Committee, Equality Utah, Human Rights Commission, American Civil Liberties Union
Date:
Jan 25 2022
Lawmakers in a Utah House committee soundly rejected a bill that would have penalized doctors for giving gender-affirming health care to minors, then moments later approved legislation that included similar restrictions on transgender health care — minus the punishment — on party line during a lengthy committee meeting Tuesday.
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"Yes I'm Hot of This" Explores the Experience of Muslim American Women One Panel at a Time
Practitioner:
Huda Fahmy, Adams Media
Date:
Dec 11 2018
Comic artist Huda Fahmy has been breaking down walls with her hilarious comic "Yes, I'm Hot in This." In her own words, "What started as my therapeutic way of dealing with the Islamophobia and prejudice I encounter on the daily has now turned into this amazing opportunity to tell the story of the American hijabi."
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Study of Perspective (& Stools)
Practitioner:
Ai Weiwei
Date:
Jan 1 2014
The son of an exiled political dissident, Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei’s work is inherently political. Since 1995 Ai Weiwei has been traveling the world, photographing himself flipping off iconic monuments of power in his Study of Perspective series.
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Art, Politics, Activism, Oakland And Angela Davis
Practitioner:
Angela Davis
Date:
Jan 19 2023
In Oakland, artists created murals and installations to honor activist Angela Davis, celebrating her legacy in fighting for racial and gender justice. These public artworks inspire new generations to continue the struggle for social change.
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Coronavirus: Activists launch ‘digital protest’ to end US sanctions on Iran
Practitioner:
Iranian Activists
Date:
Mar 25 2020
Activists have started an online campaign to pressure US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to lift sanctions on Iran to help it contain the spread of coronavirus. Coronavirus: Are US sanctions hurting Iran's response to the pandemic?
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Conscious Lee
Practitioner:
Bog Fingers, student group in MTU's Creativity and Change course
Date:
Apr 2 2021
Conscious Lee is a public awareness project to help people value and protect their rivers. Rivers are rich sources of life and are vital for clean water. They are beautiful spaces to connect with nature. We all need to appreciate our rivers. We can all help river wildlife and protect this natural amenity for future generations.
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The Earth is Bleeding
Practitioner:
Shu Yong
Date:
Nov 4 1998
Shu Yong is an artist who has been passionate about environmental protection in recent years. "The Earth Is Bleeding" was created in 1998. The creation was carried out in a studio of more than ten square meters.
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After a Military Coup, Artists Across Myanmar Are Making Protest Art to Share Their Struggle for Democracy With the World—See Images Here
Practitioner:
Artists civilians in Myanmar
Date:
Feb 16 2021
"Myanmar has been engulfed in protest since February 1, when Burmese army general Min Aung Hlaing seized control of the government in a military coup, refusing to accept to the landslide election victory of the National League for Democracy and its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
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333 Hz
Practitioner:
Antoine Bertin
Date:
Sep 29 2021
WHAT WOULD WE FEEL IF WE COULD HEAR EACH TREE FALLING IN THE WORLD? 333HZ is an installation translating deforestation monitoring data into a sensorial experience. If a tree falls in a distant forest, and no is around? does it make a sound?
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