Projects tagged "Amplifies (issue or campaign)"

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

'On The Borderline' - An Exhibition of Artwork created by individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Practitioner:
Borderline Arts Team
Date:
Dec 1 2017
An Exhibition by talented Artists, giving an insight into their experience of life with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Act Now - Our House Is Flooding
Practitioner:
Extinction Rebellion
Date:
Nov 10 2019
In the early hours of Sunday 10th November, Extinction Rebellion activists staged an action on the river Thames in London. A classic suburban house was seen floating down the river, sinking into the water in yet another attempt to send an SOS to the government on climate inaction and draw attention to the threat humans face from climate change and rising sea levels.
Tear It Down, They Said. He Just Kept Building.
Practitioner:
Chen Tianming
Date:
Jan 1 2025
The structure teeters over fields of knee-high grass, looking like a cross between a camping tent and a giant wedding cake. Eleven stories of dark red wooden rooms, diminishing in size as they ascend, balance atop one another, seemingly held together by only the thicket of cords that stretches from the peak to the ground.
Pocard - Singapore Version
Practitioner:
Action Office
Date:
Nov 23 2024
Concept 1. This is a participatory art action initiated by Action Office, aiming at questioning current democratic elections in Singapore and shaping an alternative possibility. 2. Design the pocards to resemble ballots, inviting people to fill out election results and mail them to the corresponding country’s polling stations or current government.
Greta Thunberg launches video of family walking around burning house calling for action on climate change
Practitioner:
Fridays for Future
Date:
Apr 21 2020
Greta Thunberg has launched a campaign video of a housing burning to the ground as she calls for more action on climate change. The shocking clip shows a family waking up, having breakfast and talking as their home is engulfed by flames and clouds of smoke. The video was released by the Swedish climate activist's Fridays for Future, which has partnered with LA-based creative agency FF.
La Fiera en Sevilla
Practitioner:
Isaías Griñolo
Date:
Jan 1 2016
During the economic crisis of 2008, bankers in Spain took advantage of the economically disadvantaged, and the artwork La Fiera en Sevilla, or the Wild Animal in Sevilla in English, brings attention to this money-centric act from the bankers. La Fiera refers to the bankers at the time that used predatory methods in their actions to forcibly evict poor people from their houses.
High school senior running social media campaign for sexual assault awareness month
Practitioner:
Emilyn Lagger
Date:
Apr 17 2020
TOLEDO, Ohio — April is National Sexual Assault Awareness month. Everyone is being asked to stay at home during the coronavirus outbreak, but for victims of sexual and domestic violence, it can be dangerous. Notre Dame Academy senior Emilyn Lagger is using this time away from school to raise money and let victims know they're not alone.
Coronavirus Halts Street Protests, but Climate Activists Have a Plan
Practitioner:
Fridays for Future, Greta Thunberg
Date:
Mar 19 2020
The coronavirus outbreak has prompted climate activists to abandon public demonstrations, one of their most powerful tools for raising public awareness, and shift to online protests. This week, for example, organizers of the Fridays for Future protests are advising people to stay off the streets and post photos and messages on social media in a wave of digital strikes.
Shielding Justice: Cannupa Hanska Luger's Artistic Activism and Beyond
Practitioner:
Cannupa Hanska Luger
Date:
Jan 1 2016
This protest installation was first used in 2016 at Standing Rock when the community banded together to protect the Missouri River from a Dakota Access Pipeline.
Photographing the hidden – Violence Unseen
Practitioner:
Alicia Bruce, Zero Tolerance
Date:
Sep 3 2018
UK photographer Alicia Bruce collaborated with Zero Tolerance, a Scottish non-profit to end GBV, to produce a new version of the Violence Unseen campaign, launched for the first time in the 1990s and created by Franki Raffles. The new one was launched in 2018, 25 years after the original iconic Zero Tolerance campaign, shot by the late Franki Raffles.
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).
North Korean Artist Hopes Reverse Propaganda Will Change Lives Back Home
Practitioner:
Song Byeok
Date:
Jan 1 2018
Song Byeok is one of the most acclaimed Korean artists living today. He is from North Korea, where he was a propaganda artist for the North Korean government for two decades. After defecting in 2002, Byeok has turned his prolific creativity into powerful, satirical art using North Korea’s ruling culture as motifs.
Tamir Rice legacy shows how artists can sensitively engage with racially charged history
Practitioner:
Cleveland Museum of Art
Date:
Nov 24 2019
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Dana Schutz, the acclaimed New York artist who trained at the Cleveland Institute of Art, famously stirred controversy at the 2017 Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art with “Open Casket,’’ her painting depicting Emmett Till’s body in its coffin. Till, a black 14-year-old, was murdered and mutilated by white men in Mississippi in 1955 after having been falsely accused of flirting with a white woman.
Tiffany Sia: Slippery When Wet - Artists Space
Practitioner:
Tiffany Sia
Date:
Feb 17 2021
Slippery When Wet proposes a wet ontology of Hong Kong—a city in ongoing transfiguration shifting into an uncanny vision of itself. Hong Kong secretes, leaving a trail of ink, tears, humidity, logistic flows, and leaks.
This Subway Is Too Small
Practitioner:
Ahora Buenos Aires (Now Buenos Aires)
Date:
Jun 1 2017
In 2017, the political party Ahora Buenos Aires (Now Buenos Aires) was running in the legislative election for the first time. It is not easy being a small left-wing party in the City of Buenos Aires, therefore imagination is an essential part of a campaign if you want to get the attention of the media and voters.
Unity, Democracy and Courage
Practitioner:
Medu Art Ensemble
Date:
Aug 7 1983
One of the most pressing questions before us in the United States now is how to resolve the tension between our personal visions and needs, on the one hand, and the demands of being a member of a community, on the other.
The Archive Means We Are Counted in History.’ Zanele Muholi on Documenting Black, Queer Life in South Africa
Practitioner:
Zanele Muholi
Date:
Dec 3 2020
In the portrait Bester I, Mayotte, the sitter’s eyes stare directly at the camera, practically boring a hole in the lens. Their lips are painted white, their hair and ears adorned with clothespins. The self-portrait of Zanele Muholi is striking on its own, but it does not stand alone.
Student flash mobs in Thailand
Practitioner:
students
Date:
Sep 20 2020
"Thai artists and art students are on the frontline of their country’s swelling pro-democracy movement, calling for reforms of Thailand’s military-backed government, and breaking both taboo and national law to criticise the nation’s monarchy.
Hunter's Poppet
Practitioner:
Rebecca Sharp
Date:
Oct 19 2019
Hate hunting? Want to do something creative to protect wildlife and affect positive change? The Hunter's Poppet is a witch-craftivism intervention, free to use and share. A 'poppet' is a ritual object made to represent a human figure, charged with a specific intention. This set of instructions with images guides you in making your own poppet to place safely in an outdoor area.
Reimagining Albus
Practitioner:
Athenkosi Kwinana
Date:
Jan 5 2022
Through her work, South African art activist Athenkosi Kwinana aspires to deepen the understanding of Albinism in her native country, where she has faced discrimination in most aspects of her life from childhood days on. Working with both drawing and printmaking, Kwinana creates large self-portraits that aim to constructively reimagine the representation of Albinism in the country’s black communities and African contemporary art as whole.
Taxi drivers make a caravan protesting against apps "They are stealing our jobs"
Practitioner:
Mexican taxi drivers
Date:
Oct 12 2020
Hundreds of taxi drivers gathered together on the streets of Mexico City protesting against Virtual apps like Uber and Cabify. They formed a caravan and stopped the traffic for hours, as a way of denouncing unfair price competition.
United States v. One Book Named Ulysses
Practitioner:
Bennet Cerf, Morris Ernst
Date:
Dec 6 1933
In 1932, Bennett Cerf, cofounder of Random House Publishing, acquired the rights to publish James Joyce’s Ulysses in the United States, believing that the book would be as successful as it had been throughout Europe. But Cerf had a problem. The book was banned in the United States and would be seized as soon as it came off the printing press, which would lose Cerf millions of dollars.
HUMAN RIGHTS WALL IN PARIS: A MURAL IN TRIBUTE TO SIX CONTEMPORARY ACTIVISTS, OUR PHOTOS
Practitioner:
Mahn Kloix, Amnesty International in France
Date:
Sep 21 2023
Paris inaugurates its first fresco, on the Human Rights Wall, in tribute to six contemporary activists. To be discovered in the capital's 12th arrondissement, this XXL work of committed street art is by Mahn Kloix.
Untitled
Practitioner:
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Date:
May 1 1992
In May 1992, a series of 24 billboards displaying an identical image began appearing throughout New York City. They featured a giant close-up black-and-white photograph, without text, of a rumpled bed, pillows still indented from the heads that had rested there.
Climate Name Change
Practitioner:
Barton Graf Agency
Date:
Sep 1 2014
To bring attention to the widespread apathy toward climate change, nonprofit group 350action and agency Barton F. Graf 9000 got a little personal. Tapping into the meteorological legacy of naming hurricanes after people–thereby marring the good names of unsuspecting Sandys, Irenes and Katrinas everywhere–“Climate Name Change” told the same storm story, but subbed in the name of prominent politicians who refuse to acknowledge climate change.

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