Projects tagged "Does nothing (at all)"

Doesn't really have an impact, beyond possibly expressing the artist-activist's dissatisfaction with the world.

Dude Protests with a Sign
Practitioner:
Seth Phillips
Date:
Feb 8 2020
From an article in BoredPanda: "If you’ve ever felt like your voice and opinion doesn’t matter in the vast world, then Seth is here to prove you wrong. This New Yorker runs the ‘Dude With Sign’ Instagram account where he uploads photos of himself protesting the strangest, weirdest, most random things. And the best thing is, we can relate to most of what he’s written on his signs.
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Fanism - Tallahassee Native John Gertomo's Flock
Practitioner:
Anonymous Users
Date:
Jun 1 2012
On a now defunct MMO, users rallied together under a fake religion to protest religious groups proselytizing on the messageboards.
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Anti-Trump protesters lay ‘body bags’ outside one of his New Jersey golf clubs
Practitioner:
Refuse Fascism Philly
Date:
Apr 4 2020
Social distancing guidelines didn’t stop members of Refuse Fascism Philly from criticizing President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic on Saturday. Rather than march as a crowd through Center City, a handful of protesters from the group, which has repeatedly called for Trump’s removal, drove their cars through Philadelphia before arriving at the Trump National Golf Club in Pine Hill, N.J.
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Zaria Forman Artistic Practice
Practitioner:
Zaria Forman
Date:
Jan 1 2019
TED TALK: I consider it my life's mission to convey the urgency of climate change through my work. I've traveled north to the Arctic to the capture the unfolding story of polar melt, and south to the Equator to document the subsequent rising seas. Most recently, I visited the icy coast of Greenland and the low-lying islands of the Maldives, connecting two seemingly disparate but equally endangered parts of our planet.
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WE CHANT RESISTANCE!
Practitioner:
Mbizo Chirasha
Date:
Apr 19 0020
This special EDition is a revolutionary chant against the menacing cantankerous demonic , satanic COVID 19. And again doubles as a bold and poetic supplication to the great Almighty God to release us off this pandemic bondage. This Edition is a poetically driven spiritual prayer for freedom of expression and freedom after expression.
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When Luxury Stores Decorate Their Riot Barricades With Protest Art
Practitioner:
Various Artists
Date:
Jun 22 2020
Three months ago, when New York government officials ordered nonessential businesses closed to slow the spread of coronavirus, high-end retailers sheathed their stores in plywood barriers, as though readying for civil unrest.
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My Calling (Card) #1 Meta-Performance (1987-88; 00:58:00)
Practitioner:
Adrian Piper
Date:
Jan 30 1987
Adrian Piper created 'calling cards' that can stand alone as individual works, but Piper also used them in performances.
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ChallengeAccepted: empowering women
Practitioner:
Women in Turkey, global online users
Date:
Jan 1 2016
#ChallengeAccepted, also known as the Challenge Accepted campaign, is an Instagram tagged challenge as well as an awareness campaign on empowering women involving sharing posts of black-and-white selfies.
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El Anatsui’s Artistic Practice
Practitioner:
El Anatsui
Date:
Jan 1 2020
DOHA — In an interview with the Paris Review in 1993, the late Toni Morrison once said, I think of beauty as an absolute necessity. I don’t think it’s a privilege or an indulgence. It’s not even a quest. I think it’s almost like knowledge, which is to say it’s what we were born for.
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FAITH is the Vaccine to calm down TURBULENCE-Brave Voices@70
Practitioner:
Mbizo Chirasha-Publisher/Projects Curator, Francis Otole-Guest Editor, Rebecca Robinson-Artist in Residence
Date:
Jun 29 0020
BRAVE VOICES POETRY JOURNAL is the scripture of FREEDOM religion, with her twin’s doctrine of justice and resilience. It comprises two Testaments. (1) the old testament of precolonial Africa; from Genesis of civilization through Exodus to slavery. From kings; Mansa,Tshaka , Selassie…through Psalms; Senghor, Diops,Okara,Brutus.
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