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Queering Utopia: Circus Amok at the Scholar & Feminist Conference on Utopia
Practitioner
Circus Amok, Jennifer Miller
Date
Apr 22 2013

“Stay cool, stay calm, you have the right to remain silent. / Don’t run, don’t resist, and get that badge number.”

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Visions From The Inside - Art project inspired by letters by detained migrants
Practitioner
Visions From The Inside
Date
Aug 3 2015

CultureStrike in partnership with Mariposas Sin Fronteras , End Family Detention and 15 artists from across the country, brings you Visions From The Inside, a visual art project inspired by letters penned by detained migrants.

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Make Love, Not Porn
Practitioner
Cindy Gallop
Date
Dec 2 2009

At TED2009, audience member Cindy Gallop gave a 4-minute presentation that became one of the event’s most talked about. Speaking from her personal experience, she argued that hardcore pornography had distorted the way a generation of young men think about sex, and talked about how she was fighting back with the launch of a website to correct the myths being propagated.

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Artist Relocates Abandoned Detroit Home
Practitioner
Ryan Mendoza
Date
Feb 26 2016

As art projects go, it's pretty audacious.

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Nick Cave Scavenges From a Shameful History: "Made for Whites by Whites"
Practitioner
Nick Cave
Date
Sep 1 2014

Marcel Duchamp, father of the readymade, forced the world to consider mundane things as significant objects, worthy of greater-than-average contemplation — yet his bicycle wheel, shovel, and urinal didn’t come freighted with all that much history.

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Protest against Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
Practitioner
Sarah Constantin
Date
Jan 28 2016

A Femen activist, Sarah Constantin, is hanged from a noose-like rope from a Paris bridge to call attention to the large number of executions in Iran as she stages a protest against visiting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Paris, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016. A near-naked woman hanging from a noose-like rope from a Paris bridge has sent a message to visiting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.

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turn ignorance around - Latinos Admit to Being 'Murderers,' 'Traffickers' and 'Thieves' in Anti-Trump Ad
Practitioner
CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles)
Date
Mar 17 2016

Earlier this week, Republican group Our Principles PAC used presidential candidate Donald Trump's own words against him in an ad featuring women reading his offensive quotes about the opposite sex. (http://creativity-online.com/work/our-principles-pac-real-quotes-from-do...)

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Your Drunk Neighbor: Donald Trump
Practitioner
Friend Dog Studios
Date
Oct 3 2015

The video shows an actor as "your drunk neighbor" lipsyncing to real soundbites from Donald Trump.

The artists who made the video claim, "If you close your eyes while listening to presidential hopeful Donald Trump, you can see and smell that neighbor you have with too many dogs and a drinking problem."

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Project Ukko
Practitioner
Moritz Stefaner, FutureEverything Festival, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Euporias
Date
Mar 30 2016

Alex King describes Project Ukko in detail for Huck Magazine (March 17, 2016):

"Moritz Stefaner’s Project Ukko turns climate and wind data into an immersive art installation that allows viewers to explore the future of the planet."

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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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Protest Posters for Fees Must Fall
Practitioner
Burning Museum and Faith47
Date
Oct 3 2015

Daniel Hewson describes the use of protest posters and the work of collective, Burning Museum, and artist, Faith47, in the Fees Must Fall movement taking place in South Africa:

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Ghost Protest in Seoul
Practitioner
Amnesty International in Korea
Date
Feb 24 2016

Haeryun Kang reported the following for NPR on February 24, 2016:

"On the eve of South Korean President Park Geun-hye's third anniversary in office, protesters gathered in Seoul... to condemn the administration's increasing crackdown on free speech. These protesters were unlike any others Seoul has seen. They were holograms"

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