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2016
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Guerilla Girls
Practitioner
Guerilla Girls
Date
Feb 13 1985

The Guerilla Girls are masked art activists who seek to bring attention to women in the art world and expose the unfair dominance of white males in the field. Their research into the racial and gender inequality in the art world is exposed through ironically worded public posters and billboards.

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Comusitària
Practitioner
Comusitària
Date
Oct 1 2013

Comusitària is a Community Cultural Development agency based in Barcelona run by Noemi Rubio and Laia Serra. They work in the production, management, research and dissemination of artistic projects that build social capital and enable citizens to live more active, critical and creative lives.

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Participatory Chinatown: Promoting Civic Engagement
Practitioner
MacArthur Foundation and Muzzy Lane
Date
May 6 2010
Taken from Boston Globe Article:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2010/05/06/chinatown_the_video_game/ 

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Cross-Border Communication
Practitioner
Broken City Lab
Date
Nov 1 2009

From Creative Time, Social Practice Archive: Produced by the Windsor, Canada-based collective Broken City Lab—an artist-led interdisciplinary research group—Cross-Border Communication was a performative public art project that took place in November 2009 between the cities of Windsor and Detroit, which are separated by the Detroit River. For three nights, Broken City Lab projected a series of messages across the river which were visible in Detroit.

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Rituals Adjacent to Capitalism
Practitioner
Liat Berdugo, Leora Fridman
Date
Jan 1 2016

The project provides somatic rituals to solve the problems of creative makers, offering specific somatic instructions for how to deal with breaks in (or lack of) creativity. Rituals available as a live, interactive performance and as limited-edition chapbooks, and broaden an understanding of creative “results,” “ends and means,” and the idea of a muse/magic as relates to creative labour.

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Dignidad Rebelde
Practitioner
Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza
Date
May 12 2012

Oakland-based artist-activists Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza teamed up to form Dignidad Rebelde, a graphic arts collaboration working for social change.  They believe that art can be an empowering reflection of
community struggles, dreams and visions, and  following principles of
Xicanisma and Zapatismo, create work that translates people’s stories

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Time/Bank
Practitioner
Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle
Date
Feb 26 2015

Time as currency is an interesting economic model related to artistic practice.

According to the creators of Time/Bank, Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle, the project "is a tool by which people or a group of people can create an alternative economic model where they exchange their time and skills, rather than acquire goods and services through the use of money or any other state-backed value."

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Thrive Collective
Practitioner
Jeremy R. Del Rio, Esq
Date
Jan 1 2011

Thrive Collective mobilizes students, parents, artists, and community stakeholders to partner with public schools for transformational change. They function both as a matchmaker and direct service provider of arts and mentoring programs that cultivate the character and competencies necessary for students to thrive in today’s world.

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What I Couldn't Say In Public
Practitioner
Unknown
Date
Mar 6 2015

"What I Couldn't Say in Public" transforms individual secrets into a public, anonymous spectacle.

While origins and exact location of the "What I Couldn't Say in Public" project are unknown, awareness about the project has grown over the micro-blogging platform of Tumblr. Amassing over 132,480 notes on the website, this practice may have possibly inspired others to imitate the same or similar projects in different locations.

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Dare to Connect
Practitioner
Creativity & Change
Date
Apr 13 2017

We were aiming to raise awareness and empathy around the theme of loneliness and disconnection, by engaging with passers by on a personal level and helping them to think about what they could do to make others feel less disconnected.

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Project Row House
Practitioner
Rob Lowe
Date
Jan 1 1993

Project Row Houses (PRH) is a neighborhood-based nonprofit art and cultural organization in Houston’s Northern Third Ward, one of the city’s oldest African-American communities. PRH began in 1993 as a result of discussions among African-American artists who wanted to establish a positive, creative presence in their own community.

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Step Into My Shoes And Sit In My Seat
Practitioner
Participants of the Creativity and Change course Cork City
Date
Mar 11 2017

Topic: Displaced people
Concept: Explore and communicate some of the issues around displacement in a global, European and Irish context.
Date of action: 11th March 2.30 to 4.20 pm
Place: Emmett Place, Cork City, Ireland

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