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Tá Pirando, Pirado, Pirou!
Practitioner
Tá Pirando
Date
Mar 3 2014

At Carnival, Where Challenging Normal Is the Norm
By NADIA SUSSMAN and TAYLOR BARNES
New York Times MARCH 2, 2014

RIO DE JANEIRO — Standing high atop a truck rigged with speakers, André da Silva Lisboa cried out to hundreds of drummers, dancers and costumed revelers gathering in the sun-drenched avenue below.
“Carnival has arrived,” shouted Mr. da Silva Lisboa, 38, a samba singer. “Come to the streets! We’re freaking out!”

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FloodNet
Practitioner
Electronic Disturbance Theatre
Date
Jan 1 1998

FloodNet was a conceptual artwork and a tool for online collective action.

Developed by the collective Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), it took the form of a Java applet that allowed users to send useless requests or personalized messages to a remote web server in a coordinated fashion, thereby slowing it down and filling its error logs with words of protest and gibberish—a kind of virtual sit-in.

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Imagining Life after the Ravaging, Virulent COVID-19 Pandemic , A Special Journal.
Practitioner
Mbizo Chirasha - Publisher/Curator and Jamie Dedes- Guest Editor
Date
Jun 29 0020

The signature angst of our time was profoundly expressed in the poems submitted for WOMAWORDS Literary Press June 2020 edition, Imaging Life After COVID-19, offering women poets an opportunity to write about their experience of the pandemic and their vision of or for the future. The universal trauma wrought by this virus, invisible and silent and pouncing with madness and mendacity, brings us to a place we’d like to forget but never will.

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Art and Activism (TV Documentary)
Practitioner
Leonidas Martin, Enmedio, Yomango
Date
Feb 19 2012

A television report written, directed and produced by Enmedio members Leónidas Martín and Xavier Artigas. Collective projects that see art as a kind of social relationship. Artistic interventions that target consumption, media guerrilla tactics, creative mobilisations and protest, critical projects brimming with humour and disobedience, new narratives capable of changing the existing symbols and codes.

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Hypothetical Development Organization
Practitioner
Hypothetical Development Organization
Date
Dec 1 2010

Members of this organization begin the narrative process by examining city neighborhoods and commercial districts for compelling structures that appear to have fallen into disuse —“hidden gems” of the built environment. In varying states of repair, these buildings suggest only stories about the past, not the future.

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The New York Times Special Edition
Practitioner
Steve Lambert, The Yes Men, Not an Alternative!, CODEPINK, Packard Jennings, May First/People Link, Improv Everywhere, Joseph DeLappe, L.M. Bogad, FAIR, Stephen Duncombe
Date
Nov 9 2008

On November twelfth, 2008, over 80,000 copies of a replica of the New York Times were distributed in several cities around the United States. The paper included 14 pages of “best case scenario” news set nine months in the future.

See the The New York Times Special Edition website.

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Secret Anti-Abuse Message That Only Kids Can See
Practitioner
Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk Foundation, or ANAR
Date
May 4 2013

Spanish organization the ANAR Foundation (Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk) releases a campaign that takes advantage of the process of lenticular printing to send an offer of help to abused children without alerting their abusers, even if they’re walking together.

Lenticular printing is a process that allows for different photos to be seen depending on the angle the image is viewed from.

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Health Care Not Wealth Care: Posters on Health Activism and Social Justice
Practitioner
Center for the Study of Political Graphics and the Esperanza Community Housing Corporation
Date
Jul 1 2019

The Center for the Study of Political Graphics and the Esperanza Community Housing Corporation have combined forces to bring 75 powerful and engaging poster works on broad issues of health care to audiences traditionally excluded from the art world in Los Angeles and elsewhere. Both organizations have been in the forefront of social change for three decades.

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Embody the Message: Occupy the Mind
Practitioner
We Will Not Be Silent
Date
Apr 8 2012

Embody the Message: Occupy the Mind This t-shirt / language project began in March 2006, when a small group of artists and activists decided to embody the historic words “WE WILL NOT BE SILENT” while doing a public action in New York City.

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School of Echoes
Practitioner
Ultra-Red
Date
Apr 18 2001

Ultra-Red is a collective founded by two AIDS activists in 1994 to explore the intersection of the political and aesthetic through "militant sound investigations".

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Resonate, Reverberate, Roar,
Practitioner
Elana Mann
Date
Oct 17 2013

Resonate, Reverberate, Roar (Re-Re-Roar) is a growing archive of original sounds that express an experimental, independent, and socially progressive spirit. The sounds on Re-Re-Roar include field recordings, interviews, songs, speeches, experimental music, and more. Re-Re-Roar is a site for research and activ[ist] listening, with the purpose of distributing sounds of resistance to eager ears around the globe.

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Socially Distant: Stories from a world apart during COVID19 social distancing
Practitioner
The People Phone
Date
Jan 1 2020

How it works:

1. Call or text “hello” to (951) 963-3643 to share your experience. Make sure you’re in a quiet place. Maximum recording time is 10 minutes.

2. Please start by telling us where you’re calling from. Perhaps you can even paint a picture of your surroundings for anyone who listens. Then share what you want to say.

3. Hang up when you’re finished.

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