Projects tagged "Environment"

Color-Cycling
Practitioner:
Narcelio Grud
Date:
Apr 23 2012
Ciclo-Color 
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Monuments to Illegal Garbage
Practitioner:
CAC
Date:
Mar 15 2019
This urban action was consisted from mapping of over 50 locations of illegal garbage disposing sights and signing of 16 places across Macedonia where people dispose large amounts of heavy garbage and constructive waste.
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Insane PR Circus Rocks Holland—But It's Not that Polar Bear Thing
Practitioner:
The Yes Men, Greenpeace
Date:
Aug 22 2013
What seemed to be a cruel and bizarre PR campaign took over Amsterdam yesterday as a barge with an apparently drugged polar bear, a Russian child superstar, and a colorful marching band wound through Amsterdam's canals to the city zoo. There, visitors and staff watched Gazprom and Shell reps officiously give the bear to Amsterdam—before being forcibly removed by zoo security and city police.
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Wyrd: Double, Double, Oil, and Trouble
Practitioner:
Reclaim Shakespeare Company
Date:
Jul 7 2012
"Twelve members of the 'Reclaim Shakespeare Company' staged an unexpected protest performance inside the 'Shakespeare: Staging the World' exhibition at the British Museum.
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333 Hz
Practitioner:
Antoine Bertin
Date:
Sep 29 2021
WHAT WOULD WE FEEL IF WE COULD HEAR EACH TREE FALLING IN THE WORLD? 333HZ is an installation translating deforestation monitoring data into a sensorial experience. If a tree falls in a distant forest, and no is around? does it make a sound?
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36.5 / A DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE WITH THE SEA: New York Estuary
Practitioner:
Sarah Cameron Sunde
Date:
Sep 14 2022
A site-specific, community-engaged process: Sarah and NYC collaborators gathered at the water’s edge every month from September 2020 (when the work was initially scheduled to take place but was postponed due to the pandemic) until September 2022, to build Kin To The Cove, a site-specific community-powered environmental public art process that connects local residents to the Cove and Water that surrounds NYC.
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Lines
Practitioner:
Pekka Niittyvirta and Timo Aho
Date:
Jan 1 2017
Located off the west coast of Scotland are the Outer Hebrides, an island chain where Finnish artists Pekka Niittyvirta and Timo Aho decided to install their piece, Lines. The installation is composed of lines of light wrapped around buildings or hovering on a grass field. At high tide, the lights turn on, illuminating the serene landscape, and marking the height of future sea-level rise on the low-lying archipelago.
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Eco-Music Big Band
Practitioner:
Eco-Music Big Band, Fred Ho, Marie Incontrera
Date:
Jan 3 2015
"Writing Political Music in Today's World" I began studying composition with Fred Ho without knowing quite what I was getting myself into. I was 25 with a fresh graduate degree in composition under my belt, lost in that special way only millennial twenty-somethings get to be. I knew I wanted to write political works and, having met Fred twice before, I knew that he was the one who could help me do it.
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Transparency and translation of scientific data to mitigate climate change
Practitioner:
Martin Gropius Bau
Date:
Jul 1 2020
Amongst the European network of cultural institutions there has been widespread recognition that the climate crisis is a cultural crisis. In 2019 members of the European Theatre Forum convened and adopted the Dresden Convention, a revolutionary text that aimed to lower the carbon footprint and better the sustainable practices of the theatre and cultural sector at large.
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Extravaganja
Practitioner:
UMass Student
Date:
Apr 28 1991
Rooted in decades of grassroots organizing, the cannabis reform activism at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is one of the longest-running student-led efforts for marijuana legalization in the United States. Led by the Cannabis Education Coalition (CEC), founded in 1991, this movement combined cultural celebration with political advocacy, using public festivals like Extravaganja to destigmatize cannabis and promote drug policy education.
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Red Paint Splashed on Roosevelt Statue after second “Anti-Columbus Day Tour”
Practitioner:
Monument Removal Brigade
Date:
Oct 26 2017
Just weeks after activists staged an alternative tour of the American Museum of Natural History to call for its removal, among other things, the equestrian statue of Teddy Roosevelt was vandalized early Thursday morning.
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The MoonGirls
Practitioner:
Drama Queens Ghana
Date:
Dec 27 2020
Drama Queens Ghana's “MoonGirls” is an Afrofuturistic graphic novel series. Through an Afrofuturistic lens, “MoonGirls follows the adventures of 4 African "supersheroes" with varying superpowers to save the world from a diverse range of forces; from patriarchy, rape culture to pollution and global warming.
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Stop The Coal Monster
Practitioner:
Stop The Coal Monster
Date:
Jun 12 2021
A series of three animations and posters to support the campaign titled: Stop the Coal Monster. Our demands of Nelson City Council and Tasman District Council: - Prohibit new resource consents for coal use or mining, effectively immediately. - End all existing consents for coal use or mining by 2025. - Ensure adequate monitoring of all current coal users.
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Gota D'Agua
Practitioner:
Ronald Duarte and Emerging Collective
Date:
Mar 21 2015
A site-specific art intervention intended as a call to action in response to Brazil's water crisis. Strategically planned to coincide with UN World Water Day, Gota D'Agua gathered onlookers around an abandoned Olympic size swimming pool at the foot of Edificio Raposo Lopes, a towering luxury condominium building situated on a steep incline overlooking Rio de Janeiro.
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The Aesthetic and Conceptual Impact of El Anatsui's Sculptures
Practitioner:
El Anatsui
Date:
Jan 1 2004
El Anatsui, a visionary originally from Ghana, blends discarded materials into breathtaking sculptures that, in themselves, advocate for change and prompt us to reimagine our relationship with the environment.
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Much Ado About BP
Practitioner:
Reclaim Shakespeare Company
Date:
Oct 24 2012
"Members of the Reclaim Shakespeare Company jumped on stage at the Noël Coward theatre to deliver another surprise anti-BP performance. Just before the second half of a BP-sponsored Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) performance of Much Ado About Nothing was due to begin, the three actor-vists performed a short Shakespeare-inspired piece.
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8 Extraordinary Greens
Practitioner:
jenna spevack
Date:
May 2 2012
"Jenna has designed an efficient, sub-irrigated system for growing energy-packed plants (microgreens) in small, urban spaces. Her aim: to provide healthy greens to extraordinary people with ordinary incomes. As an urban agricultural design project, she envisions a way to grow food in an anthropogenic landscape for all strata of citizens, but as an art project, she hopes to facilitate conversations about
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Where the Tides Ebb and Flow
Practitioner:
Pedro Marzorati
Date:
Oct 12 2015
As you walk through Paris and especially in the Montsouris Park, one cannot help but notice the blue busts that appear to be rising from under the surface of the water. This artwork is known as Where the Tides Ebb and Flow created by Pedro Marzorati , an Argentinian artist.
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The Apocalypse Project: The Ephemeral Marvels Perfume Store
Practitioner:
Catherine Sarah Young
Date:
Oct 9 2014
As climate change worsens, so will our collective sense of loss. Coastlines, cities, crops, and entire species will disappear. Artist Catherine Young has created a perfume line that bottles up the scents of things we enjoy today, but will be diminished–or gone–soon enough. During exhibitions, visitors are allowed to smell the perfumes.
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FTSE - A British Anti-Capitalist Rapper
Practitioner:
FTSE
Date:
Aug 26 2015
"FTSE" is Birmingham-born producer and rapper Sam Manville. As an anti-captialist, he though it would be funny to take the name of the British stock market index (Financial Times and Stock Exchange), but he also jokes the acronym stands for "Fuck The System, Ennit.”
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