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2016
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Projects tagged "Health"

Reflections from Inside
Practitioner:
We Save Lives; Kris Caudilla
Date:
Apr 7 2016
We Save Lives, a non-profit created by MADD founder Candace Lightner, has launched "Reflections from Inside," an online film against drunk driving.
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FEMALE WORKERS AT SHOP IN JAPAN ASKED TO WEAR BADGES IF ON THEIR PERIOD TO COMBAT STIGMA
Practitioner:
Michi Kake Store
Date:
Nov 1 2019
Female staff members at a new shop in Osaka, Japan are being encouraged to wear badges to indicate when they’re on their period to tackle the stigma surrounding menstruation in the country. Women working at the Michi Kake store, which sells an array of female sexual and menstrual health products, do not have to take part in the scheme, but those that do will pin one of the “period badges” next to their regular name tags.
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#Protect Girls Project -- Anti-surrogacy Stickers
Practitioner:
粉打PINKPUNCH
Date:
Jan 19 2021
Many girls in China may have seen the advertisements of egg donation as a surrogate, in hospitals, schools, public toilets, shared bikes, ATMs...... They are everywhere and the number of this kind of advertisements is large. Though there are lots of girls who have never seen such advertisements or would never believe in them, there would still be some girls who would dial the numbers on the advertisements.
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Elegy: GTA USA Gun Homicides
Practitioner:
Joseph DeLappe
Date:
Jul 4 2018
A computer game as a data visualizer - a daily reenactment of the total number of USA gun homicides since January 1st, 2018. The project works from a daily update of gun homicides as scraped from the Gun Violence Archive.
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China's Vacuum-Cleaner Artist Turning Beijing's Smog into Bricks
Practitioner:
Nut Brother
Date:
Dec 1 2015
Beijing and the rest of cities in northern China suffer from years of smog pollution.The beige-gray miasma of smog brings coughs and rasping. Hospitals are crowded from respiratory ailments and a midday sky is so dim. But “Brother Nut(坚果兄弟)“, a performance artist, has something solid to show from the acrid soup in the air: a brick of condensed pollution.
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A Monologue Film for BPD - "I Am Borderline: Self-Regulation Project"
Practitioner:
Betsy Usher
Date:
Mar 1 2016
This beautiful short film present a monologue of person living with BPD, leading the audience to experience and explore their inner voice. BPD is a serious and prevalent (1 in 15 person) mental illness. However, of the major mental illnesses, individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are perhaps among the most stigmatized.
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Building Images
Practitioner:
Isabelle Wenzel
Date:
Feb 6 2010
Isabelle Wenzel's series of photographs entitled 'Building Images' is a striking view on the idea of the office/ workplace. Not only do her images ironically translate the uncomfortable positions office workers endure sitting in a single position for 8 hours a day, but she also takes on a feminist approach by focusing on feminine models in her photographs that center upon the contorted body and office fashion worn.
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Gucci model stages mental health protest at Milan fashion week
Practitioner:
Ayesha Tan Jones
Date:
Sep 22 2019
If fashion is a reflection of the times it is little wonder that the current round of shows have often felt discombobulating. Gucci’s show on Sunday night was particularly surreal, opening with a series of models being propelled along a conveyor belt catwalk, staring bleakly ahead, wearing a high fashion take on straitjackets.
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Brain Work: A Meditation on the Painting of Katherine Sherwood
Practitioner:
Georgina Kleege
Date:
Jan 1 2008
Brain Work: A Meditation on the Painting of Katherine Sherwood by Georgina Kleege
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China’s Creative Acts of Protest: Memes, Puns and Blank Sheets of Paper
Practitioner:
People of China
Date:
Nov 28 2202
In Shanghai, a vigil grew into a street protest where many held blank sheets of white paper in a symbol of tacit defiance. In Beijing, students at Tsinghua University raised signs showing a math equation devised by the Russian physicist Alexander Friedmann, whose surname in Chinese is a homonym for “free man.”
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The "marriage effect"
Practitioner:
Amnesty International
Date:
Mar 20 2014
Rights activists in Mozambique have marched through the capital Maputo to protest a colonial era law still included in new legislation that allows rapists to go unpunished if they marry their victims. The "marriage effect" clause sees convicted rapists given a five-year suspended sentence if they marry their victims and stipulates that the perpetrator should stay married to the victim for at least five years.
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Waffles + Mochi
Practitioner:
Michelle Obama/ Netflix
Date:
Feb 9 2021
"Michelle Obama’s mission of encouraging kids to eat healthier is getting a global spin — and a few puppet allies. The former first lady is launching a kids’ cooking show on Netflix as part of the production deal between Netflix and the production company she founded with her husband, former president Barack Obama.
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"The Body Of Water"
Practitioner:
Desiree Duell
Date:
Jun 19 2015
In November 2016, citizens of Flint, MI filed a historic class action law suit against both city and state for the damages wrought by lead contaminants in the water supply. The city's 100 thousand inhabitants have faced damages not only to their homes for the corrosive qualities of the water, but in myriad physical ailments; skin lesions, hair loss, high lead blood levels, vision loss, depression and anxiety are all reported symptoms.
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Ruby Latoya Frazier's "A Haunted Capital"
Practitioner:
Ruby Latoya Frazier
Date:
Apr 27 2013
Ruby Latoya Frazier's photographs are currently up at the Brooklyn Museum until August 11, 2013.
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Some Good News
Practitioner:
John Krasinski
Date:
Mar 29 2020
SomeGoodNews is a Youtube channel started by actor John Krasinski. The videos in the channels are aimed at discussing and sharing good news happening these days. The channel was set up as a way to help alleviate the mental health strain the COVID-19 epidemic has had on many people.
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Fall in Love With Nature
Practitioner:
Nature's Cupids
Date:
Apr 28 2018
We set up a gazebo and table in a public park. The gazebo had two notice boards in the shape of trees where reflections were encouraged. We had a sign with the name of the action "Fall in Love With Nature" painted upon it. On the table were resource lists for the public to take away with links to books and websites on the topic of forest bathing and connecting with nature.
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The Art of Heroin Bags
Practitioner:
VICE
Date:
Mar 28 2012
Heroin sold in the northeast, specifically in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey tends to come in little glassine baggies. The art comes from the individual and unique "stamp" on said baggie sold to a user.
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La Colifata
Practitioner:
Borda Mental Health Institution
Date:
Feb 4 1990
More than 20 years ago, a psychology student doing his training at one of Argentina's oldest psychiatric wards kept being asked by his family and friends what it was like to work in there. So he came up with an idea: to let the patients explain in their own words. The first radio station to broadcast from inside a mental hospital was born.
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Menstruation Terrorism
Practitioner:
Kashafa Khan
Date:
Feb 7 2006
Menstruation Terrorism is the act of frightening folks with the visibility of menstruation.
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Joe Chemo
Practitioner:
Scott Plous via Adbusters
Date:
Jan 1 1996
From http://www.joechemo.org/about.htm
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Bread and Puppet Theater
Practitioner:
Peter Schumann
Date:
Jan 1 1963
The Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side. Besides rod-puppet and hand puppet shows for children, the concerns of the first productions were rents, rats, police, and other problems of the neighborhood. More complex theater pieces followed, in which sculpture, music, dance and language were equal partners. The puppets grew bigger and bigger.
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‘Memorial’
Practitioner:
Cherill Linnett and woman activists
Date:
Mar 8 2020
Cheril Linett is a female artist from Chile, with a background in performance art and stage performance, who primarily focuses her artwork on feminist issues in Chile, especially ones involving violence, murder, hate crime and different kinds of oppression and assault, but also creates artwork reflecting issues in other parts of Latin America.
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For the People Artists Collective: Virtual Quilt Project
Practitioner:
For the People Artists Collective
Date:
Jul 9 2020
During the COVID-19 pandemic, two Chicago-based organizations, For the People Artists Collective and Chicago Community Bond Fund, worked together to create Decarcerate Now, a virtual quilt honoring individuals who died of COVID-19 while in the custody of the Cook County Jail (CCJ).
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Art Therapist for Human Rights
Practitioner:
Art therapists
Date:
Jan 13 2017
We demand that AATA respond to Karen Pence's stated commitment to our field by asking her to publicly take action for the rights of LGBTQIA people, Native people, Black and Brown people, Muslims, survivors of sexual assault, people with disabilities, immigrants, refugees and all people who are in danger as a result of the policies of the current administration.
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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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