Projects tagged "Health"

'On The Borderline' - An Exhibition of Artwork created by individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Practitioner:
Borderline Arts Team
Date:
Dec 1 2017
An Exhibition by talented Artists, giving an insight into their experience of life with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
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The AIDS Memorial Quilt
Practitioner:
Cleve Jones
Date:
Oct 11 1987
Cleve Jones's powerful vision for memorializing those lost to AIDS was realized in October 1987 in Washington D.C. It showcased the artistic contributions of people who'd lost loved ones to the virus from a number of US metropolitan centers. The quilt has continued to grow for the nearly 40 years since. By 1992, the AIDS Memorial Quilt included panels from every state and 28 countries.
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Immortal Fans
Practitioner:
Sport Club Recife
Date:
Jan 1 2014
From this article: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27632527 A campaign by one of Brazil's biggest football clubs to encourage fans to become organ donors has led to a massive rise in the number of life-changing transplants and reduced waiting lists for organs in the area almost to zero.
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Cloud Studies
Practitioner:
Forensic Architecture
Date:
May 29 2020
Forensic Architecture's Cloud Studies is a project that investigates the impact of toxic clouds on colonised and oppressed communities. The clouds, originating from sources like tear gas, industrial emissions, chemical weapons, and forest fires, often go unaddressed due to doubt and denialism.
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Occupy Men’s Toilets
Practitioner:
Five young feminist activists: Wu Rongrong, Zheng Churan, Wang Man, Wei Tingting, and Li Tingting
Date:
Feb 19 2012
The “Occupy Men’s Toilets” movement, initiated by Chinese feminist activists including Li Tingting (Li Maizi) and Wu Rongrong, emerged in 2012 as a creative, non-violent protest against gender inequality in access to public facilities.
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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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Home Improvement Service
Practitioner:
WochenKlausur
Date:
Jan 1 2012
In 2011 a protest movement started in Israel. Citizens expressed their demand for a fair distribution of resources, claiming for the lack of housing and maintenance of the buildings and apartments, due to the privatized housing schemes. In these instances no one feels responsible for maintaining buildings and those in need are forced to live under poor and risky conditions.
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CLIMAVORE: environmental restoration through artistic practices
Practitioner:
Cooking Sections
Date:
Mar 1 2020
In 2016 an eye-catching sparrow was spotted in Scotland. The bird had ingested feed pellets from a nearby salmon farm, turning its feathers pink. Cramped in underwater feedlots, farmed salmon have no access to the prey that colour their flesh in the wild. Instead, they are fed artificial colourants mixed with supplements, drugs, and hormones, causing them to relentlessly produce the additive-filled flesh that fills supermarket shelves.
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Dharavi Biennale
Practitioner:
Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action (SNEHA)
Date:
Feb 17 2015
Dharavi Biennale 
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The Public Market Token Program
Practitioner:
Rochester Public Market
Date:
Sep 1 2014
Through the Market Token program, wooden tokens are used as market currency, making it possible for customers with SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) food-stamp benefits to get fresh, healthy, affordable foods at the Market. Customers stop at the Market office to swipe their Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card and purchase $1 and $5 tokens that function as cash and are accepted by dozens of Market vendors.
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We have to get beyond the shame’: Women of the World launches festival against sexual violence
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in partnership with Birkbeck, University of London, will see national, international and grassroots organisations and charities join forces with local artists and leading voices to address the global crisis of violence against women and sexual assault.
Date:
Nov 27 2021
Gender equality charity Women of the World (WOW) is launching a one-day festival of activism that invites people from all generations, genders and backgrounds to take part in conversations around sexual violence.
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“Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)
Practitioner:
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Date:
Jan 1 1991
Artist: Félix González-Torres Media: Candies in variously coloured wrappers, endless supply, ideal weight of 175 lb Date & Location: 1991 Where can I find this item?: Art Institute of Chicago, Contemporary Art, Gallery 293 Source: Wikimedia Commons (Creative Commons)
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WHAT THE SUICIDE OF AUTHOR LIN YI HAN CAN TEACH US ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH
Practitioner:
Jessie Yang, University of Hong Kong, Break Study Magazine
Date:
May 19 2017
The author behind ‘The First Paradise of Fang Siqi,’ a novel that Han described as ‘a young girl falling in love with her rapist,’ has sent shockwaves through Taiwanese society. On April 27, aspiring Taiwanese author Lin Yi Han committed suicide, leaving behind only her first, and sadly last, novel. The story, entitled “The First Love Paradise of Fang Siqi,” concerns the mental struggles of a young girl who is raped by her teacher.
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Keith Haring’s Barcelona mural: A vibrant call to action
Practitioner:
Keith Haring
Date:
Feb 1 1989
A vibrant red mural in the heart of Barcelona serves as both an artistic expression and social activism. Officially known as the Todos Juntos Podemos Parar el SIDA (Together We Can Stop AIDS), the public art was created by the renowned American artist and AIDS activist Keith Haring in 1989. More than just a work of art, this mural represents a powerful call to action against the AIDS epidemic that was ravaging communities worldwide at the time.
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"Dying to Survive": A Movie on Generic Drugs
Practitioner:
Director Muye Wen (文牧野）, Yong Lu (陆勇)
Date:
Aug 7 2019
The screen portrayal of a cancer sufferer whose illegal import of foreign medicines into China spurred national policy changes has become a box-office smash as audiences flock to a rare Chinese film on a hot-button issue. Dying To Survive is based on Lu Yong, who was arrested in 2013 after illegally importing a generic cancer drug in a case that sparked public debate about high medical costs.
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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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Mtendo MweMa Project
Practitioner:
Correne Gichuru
Date:
Oct 17 2013
Mtendo MweMa Project's mission is to provide a safe house and educational opportunities to girls, especially those in danger of female circumcision, early marriage and pregnancy, whom otherwise have no alternative but to return to their villages during the holiday seasons in Kenya, East Africa.
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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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Calling Me a Hero Only Makes You Feel Better
Practitioner:
Grocery Store Workers, Essential Workers, Front Line Workers
Date:
Apr 18 2020
Working in a grocery store has earned me and my co-workers a temporary status. After years of being overlooked, we suddenly feel a sense of responsibility, solidarity, and pride. On a private Facebook group page for my company, Trader Joe’s, one employee from Washington State posted a picture of a company-issued work shirt hanging from the ceiling of the store. A sign attached to the shirt read not all heroes wear scrubs.
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The Democracy Wall in Carroll Gardens
Practitioner:
CG CORD/Carroll Gardens Coalition for Respectful Development
Date:
Mar 25 2017
The "Democracy Wall" in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn, New York was established in 2009. This wall is a long-term, community art activist project that is part wall mural, part past information archive.
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Chinese women protest at gynaecology checks for civil service jobs
Practitioner:
About 10 College Student
Date:
Nov 16 2012
On November 26, 2012, about ten college students “flash mobbed” the front of the human resources and social welfare department of Hubei Province in central China. "Refuse to take off pants for inspection," "Ask about menstrual history, what does it have to do with being a civil servant." According to the current admission regulations, female candidates for civil service positions must go through a detailed gynecological examination.
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Protesters with fake blood, baby dolls and shackles picket Supreme Court justice’s home
Practitioner:
Pro-Choice Activists
Date:
Jun 20 2022
Pro-choice activists protested outside Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Virginia home on Saturday ahead of the apex court’s decision on a landmark case constitutionally protecting a woman’s right to safe abortion. The activists, part of a group called Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, donned clothes soaked in fake blood, held baby dolls and carried signs with slogans such as “Abortion on demand and without apology”.
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Queer vernaculars and visual narratives IRANTI
Practitioner:
Iranti
Date:
Jan 3 2012
ONGOING ORGANIZATION: CALLED: Iranti [pronounced írantì] is the Yoruba word for ‘memory’. Largely found in South West Nigeria and parts of Benin Republic, the Yoruba people consider memory a prized form of intelligence which determines how often one remembers what they see and hear.
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La Bolsa o La Vida
Practitioner:
School for Creative Activism Participants
Date:
Dec 18 2014
On Thursday 18th December 2014, dozens of leading international health activists staged a colorful protest in front of Hospital del Mar in Barcelona, Spain - highlighting the high prices of Gilead's new hepatitis C treatment, Sovaldi. The medicine costs approximately 40,000 euros in Spain, and $84,000 in the United States, leading to the exclusion from treatment of the majority of patients.
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LOGIC'S '1-800-273-8255' OFFERS AN HONEST TAKE ON SUICIDE & AMERICAN YOUTH
Practitioner:
Logic
Date:
Apr 28 2017
Logic, a rapper known to incorporate meaningful messages with his music, recently released his newest track, “1-800-273-8255.” Covering topics of depression and suicide, the song and its subsequent music video uses the phone number of a national suicide hotline as its title.
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