Projects tagged "Politics & Government"

Birthday Party For A Pothole
Practitioner:
Amemos Tijuana
Date:
Feb 23 2013
A group of young adults under the name of "Love Tijuana" (Amemos Tijuana) celebrated the one year "Birthday" of a pothole located at the Via Rapida (Tijuana's Freeway) with balloons, banners, and even hats.
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Khalil Bandib: Cartoons that Speak Truth to Power
Practitioner:
Khalil Bandib
Date:
Jan 1 2007
Khalil Bandib is a Berkeley-based, award-winning editorial cartoonist with a unique perspective. He critiques a myriad of topics, from racism and homophobia to foreign policy and the Patriot Act. Bandib was born in North Africa under a French colonist regime; he brings a non-Eurocentric perspective not typically visible in large corporate media.
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#wakandathevote
Practitioner:
The Movement for Black Lives
Date:
Feb 18 2018
The Movement for Black Lives recognized a great opportunity to register a whole lot of people to vote: the opening weekend of Black Panther. According to activist Kayla Reed, the campaign has already inspired similar drives all over the country.
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Europe's First Underwater Museum Offers A Stark Reminder of the Refugee Crisis
Practitioner:
James DeCairas Taylor
Date:
Feb 5 2016
Strap into your scuba gear — this museum is worth it. Installation began on Museo Atlantico — the latest project of underwater sculptor James deCaires Taylor — this week, 14 meters underwater in Lanzarote, one of the Spain’s Canary Islands off the coast of West Africa. Taylor, whose creations have spanned the waters from the Bahamas to London, calls it the first underwater contemporary art museum in Europe and the Atlantic Ocean.
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Blu Gets Political in Mexico
Practitioner:
Blu /Fifty24MX
Date:
Mar 3 2015
Italian street artist Blu was recently in Mexico to participate at the ManifestoMX Street Art Festival where he completed this intense and politically charged mural in opposition to the Mexican authorities.
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The SOA Cycle
Practitioner:
Carlos Motta
Date:
Jan 1 2015
"SOA Cycle, and what it later became, which is called the Democracy Cycle, is a group of seven large works that approach the question of democracy. What is democracy? How is it constructed? How is it implemented? Is it something that is to be thought of in relation to its political influence? Or is it something that plays out in terms of cultural and social, and even emotional terms, for instance?
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Can Reddit Vote Down a Congressman?
Practitioner:
Test PAC
Date:
Apr 24 2012
By Tim Murphy, Mother Jones
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The Oatmeal Protests SOPA and PIPA
Practitioner:
The Oatmeal
Date:
Jan 12 2012
On January 18, 2012, numerous website across the internet called for an internet blackout in protest of SOPA and PIPA. SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, and PIPA, the Protect IP Act, were a series of bills promoted by Hollywood in the US Congress that would have created a “blacklist” of censored websites.
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Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
Practitioner:
Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
Date:
Mar 7 2013
Jews For Palestinian Right of Return January 1, 2013 “For Palestinians, the right to return home and the right to live in dignity and equality in their own land are not any less important than the right to live free of military occupation.” –Prof. Saree Makdisi[1] For more than a century, Zionists have sought to construct a “Jewish state” through forced removal of the indigenous Palestinian people.
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"White Square" Activists Gather in Red Square
Practitioner:
White Square
Date:
Apr 9 2012
<br>Care2.com April 9, 2012 By Sarah Vrba There have been regular protests in Moscow in the wake of Vladimir Putin’s re-election to the presidential seat in March. Early last month, thousands of protesters gathered in downtown Moscow in response to what they felt were rigged elections in favor of Putin. Over the last month, organizers have faced an uphill battle as they have attempted to keep protesters motivated.
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Takeaways from J. Cole's New Album, KOD
Practitioner:
J. Cole
Date:
Apr 20 2018
In keeping with his activist turn on 2016’s 4 Your Eyez Only, J. Cole’s new album, KOD, is an exploration of addiction. The title has three different meanings that all speak to this aim: Kids On Drugs, King OverDosed, and Kill Our Demons. Each feeds into the next in this narcotic odyssey.
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IMPEACH
Practitioner:
Patricia Dahlman
Date:
Jul 4 2017
IMPEACH An online exhibition of art work by twenty artists Katherine Aoki, Deborah Harris, Nicolas Lampert,Cicely Cottingham, Art Hazelwood, Ilse Schreiber-Noll, Priscilla Stadler, Tim Fite, Anne Q McKeown, Anne Dushanko Dobek, Robyn Ellenbogen, Joseph O’Neal, Donna Coleman, Robert Geshlider, Michael Dal Cerro, Leona Strassberg Steiner, Barbara Madsen, Ray Must, Carol Radsprecher and Patricia Dahlman
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Immigrant Movement International
Practitioner:
Tania Bruguera, Partnership with Queens Museum of Art
Date:
Jan 1 2011
Tania Bruguera, in partnership with the Queens Museum of Art, began a long term art project in form of an artist initiated socio-political movement. Immigrant Movement International is an organization headquartered in the multinational neighborhood of Corona, Queens. The organization engages local, national and international audiences and focuses on the issues of immigration reform.
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The Subtle Muckrakers of the Coronavirus Epidemic
Practitioner:
Chinese well-respected outlets (such as Caixin magazine) and social media s
Date:
Jan 23 2020
The outbreak of the coronavirus has brought international scrutiny down on China’s political system. Again. A few commentators have applauded the efficiency of the Chinese Communist Party’s response, but most have zoomed in on its weaknesses. Some have even blamed the party itself for the outbreak, calling the disease a “Communist coronavirus” or “the Belt and Road Pandemic.”
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'Wolf Warrior artist' strives to use new art to spread truth and inspire patriotism
Practitioner:
Wuheqilin
Date:
Jun 18 2020
With delicate composition, striking details and strong emotion, five editorial posters drawn by Wuheqilin have attracted some half million followers to his account on Sina Weibo, China's Twitter-like social media platform. His political views expressed in his art have led to some netizens dubbing him the "Wolf Worrier artist."
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Smithsonian Collection of "Occupy Wall Street" Posters on View at Wesleyan
Practitioner:
Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Wesleyan University's Davison Art Center
Date:
Apr 5 2013
After collecting street art and memorabilia from "Occupy Wall Street" since the fall of 2011, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History has lent its collection of Occupy Wall Street posters to Wesleyan's Davison Art Center. The posters will make up an exhibition entitled “Artists Take Action: Protest Posters Today,” which is on display in the University's gallery from April 5 to May 26.
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Rainbow Makeover: Swedish Response to Russian anti-LGBTQ+ Discrimination.
Practitioner:
Local LGBT activists
Date:
Aug 12 2013
Swedish lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights advocates offered their colorful stance on Russia's controversial anti-gay legislation over the weekend.
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University of Corrupted Sciences
Practitioner:
Faculty of University of Corrupted Sciences
Date:
Jan 23 2020
On the International Day of Education with students we have organized that creative action to ironizing the phenomenon of corruption in education. We founded “University of Corrupted Sciences” as a symbol of all the issues that have characterized the education system in our transition years.
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Hip Hop Caucus
Practitioner:
Hip Hop Caucus
Date:
Sep 1 2004
MISSION The mission of the Hip Hop Caucus is to organize young people to be active in elections, policymaking and service projects. We mobilize, educate, and engage young people, ages 14 to 40, on the social, issues that directly impact their lives and communities. COMPANY OVERVIEW
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Rockers Unite for Haiti Benefits
Practitioner:
Jay-Z, Springsteen, Radiohead, etc.
Date:
Feb 18 2010
Jay-Z rapped alongside side Bono, the Edge and Rihanna; Coldplay's Chris Martin moonlighted as Beyoncé's piano player; Justin Timberlake covered Leonard Cohen — and those performances, from January 22nd's multinetwork, $66 million-grossing telethon for Haitian earthquake victims, were just the most visible of musicians' efforts to raise funds.
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Breathing lights
Practitioner:
Adam Frelin and architect Barbara Nelson
Date:
Nov 1 2016
In October and November 2016, Breathing Lights illuminated the windows of hundreds of vacant buildings in Albany, Schenectady and Troy, NY. Warm light filled each window with a diffuse glow that mimicked the gentle rhythm of human breathing. Concentrated in neighborhoods with high levels of vacancy, Breathing Lights transformed abandoned structures from pockets of shadows into places of warmth.
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Actor Jim Carrey has emerged as an unlikely political artist and activist
Practitioner:
Jim Carrey
Date:
Jan 1 2018
Actor and comedian Jim Carrey has always been known for his slapstick silliness. You know the films — "Dumb and Dumber," "The Mask," "Liar Liar," "Ace Ventura," just to name a few. But he also always managed to peel back the comic goofiness for more serious turns in films like "The Truman Show" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind."
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The Pianists of Ukraine
Practitioner:
Artists
Date:
Feb 10 2014
In Kiev, clashes between protestors and police have persisted since December. Blood has been shed, and the political stability of Ukraine remains uncertain. During late January and early February, the opposition began to play music (from pianos) in front of riot police. These artists modus operandi has been to serenade protestors and police toward peaceful consensuses.
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Snake Ceiling
Practitioner:
Ai Wei Wei
Date:
Aug 17 2013
On May 12, 2008, a massive earthquake in China’s Sichuan province killed approximately 90,000 people. Ai Weiwei created this serpentine sculpture, made of backpacks, to commemorate the more than 5,000 school children who were killed when their shoddily constructed schools collapsed.
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A Presidential Parody
Practitioner:
A Presidential Parody, Maia Lorian, Abe Lincoln Jr.
Date:
Nov 19 2018
NEW YORK, Ny., Nov 19, 2018 - Two artists, Actress/Creator/Native New Yorker Maia Lorian and collaborator veteran NYC Street Artist Abe Lincoln Jr. bring to you “A Presidential Parody.” In a nation that seems to place higher value on the American dollar over the American life, the artists felt it was time to release an ad campaign that reflects Trump’s “all American” values.
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