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2016
Chrysaleta

Projects tagged "Argentina"

Manual de micromilitancia
Practitioner:
Unnamed
Date:
Jan 9 2016
Less than a month after Mauricio Macri's inauguration as president of Argentina in December 2015, a manual for micro-resistance was released online to guide resistance against Macri's election and policies. The manual suggests specific actions that people can perform in their everyday lives to build opposition against the new president.
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The Project Filoctetes
Practitioner:
Emilio García Wehbi
Date:
Nov 15 2002
The protagonism of the body in the dramatization of marginalized groups is also central to Emilio García Wehbi's Proyecto Filoctetes, an urban intervention staged November 15, 2002, on the streets of Buenos Aires. The project consisted in placing twenty-five lifelike latex mannequins in central, highly trafficked locations around the city in varying positions of injury, physical distress, and abandonment.
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A Map of Error
Practitioner:
The Errorist Movement
Date:
Jan 15 2005
Buenos Aires in Argentina is the only city in the world where streets named Palestine and Israel intersect on the city grid. Taking advantage of this situation, The Errorist Movement decided to protest against the conflict in Gaza in that location in Buenos Aires.
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Partido de la Red, Argentina's Internet Party
Practitioner:
Partido de la Red (in English, Internet Party)
Date:
Oct 1 2014
The following is Alex King's description of the founding of the Partido de la Red in Buenos Aires, Argentina:
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Melting Man: Red Cross-Sponsored Activist "Melts" On Sidewalk
Practitioner:
Red Cross
Date:
Dec 10 2008
A young man melting into a puddle of himself is something you don’t see everyday, much less in a busy public square. Yet this humourous but surprisingly effective spectacle is the latest effort by the Red Cross of Argentina to raise awareness about climate change.
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León Ferrari: A Retrospective
Practitioner:
León Ferrari and his supporters
Date:
Nov 30 2004
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Los Intocables
Practitioner:
Erik Ravelo
Date:
Sep 1 2013
A CUBAN artist's controversial photographs of children being hung from crosses has landed him in hot water. Erik Ravelo took a series of photos of children hung like Jesus from a cross, but in the place of the cross were soldiers, surgeons, priests and Ronald McDonald.
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Weapons Of Mass Instruction
Practitioner:
Raul Lemesoff
Date:
Apr 9 2012
If you're a bibliophile you'll get a kick out of the car-turned-library that can be found in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Artist Raul Lemesoff took an old 1979 Ford Falcon, a popular mode of transport amongst the military forces of its time, and transformed it into a mobile library shaped like a tank.
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Identity/Identidad
Practitioner:
Argentine Grandmothers of the disappeared
Date:
Feb 23 2007
Identity/Identidad was included in The Disappeared exhibition at the El Museo Del Barrio from February 23rd to June 17th 2007. However, this project was exhibited over a long period of time at numerous different locations.
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Shaming criminals in Argentina : "los escraches"
Practitioner:
HIJOS activist group and other argentinian activists
Date:
Jun 1 1995
Faced with a lack of prosecution of those accused of crimes against humanity committed during Argentina’s military dictatorship, family members and descendants of the country’s estimated 30,000 disappeared took action.
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Melting Man: Red Cross-Sponsored Activist "Melts" On Sidewalk
Practitioner:
Red Cross
Date:
Dec 10 2008
A young man melting into a puddle of himself is something you don’t see everyday, much less in a busy public square. Yet this humourous but surprisingly effective spectacle is the latest effort by the Red Cross of Argentina to raise awareness about climate change.
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Ausencias
Practitioner:
Gustavo Germano
Date:
May 18 2014
"On 17 December 1976, 18-year-old Eduardo Raúl Germano was abducted in Rosario, Argentina. Following the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the 1976 coup d’état, Gustavo Germano, Eduardo’s brother, began working on the photography exhibition "Ausencias" (Absences). Born in 1964 in the Argentinean Province of Entre Río, Gustavo Germano started taking photographs of the journeys he made across Latin America in 1987.
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Mierdazo
Practitioner:
Bilal Yilmaz
Date:
Feb 1 2002
After the economic crisis of December 20, 2001 in Argentina, there was a growth in the participation in all types of protests and claims of the different sectors affected by the crisis (against banks by savers, roadblocks and mobilizations of picket movements, state employees in municipalities and government houses, neighborhood assemblies, etc). The situation that was experienced led the protesters to seek new and varied reporting strategies.
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Teatro x la identidad
Practitioner:
Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo
Date:
Apr 10 2001
The Search for Identity in a Country of ‘Disappeared’ By Marcela Valente ‘Theatre for Identity’ is the theme of a novel undertaking in the Argentine capital, where 41 plays are being put on every Monday in 14 theatres.
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FLOSSWorld
Practitioner:
Fundacion Via Libre
Date:
May 14 2003
Fundacion Via Libre is an Argentinian digital rights group that advocates for more user awareness of internet surveillance and policy. To build this awareness the group not only conducts activist projects and attend events, but they also work with legislative bodies to reflect the growing technology and protect users.
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This Subway Is Too Small
Practitioner:
Ahora Buenos Aires (Now Buenos Aires)
Date:
Jun 1 2017
In 2017, the political party Ahora Buenos Aires (Now Buenos Aires) was running in the legislative election for the first time. It is not easy being a small left-wing party in the City of Buenos Aires, therefore imagination is an essential part of a campaign if you want to get the attention of the media and voters.
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International Errorist Movement
Practitioner:
Colectivo Etcétera, International Errorist Movement
Date:
Nov 14 2005
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