Projects tagged "New York City"

</3 Less than Three and Up Srei: Art and the Cambodian Worker Struggle
Practitioner:
Kat Eng
Date:
Jan 17 2014
On a freezing Friday in January, Khmer-American artist Kat Eng sits in front of retail giant H&M’s Time Square store working on a manual sewing machine. For eight hours, Eng stitches together U.S. dollar bills while wearing a surgical mask and bloodstained shirt. Her performance “</3 Less Than Three” protests the way fast fashion and consumer culture creates oppressive conditions for Khmer workers.
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Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ Album
Practitioner:
Beyonce
Date:
Jul 9 2022
Beyoncé’s album Renaissance is grounded in black queer ballroom culture. It debuted at no. 1 on the Billboard 200 and had the third highest album debut of 2022.
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Artbus
Practitioner:
Artbus
Date:
Apr 8 2005
"Artbus is a non-profit organization devoted to the promotion and dissemination of contemporary art. Supported by contributions from individuals, foundations and corporations Artbus facilitates public access to current artistic expressions and fosters creativity and production by living artists.
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Fully Automated Nikon (Object/Objection/Objectivity)
Practitioner:
Laurie Anderson
Date:
Apr 16 1973
"I decided to shoot pictures of men who made comments to me on the street. I had always hated this invasion of my privacy and now I had the means of my revenge. As I walked along Houston Street with my fully automated Nikon, I felt armed, ready. I passed a man who muttered ‘Wanna fuck?’ This was standard technique: the female passes and the male strikes at the last possible moment forcing the woman to backtrack if she should dare to object.
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Endangered Species Take Over Empire State Building
Practitioner:
Oceanic Preservation Society
Date:
Jul 31 2015
In July 2015, the Empire State Building's famous light displays were used to draw attention endangered wildlife. Along with Cecil, whose death has sparked international outrage, a snow leopard, tigers, lemurs, and various snakes, birds and sea creatures were projected onto the building.
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Moving Mural
Practitioner:
SPEAK.WORLD
Date:
May 15 2019
A Moving Mural bursts a singular visual message into action. The outline of a design is decided upon by the participants of an event.
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Fashion in Action
Practitioner:
Michaela Angela Davis
Date:
Sep 9 2010
On the opening day of the Spring/Summer 2011's season of Mercedes Benz's New York Fashion Week, former fashion editor, speaker, and fashion activist Michaela Angela Davis led a protest of approximately 20 black women, dressed in black suits, carrying signs with the names of every fashion editor in the 40 year history of African American fashion and lifestyle magazine, Essence Magazine.
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Nihilist subway performances
Practitioner:
Kalan Sherrard
Date:
Apr 30 2014
The latest episode in Nicolas Heller's documentary web series "No Your City," as published by Gothamist, features the arguably pretentious, inarguably earnest street performer Kalan Sherrard, who was recently arrested during his peaceful anarchist puppet show. Functioning as a video manifesto for his peculiar ways, the clip is at least compelling.
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Chinese Artist Xu Bing’s Phoenix takes flight at New York
Practitioner:
Xu Bing
Date:
Mar 1 2014
Xu Bing, the internationally acclaimed Chinese artist, has brought his “Phoenix” installation to the majestic nave of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The two phoenixes, both Feng, the male, and Huang, the female, faced the decoratively carved bronze doors of the Cathedral, as if poised to take flight in the middle of the night.
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Operation First Casualty (OFC)
Practitioner:
IVAW: Iraq Veterans Against the War
Date:
May 31 2007
Monday June 18, 2007 marked history with Operation First Casualty (OFC) – part IV, Chicago, Illinois. As IVAW members were coming into town, organizers were finishing last minute details. Participating IVAW members were from Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, DC and Indiana.
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Education for all in Public Space
Practitioner:
The Free University
Date:
May 13 2014
If you headed into the West 4th St. Subway Station on March 9, 2014, you may have seen a group of people writing on cardboard, taping it to the walls, and seemingly holding a small class in the underground space. Those were some of the members of Free University NYC, a radical educational project started during May 2012 as a form of educational strike. They hold classes in public spaces like parks and subway stations, and are entirely free.
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End Bad Breath
Practitioner:
Seymour Chwast
Date:
Jun 5 1968
Wired Article:
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Occu-bot and Management-bot
Practitioner:
Taeyoon Choi
Date:
Dec 26 2011
Occu-bot can protest in places that human civil disobedience is not allowed, and it can also replace human protesters.
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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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Hamilton
Practitioner:
Lin Manuel Miranda
Date:
Aug 6 2015
‘‘HAMILTON,’’ the new musical biography of Alexander Hamilton created by and starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, kicks off with a doozy of a question. The houselights rise on Aaron Burr, the third vice president of the United States and, infamously, the killer of Hamilton in a duel in 1804. Burr steps to center stage and reels off several lines of verse:
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Our Bookshelf
Practitioner:
Our Bookshelf
Date:
Mar 27 2012
"Our Bookshelf is a social network where people can share their ebooks as easily as they can share print books. At the moment, most copyrighted ebooks don't allow you to share them. This is because when you buy an ebook you don't own the book the way you own a print book. You own a license to read it on certain devices and most of these licenses prohibit sharing. We plan to create a new license that does
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Brokers and Police for the Occupation
Practitioner:
The Yes Men
Date:
Oct 23 2011
Two members of the Yes Lab brought a dozen thrift-store suits to Zuccotti Park and asked for volunteers. Then, within earshot of the police, the group made a human microphone announcement about a "highly risky, very arrestable" action. Then, together with a brand-new police escort, the group headed towards the Wall Street Bull chanting "Castrate the bull!" and other angry slogans. More police joined.
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The story behind the strange 8th Ave. subway statues and the cartoons that inspired them
Practitioner:
Tom Otterness
Date:
Apr 17 2004
At the Eighth Avenue subway station, sewer alligators are not an urban legend. Anyone who’s been through the 14th St./Eighth Ave. station has probably seen the bronze gator sculpture — and probably wondered what it means and why it’s there. The underground gators — along with dozens of other whimsical creatures — are part of the permanent art installation housed at the intersection of the A,C,E, and L lines.
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Veterans Peace Team, face to face with police on May Day
Practitioner:
Veterans Peace Team
Date:
May 5 2012
Unlike some of Occupy Wall Street’s iconic actions in recent months, May Day did not include a scene of mass arrest. Several dozen arrests were scattered throughout the day and night during various marches and actions. But, as never before in the movement’s short history, arrests
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Seventeen Says Thanks But No Thanks To Teen’s Photoshop Petition
Practitioner:
Julia Bluhm
Date:
May 3 2012
Seventeen editor Ann Shoket met yesterday with Julia Bluhm, the 14-year-old reader who started an online petition to ask the magazine to curb its use of Photoshop.
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A Vegan Meat Locker with a Heartbeat
Practitioner:
Jonathon Horowitz
Date:
May 13 2010
"Brooke Shields is one of 200 famous faces that the artist Jonathan Horowitz identifies as vegetarian in head shots he has hung on the white-tile walls of a former meat locker in the south Village. Horowitz, 44, swore off meat at the age of 12, after his parents took him to a bullfight on a vacation in Mexico.
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The People's Prison
Practitioner:
Indecline Artist Collective
Date:
Mar 31 2018
For one day, a group of artists known as the INDECLINE Artist Collective turned a hotel room in New York City's Trump International Hotel into a single jail cell for Donald Trump without the hotel's knowledge. The inside the jail cell was a Donald Trump impersonator in a suit and a "Make America Great Again" hat and at his feet were McDonald's food wrappers and live rats.
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Green Maps for Resilient Cities Everywhere
Practitioner:
Ideas City, New Museum
Date:
May 13 2013
How Green is My City? Take part in mapping a fresh perspective on your community! Learn about the global Green Map movement and GreenMap.org.
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Vacated
Practitioner:
Justin Blinder
Date:
Jan 1 2014
Vacated reverse engineers Google Street View to highlight the changing landscape of various neighborhoods throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. The project finds buildings constructed in the past four years using the NYC Department of City Planning's PLUTO dataset, and it leverages Google Street View's cache to visualize absent lots just before new buildings were constructed.
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Drumpf Files #3
Practitioner:
Davey Drumpf
Date:
Jan 15 0017
In Drumpf Files #3, Presidential-elect cousin Davey Drumpf tackles fracking, the EPA, and immigrants. They all get away. Maybe he's too busy rewriting John Lennon and rooting for Bernie for President of Denmark? Check it out, then kick its starter! https://youtu.be/LW2zLzgnf9o
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