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Projects tagged "New York NY"

NYC Mock Posters Detail Police Terror Drills, Nuclear Threats
Practitioner:
Greywater
Date:
May 12 2013
In an effort to prepare against chemical, biological and radiological attacks in the New York subway, the New York Police Department has announced plans to release harmless gases into the city’s streets and subway stations to better understand the pathways of airborne contaminants. Officials will use more than 200 sensors, set up throughout all five boroughs, to track these benign gases as they disperse.
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Occupy the Pipeline Shuts Down Spectra Construction in NYC
Practitioner:
Occupy the Pipeline
Date:
Oct 12 2012
As part of a nationwide day of action against fossil fuel pipelines from Pennsylvania to Texas, several hundred New Yorkers succeeded Monday in halting construction of a radioactive pipeline threatening the West Village--after unrelenting daily vigils at the Spectra pipeline site over the past several weeks.
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Jay Shells Drops "Rap Quotes," His Most Site-Specific Street Art Project Yet
Practitioner:
Jay Shells
Date:
Mar 25 2013
JAY SHELLS DROPS “RAP QUOTES,” HIS MOST SITE-SPECIFIC STREET ART PROJECT YET By Aymann Ismail | March 25, 2013 - 12:30PM After schooling New Yorkers on etiquette via numerous unsanctioned interventions, artist Jay Shells channeled his love of hip hop music and his uncanny sign-making skills towards a brand new project: “Rap Quotes.”
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In Response to Controversial Funder, Protestors Rechristen Met Museum Plaza
Practitioner:
Occupy Museums, The Illuminator
Date:
Sep 9 2014
On Tuesday evening, at the end of an action staged by Occupy Museums at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to protest the unveiling of the David H. Koch Plaza, three members of The Illuminator were arrested. Earlier in the evening, police had moved protestors to a cordoned area on the opposite side of the street from the museum; a substantial police presence remained throughout the evening, but no other arrests took place.
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Embody the Message: Occupy the Mind
Practitioner:
We Will Not Be Silent
Date:
Apr 8 2012
Embody the Message: Occupy the Mind This t-shirt / language project began in March 2006, when a small group of artists and activists decided to embody the historic words “WE WILL NOT BE SILENT” while doing a public action in New York City.
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Stop Frisk Tourist T- Shirts
Practitioner:
Aaron Gach and Center for Tactical Magic
Date:
Aug 28 2012
At Souvenir Stands, Selling Tourists on Ending Stop-and-Search By COREY KILGANNON New York Times, City Blog, August 27, 2012 Last week, a 37-year-old artist from Oakland, Calif., named Aaron Gach joined the crowds of tourists swarming the sidewalk souvenir stands set up around the perimeter of Battery Park in Lower Manhattan.
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Make Them Visible
Practitioner:
New York City Rescue Mission, Silver+Partners, Smuggler
Date:
Apr 22 2014
If a family member posed as a homeless person, would you recognize him or her?
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Zaria Forman Artistic Practice
Practitioner:
Zaria Forman
Date:
Jan 1 2019
TED TALK: I consider it my life's mission to convey the urgency of climate change through my work. I've traveled north to the Arctic to the capture the unfolding story of polar melt, and south to the Equator to document the subsequent rising seas. Most recently, I visited the icy coast of Greenland and the low-lying islands of the Maldives, connecting two seemingly disparate but equally endangered parts of our planet.
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Cliteracy
Practitioner:
Sophia Wallace
Date:
Jun 1 2012
According to the artist:
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Occupy Museums Hosts a Faux Graduation Ceremony at the Whitney Museum
Practitioner:
Occupy Museums
Date:
May 5 2017
The Whitney Museum of American Art’s pay-what-you-wish Fridays are typically busy. For two-and-a-half hours out of the 53 the museum is open each week, visitors can enter without paying the usual $25 admission fee, a brief and temporary, but recurrent, leveling of the playing field for art lovers.
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Aftermath
Practitioner:
New York Theater Workshop, Erik Jensen, Jessica Blank
Date:
Sep 16 2009
The snapshots are thrust at us urgently, as if they were passports being shown at a border crossing, official proofs of national identity. Mostly, they are prosaic pictures of family members or houses. Sometimes a diploma will be offered up instead, or theater reviews clipped from newspapers or a membership card to a duck-hunting club. Later, other, more frightening, pictures will be shown, but they all serve the same function.
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Cathouse for Dogs
Practitioner:
Joey Skaggs
Date:
Jan 1 1976
"Cat House for Dogs," said an ad in the Village Voice, "featuring a savory selection of hot bitches..." Along with this ad, a press release was sent to the media saying that if your dog graduated from obedience school, if it was his birthday, or if he was just horny, for $50 you could get your dog sexually gratified. This was not a breeding service, but purely a sexual pleasure service.
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smArt Action
Practitioner:
Puerto Rican and New York based Students and artists
Date:
May 14 2012
Smart Action 
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Outraged homeless muppets to converge on Goldman Sachs
Practitioner:
Joey Skaggs
Date:
Apr 21 2012
NEW YORK, April 21, 2012 -- Homelessness is a great American tragedy. Our financial system and government have let us down and we, together, must take a stand to change the way the system works. With over 11 million homes underwater and millions in foreclosure, people are frightened, distressed and angry.
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Beauty In Transition
Practitioner:
Jody Wood
Date:
Jan 5 2006
Beauty in Transition is an artistic project created by multi-media artist Jody Wood, that established a pop-up mobile hair salon providing beauty services including a hair wash, cut, color and/or style service to willing participants living in homeless shelters. By provoking face-to-face dialogue in a calming recuperative salon environment, this project aims to facilitate empathetic understanding and to unravel the reductive label of homelessness.
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Stonewall Protest Action
Practitioner:
Stonewall Protest
Date:
Nov 7 2020
This action took place on the Saturday after the 2020 US election when Joe Biden was named the president elect. While many were celebrating, the Stonewall Protests led up to march and remind ourselves + others that our fight was still far from over, and that the Democratic party is not a savior of marginalized populations. There were moments of celebration during the march, we paused in Soho and had a dance circle.
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Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical
Practitioner:
Gerome Ragni, James Rado, Various Artists
Date:
Feb 24 2015
Hair: The history of the first rock musical by Eric Andrews-Katz - SGN Contributing Writer
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Unemployed Man Is the Unofficial Superhero of Occupy Wall Street
Practitioner:
Gan Golan
Date:
Oct 31 2011
Unemployed Man and his costumed colleagues stormed Wall Street on Monday morning, bringing some superhero street theater — and a 16-foot evil robot known as the Slot Bot — to the Occupy protests in New York.The Superheroes versus Economic Supervillains smackdown was staged by Gan Golan, 37, co-author of the 2010 graphic novel The Adventures of
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'I am not your scapegoat': See the art created by Asian Americans in a year of anti-Asian hate
Practitioner:
Kezia Gabriella, Andrew Kung, Kathleen Namgung, Cindy Trinh, Christine Fang, Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
Date:
Dec 27 2021
In mid-November, the nonprofit group Asian American Federation released 10 travel posters designed to subvert a question that can instantly get under the skin of any person of Asian descent in the United States: “Where are you really from?”
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Occupiers Set Up Living Room in Bank of America Lobby
Practitioner:
Occupy Wall Street
Date:
Mar 12 2012
A crew of occupiers makes a home of a Bank of Americalobby with a couch, a coffee table, a rug and a pottedplant. "Bank of America took our homes so we though we'dmove in here!"  
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Bull Fight on Wall Street
Practitioner:
Yes Men
Date:
Nov 9 2011
Earlier today, a small group of Occupy Wall Street activists engaged in a near-successful corrida against the Wall Street Bull.
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Queering Utopia: Circus Amok at the Scholar & Feminist Conference on Utopia
Practitioner:
Circus Amok, Jennifer Miller
Date:
Apr 22 2013
“Stay cool, stay calm, you have the right to remain silent. / Don’t run, don’t resist, and get that badge number.”
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"Deport the Statue" Campaign
Practitioner:
Breakthrough
Date:
Jun 13 2013
It’s time to deport the Statue of Liberty. That’s the latest mission for Legals for the Preservation of American Culture, an organization which has begun the “Deport the Statue” campaign for the removal of Lady Liberty through four Twitter accounts and a video that hopes to prove the iconic statue is not only an undocumented French immigrant but is “taking a job away from a qualified American statue.”
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Occu-bot
Practitioner:
Taeyoon Choi
Date:
Dec 21 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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Mobile Homeless Homes
Practitioner:
Joey Skaggs
Date:
Apr 23 2012
Muppets Revenge 
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