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2016
martin k fishey

Projects tagged "Mixed Media"

Butterflies for Bealtaine
Practitioner:
Amelia Caulfield, Sinead Cullen & Margaret Organ
Date:
May 1 2020
*We would like to thank everyone who who participated in a very successful first Butterflies for Bealtaine* For the month of May, we invited all ages to creatively respond to the theme of The Butterfly and to share a change they wish for on a personal, community or global level. In Ireland as in many parts of the world we have been in a quarantine situation because of the global pandemic. This environment informed our project.
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Art Not Oil: Ending Oil Industry Sponsorship of the Arts
Practitioner:
Art Not Oil UK
Date:
Apr 3 2016
On Sunday April 3rd, Art Not Oil coalition member group BP or not BP? occupied the Great Court of the BP-sponsored British Museum with a 'disobedient exhibition'. Called 'A History of BP in 10 Objects', the exhibition featured artifacts submitted by frontline communities around the world who are fighting back against the impacts of BP's operations.
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Textile Meditations: Mary Fisher and Friends
Practitioner:
Mary Fisher
Date:
Feb 10 2018
Mary Fisher wears many hats: Artist, author, and HIV/AIDS activist are just a few. The latter is perhaps what she's known best for—her influential speech at the 1992 Republication National Convention is regarded as one of the greatest American speeches of the century, spurring a push toward treatment and compassion towards those who are HIV-positive.
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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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Undertale
Practitioner:
Toby Fox
Date:
Sep 15 2015
Undertale is a critically acclaimed JRPG indie title that was recently released, and you can get it on the game’s official website or Steam.
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Gray Area
Practitioner:
Gray Area
Date:
Sep 17 2018
Being a Kuwaiti citizen makes you feel like you belong to Kuwait, as nationality is a legal relationship between a person and a state. But what if you are a “halfie” and are finding it hard to answer the question “Where are you from?” Those whose fathers are Kuwaiti are automatically considered Kuwaitis but those whose moms are Kuwaiti and fathers are not, they are not granted the nationality, even if they are born here.
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A Handmaid’s Tale of Protest
Practitioner:
women's rights activists
Date:
Jun 25 2017
In state capitals and street protests, women’s rights activists have been wearing red robes and white bonnets based on “The Handmaid's Tale,” the 1985 novel that is now a series on Hulu. Silent, heads bowed, the activists in crimson robes and white bonnets have been appearing at demonstrations against gender discrimination and the infringement of reproductive and civil rights.
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Hunter's Poppet
Practitioner:
Rebecca Sharp
Date:
Oct 19 2019
Hate hunting? Want to do something creative to protect wildlife and affect positive change? The Hunter's Poppet is a witch-craftivism intervention, free to use and share. A 'poppet' is a ritual object made to represent a human figure, charged with a specific intention. This set of instructions with images guides you in making your own poppet to place safely in an outdoor area.
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Public Fruit Jam
Practitioner:
Fallen Fruit
Date:
Jan 1 2006
"Fallen Fruit invites the public to bring homegrown or street-picked fruit and collaborate with us in making a collective fruit jams. Working without recipes, we ask people to sit with others they do not already know and negotiate what kind of jam to make: if I have lemons and you have figs, we’d make lemon fig jam (with lavender). Each jam is a social experiment.
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A Legal Guide Helps Artists Make and Protect Protest Art
Practitioner:
Harvard University’s Cyberlaw Clinic and metaLAB
Date:
Jan 22 2018
Harvard University’s Cyberlaw Clinic and metaLAB have created a free guide for making protest art while navigating intellectual property law.
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Ana Mendieta and Earth Art
Practitioner:
Ana Mendieta
Date:
Apr 20 2018
The works of Ana Mendieta tells a story of the power of the body and the earth, and methods of activism. ----
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Mainstream Media Is Blowing Its Coverage Of Elizabeth Warren's DNA Test
Practitioner:
Elizabeth Warren, Prominent Tribal Leaders, Donald Trump.
Date:
Jan 4 2019
WASHINGTON ― Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was positioned to make a strong bid for president in 2020, but she infuriated tribal leaders by releasing the results of a DNA test to prove her Native ancestry and now her future is unclear.
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Myanmar's Young Artists and Activists
Practitioner:
New Zero Artists
Date:
Mar 1 2012
In the country formerly known as Burma, these free thinkers are a force in the struggle for democracy. By Joshua Hammer Photographs by Adam Dean Smithsonian Magazine, March 2011
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HBVA-Honour Based Violence Awareness Network
Practitioner:
Deeyah Khan
Date:
Jan 1 2016
HBVA (Honour Based Violence Awareness Network) is an international digital resource centre working to advance understanding of HBV (honour based violence) and forced marriage through research, documentation, information and training for professionals who may encounter women, girls and men at risk of these forms of abuse in order to suggest good practise in responding to their needs.
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Art, Activism and the Age of AIDS
Practitioner:
David Wojnarowicz
Date:
May 15 1981
David Wojnarowicz as a Catalyst for Collective Action
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The Crossroads Project
Practitioner:
Laura Kaminsky, Rebecca Allan
Date:
Feb 9 2014
"The mandate for great and difficult achievement is manifest in the message coming from the science of sustainability and climate change. Yet information alone will not take us where we need to go; science needs the arts to compel a response. It is the synergy of these two great human enterprises that creates both intellectual and emotional clarity.
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Capitalism Works For Me! True/False
Practitioner:
Steve Lambert
Date:
Jul 1 2012
A 20ft by 9ft scoreboard that reads "Capitalism Works For Me!" and allows visitors to vote on whether Capitalism works in their lives by pressing a button for True or False.
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Syria: Third Space
Practitioner:
Unknown
Date:
Jan 21 2015
This exhibition is a collection of work by displaced Syrian artists. With the support of the British Council, 'Syria: Third Space' demonstrates the roles that artists play in supporting recovery and resilience. It seeks to show how artists can break boundaries, support and unite communities, re-interpret and offer alternative viewpoints through their practice. Syria: Third Space
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Police Shot Her Brother. Now She's Fighting for Justice.
Practitioner:
Shackelia Jackson
Date:
Jan 20 2014
Police in Jamaica kill three people a week with impunity. But one woman, Shackelia Jackson, is determined to get justice for her murdered brother. Shackelia Jackson’s email signature reads, “Broken, not Destroyed.” After her brother Nakiea was shot by police in 2014, Jackson has spent years fighting for justice for him and other victims of extra-judicial killings.
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How Art Gives Shape to Cultural Change
Practitioner:
Thelma Golden
Date:
Jul 2 2009
Thelma Golden, curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, talks through three recent shows that explore how art examines and redefines culture. The "post-black" artists she works with are using their art to provoke a new dialogue about race and culture -- and about the meaning of art itself.
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Play Safe
Practitioner:
Eddie Einbinder
Date:
Jan 1 2012
Play Safe is a documentary film series created and directed by NYU alum Eddie Einbinder. The film, much of which now appears for free on YouTube, was originally released in 2013 after being filmed between 2011 and 2012. It debuted at the International Harm Reduction conference in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2013.
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La Colifata
Practitioner:
Borda Mental Health Institution
Date:
Feb 4 1990
More than 20 years ago, a psychology student doing his training at one of Argentina's oldest psychiatric wards kept being asked by his family and friends what it was like to work in there. So he came up with an idea: to let the patients explain in their own words. The first radio station to broadcast from inside a mental hospital was born.
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Happy Hippie
Practitioner:
Miley Cyrus
Date:
May 1 2014
Happy Hippie Foundation was created by American singer Miley Cyrus in 2014. The organization based out of Los Angeles is an initiative geared toward ending abuse, intolerance, and discrimination facing LGBTQ youth - often leading to homelessness. By using her visual and vocal artistry to raise awareness concerning homelessness and AIDS prevention, Cyrus is able to set an example and create lasting influence.
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Liberation Lab
Practitioner:
NYU/Free University
Date:
Apr 30 2016
On April 30th NYU in conjunction with Free University held liberation lab in Washington Square Park from 11 30 Am until roughly 5 or 6pm. The day was very festive and full of amazing talks, performances, installations and discussions. I even got to participate in this day via our final project in the creative activist course.
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Sudanese Activist Artist Breaks Down Borders
Practitioner:
Elshafei Dafalla Mohamed
Date:
Mar 29 2012
VOA NEWS  March 29, 2012  By Nico Colombant   WASHINGTON--A Sudanese artist from the restive Blue Nile region is using art and activism to promote the plight of people caught between borders and conflict. In an audio montage of memories from refugees, the sounds of gunfire and explosions mix with crying babies. Narrator Michelle Orecchio describes how to reverse war's grip on so much of humanity.
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