Projects tagged "Mixed Media"

"100 Sexual Questions from Children" , interactive sex education exhibition
Practitioner:
Maylove
Date:
May 16 2021
"100 Questions About Sex from Children" is an annual touring sex education exhibition founded and curated by Se A, a leading advocate of inclusive sex education in China. Since its launch in 2021, the exhibition has been held in major cities such as Shenzhen and Guiyang, with plans to expand into regions where sex education and gender awareness remain underdeveloped.
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WomXnish
Practitioner:
Dionna and Daynelle Gray
Date:
Mar 24 2020
a month-long interactive art exhibition in the heart of downtown Chicago celebrating women and gender nonconforming folks.
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RAT-PAC
Practitioner:
The Resistance Arts Trust Political Action Committee
Date:
Jun 19 2015
The Resistance Arts Trust Political Action Committee is a Super PAC with the mission of challenging great Artists to create public works of political art meant to inform communities, start conversations and drive media coverage on progressive issues, and empowering artists and the arts to a greater role in American political discourse.
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Homeworkers
Practitioner:
Margaret F. Harrison
Date:
Jan 1 1977
Homeworkers 1977 is the central piece of a multidisciplinary project that comprised photographs, interviews, news clippings and a large canvas documenting the situation of non-unionised women doing manual work at home.
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Afghan Activist Urges Taliban Engagement
Practitioner:
Female right activists
Date:
Feb 18 2023
ISLAMABAD — A prominent female rights activist in Afghanistan lambasted the global community Saturday for failing to come up with a plan or agreement on how to help her crisis-ridden country since the Taliban took control of it 18 months ago. Mahbouba Seraj, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, spoke virtually from the Afghan capital, Kabul, to a town hall at the Munich Security Conference on prospects for her country under Taliban rule.
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"The Body Of Water"
Practitioner:
Desiree Duell
Date:
Jun 19 2015
In November 2016, citizens of Flint, MI filed a historic class action law suit against both city and state for the damages wrought by lead contaminants in the water supply. The city's 100 thousand inhabitants have faced damages not only to their homes for the corrosive qualities of the water, but in myriad physical ailments; skin lesions, hair loss, high lead blood levels, vision loss, depression and anxiety are all reported symptoms.
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Artistic Activism at the NYC iSchool
Practitioner:
NYC iSchool
Date:
Nov 12 2013
Students at the NYC iSchool, a high school in Manhattan, worked for 9 weeks to create works of activist art with art teacher Gretel Smith. We were lucky enough to have Stephen Duncomb and Steve Lambert from the Center for Artistic Activism come to our class to teach a lesson inspiring students to think like activists; they came back later to critique students’ works-in-progress.
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Reframing Trash Into Art
Practitioner:
Vik Muniz
Date:
Sep 15 2008
In 2008, my work as an artist took me to a gigantic landfill outside Rio de Janeiro called Jardim Gramacho. After operating for more than 30 years, the sanitary facility, once one of the largest in the world, had reached its maximum capacity and was on the eve of closing permanently.
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Rose Boy
Practitioner:
Singer Jolin Tsai
Date:
Dec 26 2018
“Rose Boy” (玫瑰少年) refers to Yeh Yung-chih, a 15-year-old junior high school student in Taiwan who died on April 20, 2000, after years of bullying due to his non-conforming gender expression. Though the official cause of death was ruled accidental—he allegedly slipped in a school bathroom—the circumstances surrounding his death, including prior complaints from his mother about repeated verbal and physical harassment, drew widespread public attention.
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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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'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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Looking For Love Again
Practitioner:
Candy Chang
Date:
May 1 2011
Abandoned buildings have become such a common sight that they often slip quietly into the backdrop of our cities like an accepted part of our landscape. Looking for Love Again is a participatory public installation that renews attention to an abandoned high-rise in downtown Fairbanks, Alaska to celebrate its past and future.
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"Yes I'm Hot of This" Explores the Experience of Muslim American Women One Panel at a Time
Practitioner:
Huda Fahmy, Adams Media
Date:
Dec 11 2018
Comic artist Huda Fahmy has been breaking down walls with her hilarious comic "Yes, I'm Hot in This." In her own words, "What started as my therapeutic way of dealing with the Islamophobia and prejudice I encounter on the daily has now turned into this amazing opportunity to tell the story of the American hijabi."
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GLOBAL PEACE WALKWAY VR PEACE MUSEUM PROJECT
Practitioner:
PAUL=FELIX MONTEZ
Date:
Aug 15 2015
Imagine affecting the global cultural Landscape through art and technology use. Imagine one-mile long installation in 100 city locations worldwide, each mile-long install is of 250 bronze plaques of different Peacemakers. Then imagine its own App that when any smartphone is pointed at one of the plaques an entire timeline biographical history of that peacemaker becomes available.
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Schoolwork, advocacy place strain on student activists
Practitioner:
Brown University Students
Date:
Feb 18 2016
Two weeks ago, the University released the final version of its diversity and inclusion action plan, which could not have been compiled without the exhaustive efforts of students throughout last semester.
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Free William Banks/Jail Saga
Practitioner:
William Banks
Date:
Feb 1 2025
William Banks is a comedian and artist who, prior to his viral prison saga in 2025, was best known for a community that he led called Call World, which he describes on the website as “a planet in an alternate universe ruled by human-headed Worms sexually obsessed with William Banks.” The story goes that Banks was first visited by a worm from Car World after getting stuck in an industrial freezer and coming to terms with his death before eventually being
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White paper protest
Practitioner:
Nanjing Media College Student; People in China
Date:
Nov 26 2022
The White Paper Movement was a large-scale, decentralized protest movement that erupted across China in late November 2022, initially sparked by a student demonstration at the Communication University of China, Nanjing.
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The Wheelbarrow
Practitioner:
The Wheelbarrow Collective
Date:
May 1 2020
Empathy may be the cornerstone of any Global Justice movement, but how do we cultivate the conditions for empathy to thrive? The wheelbarrow symbolises something universally useful, practical and pleasingly straightforward. A space to deliver things in an efficient and direct manner - no packaging and completely people powered.
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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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An Eternal Optimist: The Positive Message of Yoko Ono’s New MoMA Retrospective
Practitioner:
Yoko Ono
Date:
May 12 2015
An Eternal Optimist: The Positive Message of Yoko Ono’s New MoMA Retrospective by Steff Yotka
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Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge Suicide Intervention Program
Practitioner:
Artist Qiu Zhijie
Date:
Jul 8 2008
The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, completed in 1968, is one of China’s most iconic infrastructural projects and a potent symbol of national pride. Spanning over 6,700 meters across the Yangtze River, it was the first double-decked road-rail truss bridge designed and built entirely by Chinese engineers, without foreign assistance, during a time of intense geopolitical isolation.
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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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Shoddy, a disability arts exhibition
Practitioner:
Gill Crawshaw; Uk disabled artists
Date:
Apr 7 2016
A disability / textile arts project, challenging assumptions about disabled artists & highlighting shoddy treatment of disabled people by current government: https://shoddyexhibition.wordpress.com/
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'0 to 1939 in 3 seconds’: Why Anti-Elon Musk Satire Is Flourishing in Britain
Practitioner:
Center for Political Beauty and others
Date:
Apr 5 2025
The mischievous posters began appearing all over London in the past two months. On the side of an East London bus stop, one of them shows Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, emerging from a Tesla’s roof with his hand pointing upward in a straight-armed salute. “Goes from 0 to 1939 in 3 seconds,” the ad reads. “Tesla. The Swasticar.”
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Oda Projesi: Apartment Project
Practitioner:
Ozge Acikkol, Gunes Savas, Secil Yersel
Date:
Jan 22 2000
"Oda Projesi is an artist collective based in Istanbul. It is composed of three members; Özge Açıkkol, Güneş Savaş and Seçil Yersel who turned their collaboration into an art project in 2000. The project members had met in 1997 and decided to rent and share an apartment as a private studio in Galata.
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