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2016
ellieharrison

Projects tagged "Visual Arts"

Art and the Arab Awakening
Practitioner:
Faten Rouissi
Date:
Aug 2 2012
Art and the Arab Awakening By Nama Khalil, August 2, 2012 Revolutionary street art in Tunisia.
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Cop d' ull
Practitioner:
Enmedio, TAF!
Date:
May 1 2002
This project was born a few days after a demonstrator lost an eye after being hit by a rubber bullet shot from police guns in Barcelona. Unfortunately, it was not the first time. "Cop d' ull" means a "a blow to the eye" and also "at a glance”, which is a perfect description of this project.
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Pineapple
Practitioner:
Lloyd Jack & Ruairi Gray
Date:
May 11 2017
How did a pineapple become a postmodern masterpiece? The aesthetic merits of tropical fruit inadvertently entered Britain’s national cultural conversation after two students jokingly placed a store-bought pineapple on an empty table at an art exhibition this month at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, a port city in northeastern Scotland.
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Projeto Prancha Ecologica: surfboards made with plastic bottles
Practitioner:
Projeto Prancha Ecológica
Date:
Feb 17 2013
All those who practice surfing know firsthand the serious problem our beaches face: pollution. While some only complain, others do something about it. Two Brazilian surfers decided they could help raise public awareness of the need to protect nature of the proliferation of plastics used in the oceans through a novel idea: create surfboards plastic bottles.
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Beautiful Trouble
Practitioner:
Beautiful Trouble
Date:
Jun 1 2012
Beautiful Trouble is a book, web toolbox and international network of artist-activist trainers whose mission is to make grassroots movements more creative and more effective.
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Man at the Crossroads
Practitioner:
Diego Rivera
Date:
Feb 19 1934
In 1932, Rivera was commissioned by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and her husband John D. Rockefeller Jr. to paint a mural for the lobby of Rockefeller Center. Rivera kept the original, approved plan for the two outer sides of the mural but changed the inner panel to include a critique capitalism. This inner panel ultimately included: Lenin, prostitutes, and the upper class drinking alcohol and covered in signs of venereal disease.
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Ghost Bikes
Practitioner:
Visual Resistance
Date:
Jun 1 2005
Ghostbikes.org is intended to be a site for the worldwide cycling community where those lost on dangerous streets can be remembered by their loved ones, members of their local communities, and others from around the world. They also hope to inspire more people to start installing ghost bikes in their communities and to initiate changes that will make us all safer on the streets.
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IMPEACH
Practitioner:
Patricia Dahlman
Date:
Jul 4 2017
IMPEACH An online exhibition of art work by twenty artists Katherine Aoki, Deborah Harris, Nicolas Lampert,Cicely Cottingham, Art Hazelwood, Ilse Schreiber-Noll, Priscilla Stadler, Tim Fite, Anne Q McKeown, Anne Dushanko Dobek, Robyn Ellenbogen, Joseph O’Neal, Donna Coleman, Robert Geshlider, Michael Dal Cerro, Leona Strassberg Steiner, Barbara Madsen, Ray Must, Carol Radsprecher and Patricia Dahlman
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Marriage to Peace
Practitioner:
Ning Kong
Date:
Nov 19 2016
At 12:00 noon (New York time) on November 19, 2016, Chinese artist Ning Kong, wearing a wedding dress with hundred dove, appeared at the 911 site in New York. Even though the theme of performance art is calling for peace, the police banned it and showed the handcuffs because doing performance art was not allowed at the 9/11 site. So Kong Ning turned to Times Square, New York, successfully completing her performance art.
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Hijabizing Dolce & Gabbana
Practitioner:
Princess Hijab
Date:
Oct 18 2011
Princess Hijab is an anonymous female street artist working primarily in Paris, France. Her art centres on veiling the main characters of subway advertisements using black paint. Few facts are known about Princess Hijab.
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The Root-Systemic Racism
Practitioner:
Danielle Cook
Date:
Jul 5 2020
"When it comes to the effects of the virus on black lives, the roots run deep. ⠀⠀ This is one of the hardest illustrations I’ve ever done. Not because of the tree - but because of the overwhelming nature of the subject at hand. Seeing headlines like “Blacks are Dying at Higher Rates from Covid-19” SHOOK me! ⠀⠀
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Threads of Resistance
Practitioner:
Artist Circle Alliance
Date:
Jul 15 2017
A juried exhibition of fiber art created by the Artist Circle Alliance to protest the Trump administration’s actions and policies. This is a traveling exhibition to 13 venues across the U.S. All work in the exhibition, as well as the nearly 560 pieces submitted for jurying, are shown on our website.
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Chinese 'naked' wedding celebrations focus on love - not money
Practitioner:
Ten couple from Zhejiang
Date:
Mar 24 2015
Ten couples covered in body paint wearing only their underwear have celebrated their “naked weddings” at Hangzhou Paradise amusement park in Zhejiang province. The couples, some of whom have been married for many years, said they were rejecting modern Chinese values, which place greater value on money than love. In China, a naked wedding involves a couple marrying without owning a house or car.
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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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Vespa for Change
Practitioner:
Fundacion Voces Mulafest Festival
Date:
May 13 2015
Fundacion Voces and Festival Mulafest got together to promote creative ideas for social change. They started a campaign in social media to ask people to donate their Vespa motorcycles. After they collected the Vespas donated by the people, they put them together again and invited known artists to intervene them.
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The Indebted States of America
Practitioner:
Eric Leppanen - EALART
Date:
Nov 2 2011
With past government shut downs and teetering the fiscal cliff, debt ceiling now eliminated, credit line increase after credit line increase? I thought my timely art piece may be interesting for your viewers and spark healthy/heated discussion.
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The Grace Period Blog/Performance
Practitioner:
The Grace Period Blog: 7 Anonymous Artists/Activists
Date:
Nov 21 2013
“The Grace Period” is a live blogging platform with seven anonymous contributing bloggers called: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Through, videos, writings, and visuals they present multiple perspectives of landing/creating a meaningful job after school in a country where personal and national debt is high and jobs are few. In this environment, will our creative spirits be resilient?
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Ex Libris
Practitioner:
Emily Jacir
Date:
Jul 1 2012
Recurrent themes in Emily Jacir's practice—which spans a range of strategies including film, photography, interventions, archiving, performance, video, writing, and sound—are silenced historical narratives, resistance, movement, and exchange.
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Graffiti on the West Bank Barrier
Practitioner:
Various Artists
Date:
Jan 1 2004
In June 2002, the Israeli Government decided to construct a physical barrier separating Israel and the West Bank. The declared purpose of this (as yet unfinished) 709 kilometers long barrier—which came to be known as Gader Ha’hafrada (The Separation Wall)—was to prevent the entry of Palestinian terrorists from the occupied territories into Israel in order to protect Israeli citizens.
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15 Years to Life
Practitioner:
Anthony Papa
Date:
Mar 4 2000
Anthony Papa was arrested for a drug crime and with no prior offenses was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for violating New York's harsh drug laws. While in prison, Papa began to document his inner struggles via painting and ultimately earned a pardon from New York governor and has gone on to actively fight the drug war in his years since release.
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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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Faced with Brooklyn Museum Inaction, Protesters Target Two Exhibitions
Practitioner:
Movement to Protect the People
Date:
May 8 2016
Close to 100 artists and activists staged a protest at the Brooklyn Museum yesterday afternoon in response to displacement — both in Brooklyn and Palestine.
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Mending Baghdad
Practitioner:
Clara Wainwright
Date:
Nov 15 2003
Mending Baghdad is a four-and-a-half-by-six-and-a-half-foot quilt memorializing Baghdad as it looked during the American bombing on the first nights of the Iraq war. The purpose of the project is to bring people together to do something symbolically curative for Iraq. The artist, Clare Wainwright, worked up the image in about two days, but left it deliberately unfinished.
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Graffiti campaigns bring women and children into street art
Practitioner:
Noon El Neswa, Mona Lisa Brigades, etc.
Date:
Feb 18 2013
By Maha ElNabawi It was a landmark day when prominent women’s rights activist Doria Shafiq bravely led a march of 1,500 women to storm the gates of Parliament on 19 February 1951. After several hours of unrelenting protest, Shafiq was finally received inside the office, where the council agreed to consider the demands of Egyptian women.
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Social Reintegration of Prisoners in Spain
Practitioner:
Jhafis Quintero
Date:
Oct 5 2006
Máximas de Seguridad, a survival manual written and illustrated by Jhafis Quintero creates a new voice for the voiceless, vulnerable and underprivileged groups in prisons and creates empathy for those that are labeled as dangerous by society. The manual aims to provide empathy and humanity in light of the public scrutiny that ex-prisoners endure in the transition to social reintegration.
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