Projects tagged "Europe"

Moneyless Manifesto
Practitioner:
Mark Boyle
Date:
Nov 1 2008
Mark Boyle has lived completely without money in England [since 2008], an experience which formed the basis for his first book, The Moneyless Man. He is also the founder of Freeconomy, an alternative economy with local groups across 171 countries. He holds a degree in Business and for most of his professional career was involved in the management of organic food companies.
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.
Art and Activism (TV Documentary)
Practitioner:
Leonidas Martin, Enmedio, Yomango
Date:
Feb 19 2012
A television report written, directed and produced by Enmedio members Leónidas Martín and Xavier Artigas. Collective projects that see art as a kind of social relationship. Artistic interventions that target consumption, media guerrilla tactics, creative mobilisations and protest, critical projects brimming with humour and disobedience, new narratives capable of changing the existing symbols and codes.
Teilchenbeschleuniger
Practitioner:
431art, Torsten Grosch, Haike Rausch
Date:
Aug 28 2012
“Teilchenbeschleuniger” ist ein investigatives Kunstprojekt des Künstlerduos 431art, welches Atomenergie kritisch reflektiert. Der “Teilchenbeschleuniger” verteilt Teilchen namens “Jülicher Törtchen”, “Brokdorfer Mürbchen” oder “Muffins Fukushima” an die Bevölkerung.
Feminism Gets Rebranded
Practitioner:
Elle UK, Vagenda
Date:
Nov 1 2013
For the November issue of women’s magazine ELLE UK, agency W+K London teamed up with feminist cofounders of Vagenda, Holly Baxter and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, to rebrand feminism. Frustrated with the way women are stereotyped and portrayed, Vagenda created a ‘Sod The Stereotypes’ manifesto.
System Azure
Practitioner:
Jill Magid
Date:
Mar 22 2003
In 2003 Amsterdam police headquarters decided their security cameras needed a little bling after Jill Magid approached them through her company System Azure Security Ornamentation. Originally turned down as an artist proposal, Magid founded her company as a possible means of executing her project. It worked. Not only did she receive the proper permits to beautify police security cameras, but the city paid her to do it.
Clean and Reliable Water
Practitioner:
Art and Activism Caravan
Date:
Jul 13 2006
Today over 40 people gathered at the Ministry for Internal Affairs in the centre of Tirana, the capital of Albania. The issue is Tirana's drinking water, which is not clean, unreliable as it comes out of the tap only a few hours a day and that sewage systems continue to pollute the water sources.
Degrees of My Deaf Rage
Practitioner:
Christine Sun Kim
Date:
Sep 8 2018
Christine Sun Kim's series Degrees of My Deaf Rage is a series of charcoal drawings of charts that depict the artist's varying degrees of what she calls "deaf rage." These frustrations are categorized by situations: deaf rage in the art world. institutional deaf rage, deaf rage concerning interpreters, deaf rage while traveling, deaf rage within educational settings, deaf rage in everyday situations.
Protest Outside UK Asylum-Seeker Hotel Ends in 15 Arrests
Practitioner:
civilians
Date:
Feb 11 2023
LONDON (AP) — An anti-migration protest outside a hotel housing asylum-seekers in northwest England turned violent and resulted in the arrests of 15 people, local police said Saturday. The Merseyside Police department said a police officer and two civilians sustained minor injuries during the disturbance on Friday night in Knowsley, a village located 13.5 kilometers (8.4 miles) from the city of Liverpool.
Slashing the Rokeby Venus
Practitioner:
Mary Raleigh Richardson, WSPU
Date:
Mar 10 1914
On March 10, 1914, Mary Richardson slashed Velasquez's "Rokeby Venus" with a small axe during public hours at the National Gallery in London. A militant suffragette protesting the force-feeding of imprisoned suffragettes in prison (and the Cat and Mouse Act which released the starving women only until they were slightly healthier only to imprison them again), Richardson released this statement after her arrest:
"Artists Support Ukraine"
Practitioner:
Artists Support Ukraine
Date:
Mar 17 2014
“Artists Support Ukraine”, an initiative that seeks to bring attention to the Euromaidan protests in Kiev, through art.
Savages
Practitioner:
Savages
Date:
Jan 22 2016
Savages are an all-female post-punk band that attempt to motivate people to be informed and take part in politics. They "try to give people a platform to express their own ideas" as Fay Milton of the band explains. The following is the manifesto Savages wrote for their 2016 album, Adore Life:
Suite Venitienne
Practitioner:
Sophie Calle
Date:
Jan 1 1979
Sophie Calle's works discuss the issue of "privacy", the composition of an individual's identity at the social level, and the relationship between "private" and "public/group/society", including personal information, personal records, public surveillance, and other topics. An obvious feature of her works is the unique and extremely subjective criteria of judgment and reference for measurement.
Operation Schildkröte
Practitioner:
Occupy Dusseldorf
Date:
Mar 17 2012
Occupy Dusseldorf was inspired by an editorial cartoonfrom Brooklyn, New York based artist Mark Hurwitt tocreate an imaginative street theatre performance artprotest action. They marched with hundreds of medievalshields created out of enlargements of Hurwitt's arttranslated into many languages forming a giant turtle
Art, Activism and the Age of AIDS
Practitioner:
David Wojnarowicz
Date:
Jul 10 2019
David Wojnarowicz was born on September 14, 1954, and died on July 22, 1992, at the age of 37 due to AIDS-related complications. Before he became an artist, he attended a Performing Arts high school from which he dropped out of in order to make a living as a farmer in Canada. This was up until he made a name for himself as an artist in New York’s cultural scene.
Mr Triton France Competition
Practitioner:
Merman Ludo, Ingrid la Sirène, Aurélien, Alexandre, Kewin, Chris, and other participants
Date:
Jun 30 2019
At the end of June of this year, as France sweated through record high temperatures, a group of men took a moment to escape the heatwave and compete in the inaugural Mr Triton France competition. Organised by Merman Ludo, the event – which organisers believe might be the first of its kind in the world – saw ten competitors from all over the country face off in a battle to be the best merman France has ever seen.
'On The Borderline' - An Exhibition of Artwork created by individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Practitioner:
Borderline Arts Team
Date:
Dec 1 2017
An Exhibition by talented Artists, giving an insight into their experience of life with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Color-Cycling
Practitioner:
Narcelio Grud
Date:
Apr 23 2012
Ciclo-Color 
Invisible Homeless
Practitioner:
Luke Jerram, 1625 Independent People
Date:
Dec 22 2015
Artist Luke Jerram created a genderless sleeping figure made of glass lying on a piece of cardboard and exhibited in the streets of London. The artist said in an interview "For every person you see sleeping on the streets, there are many others sleeping in hostels, squats and other forms of unsatisfactory and insecure accommodation.
How Détournement Was Used as a Weapon in 15-M Protests
Practitioner:
Date:
May 15 2011
Just over a decade ago on May 15, 2011, a wave of social outrage began as the Spanish people collectively decided that they had had enough of the corruption, cuts, and inequalities affecting their country.
Linha Vermelha - Red Line
Practitioner:
Academia Cidadã - Citizenship Academy
Date:
Dec 5 2017
Linha Vermelha was created in 2016 by the non-profit organization Academia Cidadã (Citizenship Academy). At that time there were fifteen active contracts for oil and gas drilling and we were inspired by the “Red Line Action” in Paris, during COP21 and decided to create this campaign.
Spotify removes Neil Young's music after he objects to Joe Rogan's podcast
Practitioner:
Neil Young
Date:
Jan 27 2022
Spotify has removed famed singer-songwriter Neil Young's recordings from its streaming platform.
Felipe Romero Beltrán captures young migrants coming-of-age in Seville
Practitioner:
Felipe Romero Beltrán
Date:
Apr 13 2021
Horror stories about treacherous boat journeys from Africa to the Mediterranean far too often make headline news. The men, women and children fleeing their homes to start a new life in Europe become faceless numbers in the media, and are ‘othered’ by conservative politicians for their own agenda.
Mareas
Practitioner:
various groups
Date:
Dec 6 2012
El movimiento 15M ha abierto la veda a una protesta insistente, que mantiene la presencia en la calle. Según la delegada de gobierno, Cristina Cifuentes, en Madrid hay ocho manifestaciones diarias.
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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