Projects tagged "Europe"

China urges Japan to treat "comfort women" issue in honest, responsible manner
Practitioner:
Xinhua Net
Date:
Jun 29 2021
Photo taken on Oct. 15, 2020 shows a "comfort women" statue in Berlin, capital of Germany. The statue was built to commemorate the more than 200,000 girls and women from 14 countries and regions, so-called "comfort women," who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese military during World War II. (Xinhua/Shan Yuqi)
Movimiento de los indignados( MADRID 15m)
Practitioner:
ciudadanos, estudiantes
Date:
Nov 30 2010
El movimiento 15M fue formado por una series de protestas apartidistas con la intención de promover la democracia y la voz de las masas. Las asambleas se organizaron en plazas centrales en Madrid. A sus inicios, las protestas fueron organizadas por estudiantes reaccionando a las tazas crecientes universitarias y a los recortes presupuestarios educativos.
Break Down
Practitioner:
Michael Landy
Date:
Feb 11 2001
Michael Landy made an inventory of every single thing he owned: every item of furniture, every book, every work of art, every article of clothing and one Saab car. Cataloguing all his possessions took a year to complete and the final list comprised 7,227 items.
Las Vulpes: Me gusta ser una zorra (I like being a whore)
Practitioner:
Las Vulpes
Date:
Apr 16 1983
Las Vulpes was the first spanish punk rock band formed only by women. It was founded in Baracaldo (Vizcaya, Basque Country) in the summer of 1982, as a result of the guitarist´s desire on creating an all women punk band. After a few changes, the final formation consisted on: Loles Vázquez (guitar), Mamen Rodrigo (voice), Begoña Astigarraga (bass) and Lupe Vázquez (drums), all between 17 and 22 years of age.
Mom Pinup Calendar
Practitioner:
Spanish mothers
Date:
Jan 26 2013
Spanish Moms Raise School Funds With Pinup Calendar January 26, 2013 Copyright ©2013 NPR. SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
Poor Little Fish
Practitioner:
Yan Lu
Date:
Apr 4 2012
Is it possible that through affective design we can change our consumer behavior? Yan Lu and his "Little Fish Project" offer a design inspired solution to excess use of water. "As consumption is incalculable, saving is often neglected through daily consumption.
Utopian Infrastructure: The Campesino Basketball Court
Practitioner:
ARPDELESP
Date:
May 30 2023
The Mexican Pavilion is an immersive space based on a 1:1 scale fragment of the expanded model of the campesino basketball court, an infrastructure that has become repurposed as a space for poly- and pluri-valent processes of decolonisation in Mexico’s indigenous communities.
They Shoot Horses
Practitioner:
Phil Collins at Tate Britain
Date:
Mar 23 2006
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Davos Shell Station Shut Down By Arctic Oil Drilling Protesters
Practitioner:
Greenpeace
Date:
Jan 25 2013
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Activists with a big fake polar bear have occupied a Shell service station in the Swiss resort of Davos to protest Royal Dutch Shell PLC's oil drilling in the Arctic. About 25 activists from around Europe chained gas pumps together Friday at the station near where the World Economic Forum was being held and hung a banner on the roof reading "Arctic Oil - Too Risky."
H&M Ad-busting
Practitioner:
Daniel Soares
Date:
Jan 1 2014
Artist Daniel Soares pasted Photoshop toolbar stickers on these H&M posters as a nice little reminder that not all is as it seems. Y'all know how Photoshop messes with our perception of beauty, and I think this is a smart little stunt to snap us back into reality when we start to wonder why we never look like the girls on the posters we walk past every day.
Climate-Noah's Ark
Practitioner:
Gad Weil
Date:
Sep 19 2015
On September 19,2015 in Paris, 140 animals sailed up the River Seine to bring awareness to climate change, ahead of the COP21 UN meeting in December. French artist Gad Weil created this pop art piece from fully recyclable acrylic sheets, and installed the animals on top of a barge in front of the Eiffel Tower.
Time Redefined: Maarten Baas' 'Real Time' Series
Practitioner:
Maarten Baas
Date:
Apr 1 2009
The "Real Time" series by Maarten Baas is an avant-garde collection of art installations and functional timepieces that question the very basics of how to measure and experience time. It has, therefore, been a unique mix of performance art with functional design since 2009. Baas reimagines how time may be seen in his various installations in a provoking, innovative, engaging, and reflective manner for all audiences.
UK Brandalism Campaign
Practitioner:
Various Artists
Date:
May 12 2014
From Glasgow to Brighton the streets of the UK looked a little different the morning of Monday 5/12/14. In 10 cities around the UK guerrilla install crews have been swapping over 300 ads with art works, creating the largest advertising takeover in world history.
Here Comes the Sun' in Madrid Unemployment Office
Practitioner:
Unemployed Workers
Date:
Oct 11 2013
Flash Mob. The Beatles 1969 song is a counterpoint to Spain's soaring unemployment rate (over half of Spanish youth are out of work).
Iva Hladis: Origins Extinct
Practitioner:
Iva Hladis
Date:
Sep 10 2005
Iva Hladis was born in Czechoslovakia in 1965. ​In 2005 her attention turned to the issue of global warming and world destruction with a new series of artworks titled “Origins Extinct”; assemblages of used computer chipboards, real botanicals, bugs, Czech glass beads, found objects, wires and pearls.
Crows That Pick Up Trash
Practitioner:
Crows
Date:
Aug 20 2018
Oh, to be a crow. Maligned as scavengers that torment their dead brethren. Portrayed as aerial killers in the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock classic, “The Birds.” In France, though, the wily crow is getting a makeover. Puy du Fou, a historical theme park in the Loire region about four hours from Paris, has trained six crows to pick up cigarette butts and bits of trash and dump them in a box. Mon Dieu! Are the pigeons of Paris next?
Sex Worker’s Opera
Practitioner:
Experimental Experience Theater
Date:
May 28 2014
The Sex Workers' Opera is a multidisciplinary show featuring stories of sex workers from 17 countries and produced since 2013. It is written and performed by sex workers and their friends.
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.
Ice Watch London
Practitioner:
Olafur Eliasson
Date:
Dec 11 2018
The Guardian: Olafur Eliasson is putting the chill into climate change. The revered Scandinavian artist has placed 24 large blocks of centuries-old ice, harvested from the Nuup Kangerlua fjord in Greenland, in a circle outside the Tate Modern in London, with another six on display in the City.
Antigone
Practitioner:
Sophocles
Date:
Nov 30 0440
Antigone, written by Sophocles approximately 441 BC, is the third of the three Thebans plays. Antigone is the daughter of the infamous Oedipus and Jocasta. Thebes has suffered from a plague, scandal, and civil war. Antigone's brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices died fighting each other for the throne. Antigone's uncle, Creon, now king of Thebes, decrees that Eteocles will be buried, but Polyneices will not be given burial right.
The Swasticar
Practitioner:
Everyone Hates Elon
Date:
Feb 26 2025
It appears Elon Musk has enemies all over the world. The tech billionaire — currently the planet’s richest man and CEO of Tesla — has integrated himself into U.S. politics, becoming Donald Trump‘s head of a new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and aligned himself with far-right politicians in Europe.
How about taking your favourite banker (and politician) to jail?
Practitioner:
Xnet
Date:
May 16 2012
The Spanish 15M/INDIGNADOS social movement represents a citizen break-up with the current political system while proposing an alternative one, creatively transforming the prevailing participation and action patterns in its society.
Migrant crisis: Charities make massive peace sign out of life jackets on Lesbos
Practitioner:
Greenpeace, Doctors Without Borders, Sea-Watch, the Dutch Refugee Boat Foundation, local community groups
Date:
Jan 1 2016
Charities working on the Greek island of Lesbos have made a massive peace sign out of discarded life jackets to honour refugees who've died trying to cross the Mediterranean. More than 100 volunteers used 3,000 vests to form the symbol on a hill outside the village of Molyvos. More than one million refugees and migrants have reached Europe by sea since the start of 2015.
OurGoods Trade School
Practitioner:
Rich Watts, Louise Ma, OurGoods
Date:
Jan 1 2010
Trade School is a self-organised, alternative learning space that runs on barter. It was started in 2010 in New York’s Lower East Side by Rich Watts, Louise Ma, and Caroline Woolard of OurGoods.org, a creative barter network. Over 800 students participated in 76 single-session classes during 35 days. Anyone can teach a class, and students sign up by agreeing to meet the barter requests of teachers.
Trojan T-Shirts
Practitioner:
Exit-Deutschland
Date:
Jul 27 2011
An anti-Nazi organization called Exit-Deutschland targeted a right-wing Rock Festival in a city called Gera. They got in contact to the festival organizers by using a fictitious name, and they distributed 250 trojan t-shirts with a writing “Hardcore Rebels” during the festival. When the recipients of the shirts went back home and washed them.

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