Projects tagged "Europe"

Dismaland
Practitioner:
Banksy
Date:
Aug 20 2015
“He describes it as a “family theme park unsuitable for small children” – and with the Grim Reaper whooping it up on the dodgems and Cinderella horribly mangled in a pumpkin carriage crash, it is easy to see why. Banksy’s new show, Dismaland, which opened on Thursday on the Weston-super-Mare seafront, is sometimes hilarious, sometimes eye-opening and occasionally breathtakingly shocking.
Street Art Used to Fill Urban Emptiness
Practitioner:
Nikita Nomerz
Date:
Mar 19 2013
In his ongoing street art series “The Living Wall,” Russian artist Nikita Nomerz brings life to decrepit buildings in Russia by painting faces on them. Nomerz travels extensively around Russia and makes an effort to paint a character in each place he visits. He talks about his art in this interview with Global Street Art.
Tied and Tested: Miles Greenberg's 'Sebastian' and the Art of Endurance
Practitioner:
Miles Greenberg
Date:
Apr 24 2024
Miles Greenberg is a performance artist from Canada who specializes in time, endurance, and the human body. His art is often complicated and deep into the human experience, with physical endurance mixed into visual metaphors that create deep, profound statements of the human condition.
The Bristol Cable: A community-run newspaper holding power to account
Practitioner:
The Bristol Cable
Date:
May 1 2016
Taking back the media. The Bristol Cable is a media co-operative shaking up local news with hard-hitting investigative journalism. “In every single pub up and down the country people will be talking about how crap the media is,” says Alon Aviram, co-founder of The Bristol Cable, “but there aren’t many conversations around what the alternatives are and how we can remodel it.”
Bulgarian students protest for 'change'
Practitioner:
Bulgarian students
Date:
Jan 11 2013
“Wake up!” chanted some 2,000 protesters rallying in front of Sofia University after students, who have been occupying part of the university since October 25, called for faculty and anti-government protesters to join their demonstration. Protesters marched in the streets of Sofia to the beat of drums, chanting “Resign!” and “Red trash!”, blocking the traffic in downtown Sofia, AFP reports.
Storm of the White House (Moscow)
Practitioner:
Voina Collective
Date:
Nov 6 2008
Voina art collective members covertly brought a large laser projector into the attic room of a hotel located across the street from the Russian White house (also called the Russian Parliament Building). From there they projected a large image of a skull and bross bones across the front of the white house building. Other group members on the ground then stormed the building gates and successfully entered the secure zone in front of the building.
Mobile Worlds
Practitioner:
Roger M. Buergel
Date:
Jul 11 2018
When Europeans of the 18th and 19th centuries established their grandest museums, each building meant to unite the world’s cultural heritage under a single roof, they had no doubt as to who should explain it all: themselves. They took a Eurocentric view, categorizing the spoils of colonial enterprise by nation and region, splitting art from craft, and nature from culture.
Brandalism
Practitioner:
Brandalism
Date:
Nov 27 2015
Brandalism, an organization out of the UK that aims to reclaim public spaces from advertisers, used Black Friday to protest "partner" brands to the COP21 Climate Conference. Anonymous artists contributed subvertisements that criticized these brand for their hypocrisy in saying they are advocates for the environment when more often than not they are the worst contributors to the problem.
Old People's Home
Practitioner:
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu
Date:
Jul 12 2008
These thirteen life-like sculptures resemble familiar politicians, admirals, generals, bishops, and dictators. Portrayed as frail seniors, they sit dozing off and drooling in electric wheelchairs. They roll on a slow collision course, crashing into each other like bumper cars.
ŠTO TE NEMA (WHY ARE NOT YOU HERE)
Practitioner:
Aida Šehović
Date:
Jul 11 2018
ŠTO TE NEMA is a public monument created as a response to Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II - the systematic killing of 8,372 Muslim men and boys in the UN-protected safe area of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina in July of 1995.
Fragility and Endurance: Yann Marussich's 'BAIN BRISÉ' and the Art of Vulnerability
Practitioner:
Yann Marussich
Date:
Apr 24 2010
Yann Marussich is a Swiss performance artist who does avant-garde and shocking work, going further into the relationships of the human body with the environment. His work explores such themes as endurance, vulnerability, and the intersection of physicality with philosophy.
Iaioflautas
Practitioner:
gente mayor
Date:
May 15 2011
Los iaioflautas son un grupo heterogéneo y variable de personas mayores. Surgen al calor de las Acampadas que proliferearon en el Estado español en mayo del 2011. En su manifiesto se definen así:
Eric Bouvet’s Chechnya On Stage
Practitioner:
Theatre company Map
Date:
Mar 15 2013
"On Friday, March 15, 2013, for the launch of the 20th edition of the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, the theatre company Map performed Jusqu’au bout, a play directed by David Ropars based on a text by the photojournalist Eric Bouvet. It was a great success! The monologue was given a magnificent interpretation by the actor Jean-Pierre Morice.
The Baltic Way – the longest unbroken human chain in history
Practitioner:
citizens of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
Date:
Aug 23 1989
At 7:00 PM on 23 August 1989, approximately two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania joined hands, forming a human chain from Tallinn through Riga to Vilnius, spanning 675 kilometres, or 420 miles. It was a peaceful protest against the illegal Soviet occupation and also one of the earliest and longest unbroken human chains in history.
Al Kufiyyeh 3arabeyyeh (The Kufiyeh is Arab)
Practitioner:
Shadia Mansour
Date:
Sep 1 2011
Mansour began rapping in 2003 and has gained recognition in the Middle East, Europe and the United States for her own songs and collaborations with other artists. She performs wearing a traditional Palestinian thawb and has said that she considers herself to be part of a "musical intifada" against the occupation of Palestine, conservatism and oppression of women.
Brat Summer: From Charli XCX's *Brat* to a Cultural Movement and the Perfect Sneaker Aesthetic
Practitioner:
Charli XCX
Date:
Jun 7 2024
The Brat Summer movement can be directly traced back to the release of Charli XCX's album "Brat" in 2024. Known for her boundary-pushing pop sound and fierce persona, Charli XCX used "Brat" as a platform to explore themes of defiance, self-empowerment and the rejection of societal expectations.
Critical Engeneering Manifesto
Practitioner:
Julian Oliver
Date:
Oct 23 2011
 The Critical Engineering ManifestoThe Critical Engineer considers Engineering to be the most transformative language of our time, shaping the way we move, communicate and think. It is the work of the Critical Engineer to study and exploit this language, exposing its influence.
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.
Activist Hangs Herself in Protest
Practitioner:
FEMEN
Date:
Jan 28 2016
A topless activist staged a mock hanging from a bridge in Paris, to protest against the visit of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. The protester, from international women's rights group Femen, hung from the bridge in an execution-style demonstration on 28 January 2016. She had an Iranian flag painted on her chest.
Activista Shepard Fairey traz “Printed Matters” a Lisboa
Practitioner:
Shepard Fairey
Date:
Jul 21 2017
O artista norte-americano Shepard Fairey inaugura esta sexta-feira, em Lisboa, “Printed Matters”, exposição que mostra sobretudo peças impressas, técnica que crê “não ter os dias contados”, e cujo conteúdo activista gostava de ver mais vezes nas Artes Visuais.
Three Billboards—Beyond Ebbing, Missouri
Practitioner:
Sabo, avaaz, Justice4Grenfell, Occupy Justice Malta
Date:
Mar 1 2018
The Oscar-nominated crime drama has inspired activists around the world to put up massive signs to call attention to social issues.
The Whole World Is An Art School
Practitioner:
Bob and Roberta Smith
Date:
Feb 13 2018
Bob and Roberta Smith has been at the forefront of activist art for 2 decades; so who better to ask about how art is responding to these politically bleak times?
Ace Bank
Practitioner:
Liat Berdugo
Date:
Oct 1 2006
ACE Bank was a hoax bank developed as part of a bigger campaign by Netwerk Vlaanderen, a Belgian organization concerned with banks’ responsibilities for what they invest in. ACE bank was an elaborate deception, with a headquarters in central Brussels, parodying other banks. It claimed to be investigating whether there was a market for its special way of doing business.
United States v. One Book Named Ulysses
Practitioner:
Bennet Cerf, Morris Ernst
Date:
Dec 6 1933
In 1932, Bennett Cerf, cofounder of Random House Publishing, acquired the rights to publish James Joyce’s Ulysses in the United States, believing that the book would be as successful as it had been throughout Europe. But Cerf had a problem. The book was banned in the United States and would be seized as soon as it came off the printing press, which would lose Cerf millions of dollars.
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.

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