Projects tagged "Europe"

[Human Compliance Experiment] ‘The Push’: Netflix Special That Tests Human Compliance Is a Life-or-Death ‘Nathan for You’
Practitioner:
Derren Brown
Date:
Feb 23 2018
https://www.netflix.com/title/80220000 http://www.indiewire.com/2018/02/the-push-netflix-review-ending-derren-b... Article from IndieWire by Steve Greene
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#LaLigaArcoIris: Rainbow Shoelaces Against Homophobia
Practitioner:
Federación de Lesbianas, Gais, Transexuales y Bisexuales (FELGTB)
Date:
Feb 21 2015
Spanish soccer has witnessed and engaged in a variety of conversations in the last few years: Racism, politics, xenophobia, territorial issues, corruption, inmigration. However, there is an issue that remains untouched, and this issue is homophobia. Soccer is still a context where it is acceptable to use the word "marica" ("queer") in a pejorative way.
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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.
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A Vote for the Future
Practitioner:
15 M activista
Date:
May 15 2011
The 15M movement in Spain grew out of a desire for liberation and greater access to social and political rights for marginalized groups. At its core the activists of 15M were visionaries and used voting for a utopian society as a creative act to reimagine the world they created. Reality is socially construed by the forces that determine individual agency.
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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.
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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.
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The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons
Practitioner:
Jacques-Louis David
Date:
Jan 1 1787
Jacques-Louis David was an active member of the French Revolution, and his works often depicted his political affiliations. David’s painting The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons portrays the scene of Brutus, an important figure of the Roman Republic, reacting to the death of his sons. Since they wanted to overthrow the government and restore the monarchy, Brutus ordered their death.
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Kärrtorp Guerilla Community Garden
Practitioner:
Linje17, TransitionStockholm, OK!OmställningKärrtorp
Date:
Apr 8 2013
April 2012 we occupied a vacant wild lot in our local community to start this community garden.
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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.
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Fur in Madrid: Controversy and Critique
Practitioner:
Animanaturalis
Date:
Jan 21 2020
During a cold January morning in 2020, Animanaturalis, a nonprofit group focused on ending the suffering of animals across Spain and Latin America gathered to protest the use, production, and sale of fur in Spain. In a blog post on their website, the group discusses the horrid living conditions on fur farms as well as statistics and alternatives related to fur sales (Animanaturalis, n.d.).
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Claudio Parentela:Contemporary Art with a Freakish Taste!
Practitioner:
CLAUDIO PARENTELA
Date:
Dec 8 2024
Claudio Parentela:Contemporary Art with a Freakish Taste!
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How Serbian activists started a nationwide anti-authoritarian protest during COVID-19 lockdown
Practitioner:
Civic Front
Date:
May 1 2020
For the past few years around election time in Serbia, people have taken to the streets to protest government corruption, attacks on free press and voter suppression. This Spring, despite a nationwide lock-down to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, activists are finding new ways to protest the country’s increasingly-repressive government.
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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.
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Just Be - Challenging perceptions & changing attitudes on forced migration
Practitioner:
Participants of the Creativity and Change course Cork City
Date:
Apr 13 2017
The participants are taking part in a one week empathy to action training in Cork.
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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.
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Retirement dinner turned into hilarious protest
Practitioner:
UK Uncut
Date:
Sep 23 2012
Activists gate-crashed a retirement dinner for outgoing HMRC boss Dave Hartnett in Oxford, presenting him with flowers and a fake award for allowing large companies to avoid paying tax.
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José Bové dismantles a McDonald's
Practitioner:
Andreja Kulunčić, Ahmet Ögüt
Date:
Aug 12 1999
José Bové, a sheep farmer/activist in Aveyron in the Midi-Pyrénées region of France, is a modern day Astérix, a mythical Gaul who drubbed foreign intruders centuries ago. In Bové's case, the intruder was McDonald's, the American fast food chain.
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"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.
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The Apocalypse Project: The Ephemeral Marvels Perfume Store
Practitioner:
Catherine Sarah Young
Date:
Oct 9 2014
As climate change worsens, so will our collective sense of loss. Coastlines, cities, crops, and entire species will disappear. Artist Catherine Young has created a perfume line that bottles up the scents of things we enjoy today, but will be diminished–or gone–soon enough. During exhibitions, visitors are allowed to smell the perfumes.
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"Human Cost" Oily Protest at the Tate
Practitioner:
Liberate Tate
Date:
Apr 20 2011
On the one-year anniversary of the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, artist-activists at Liberate Tate staged a guerrilla performance in the Tate Britain galleries to highlight the museum's ties to BP.
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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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Sharing Is Caring
Practitioner:
Dan Bull & Pirate Bay
Date:
Apr 22 2012
Dan Bull & Pirate Bay Attack the Music Charts With “Sharing Is Caring”
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Terrorism to Monuments
Practitioner:
Arquitectura y Urbanismo
Date:
Jul 10 2019
Within the topic of terrorism, the idea of loss and memory is always a pervasive idea that cannot be avoided. Within the topic of loss and memory, the idea of monuments is always a pervasive idea that cannot be avoided because they are used to commemorate and remember those that lost their lives to the terrorists.
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Equity and Access: Art & Protest in Spain
Practitioner:
El Rey de la Ruina
Date:
Jul 10 2022
Spanish street artist El Rey de la Ruina uses murals and installations to critique inequality and government policies. His works, especially during the pandemic, voiced concerns over healthcare, housing, and public resources in Madrid’s urban spaces.
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The Poster Workshop
Practitioner:
Anonymous
Date:
May 1 1968
Between the late 1960s and 1970s numerous alternative printshops were set up across the UK, with the founding objective of producing, providing or facilitating the cheap and safe printing of radical materials. They were started by libertarians, aligned and non-aligned Marxists, anarchists and feminists, and as such were constitutive of the fractured and fractious politics of the post-1968 left.
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