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Projects tagged "Europe"

Notice Nature
Practitioner:
Creativity and Change CIT
Date:
Apr 13 2017
Notice Nature was a public engagement action undertaken by participants in the Erasmus+ funded training 'Creativity and Change: Empathy 2 Action - nurturing response-able global citizens' which took place in Cork from 8th - 13th April 2017. The team members were Marie-Michele Tessier, Aoife Dare, Ann Foulds, Zsofi Toth and Claire Faithorn.
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Stumble Stones
Practitioner:
Gunter Demnig
Date:
Apr 13 2013
The late, late snow has finally disappeared from Berlin’s streets. Visible once again, here and there, are the “stumble stones” –Stolpersteine in German – with their brief, tragic messages. Many Berlin tourists will enjoy the night life. They may also look upwards – at the giant TV tower, the Brandenburg Gate, at ancient and less ancient churches. There is a wide assortment of memorial monuments, some impressive, some uninspiring.
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Every Step You Take
Practitioner:
Nino Leitner
Date:
May 20 2008
With an estimated four million surveillance cameras, Britain is by far the most-watched nation on earth. Every Londoner is on camera about 300 times a day. How could this come about in George Orwell’s mother country? What were the ignition sparks for this development? Why haven’t other nations copied the schemes if they really are as successful as the Home Office and the police are saying?
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The Peoples Bank of Govanhill
Practitioner:
Ailie Rutherford, Katherine MacKinnon, Carmen Sawers
Date:
Sep 21 2019
The People’s Bank of Govanhill uses social and activist art practices to involve people in re-imagining the local economy, looking at how we can put feminist economics into practice in the local community.
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Trampoline House
Practitioner:
M. Goll, J. Hamou, T.O. Nielsen
Date:
Jan 1 2010
Trampoline House is a user-driven refugee justice community center located in the center of Copenhagen, where refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants can meet with Danish citizens and other residents of Denmark and share experiences, learn from one another, and work to create a more just and sustainable refugee and asylum policy.
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The Police are Present
Practitioner:
Luzinterruptus
Date:
Aug 6 2014
If you happened to be walking in the neighborhood of Madrid's Congress of Deputies this month, you might have noticed a strange sight.
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Bread For All
Practitioner:
Anonymous urban artists
Date:
Sep 14 2017
Civil activists set up a giant loaf of bread on the small square of a bus stop near the Cathedral Store in Center to remind passersbys that a large number of their fellow citizens live below the poverty threshold.
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"The shoes are marching for us"
Practitioner:
avaaz
Date:
Nov 29 2015
A 7-year-old's sneakers. An accountant's slippers. Gold heels with spikes and a piece of paper carrying a message: "Invest in renewable (energy) ... now." Thousands of shoes stood in silent protest on Sunday in Paris.
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The Colors Mountain
Practitioner:
The Colors Mountain
Date:
May 5 2015
The Colors Mountain is a collective intervention project that uses a virtual space dedicated to the observation and investigation of alleged ecological crimes , with the goal of using the concept of "reasonable doubt", not only for possible court acquittal but also cause a formal investigation that could lead to a court complaint.
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Ghillie Suits Occupy UBS
Practitioner:
Seda Erdural
Date:
Feb 22 2012
The Yes Lab collaborated with "Knobotiq" to design an action against UBS, a financial services giant renowned for aiding tax evaders, funding environmental destruction, and getting bailed out by the public.
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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.
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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.
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Red Square Performance "Fixation"
Practitioner:
Petr Pavlensky
Date:
Nov 10 2013
Petr Pavlensky, a Russian performance artist, sent a nail through his scrotum to the cobblestones of Red Square in Moscow (on a holiday in celebration of law enforcement). He was later charged with hooliganism. Pavlensky, as quoted in the Guardian: "The performance can be seen as a metaphor for the apathy, political indifference and fatalism of contemporary Russian society."
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'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)
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¿Cómo podemos expropiar a las entidades bancarias?
Practitioner:
Núria Güell, Qmunty, Enric Duran, Simona Sarau, Colectivo Crisi, Lucio Urtubia
Date:
May 21 2011
El albañil anarquista Lucio Urtubia falsificó miles de cheques del First National City Bank, en la segunda mitad de los años setenta, hasta prácticamente llevar el banco a la ruina. Urtubia donó el dinero así generado a diversos movimientos de guerrilla europeos y latinoamericanos.
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Color-Cycling
Practitioner:
Narcelio Grud
Date:
Apr 23 2012
Ciclo-Color 
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TRANSummer Camp and the Ethical Clinic for Gender and Sex Characteristics
Practitioner:
Arian Kajtezovic & Trans Mreža Balkan
Date:
Oct 29 2017
The TRANSummer Camp on the Croatian coast inspired members of the Croation trans community to become creative activists, and led to a public media campaign, video series and event advertising the “opening” of a (fake) clinic for trans health. The project included an ambitious survey on the healthcare experiences and needs of trans and gender variant people in the Balkans in multiple languages.
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"Great Men" - Marlene Dumas at Manifesta 10
Practitioner:
Marlene Dumas, Manifesta 10
Date:
Jun 28 2014
AMSTERDAM — “When I was in the army, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.”
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Elena Fortún (1886-1952): Celia y la Revolución – Celia and the Revolution
Practitioner:
Elena Fortun
Date:
Jul 18 1936
Encarnación Aragoneses Urquijo (886-1952), commonly known by her literary pseudonym Elena Fortún, was a Spanish writer who focused in children and teenagers literature. She was born in Madrid, where she studied Philosophy and Humanities. In 1908 she married Eusebio de Gorbea y Lemmi, a member of the republican army. They left the country after the Civil War to live frist in France and then in Argentina.
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Cuckooed
Practitioner:
Mark Thomas
Date:
Nov 10 2015
Theater as investigative reporting or investigative reporting as theater, however you cut it, Mark Thomas, a British TV actor/comedian and activist has created a fascinating show. It's by him and about him: how he ran stings that put some illegal arms traffickers out of business or in jail and how he was deceived and betrayed by a "comrade" who turned out to be a spy for BAE Systems, the UK's largest aerospace and weapons company.
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Harris Reed is building a fantasy world for gender-fluid fashion
Practitioner:
Harris Reed
Date:
Feb 18 2021
Last June, Harris Reed became a member of the “Class of 2020” -- the crop of young fashion talent who graduated into an industry on rocky ground due to the pandemic. Over the eight months that have passed since earning his cap and gown at Central Saint Martins, Harris seems to have done a good job of finding his feet.
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Operación Lola Flores
Practitioner:
Gila Grupo de Intervención
Date:
Nov 14 2012
"Si una peseta diera cada español, pero no a mí, sino a donde tienen que que darla, quizás saldría de la deuda" (Lola Flores)
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Italian museum burns artworks in protest of budget cut
Practitioner:
The Casoria Contemporary Art Museum
Date:
Apr 18 2012
Italian museum burns artworks in protest of budget cut An Italian museum on Tuesday began burning its collection of contemporary artworks in a singular protest against harsh budget cuts that have left many cultural institutions out of pocket.
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What Else Could We Speak About?
Practitioner:
Teresa Margolles
Date:
Sep 1 2009
DEATH IN VENICE by: Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
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11,541 Empty Chairs
Practitioner:
Bosnians
Date:
Apr 6 2012
Empty chairs were laid out in Sarajevo today in honour of the 11,541 people killed in the city during the Bosnian war which began exactly 20 years ago. The seats - lined up along the city's main street - were left empty in memory of the victims of the 44-month Serb siege of the city. Hundreds of the chairs are small representing the children slain in the conflict.
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