Projects tagged "Latin America & Caribbean"

Gesta Final
Practitioner:
Cuban Government
Date:
Apr 8 2013
HAVANA — It’s the latest challenge for computer gamers, in Cuba at least: Fight your way through mangrove swamps shoulder-to-shoulder with bearded guerrillas clad in the olive green of Fidel Castro and Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Your mission: Topple 1950s dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Latino Punk Festival NYC
Practitioner:
punk bands from the Americas
Date:
Aug 7 2015
Promoted as a DIY festival with no corporate sponsorship, the 2015 Latino Punk festival in Brooklyn, NY featured bands from all over the Americas. With an emphasis on local bands supporting each other and nurturing local scenes, this festival functions in reference to the ideals of the punk and Riot Grrrl movements in the 1990s.
Social change through music
Practitioner:
Jose Antonio Abreu
Date:
Jan 1 1975
El Sistema, also known as The National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestra and Choir, was established in Venezuela in 1975 by José Antonio Abreu, a Venezuelan educator, musician and activist. The music education program operates within the voluntary sector and is funded publicly.
Anibal Lopez-- One Ton of Books Dumped on Reforma Avenue
Practitioner:
Aníbal López
Date:
Jan 3 2003
Aníbal López, also known by his government identification number A-153167, is a pioneer of performance art in Central America. ArtBus describes his work as, "Generally aimed at immersing viewers into the region’s social and political tensions, his works combine the dry language of 1960/1970s conceptual art with the revolutionary ethos of a Latin American guerrillero.
Shaming criminals in Argentina : "los escraches"
Practitioner:
HIJOS activist group and other argentinian activists
Date:
Jun 1 1995
Faced with a lack of prosecution of those accused of crimes against humanity committed during Argentina’s military dictatorship, family members and descendants of the country’s estimated 30,000 disappeared took action.
‘Memorial’
Practitioner:
Cherill Linnett and woman activists
Date:
Mar 8 2020
Cheril Linett is a female artist from Chile, with a background in performance art and stage performance, who primarily focuses her artwork on feminist issues in Chile, especially ones involving violence, murder, hate crime and different kinds of oppression and assault, but also creates artwork reflecting issues in other parts of Latin America.
Blurring Boundaries Between Art and Activism in Cuba
Practitioner:
Tania Bruguera
Date:
Jan 23 2015
MEXICO CITY — Of the half-dozen pieces that form Tania Bruguera’s series “Tatlin’s Whisper,” the one that the Cuban government silenced may have resounded most.
The time when Colombian students hugged and kissed the police
Practitioner:
National Student Organization (Mane)
Date:
Mar 27 2011
During 2011, students around Colombia decided to create a National Student organization that would organize thousands of them to reject a harmful educational reform (Reforma a la ley 30). Before this year, student organizations were characterized by their segmentarity and old fashion yet violent ways to protest.
GuggenSITO
Practitioner:
Antimuseo
Date:
Apr 8 2011
El Antimuseo es un proyecto curatorial que questiona los mecanismos de legitimación del arte. El grupo considera su trabajo " el proceso social donde se produce el valor simbólico y económico de la obra de arte, así como en el análisis de la estructura y límites de la institución." En las palabras de ANTIMUSEO:
Thriller Protest
Practitioner:
Chilean students
Date:
Jun 24 2011
The following is a description of the action that Huffington post published online on 6/25/2011: "Student demonstrators took to the streets of Santiago dressed as goblins and ghouls from Michael Jackson’s 'Thriller' video in their latest spirited pursuit of higher education reforms."
Teeter-Totter Wall, 2019
Practitioner:
Rael and Virginia San Fratello
Date:
Jan 9 2019
hot pink see-saws installed along the US-Mexico border where one person on each side can sit and see-saw with the other. installed at Sunland Park, nine miles northwest of El Paso, on the 18 feet slats border wall between Mexico and the United States. It is at this site where the US Border Patrol detained about 300 migrants from Mexico. (Public Delivery) the installation lasted only 1 day and was done without permission.
Erasing the Police
Practitioner:
Columbian students
Date:
Oct 13 2011
Thousands of students have protested in the Colombian capital, Bogota, and other cities against government plans to reform higher education. The demonstrations were mainly peaceful but Bogota police fired tear gas and used water cannon after some people threw stones, officials said. Students say the proposed reforms will lead to partial privatisation of the public universities.
Grandmas resignifying public space
Practitioner:
Corpovisionarios por Colombia, Health Ministry of Colombia, OIM
Date:
May 6 2014
This project consisted of an articulation between research, public policy and art. Corpovisionarios por Colombia was implementing a social change initiative in one of the poorest and most violents neighborhoods in Cali, Colombia. The demographic information showed that the most implicated population in the violence and murder cases were young men. They informed their masculinity through ideas of territory and its violent protection.
Bicycles As a Vehicle For Protest in Guatemala
Practitioner:
Guatemalan Girls
Date:
Feb 13 2021
Non-profit organizations and a multitude of Guatemalan girls protested together demanding justice and security from the government. Guatemala's insecurity and cases of girls' disappearances have increased over the years. The protest started outside the Government Ministery (Ministerio de Gobernación) early in the morning, where protestors gathered riding their bikes.
MESOAMÉRICA RESISTE
Practitioner:
Beehive Collective
Date:
Jul 16 2019
The Beehive Design Collective is a wildly motivated, all-volunteer, activist arts collective dedicated to “cross-pollinating the grassroots” by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images for use as educational and organizing tools. We work as word-to-image translators of complex global stories, shared with us through conversations with affected communities.
Marxism will give health to the sick
Practitioner:
Frida Kahlo
Date:
Apr 13 1954
To mark the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx, PL Henderson offers an appreciation of one of Frida Kahlo’s greatest paintings, which was heavily influenced by Marx's creative thinking.
Border Crossings
Practitioner:
Chico MacMurtrie
Date:
May 23 2021
order Crossers comprise a series of lightweight robotic sculptures that poetically explore the notion of borders and boundary conditions. The inflatable sculptures rise up to several stories high and extend across a given threshold. Their choreographed performance, originating on both sides of the border, would stage a symbolic connection.
In Mexico, Women Go on Strike Nationwide to Protest Violence
Practitioner:
Feminist Organizations
Date:
Mar 9 2020
MEXICO CITY — Tens of thousands of women vanished from streets, offices and classrooms across Mexico on Monday, part of a nationwide strike to protest the violence they suffer and to demand government action against it. The women’s absence from public spaces was intended to be a reminder that every day, 10 women in Mexico are killed — and so disappear forever, organizers said.
Feminist protest against Fujimori and forced sterilization
Practitioner:
n/a
Date:
Mar 11 2016
Thousands took to the streets in Lima, Peru, on March 11 to protest conservative presidential frontrunner Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori, and demand that her candidacy be revoked amid accusations of vote buying.
Literatura Exposta (Literature Exposed)
Practitioner:
Álvaro Figueiredo
Date:
Jan 15 2019
Artists in Rio de Janeiro have staged a pop-up street show to protest against the closure by the new far-right state government of an exhibition because of a performance attacking dictatorship-era torture.
Your life is woth more than 5 pesos. Boycott against the subway fare
Practitioner:
Anonymous group
Date:
May 5 2021
On the 5th of May 2021, the subway's 12-line partially collapsed, killing 24 people and injuring more than 70. Onboard, were children, young women and men, and the elderly. The accident also killed a man and injured a woman who was driving a car, upon which the train fell. The poorly conditions of the subway structure had been repeatedly reported by neighbors living nearby. No institutional response was given.
Ossario: Reverse Graffiti
Practitioner:
Alexandre Orion
Date:
Aug 22 2006
Visual artist Alexandre Orion removes soot in an artful manner to produce skulls in the tunnels of the polluted city of Sao Paulo. Orion does so in an attempt to create intervention, raise awarenes, and decrease pollution. "From the ocular cavities of so many dead, his work looks out on the living and interrogates people passing by; it quietly criticizes our omission, our comfortable acceptance of pollution." ( Jose De Souza Martins)
ESTUDIANTE MILITANTE: University of Puerto Rico Student Movement and campus occupation.
Practitioner:
AgitArte
Date:
Apr 20 2010
El Estudiante Militante is a giant puppet built by the members of Papel Machete and students of the University of Puerto Rico during the first three days of the 2010 student strike at a cultural camp established by the theater group in solidarity with the striking students. The puppet was built with materials inside the campus of the University.
Rolezinho Movement
Practitioner:
Brazilian Youths
Date:
Jan 10 2014
This description is taken from an article posted on dissidentvoice.org (link below):
Bogota smiles: canned Sardines
Practitioner:
Daniel Sanchez
Date:
May 4 2013
A Colombian college student created this idea to improve Bogotas citizens experience when using the public transportation. According to one scientific study, the worst problem Bogota citizens had to deal within the public space was public transportation; this problem represented the principal cause of high percentages of stress and anger among citizens.

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