Projects tagged "Latin America & Caribbean"

Colectivo Sublevarte Retrospective
Practitioner:
Colective Sublevarte
Date:
Nov 10 2012
Sublevarte, a Collective of Mexican artists, was born out of the ENAP (National School of Fine Arts) of UNAM (the National Autonomous University of Mexico), during the student strike of 1999-2000, the longest student strike in history.
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.
Operation Christmas - Demobilizing FARC Guerrilla members
Practitioner:
Jose Miguel Sokoloff Lowe SSP3
Date:
Dec 3 2011
Colombian ad agency Lowe SSP3 is starting a Christmas-themed campaign to entice guerrilla fighters out of the jungle to turn themselves in. The agency may have created an advertising-to-guerrillas award category after winning a gold Cannes Lion in the outdoor category and half a dozen Grand Prix awards at other shows this year for its first holiday effort, last December.
Ana Mendieta and Earth Art
Practitioner:
Ana Mendieta
Date:
Apr 20 2018
The works of Ana Mendieta tells a story of the power of the body and the earth, and methods of activism. ----
Hundreds of anti-bull fighting protestors stage a dramatic rally in Mexico City
Practitioner:
Anima Naturalis
Date:
Feb 6 2012
By Jill Reilly, The Daily Mail, UK

Sao Paulo goes completely ad-free with Clean City Law
Practitioner:
Mayor Gilberto Kassab
Date:
Sep 1 2006
Mayor Gilberto Kassab passed a Clean City Law that banned all public advertising in Sao Paulo, one of the world's most populous cities. The mayor gained the support of the city's elites in pressing the law as an anti-pollution measure targeting "visual pollution". The city was quickly stripped of its ubiquitous billboards, signs, graffiti and other public ads.
Abortion Access & Gender-Based Violence in Haiti
Practitioner:
Nègès Mawon
Date:
Mar 30 2023
Haiti is a conservative society where Roman Catholicism shapes many of its social norms. Patriarchal norms, says Haitian feminist Pascale Solages, co-founder and general coordinator of feminist organization Nègès Mawon, have informed its strict views on abortion. In Haiti, women can’t legally access voluntary abortions. Doctors can’t perform them unless the woman’s life is in danger.
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.
Designers launch ‘Bolsocaro’ campaign to criticize price increase in Brazil
Practitioner:
Designers in Brazil
Date:
Mar 20 2021
From a distance they look like supermarket promotion ads, but up close, the text says the reverse: it details the skyrocketing food prices. This is the proposal of the action “Bolsocaro”, which spread posters (those known as lambe-lambes) by walls in different regions of the São Paulo capital accompanied by phrases such as “It’s very expensive”, “It’s in Bolsonaro’s account” and “This account it is not ours.
Brazil to give $25 monthly culture stipend to workers to go to movies, read books or visit museums
Practitioner:
Brazilian Government
Date:
Jan 23 2013
BRASILIA (AFP).- Despite the economic crisis, Brazil announced Thursday it planned to give workers here a 50-real ($25) monthly stipend for cultural expenses like movies, books or museums. "In all developed countries, culture plays a key role in the economy," Culture Minister Marta Suplicy said in an interview on national television.
Chilean Kiss-In
Practitioner:
Chilean students
Date:
Jul 6 2011
Chile Students Stage Kissing Protest Ricardo de la Pena, UPI.com
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)
Who killed Rodrigo Rosenberg?
Practitioner:
Rodrigo Rosenberg and Guatemalan civilians
Date:
May 2 2009
In May of 2009 lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg was murdered in Guatemla City. A video was released of Rosenberg directed to the Guatemalan public. If you are watching this, he said, I have been murdered by the president Alvaro Colom. The video caused an uproar and sparked protests throughout the city.
Mexican Feminists make an artistic intervention on "national heroes" portraits
Practitioner:
Mexican feminists
Date:
Sep 6 2020
Women's collectives and feminist groups occupied the National Commission of Human Rights demanding results to several neglected, open investigations of feminicide in the country. During the occupation, they interviewed the portraits of historical "national heroes" with spray-paint, glitter, markers, and liquid paint.
Unland
Practitioner:
Doris Salcedo
Date:
Mar 19 1998
Doris Salcedo talked extensively with victims of the violence in Colombia. For the project titled Unland she spoke specifically with children who had witnessed the murder of their parents. This piece was a poetic response and representation of their testimony. Salcedo combined halves of tables together to make a whole. In the seam where the tables joined Salcedo meticulously sewed the tables together using white silk thread, dark hair and bone.
Rolezinho Movement
Practitioner:
Brazilian Youths
Date:
Jan 10 2014
This description is taken from an article posted on dissidentvoice.org (link below):
Pandora's Project
Practitioner:
TECHO International
Date:
Oct 31 2012
It was October 31st, 2012, when a new artist appeared on social media. In a series of video clips, she proposed with a soft and slow speech that Peru hide its poverty. Her project consisted of installing vinyl pieces to avoid what she called "the visual pollution." She titled the project Don't be poor, be fashion(able).
CONVICTED KILLER WINS BEAUTY PAGEANT IN WOMEN'S PRISON
Practitioner:
The Instituto Penal Talavera
Date:
Dec 6 2019
In its thirteenth year, the annual Miss Talavera Bruce beauty pageant is held in unlikely surroundings: a women’s prison in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Instituto Penal Talavera is the only maximum-security women’s prison in the city with inmates serving life sentences for murder, fraud and drug trafficking.
Francis Alÿs, When Faith Moves Mountains, 2002
Practitioner:
Francis Alÿs
Date:
Jan 1 2002
Five hundred volunteers with shovels gathered at a huge sand dune on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, and over the course of a day moved it by several inches. Alÿs developed the idea after first visiting Lima in October 2000. The political context was inescapable: “This was during the last months of the Fujimori dictatorship. Lima was in turmoil with clashes on the streets, obvious social tension and an emerging movement of resistance.
Brief History of US Interventions in Latin America Since 1946
Practitioner:
Carlos Motta
Date:
Jan 1 2004
Brief History is part of a series produced by Carlos Motta between 2005 and 2009 that presents two chronologies of events in Latin America: one of U.S. interventions in the region since 1946, and one of the area’s leftist guerrilla movements. One side of the print outlines the interventions’ interconnected narratives in text; the other depicts two bloody handprints and the symbol of the Mano Blanco death squads from 1980s El Salvador.
Huelga decir, gráficas de brazos caídos
Practitioner:
Chahuistle-Bruno editorial
Date:
May 10 2011
Huelga decir, gráficas de brazos caídos, es un libro digital de gran importancia estético-política, dados los recientes acontecimientos sociales a escala mundial, en los que el llamado a la huelga de nueva cuenta se pone de manifiesto en las plazas públicas como instrumento de transformación social.
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.
Manual de micromilitancia
Practitioner:
Unnamed
Date:
Jan 9 2016
Less than a month after Mauricio Macri's inauguration as president of Argentina in December 2015, a manual for micro-resistance was released online to guide resistance against Macri's election and policies. The manual suggests specific actions that people can perform in their everyday lives to build opposition against the new president.
USAID's Cuba hip-hop project
Practitioner:
USAID
Date:
Dec 11 2014
HAVANA (AP) — A U.S. agency's secret infiltration of Cuba's underground hip-hop scene to spark a youth movement against the government was "reckless" and "stupid," Sen. Patrick Leahy said Thursday after The Associated Press revealed the operation.
Bad Bunny’s ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos’ is a form of activism
Practitioner:
bad bunny
Date:
Jan 1 2025
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, better known to the world as Bad Bunny, has once again proven that his artistry goes far beyond reggaeton and trap. On January 5, 2025 — the eve of Puerto Rico’s cherished Three Kings Day — the Puerto Rican superstar released DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, an album that both celebrates his homeland and delivers a sobering message about its uncertain future.

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