Projects tagged "outdoors"

Red Paint Splashed on Roosevelt Statue after second “Anti-Columbus Day Tour”
Practitioner:
Monument Removal Brigade
Date:
Oct 26 2017
Just weeks after activists staged an alternative tour of the American Museum of Natural History to call for its removal, among other things, the equestrian statue of Teddy Roosevelt was vandalized early Thursday morning.
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Chipko Movement
Practitioner:
Chipko Andolan
Date:
Apr 1 1973
The forests of India are a critical resource for the subsistence of rural peoples throughout the country, but especially in hill and mountain areas, both because of their direct provision of food, fuel and fodder and because of their role in stabilising soil and water resources.
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Projeto Prancha Ecologica: surfboards made with plastic bottles
Practitioner:
Projeto Prancha Ecológica
Date:
Feb 17 2013
All those who practice surfing know firsthand the serious problem our beaches face: pollution. While some only complain, others do something about it. Two Brazilian surfers decided they could help raise public awareness of the need to protect nature of the proliferation of plastics used in the oceans through a novel idea: create surfboards plastic bottles.
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Robin Hooding
Practitioner:
Robin Hood of Keene
Date:
Apr 11 2013
Robin Hood of Keene is the most popular act of engagement with the community that FreeKeene has experimented with so far.
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Pilobolus Vote Project
Practitioner:
Pilobolus (Dance Company)
Date:
Oct 21 2012
The Pilobolus Dance company, famous for their beautiful aesthetics of shadow play formed out of the dancer's bodies, started the #PilobolusVOTEproject, encouraging people to form the words VOTE with whatever material they had around them, take a picture of it and to upload it on instagram with the hashtag #PilobolusVOTEproject.
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Seed Action Cork
Practitioner:
Seed Action Cork
Date:
Apr 27 2019
As part of the Creativity and Change postgrad course,(www.creativityandchange.ie) we created a street action. It was designed to raise awareness about climate change, and promote Climate Case Ireland, while also inspiring people to think of visions for the future and the actions they might take to avoid climate catastrophe. We wanted to do this in an accessible, creative, fun and interactive way.
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Big street barbecue for the distinct people
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Date:
May 14 2011
In São Paulo, just like in many other metropolitan regions, public transport is not as effective as it could be. Buses and trains usually run overcrowded, late and on limited hours, so that owning a car increases a lot one’s comfort. But not everybody can afford to have one, so a clear and recurrent class distinction occurs: public transport is mostly used by poor people.
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Commemorating the Marikana Massacre
Practitioner:
Anonymous Artists/Activists
Date:
Aug 14 2014
On August 14th 2014 several prominent statues within the city centre and the southern suburbs of Cape Town got redressed in green blankets, equipped with miner gear or carrying grocery bags. The statues – mainly of which represent colonial figures – were redressed in light of what has come to be known as the Marikana Massacre: the shooting of 34 miners by the local police force of Marikana, South Africa on August 16th, 2012.
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The Confined Hearts Project
Practitioner:
Penny Ryan, 400 heartmakers
Date:
Sep 28 2016
The Confined Hearts Project is creating 1468 terracotta anatomical human hearts, one for each person seeking asylum in Australia but being held in detention on Manus Island and in Nauru. Hundreds of people of all ages, backgrounds and cultures have been involved in making the hearts to date.
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Napalming a Dog!?
Practitioner:
Kiyoshi Kuroma, Bill Arthrell
Date:
Apr 10 1968
In 1968, with the US war against Vietnam raging, anti-war veterans and the anti-war movement as a whole in the US increasingly put the spotlight on the US use of napalm. Napalm is burning jellied gasoline dropped on humans engineered to stick to skin and cause horrible burns. According to the wikipedia page on napalm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napalm "388,000 tons of U.S.
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Lambrakis LivZ
Practitioner:
Stefanos Mondelos, Spyros Zoupanos, Nafsika Tzanou
Date:
Oct 20 2012
The performance, “Lambrakis LivZ”, concerns the re-enactment of the political speech of Grigoris Lambrakis given in Athens in 1962. Grigoris Lambrakis was a peace-activist, assassinated by a paramilitary plot on June 1963 at Thessaloniki, Greece.
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3,000 Candles at the Lincoln Memorial #SoAllCanVote
Practitioner:
Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice
Date:
Jun 24 2014
At the same site where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, we lit thousands of candles - one for each signature on our petition - to commemorate the legacy of brave freedom fighters Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner and to stand up for the rights that are once again in peril.
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Tournons le dos ! / Turn our back ! [April 22, 2012 – April 23, 2017]
Practitioner:
Lino Tonelotto, the 22avril2012 collective, the 23avril2017 collective.
Date:
Apr 15 2012
In France, abstention, vote of protest, lassitude or violent reactions rise from all over the crisis of our "representative democracy ». What about thinking the other way round ? What if we reappropriate the iconography of the election?
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Djerbahood
Practitioner:
Curated by Mr. Mehdi Ben Cheikh
Date:
Jul 13 2014
Djerbahood Project, which took place during the months of July and August on a small island called Djerba and is located in the Gulf of Gabes. Better known as the island of dreams, the tiny village of Djerba boasts a traditional and authentic Tunisian setting which acted as a blank canvas for hundred and fifty street artists from thirty different countries.
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Homeless Vehicle Project
Practitioner:
Kryzysztof Wodiczko
Date:
Jan 1 1988
Together with a group of homeless New Yorkers, Wodiczko constructed the Homesless Vehicle as an instrument of survival for urban nomads. A modified shopping cart that facilitates refundable bottle and can collection, it also provides temporary shelter. As a house on wheels intended for New York City sidewalks, the Homeless Vehicle embodies Wodicko’s practice of ‘Interrogative Design’.
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Weighed down by a cushion
Practitioner:
Stephen Sheehan
Date:
May 14 2013
A short documentary about Artist Stephen Sheehan's performance called 'Weighed down by a cushion' performed at Liverpool One. The footage contains views from the public captured during the performance.
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Tyre Nichols Murder Draws Social Justice Activists to Irvington Rally
Practitioner:
Black Lives Matter
Date:
Jan 29 2023
Some 70 or 80 lo­cal ac­tivists, politi­cians and other con­cerned cit­i­zens gath­ered out­side Irv­ing­ton Vil­lage Hall Sun­day evening, two days af­ter the re­lease of gut-wrench­ing video of the mur­der of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols at the hands of po­lice­men in Mem­phis.
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Google Bus
Practitioner:
Gmuni dancers
Date:
Apr 1 2014
A group of protesters calling themselves the "Gmuni dancers" block a Google Bus from moving on 24th Street at Valencia Street on Tuesday April 1, 2014 in San Francisco, Calif.
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Edward Snowden bust
Practitioner:
Anonymous trio of artists, Illuminator Art Collective
Date:
Apr 6 2015
While most people slept, a trio of artists and some helpers installed a bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in Brooklyn on Monday April 6. They fused it to part of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, a memorial to Revolutionary War soldiers. By later that day, officials had removed the bust. But then a group called The Illuminator art collective replaced the missing bust with a hologram projection of Snowden.
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Suffragettes Dress as Famous Women in History
Practitioner:
The Women's Social and Political Union, suffragettes
Date:
Jun 17 1911
On June 17, 1911, a week before the coronation of King George V, women from diverse backgrounds united in costume and with installations over a shared political view - that of rallying the right for women to vote. Known as the Women's Coronation March, women thronged the streets between Blackfriars Bridge and Albert hall in a five-linked chain, dressed for the most part in white.
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Liberation Caravan
Practitioner:
Bachpan Bachao Andolan, Kailash Satyarthi
Date:
Oct 10 2006
Mukti Caravan, the Campaign on Wheels, is a mobile cultural group of former child bonded labourers. Started by the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save Childhood Movement), a movement started by now Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi, it involves activists visiting villages to create awareness about need for education, emphasizing on the need for improving access to education and quality of education, to completely eradicate child labour from the society.
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The Future Republic of Macedonia of the Former Republic of Macedonia
Practitioner:
Citizens of The Future Republic of Macedonia of the Former Republic of Macedoninia
Date:
Mar 22 2014
The Future Republic of Macedonia of the Former Republic of Macedonia Devised, constructed and carried out all within 24 hours, the Future Republic of Macedonia of the Former Republic of Macedonia opened its borders for 2 hours on Saturday 22nd March, 2014.
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</3 Less than Three and Up Srei: Art and the Cambodian Worker Struggle
Practitioner:
Kat Eng
Date:
Jan 17 2014
On a freezing Friday in January, Khmer-American artist Kat Eng sits in front of retail giant H&M’s Time Square store working on a manual sewing machine. For eight hours, Eng stitches together U.S. dollar bills while wearing a surgical mask and bloodstained shirt. Her performance “</3 Less Than Three” protests the way fast fashion and consumer culture creates oppressive conditions for Khmer workers.
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George Floyd statues unveiled as cities celebrate Juneteenth
Practitioner:
CNN
Date:
Mar 5 2021
It was a quick turnaround for federal employers to recognize Juneteenth as a new federal holiday. But some cities were ready with new statues honoring George Floyd, whose killing by police in Minneapolis last year sparked a nationwide racial justice movement.
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Cross-Border Communication
Practitioner:
Broken City Lab
Date:
Nov 1 2009
From Creative Time, Social Practice Archive: Produced by the Windsor, Canada-based collective Broken City Lab—an artist-led interdisciplinary research group—Cross-Border Communication was a performative public art project that took place in November 2009 between the cities of Windsor and Detroit, which are separated by the Detroit River. For three nights, Broken City Lab projected a series of messages across the river which were visible in Detroit.
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