Projects tagged "outdoors"

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Practitioner:
Yes Lab, Food and Water Watch
Date:
Apr 29 2011
In April, 2011, Food and Water Watch partnered with Yes Lab to raise questions regarding drinking water around New York City. Yes Lab, an organization that collaborates with activist groups, aims to create successful media-related creative actions that help raise awareness regarding pertinent causes and create desirable action, often by staging interventions for the existing status quo by imitation and alteration.
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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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Queer Crisis (4.25.2014)
Practitioner:
Queer Crisis Flash Collective
Date:
Jun 24 2014
An intervention created by the April 25 2015 Queer Crisis Collective organized by the Helix Queer Performance Network (HQPN), and part of an ongoing queer resistance project mentored by Avram Finkelstein. Over a period of 2 weekends, 8 artists met at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics to design a creative intervention during Pride month in NYC.
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The Drone Project - A Participatory Memorial
Practitioner:
Joseph DeLappe
Date:
Apr 6 2014
Media artist Joseph DeLappe announces the completion of “The Drone Project: A Participatory Memorial” on the campus of Fresno State University in California.
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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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Big street barbecue for the distinct people
Practitioner:
“Gente Diferenciada”
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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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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Immigration Activists Urge Obama To Act Boldly On Deportations
Practitioner:
Immigrant Activists
Date:
Apr 16 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — Latinos and immigration activists are warning of political peril for President Barack Obama and Democrats in the fall election unless the president acts boldly and soon to curb deportations and allow more immigrants to remain legally in the U.S.
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Howitcouldbedifferent.org - a wikipedia of ideas for improvement and social change
Practitioner:
Hicbd
Date:
Apr 24 2013
Have you ever wanted to see current or potential innovations for poverty or the environment without having to do a lot of researching or reading? Have you ever thought of an idea and wanted to tell the world about it and get feedback? Howitcouldbedifferent.org was founded for these purposes - to enable people to easily see, share, and suggest ideas in different categories.
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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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Turf the Turf Eco Garden Bike Tour
Practitioner:
Maggie Shirley, Eco Art Incubator
Date:
Sep 27 2013
Turf the Turf hopes to inspire you to reconsider your front lawn by sharing existing examples of creative uses on a fun bike tour around the city of Kelowna. There are many options, such as xeriscaping (using native plants), front yard gardening or even installing original art that can display your creativity and offer you new ways to relate with your environment and your neighbourhood.
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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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Art in Odd Places
Practitioner:
AiOP
Date:
Jul 19 1996
Art in Odd Places (AiOP) presents visual and performance art in unexpected public spaces. AiOP also produces an annual festival along 14th Street in Manhattan, NYC from Avenue C to the Hudson River each October.
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Dancing in Syria
Practitioner:
Syrian protesters
Date:
Dec 19 2011
In Protests, Syrians Find the Spark of Creativity 
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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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At War With São Paulo’s Establishment, Black Paint in Hand
Practitioner:
pichação
Date:
Jan 1 2012
New York Times January 28, 2012 By SIMON ROMERO SÃO PAULO, Brazil — This mega-city’s authorities have waged war for years against what they call “visual pollution,” banning billboard advertising, demolishing abandoned skyscrapers and planning to raze concrete eyesores like the elevated highway known as the Big Worm.
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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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Sing for the Climate
Practitioner:
Nic Balthazar, 11.11.11, The Belgian Climate Coalition
Date:
Sep 22 2012
Sing for the Climate is a big singing manifestation that first took place on September 22 and 23 2012 in Belgium.
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Kurokawa Cup: prank and protest against immunity of top Japanese prosecutor
Practitioner:
A group of citizens in Japan
Date:
May 30 2020
Kurokawa Cup is a protest against former head Tokyo prosecutor Hiromu Kurokawa's de facto immunity after he had played mahjong for money, which is an illegal act in Japan.
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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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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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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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The Atone Project: Remembering the Ahmadis
Practitioner:
Joseph DeLappe
Date:
Sep 17 2021
The Atone Project: Remembering the Ahmadishttps://atoneproject.tumblr.com/ An artistic act of critical remembrance at the 9/11 Memorial Plaza, NYC.
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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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UC Student Art Action protests corporate privatization of public education
Practitioner:
Freshwomen of UC Berkeley
Date:
May 8 2012
On Tuesday, May 8, in the midst of final exam week, a group of female first-year students performed a public art action at UC Berkeley to call attention to the UC Regents’ privatization of what was once the premier public university in the country.(See photos below)
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