Projects tagged "Politics & Government"

Silence = Death
Practitioner:
Avram Finkelstein, Brian Howard, Oliver Johnston, Charles Kreloff, Chris Lione and Jorge Socarrás
Date:
Apr 3 1987
This is a prime example of the marriage of art and activism. The Silence = Death poster is simple but extremely powerful representation of the obstacles the AIDS movement was facing (suppression of gay people + their problems, lack of awareness surrounding the pandemic).
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Yoko Ono, Add Colour (Refugee Boat) presented by the Tate Modern
Practitioner:
Yoko Ono
Date:
Apr 6 2024
Add Colour (Refugee Boat) begins as an all-white boat in an all-white room. Ono’s instruction for this collective, participatory work reads: ‘Just blue like the ocean.’ You are invited to contribute your hopes and beliefs in blue and white.
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Pocard - Singapore Version
Practitioner:
Action Office
Date:
Nov 23 2024
Concept 1. This is a participatory art action initiated by Action Office, aiming at questioning current democratic elections in Singapore and shaping an alternative possibility. 2. Design the pocards to resemble ballots, inviting people to fill out election results and mail them to the corresponding country’s polling stations or current government.
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MSU community uses art to show solidarity with Iran protests
Practitioner:
MSU
Date:
Jan 27 2023
Amid ongoing protests and government repression in Iran, a group of artists at Michigan State University is raising awareness about the women fighting for their rights in the country. The group hosted a packed crowd one January evening for a night of music, dance, and poetry performances. The pieces, inspired by Iranian stories and icons, show solidarity with the ongoing movement abroad.
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Study of Perspective (& Stools)
Practitioner:
Ai Weiwei
Date:
Jan 1 2014
The son of an exiled political dissident, Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei’s work is inherently political. Since 1995 Ai Weiwei has been traveling the world, photographing himself flipping off iconic monuments of power in his Study of Perspective series.
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Now Watch This
Practitioner:
Surveillance Camera Players (SCP)
Date:
Nov 1 1996
The Surveillance Camera Players (SCP) is a small, informal group of people who are unconditionally opposed to the installation and use of video surveillance cameras in public places.
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Corrected Billboard Defends Transparency at Guantanamo Bay
Practitioner:
California Department of Corrections
Date:
Mar 24 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE San Francisco, California Corrected Billboard Defends Transparency at Guantanamo Bay The California Department of Corrections (CDC) has unveiled a new billboard campaign to assist the U.S. Navy with transparency at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
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Fake Air Force 1
Practitioner:
Putian shoe manufacturer
Date:
Apr 26 2021
Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) was registered in 2009 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It is a non-profit international membership organization with representative offices in China, India, Pakistan, and London. It has more than 400 member organizations around the world, mainly including cotton growers, cotton textile enterprises, and retail brands. The group aims to promote what it calls "Better Cotton" around the world.
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“Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)
Practitioner:
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Date:
Jan 24 1991
Felix Gonzalez-Torres produced meaningful and restrained sculptural forms out of common materials. “Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) consists of an ideal weight of 175 pounds of shiny, commercially distributed candy. The work’s physical form and scale change with each display, affected by its placement in the gallery as well as audience interactions.
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In Search of Magic - A Proposal for a New Constitution for The Republic of Iceland.
Practitioner:
Libia Castro (b. 1970) & Ólafur Ólafsson (b. 1973)
Date:
Oct 3 2020
The duo Libia Castro (b. 1970) & Ólafur Ólafsson (b. 1973) are the recipients of the Art Prize 2021 for their collective performance with the Magic Team In Search of Magic - A Proposal for a New Constitution for The Republic of Iceland.
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Thousands of Ghanaians protest controversial military deal with U.S.
Practitioner:
public
Date:
Mar 28 2018
Thousands of people protested in Ghana’s capital Accra on Wednesday against the expansion of its defence cooperation with the United States, in a rare public display of opposition to the growing foreign military presence in West Africa. Demonstrators blowing vuvuzelas and beating drums filled Accra’s business district, holding placards criticising a new deal with Washington that they say threatens Ghana’s sovereignty.
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#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS
Practitioner:
Twitter, Michelle Obama, David Cameron
Date:
May 11 2014
Both the Michelle Obama, the First Lady of the United States of America, and David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the UK, have been photographed holding signs with this hashtag in support of the still missing, kidnapped Nigerian girls.
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The Condom on Jesse Helms' House
Practitioner:
ACT UP
Date:
Sep 5 1991
On September 5th, 1991, I put a giant condom over Jesse Helms’ house. Why? Because, as the condom said, “Helms is deadlier than a virus.” Senator Jesse Helms was one of the chief architects of AIDS-related stigma in the U.S. He fought against any federal spending on HIV research, treatment or prevention.
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Income Inequality in Spain: The 15-M Housing Crisis Protests
Practitioner:
Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH)
Date:
Mar 19 2013
In May of 2011, tens of thousands of people crowded Puerta del Sol in the center of Madrid in the most visible manifestation of sit-in protests against austerity and corruption. 15-M was an expression of the devastating effects of the 2008 recession, which harshly affected the middle class and condemned millions of people to poverty because of the crash of the housing bubble (Altares, 2021).
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The Walk With Amal, Little Amal
Practitioner:
The Walk (Little Amal)
Date:
Jun 1 2021
Little Amal is the 12 foot puppet of a 10 year old Syrian refugee child at the heart of The Walk. Over the last year she has become a global symbol of human rights, especially those of refugees. Since July 2021, Amal has travelled over 9,000km and been welcomed by more than a million people on the street, including hundreds of artists and civil society and faith leaders, as well as by tens of millions online.
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Spec Ops: The Line
Practitioner:
Walt Williams; Richard Pearsey
Date:
Jun 26 2012
Often in military style video games we kill without much regard for the enemy. They are faceless or stereotypical, the Nazi or evil Cold War–era Russian. They are enemies that were fought on the battlefields of great wars, or they are aliens that have no resemblance to humans save for a general humanoid form.
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American Prison Perpestives
Practitioner:
Christoph Gielen
Date:
Apr 11 2010
With American Prison Perspectives, Gielen intends tol illustrate how prison complex designs reflect the politics, economic priorities and anxieties of society, yet there would be so much more to say with pictures inside the prisions.
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The Aesthetic and Conceptual Impact of El Anatsui's Sculptures
Practitioner:
El Anatsui
Date:
Jan 1 2004
El Anatsui, a visionary originally from Ghana, blends discarded materials into breathtaking sculptures that, in themselves, advocate for change and prompt us to reimagine our relationship with the environment.
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Ghost Protest in Seoul
Practitioner:
Amnesty International in Korea
Date:
Feb 24 2016
Haeryun Kang reported the following for NPR on February 24, 2016: "On the eve of South Korean President Park Geun-hye's third anniversary in office, protesters gathered in Seoul... to condemn the administration's increasing crackdown on free speech. These protesters were unlike any others Seoul has seen. They were holograms"
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Activists Use Balloons to Drop 10,000 Copies of The Interview Into North Korea
Practitioner:
Park Sang-Hak
Date:
Mar 26 2015
A group of South Korean activists is determined to send copies of The Interview across the North Korean border, despite threats from the state to respond with “cannons or missiles” if the plan succeeds.
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Blu Gets Political in Mexico
Practitioner:
Blu /Fifty24MX
Date:
Mar 3 2015
Italian street artist Blu was recently in Mexico to participate at the ManifestoMX Street Art Festival where he completed this intense and politically charged mural in opposition to the Mexican authorities.
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Young Latinas are using their quinceañeras to get Texas voters to the polls this election
Practitioner:
Ride to the Polls
Date:
Oct 29 2022
A group of young Latinas donned their quince gowns on Oct. 29 and led their families and friends along the streets of San Antonio, urging them to harness their electoral voice and vote in the upcoming midterm elections. The event was part of Ride to the Polls, a national campaign from the nonprofit organization Harness that aims to encourage young BIPOC voter turnout through cultural milestone celebrations.
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Journey of a Yellow Man
Practitioner:
Lee Wen
Date:
Sep 1 1992
Singaporean artist Lee Wen’s series Journey of a Yellow Man (1992–2012), one of his most famous and long-standing performances, was not simply a personal affront, it was a political affront. At the intersection of Asian art history, critical race theory, and migration and diasporic studies, one is never far (enough away) from the chromatic framing of race and ethnicity: yellow race, yellow peril, yellow face, the forever foreigner.
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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.
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Hundreds of ‘honey bears’ posted all over SoMa in street art protest
Practitioner:
fnnch
Date:
Jan 29 2018
Local artist fnnch wants San Francisco to decriminalize certain types of art. You’re not seeing things: A whopping 450 “honey bears”—variations on the immediately recognizable and widely imitated bear-shaped honey bottles sold in seemingly every store in America--appeared all over SoMa late Sunday night, from the Embarcadero to Fifth Street.
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