"Canadian Artist Peter von Tiesenhausen Halts Pipeline Development by Copyrighting His Land as a Work of Art"
[vice]
Showing posts with label activism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label activism. Show all posts
Blinking City
Instant Hutong"Blinking City stencil. Pattern based on a collage of several Hutong neighborhoods of Beijing, stenciled onto a wall of a dilapidated courtyard house in Xianyukou district, located in the core of the city."
[Notcot]
Urban eXperiment
"The UX (Urban eXperiment) is an largely secret underground organization that improves hidden corners of Paris. Their works have included restoring the Pantheon clock, building a cinema, complete with bar and restaurant, underneath the Trocadéro, restoring medieval crypts, and staging plays and readings in monuments after dark."Wired
[Ektopia]
Occupy George
"By circulating dollar bills stamped with fact-based info-graphics, Occupy George informs the public of America's daunting economic disparity one bill at a time. Because
money
knowledge is power."
[HuffPo]
Play With Your Trash
The city of Lucerne [Switzerland] is taking a new approach in the fight against the carelessly discarded waste.
[swiss miss/Neue Luzerner Zeitung]
In Defense of VOINA
Banksy launched a new print releases on the Pictures on Walls website,
What makes this print release especially interesting is that Banksy has chosen to donate all proceeds from the sale to the legal defense fund of the underground Russian artist collective VOINA. Two of its members are currently in jail in St Petersburg for drawing a massive penis on a bridge opposite KGB headquarters. The action was a protest of police corruption.
To purchase one simply click here.
Meter for Change
"Meters were put up by the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore and 100% of the funds collected go to Baltimore Homeless Services. When a coin is put in the meter the arrow swings from the word "despair" to the word "hope" for a few moments."
[Another Limited Rebellion]
Papergirl Albany
"Around the world people have been given a roll of art when they least expect it. Bicyclists are handing out rolls of art to random people, and ask for nothing in return! PaperGirl is spreading around the world like the iPhone. PaperGirl-Albany is in its second year running, and joining forces with New York City for their first round of the project that began in Berlin 5 years ago. Artists from around the world are giving their rollable art to the various PaperGirl projects."[Wooster Collective]
Mini-minarets
Dirty Hands Print
[rebel:art]
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