Art

Artivism, Creativity And Political Change In Spain

February 3, 2017 Esther Ortiz, www.equaltimes.org Resist! Art, Political Art, Spain

By Esther Ortiz for Equal TImes - “With the 15M movement the need arose to develop innovative ways of protesting and fighting in order to rally indignant citizens who were not activists, people who were ready to take to the streets but not in the traditional way. That is when the collective imagination emerged to mobilise them,” recalls Mónica Hidalgo, spokesperson for No Somos Delito, literally ‘We Are Not Crime’ in English. This citizens’ platform bringing together over 100 collectives came into being in 2012 in response to the first draft of the Penal Code reform, immediately followed by the Ley de Seguridad Ciudadana (Public Safety Law), both of which came into effect in July 2015.

Dario Fo: Ideas That Outrage

October 24, 2016 Colin Revolting, www.redwedgemagazine.com Educate! Art, Capitalism, Theater

By Colin Revolting for Red Wedge - Dario Fo, who died this past week, was a great playwright of the years of unrest and rebellion in the 1960s and ’70s. His plays such as Accidental Death of an Anarchist and Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! were hilariously cutting critiques of life under capitalism as it went into crisis. His style of theatre was like a Brecht play performed by the Marx Brothers in the age of TV. They even became long running hits in London’s West End.

Art And Revolution: Black Power At 1969 Pan-African Cultural Festival

October 1, 2016 Kathleen Neal Cleaver, www.truth-out.org Educate! Art, Black Panthers, Revolution

By Kathleen Neal Cleaver for The New Press - 1969. Algiers. The spectacular panorama of the first Pan-African Cultural Festival transformed the North African capital basking in the July sun. Musicians, dancers, horsemen, poets and painters, writers, filmmakers, scholars, and political leaders filled the city's hotels. Southern African freedom fighters and veteran guerillas from Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau at war with the Portuguese joined the colorful delegations arriving from all over the vast continent.

Protest And Survive: Reclaiming William Morris From Britain’s Nuclear Fleet

September 27, 2016 David Mabb, www.thebulletin.org Educate! Art, Nuclear, United Kingdom (UK)

By David Mabb for Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - The HMS Courageous is a 285-foot, nuclear-powered submarine that saw service in the British Royal Navy for about two decades starting in the early 1970s. Decommissioned in 1992 after, among other things, participating in the Falklands War of 1982, it now resides at the Devonport naval dockyard in Plymouth, on the southwest coast of England, where visitors can tour its inner workings free of charge—provided they book in advance and bring their passports for “security” purposes.

Using Public Art To Narrow The Gaps

September 20, 2016 Staff, www.inequality.org Create! Art, Political Art

By Staff of Inequality.org - On September 21, 1976, agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet carried out a brutal assassination in the heart of the U.S. capital. Orlando Letelier, a vocal Pinochet critic and leading thinker on global economic inequality, was killed in the attack, along with Ronni Karpen Moffitt, a 25-year-old American colleague of Letelier’s at the Institute for Policy Studies. Forty years later, this tragic event continues to stoke the flames of activism for social and economic justice around the world. One of the people who picked up the torch is Orlando’s son Francisco Letelier.

The Zapatista’s CompArte Art Festival In Images

August 29, 2016 Ryan Mallett-Outtrim, www.newint.org Create! Art, Zapatistas

By Ryan Mallett-Outtrim for New Internationalist - Over a thousand artists gathered in San Cristobal, Chiapas in July to attend the alternative art festival, CompArte for Humanity. Supported by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), the festival drew 1,445 artists from 45 different countries and from every continent. The aim of the festival was to promote art as a way to create dialogue across social movements, and as a form of social and political expression. Over the course of the week long festival, from 23 to 30 July, dozens of artists spoke out about the political, social and cultural messages of their art.

Who Uses Puppets For Political Protest? Meet Elliot Crown

June 20, 2016 Joan Brunwasser, www.opednews.com Resist! Art, Protest Demonstrations, Protests

By Joan Brunwasser for Open Ed News - I make highly theatrical puppets, employing familiar cultural icons, to spread progressive ideas in the mainstream and alternative press. It's a formula. Since any artwork is open to interpretation, mainstream corporate media images can often SHOW what they will not, literally, SAY. I call it the "art loophole." And I think most journalists privately lean left and are glad to publish a progressive image if given the chance. I operate in that space.

The Artists And Activists Who’ve Aimed At The Roots Of Injustice

June 15, 2016 Alexis Clements, www.hyperallergic.com Strategize! Activists, Art

By Alexis Clements for Hyperallergic - A few years ago I was covering a panel discussion for Hyperallergic featuring members of Gran Fury, an ACT UP affinity group focused primarily on producing what group members themselves called “propaganda” against a government hellbent on isolating, vilifying, and smugly looking on as tens of thousands of their citizens died of AIDS. There were a number of young people in the audience at the event and more than once the hand of one of these audience members rose to ask how they could do something similar — how they could employ similar tactics and ideas in political struggles happening today.

Why Climate Change Needs 60,000 Artists To Tell Its Story

June 10, 2016 Elizabeth Boulton, www.theconversation.com Organize! Art, Climate Change

By Elizabeth Boulton for The Conversation - In 2013, one of the world’s leading public relations experts, Bob Pickard, cried out to the climate world: “mobilise us!” In a frustrated op-ed, he listed 20 key problems with climate communication. One of them was “story fatigue”: bland stories with “highly repetitive and stale” themes. Climate information is still often confusing, unengaging and absent from the wider public discourse.

Threats Of Charges Don’t Deter ‘Colorful Revolutionaries’

June 6, 2016 Filip Stojanovski, www.globalvoices.org Resist! Art, Protests

By Filip Stojanovski for Global Voices - Protesters of the ‘Colorful Revolution’ in Macedonia claim they won't be intimidated by the police announcement that they would press criminal charges against the bravest among them. The anti-corruption protests, while non-violent, are far from passive, and include marches, performances, and throwing paint at objects that symbolize the impunity and poor governance of the regime. According to experts, the charges are illegal from several points of view.

In Whitney Exhibit, Poitras Explores The Art Of Surveillance

March 15, 2016 Jocelyn Noveck, www.bigstory.ap.org Create! Art, Surveillance

By Jocelyn Noveck for Associated Press - NEW YORK (AP) — Here's a question you've likely never asked yourself: Can covert surveillance be beautiful? But you might be asking it as you stroll through "Astro Noise," journalist and filmmaker Laura Poitras' exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art, in which images stemming from mass government surveillance are, in a number of cases, physically striking. Take, for example, the patterns of bright greens, blues and oranges adorning the wall as one enters the exhibit.

Criteria Of Negro Art

February 29, 2016 W.E.B. DuBois, www.redwedgemagazine.com Educate! Art, Black History, W.E.B. Dubois

By W.E.B. DuBois for Red Wedge Magazine - "Black Art Matters." If there were a way to sum up the thrust of this essay in one very brief sentence then that would be it. W.E.B. DuBois is one of those thinkers who needs very little introduction: lifelong socialist and Black liberationist, founder of the N.A.A.C.P., author of what is still to this day one of the definitive books on Black Reconstruction in the south. What is often overlooked is how central art was to DuBois' ideas about Black freedom in the United States.

“When We Fight, We Win!”: Art Of Transformative Organizing

January 29, 2016 Greg Jobin-Leeds, www.truth-out.org Strategize! Art, Political Education

By Greg Jobin-Leeds for Truth Out - The following is an excerpt from the introduction to When We Fight, We Win! Twenty-First-Century Social Movements and the Activists That Are Transforming Our World. Author Greg Jobin-Leeds explains the book's title, the philosophy of transformative change that drives the organizers featured inside and the specific qualities that these organizers share. Jobin-Leeds created When We Fight, We Win!in collaboration with AgitArte, a collective of artists and organizers who have been initiating and leading education and art programs in marginalized communities since 1997.

Teachers, Parents And Students Hold Coloring Contest To Expose Crime

January 25, 2016 Carolyn Leith, www.livingindialogue.com Resist! Art, Budgets, Charter Schools, Education, Privatization

By Carolyn Leith for Living in Dialogue - Back in September, parents were blindsided when Seattle Public Schools (SPS) proposed staff cuts at “25 or something” schools across the district. Emergency meetings were held, letters were sent to the school board, but none of these efforts seemed to make a difference. The district had made up its mind. This is when Shawna Murphy and I decided to create our own advocacy group called Teacher Retention Advocate Parents or TRAP. We staged a spoofy bake sale – dubbed the Half-Baked Bake Sale – at district headquarters.

Art: Equipment Seized By FBI Returned 14 Years Later

December 3, 2015 Orin Langelle, www.photolangelle.org Educate! Art, FBI, Investigation

By Orin Langelle for Langelle Photography - At the ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery, the exhibits we choose illustrate and demonstrate the intersection of the realms of art and politics regarding the times in which we live. Sometimes art should creatively communicate the reality hidden behind the propaganda we encounter in or our daily lives, where most communication is designed to sell something you probably do not need or that makes you feel good about yourself–from McMansions to reality shows, to drugs and/or belief systems with no mental challenge. In this exhibit, we demonstrate how art and Free Speech are intrinsically tied together.

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