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Artivism

Index Artivism

Artivism is a portmanteau word combining art and activism. [1]

55 relations: Activism, Ai Weiwei, Aloe Blacc, Annie Sprinkle, Anomie Belle, Anti-globalization movement, Anti-war movement, Artivist Film Festival & Awards, Banksy, Bleeps.gr, Chela Sandoval, Crass, Culture jamming, Da! collective, Dylan Brody, Eve Ensler, Favianna Rodriguez, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, HuffPost, Invisible theater, It's Bigger Than Hip Hop, JoFF Rae, John Fekner, JR (artist), Judy Baca, Julio Salgado, Las Cafeteras, Lila Downs, Lydia Canaan, M. K. Asante, Madison Avenue, Martha Gonzalez (musician), Maya Jupiter, Norm Magnusson, Pavel 183, Peter Joseph, Portmanteau, Protest, Quetzal (band), Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping, Self Help Graphics & Art, Shala. (artist), Social center, Sol Collective, Spoken word, Street art, Subvertising, Tania Bruguera, Tavar Zawacki, The Fearless Collective, ..., The Lost Children of Babylon, The New York Times, The Yes Men, Whirl-Mart, Will St Leger. Expand index (5 more) »

Activism

Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental reform or stasis with the desire to make improvements in society.

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Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei (born 28 August 1957 in Beijing) is a Chinese contemporary artist and activist.

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Aloe Blacc

Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III (born January 7, 1979), known as Aloe Blacc, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, businessman and philanthropist.

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Annie Sprinkle

Annie M. Sprinkle (born Ellen F. Steinberg on July 23, 1954) is an American sex educator, former sex worker, Also available as: feminist stripper, pornographic actress, cable television host, porn magazine editor, writer, sex film producer, and sex-positive feminist.

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Anomie Belle

Anomie Belle (an·o·me bel) is an American multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter, producer, and artivist from Seattle.

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Anti-globalization movement

The anti-globalization movement, or counter-globalisation movement, is a social movement critical of economic globalization.

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Anti-war movement

An anti-war movement (also antiwar) is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause.

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Artivist Film Festival & Awards

The Artivist Film Festival & Awards is an international film festival and awards ceremony dedicated to recognizing activist efforts of filmmakers, specifically in the areas of human rights, child advocacy, environmental preservation, and animal rights.

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Banksy

Banksy is an anonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist and film director.

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Bleeps.gr

Bleeps.gr (or Bleeps) is the pseudonym used by M.V. Kakouris, who is a Greek artist.

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Chela Sandoval

Chela Sandoval (born July 31, 1956), associate professor of Chicana Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, is a noted theorist of postcolonial feminism and third world feminism.

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Crass

Crass were an English art collective and punk rock band formed in 1977 who promoted anarchism as a political ideology, a way of life and a resistance movement.

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Culture jamming

Culture jamming (sometimes guerrilla communication) is a tactic used by many anti-consumerist social movements"Investigating the Anti-consumerism Movement in North America: The Case of Adbusters';" Binay, Ayse; (2005); dissertation, University of Texas to disrupt or subvert media culture and its mainstream cultural institutions, including corporate advertising.

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Da! collective

The DA! collective is an art collective that squats in London, England, co-founded by Simon and Bogna McAndrew, Stephanie Smith, Samuel Conrad, Julika Vaci, Aishlinn Dowling, Sam Padfield and Murat Bulut Aysan.

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Dylan Brody

Dylan Brody (born April 24, 1964) is a U.S. humorist, playwright, author and comedian.

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Eve Ensler

Eve Ensler (born May 25, 1953) is an American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist, best known for her play The Vagina Monologues.

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Favianna Rodriguez

Favianna Rodriguez (born September 26, 1978) is an American artist and activist.

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Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a Chicano performance artist, writer, activist, and educator.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.

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Invisible theater

Invisible theatre is a form of theatrical performance that is enacted in a place where people would not normally expect to see one, for example in the street or in a shopping centre.

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It's Bigger Than Hip Hop

It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation is a creative non-fiction book by M. K. Asante.

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JoFF Rae

JoFF Rae is the pseudonym of a New Zealand event producer, designer & artist.

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John Fekner

John Fekner (born 1950 in New York City) is an American innovative multidisciplinary artist who created hundreds of environmental and conceptual outdoor works consisting of stenciled words, symbols, dates and icons spray painted in New York, Sweden, Canada, England and Germany in the 1970s and 1980s.

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JR (artist)

JR (born 22 February 1983) is the pseudonym of a French photographer and artist whose identity is unconfirmed.

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Judy Baca

Judith Francisca Baca (born September 20, 1946) is an American Chicana artist, activist, and University of California, Los Angeles professor of Chicana/o Studies in the School of Social Sciences and a professor of World Arts and Cultures in the School of Art and Architecture.

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Julio Salgado

Julio Salgado (born September 1, 1983) is a gay Mexican-born artist who grew up in Long Beach, California.

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Las Cafeteras

Las Cafeteras is a Chicano band from East Los Angeles, California.Their music fuses spoken word and folk music, with traditional Son Jarocho, Afro-Mexican music and zapateado dancing.

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Lila Downs

Ana Lila Downs Sánchez (born September 9, 1968) is a Mexican-American singer-songwriter and actress.

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Lydia Canaan

Lydia Canaan (ليديا كنعان.) is a Lebanese singer-songwriter and humanitarian activist widely regarded as the first “rock star” of the Middle East.

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M. K. Asante

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Madison Avenue

Madison Avenue is a north-south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States, that carries northbound one-way traffic.

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Martha Gonzalez (musician)

Martha Gonzalez is a Chicana artivista (artist/activist) musician and feminist music theorist.

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Maya Jupiter

Melissha Martinez (born 21 December 1978), better known by her stage name Maya Jupiter, is a Mexican/Turkish Australian rapper, songwriter, MC and radio personality.

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Norm Magnusson

Norm Magnusson (born March 20, 1960) is a New York-based artist and political activist and founder, in 1991, of the art movement funism, he began his career creating allegorical animal paintings with pointed social commentaries.

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Pavel 183

Pavel 183 (r; 11 August 1983 – 1 April 2013), was a Russian street artist, known by some as the "Russian Banksy".

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Peter Joseph

Peter Joseph is an American independent filmmaker and activist.

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Portmanteau

A portmanteau or portmanteau word is a linguistic blend of words,, p. 644 in which parts of multiple words or their phones (sounds) are combined into a new word, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel.

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Protest

A protest (also called a remonstrance, remonstration or demonstration) is an expression of bearing witness on behalf of an express cause by words or actions with regard to particular events, policies or situations.

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Quetzal (band)

Quetzal is a bilingual (Spanish-English) Chicano rock band from East Los Angeles, California.

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Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping is a radical performance community based in New York City.

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Self Help Graphics & Art

Self-Help Graphics & Art, Inc. is a community arts center in East Los Angeles, California, USA.

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Shala. (artist)

Shala. (ʂa - la) born Olusola (o - lu - so- la) Akintunde (a - kin - tɯn - de) is a Nigerian American contemporary artist, multimedia producer, and leader in the art movement known as solar artwork.

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Social center

Social centers (or social centres) are community spaces.

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Sol Collective

Sol Collective is an organization based in Sacramento, California.

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Spoken word

Spoken word is a performance art that is word based.

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Street art

Street art is visual art created in public locations, usually unsanctioned artwork executed outside of the context of traditional art venues.

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Subvertising

Subvertising (a portmanteau of subvert and advertising) is the practice of making spoofs or parodies of corporate and political advertisements.

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Tania Bruguera

Tania Bruguera (born 1968) is a Cuban installation and performance artist.

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Tavar Zawacki

Tavar Zawacki (born 1981) is an American abstract artist based in Berlin, Germany.

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The Fearless Collective

The Fearless Collective, started by contemporary artist Shilo Shiv Suleman, is a collective of visual artists, activists, photographers and filmmakers who use their work to address rape culture and gender violence.

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The Lost Children of Babylon

The Lost Children of Babylon (LCOB) are a spiritual alternative hip hop/rap music group based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Yes Men

The Yes Men are a culture jamming activist duo and network of supporters created by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos.

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Whirl-Mart

Whirl-Mart is a culture jamming ritual aimed at retail superstores and described by participants as "art and action".

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Will St Leger

Will St Leger is a street artist/artivist, Radio DJ and Gay Rights activist living in Dublin, Ireland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artivism

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