Item Archive: activism
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Updated Press release: TO THE SQUARE 2 takes over Lasipalatsi Square (August)
Press Release, updated 12.8.2014: On the heels of the positive public resonance generated by BACK TO (THE) SQUARE 1 around Helsinki in March 2014, Checkpoint Helsinki presents a second iteration of the Re-Aligned Project curated by Ivor Stodolsky and Marita … Continue reading
Khaled Jarrar
Works: For BACK TO (THE) SQUARE 1: Hunger Wall (performative action and installation of Finnish round bread and wood), Sea Level (video), Diver in Ramallah, (Photo-print on foil under plexiglass), Concrete (video), Football (sculpture). See installation views. For TO THE SQUARE … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, Map, People
Tagged #TSQ2, activism, artist, Back To (The) Square 1, Checkpoint Helsinki, film, MENA, Palestine, perpetuum mobile, re-aligned, tromsø kunstforening
Denis Limonov
is a Belarusian artist and activist of the Mogilev-based Lime Blossom group. “Drawing public attention to the problem of constitutional fascism in the republic,” he notoriously claimed responsibility for a terrorist act in Minsk, in an attempt to disrupt the … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, activist, artist, Lime Blossom group, perpetuum mobile, re-aligned, tromsø kunstforening
Viktoria Lomasko
Victoria Lomasko is probably most famous in the West for her drawings from the frontlines of the Pussy Riot trial. Starting with fraudulent Duma elections on December 4, 2011, and until November 2012, she kept a graphic “chronicle of resistance” … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, Map, People
Tagged activism, graphic, illustrator, perpetuum mobile, pussy riot, re-aligned, russian, tromsø kunstforening
Leonid «Arch Genius»
is a street-artist and activist who organises DIY-events in Murmansk. He is an active participant in several civil and human rights initiatives, and the editor of the Youth Human Rights Newspaper. /////////////////////////////////////////// Friends call Leonid Arch, but the full name … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, artist, perpetuum mobile, re-aligned, street-artist, tromsø kunstforening
Grey Violet (Voina)
Grey Violet (b.1986) is libertarian, art and queer activist and publicist. It took part in various activities in particular in actions of Voina group, in radical queer activism, anarchist and libertarian activism of various kinds. It has co- authored(with A.D. … Continue reading
