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Tag Archives: Creative Resistance
Whose Streets? Our Streets!
MaSAT (Madrid Street Advertising Takeover) is the second international SAT project, and the third in a continuing series of civil disobedience projects aimed at reclaiming space for public dialogue in a commercially saturated environment. The action took place on 30th March 2011 and resulted in 106 bus shelter advertising ads being removed. PublicAdCampaign say of [...]
Human Cost
Another superb intervention entitled ‘Human Cost’ by Liberate Tate at Tate Britain on the 1st anniversary of the Gulf of Mexico disaster, this is from the press release: “On the same day, 166 people who work in the arts published a letter in the Guardian calling on Tate to end its sponsorship relationship with BP. [...]
Green Patriots Protest Project
Green Patriot Posters is a communications campaign centered on posters that encourage all U.S. citizens to build a sustainable economy. Featuring some great designs including Signs of Revolt’s Noel Douglas , Green Patriot Posters has grown out of the successful website greenpatriotposters.org, which invites designers and artists to submit posters dealing with environmental issues. Containing [...]
Love Memefest, Love Communication!
Memefest nurtures and rewards theory, practice and research of communication that works towards a more equal society, it is a unique Festival and deserves your full support, this year’s competition ends very soon, so get over there and get your work in! http://www.memefest.org
Subverting The Street
Moving around London, there are more and more visual clues to the unrest bubbling under the surface, here’s a few visual treats Signs of Revolt has spotted over the past few weeks…
Enrol At The University Of Strategic Optimism!
One of the delights of the student revolt is the forms of new, imaginative actions happening around the cuts. The University of Strategic Optimism is one such group, using Corporate spaces such as Banks and Supermarkets to hold ‘lectures’ on the destructive effects of the Market on Education, they are, they say, “A University based [...]
Liberate Tate From Oil!
Art activists under the umbrella name Liberate Tate–including Signs of Revolt exhibitors The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination–have been hard at work this year trying to end the Tate’s sponsorship by Oil company BP. In May during the 10th Birthday celebrations they entered the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern and launched dozens of giant black helium [...]
A Right Royal Site for Sore Eyes
Oh France, such a strong revolutionary tradition yet the Republican anti-clerical ‘spirit’ to it’s shame is being used as a reason for oppressing those who have had to suffer the most since 9/11, Muslims. So you’ve heard about the banning of the hijab in France, yes? Well unsurprisingly as in the UK, this intolerance has [...]
London is Revolting!
More invitations to play! Phew…what a weekend! Hundreds at the opening, hundreds more visiting over the weekend, the 500 in our initial consignment of catalogues gone, Over 100 registered for the talks, which will be put up online once we get a chance to edit them! The screening of the superb, inspiring and deeply moving [...]
Make Some Beautiful Trouble