Art Threat: Call for artists in support of ‘Occupy’ movement – Online, international platform for performances, installations, actions in real time

Project Lowlives is seeking artists for a global online live presentation of artistic work in support the Occupy movement. Lowlives: Occupy! will take place on March 3, 2012. From the website: The Occupy protests, and the myriad of perspectives and experiences related to this unique moment, will be amplified, explored,

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Art Threat: Russian artists VOINA detained, harassed – Russian police pose as German journalists

MOSCOW — Yesterday, members of the Russian artist collective VOINA were arrested without charges by Russian police posing as German television journalists.  Natalia Sokol and her two-year old son were detained overnight at a Moscow police station and later released.  The same night, plainclothes agents tried to break into VOINA member Leonid Nikolayev’s apartment and […]

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Art Threat: Vancouver seeks Viaduct variations – re:Connect competition looks to obtain citizen input

It’s the site of what is arguably Vancouver’s most notable event, a bitter battle between the Non-Partisan Association and an alliance of Strathcona activists and Chinatown business people – the Georgia Street Viaduct. Built as a first phase of a planned interurban freeway system, this minute stretch of freeway reaches like a tree root from […]

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Art Threat: Whistle while you wait

Skattered throughout Vancouver, bus stop shelters have been turned from ad space to sheet music. Adorno and Nose, as the piece is called, is a collection of ten songs composed and illustrated by Barry Doupe and James Whitman. Each poster contains a different song, notated as standard sheet music, the verse, and a drawn graphic. […]

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Art Threat: The (wonderful) rise of marching bands as a form of protest – New documentary from the National Radio Project

The fine folks from Making Contact (a program at the National Radio Project) present Marching for Change: Street Bands in the US, a new documentary about the musical funsters who make protests danceable. Social justice marching bands have emerged in recent decades as essential contributors to North American protest movements filling streets of unrest with […]

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