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What would you do at the Met if you could do anything?
A group of artists and scientists spent eight hours in the Roman Sculpture Court at the Met to explore our democratic origin myth through discussion, movement, sketching, and play. Was a Best Praxis project (Tal Beery and Eugenia Jane Manwelyan), organized with Panagiotis Alexiou, and the amazing folks who came on the journey with us: Diana Drogaris, DeNeile Cooper, Kylin O'Brien, Brian Fernandes-Halloran, Omar Salam, Dana Nehdaran, Julianne Skinner, Kikuko Tanaka, and Marisa Clementi. Action at the #NewWhitney: Inauguration of the Fracked Gas Line Museum (with Occupy Museums, Sane Energy Project, and Guerrilla Girls)
This action represents a collaboration among international groups focused on culture and climate activism. As artists who care about the integrity of art museums, we are building a grassroots translocal platform which recognizes the role that cultural institutions beholden to corporations can have in creating a reality where economic and climate injustice are tolerated. As human beings, we are fighting for a fossil fuel-free future.
Occupy the Pipeline have been fighting the Spectra pipeline bringing fracked gas into NYC since 2011. When they heard that the Whitney Museum was to be placed on the site of the pipeline’s main vault, they initiated a collaboration with Occupy Museums (friends from Liberty Park and frequent collaborators). Occupy Museums reached out to London-based Liberate Tate who has staged spectacular actions at the Tate since 2010 calling on the museum to divest from fossil fuels. Other groups are now joining the call for transparency in the Whitney’s siting over the controversial pipeline. Read the solidarity letter from Liberate Tate. The time for status quo on climate change has ended. - See more at: http://whitneypipeline.org Orev Exodus (with Kvutzat Orev)Kvutzat Orev (a group of 6 people who built a communal Jewish life, rooted in Hashomer Hatzair, together in Israel and Brooklyn over 5 years) got together to experiment with the form in which we celebrate Passover. During a group seminar last Spring we decided to start building a new, Jewish, and public Passover ritual. We spent the year researching our history and tradition, and developing a common language around goals and values. As we looked for answers through collective culture we felt that the themes of Passover - freedom, justice, exile, and oppression - are too important today, our challenges so dire, that Passover should no longer be an invitation to dinner - it should be a call to action. We wanted to bring form and content together through physical engagement. Our aim was to be embodied in the learning and action. We wanted to be in it, not just thinking about it. In it, we wanted to recognize our own ongoing oppression as we connected ourselves to the world and oppressions around us.
Ritual Rebranding of the David H. Koch Plaza on the Day of its Dedication (with Occupy Museums)From Hyperallergic:
Occupy Museums, which has previously staged and participated in protests at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and Lincoln Center, among other events and venues, envisioned Tuesday evening’s protest as a “ritual rebranding of the David H. Koch plaza on the day of its dedication.” More info here. Global Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.) at Guggenheim
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