Marching for Change: Street Bands in the U.S.
A new radio documentary on radical marching bands is available from the National Radio Project’s Making Contact. You’ll hear from members of Infernal Noise Brigade about the efficacy of this kind of protest (and why they decided to disband), from Brass Liberation Orchestra players about their Left-unity mission, their Bad Hotel intervention, and more. The [...]
Traversing a Foreign Border Domestically
Joe Bigley is touring Afghanistan, creating what may be the largest ever social sculpture. This Afghanistan is not the territory that comes to mind, that geopolitical entity bordering China, Pakistan, Iran, and the others, but only its outline, traced within the United States, with a 3,435.5 mile bicycle ride beginning and ending at Ground Zero. [...]
ARTUNG! Montreal Ad Takeover Reclaims Public Space for Art
In Montreal, fifty public space activists known as ARTUNG! have successfully taken back hundreds of spaces owned by the advertising companies Pattison, CBS Outdoor and Astral Media, filling the space instead with community artwork. The Beehive Collective’s No Fences, No Borders for ARTUNG Plateau Mont-Royal, the borough where the action was staged, recently voted to [...]
106 Artists Contribute to Madrid Street Advertising Takeover (MaSAT)
The Madrid team installs MaSAT MaSAT (Madrid Street Advertising Takeover) is the third in a series of civil disobedience projects by Public Ad Campaign intent on changing our expectations of public behavior in our shared environments. Groundswell’s contribution to MaSAT Groundswell joined 105 other artists in contributing to this international effort that targeted ads in [...]
Susan Buck-Morss and Wafaa Bilal Join OCADU’s Art Creates Change Series
Art Creates Change: The Kym Pruesse Speaker Series at OCADU This February, Toronto’s OCAD University offers the Kym Pruesse speaker series titled Art Creates Change. Susan Buck-Morss and Wafaa Bilal (previously seen on Groundswell) will each speak in the first half of the month, on February 3rd and 10th respectively. Below is more information about [...]
