Activism Archives - Trebuchet

Image shows artist Marilyn Arsem, blindfolded. Photo by Fenia Kotsopoulou

A concise colloquium with Marilyn Arsem, Pt II

26/03/2025

'I will engage them in conversation about how they're dealing with this situation in the US, what they are doing to resist.' — Marilyn Arsem plots a course in conversation with Rob LaFrenais...

‘I have always been interested in how time operates’ — in conversation with Marilyn Arsem

17/03/2025

The celebrated performance artist discusses theory and practice with Rob La Frenais...

Image shows Drawing by Ken Turner of an Action Space environment

Ken Turner: The Oldest Performance Artist In The World (probably) — Part III

03/03/2025

'It was hilarious. I couldn’t stop laughing when I saw the Queen coming.' Veteran performance artist and painter Ken Turner recalls high (and low) times from his Action Space project....

Power Up! Radical Community in the Sustainable Service of Art.

08/08/2023

Sustainability as an institutional force. A review of the Burn Out Symposium, July 2023, Luckenwalde, Germany. ...

Vuslat Sabanci, Umbilical Cord of Life, 2023

Remote Freedom: Vuslat Sabanci’s Emanet

06/06/2023

A preview of Emanet by Vuslat Sabanci...

Art, Activism & Architecture: Sofia Karim

27/10/2021

British artist Sofia Karim on how she started a global resistance movement with samosa packets...

MSCHF Recreate Medical Bills and Sell to Erase $73,000 Debt

28/09/2020

The Brooklyn-based group sold each work at a price equal to the amount of each individual’s debt, with the profits sent to the bill owners in full....

Hauser & Wirth Take on Estate of Gustav Metzger

31/07/2020

The move marks the first time Metzger, who helped lead a mid-20th-century art movement known as auto-destructive art, has ever been represented by a commercial gallery....

Radical Black Resistance

16/06/2020

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, a new show explores the impact of Angela Davis' visit to East Germany in 1972. ...

Ai Weiwei Creates 10,000 Masks in Aid of Coronavirus Charities

29/05/2020

Humanitarian groups will receive income from the artist-activist's artful masks, some of which bear a defiant middle finger....

Nevada Museum of Art Acquires Judy Chicago’s Full Fireworks Archive

20/05/2020

The archive contains thousands of photographs, digital images and other materials related to the artist-activist's site-specific works involving coloured smoke and fireworks from 1967 to the present....

Climate Activists Bring Trojan Horse to British Museum in BP Protest

07/02/2020

Activists from the theatrical protest group BP or not BP? dressed as warriors to protest against corporate sponsorship deal with oil firm....

Photojournalist Raises Fears About Freedom of Expression in Bangladesh

08/03/2019

Bangladeshi photographer and activist Shahidul Alam has described his ongoing fight to clear his name after he was detained last year by police in Dhaka....

Art on the Streets Exhibition

05/10/2018

The posters invite the viewer to consider the role that visual activism can play in our everyday experience, highlighting the power of images to challenge and empower....

Chelsea Manning In First UK Appearance

14/08/2018

Chelsea Manning to be honoured at this year’s annual Friends of the Institute of Contemporary Arts dinner, marking her first public appearance in the uk....