Acts of Resistance Spring 2025: Meme as Resistance Post

DUE WEDNESDAY 2/26

READ: Chapter 2 + 3 from our textbook, The Art of Activism: Your All-Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible by Steve Duncombe and Steve Lambert
2quotes and a short response from each chapter

CREATE YOUR OWN FOLDED ZINE and bring it to class!!

See the link below about how to fold your own 8 page zine. Use the 8 page zine to illustrate and explain (by hand drawing/writing and collage) your idea for an art intervention for your midterm project. Think about what message and advocacy you want to convey and foster with your project. What are you passionate about changing or helping? Use the pages of the zine to think about your art intervention and to inspire your outreach.

Fold your own zine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMdus-lNqFg&ab_channel=VicHealth

more inspo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz0BXlqa7dc&ab_channel=42ndStreet

Your midterm intervention must be inspired by the readings and projects we have reviewed so far and should take the form of an object (not just online). It can be a zine itself that will be made into many copies, it can be posters or flyers, sculpture or installation, an interactive poster or artwork or performance. Please use the coursework so far too inspire you but you must also do additional research!

Full details about your midterm will be posted next week. BRAINSTORM IDEAS!

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DUE WEDNESDAY 2/19

READ:

The entire book This is What I Know About Art by Kimberly Drew

(available on Biblio in Blackboard)

3 quotes and a short response for each quote - to include in the post due on the blog

Look through Kimberly Drew's blog: https://blackcontemporaryart.tumblr.com/

THIS IS WHAT I KNOW ABOUT ART POST

Choose 3 quotes from the book, This is What I Know About Art, and write a short response for each quote. Choose one artwork that you found either from reading the book or from Kimberly Drew's Tumblr blog (linked above) and explain why this artwork is interesting to you. Post an image of the artwork, your quotes and responses to the blog. In one last step, create a title and theme for an exhibition in which this artwork might be included.

WATCH:

NOW THIS | How Kimberly Drew Amplifies the Work of Black Artists
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7f0eug

Coffee With Kimberly Drew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm6AU71F9oQ

LISTEN (optional):

Kimberly Drew: Art and Activism | LGBTQ&A 30min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrKmyKe8Otw

Kendrick Lamar half-time show analysis resources (from class on 2/12):

Kendrick Lamar's Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDorKy-13ak

Kendrick Lamar Just Rewrote the Rules of the Super Bowl Halftime Show

https://time.com/7214228/kendrick-lamar-super-bowl-halftime-show-analysis/

PLANNING FOR YOUR MIDTERM: while doing this week's assignments continue to think about what kind of INTERVENTION you would like to create for your midterm project. What issues would you like to address? methods to use? messages to impart? Next week we will begin drafting projects. Brainstorm ideas as you look at more examples of art in the assignments for this week.

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DUE WEDNESDAY 2/12

WHAT IS ART ACTIVISM? POST - choose an artwork

Using the Chapter 1 reading from The Art of Activism textbook and the readings below, answer the following question in a brief response. What is Art Activism? Choose one example from the readings (textbook or the articles below). Research the artwork and explain who, what and why the work is important. Be sure to explain how this work is an example of art activism. Include an image and information about this artwork in your short response on the blog.

+++ Add your quotes from the readings below to the blog post.

READINGS:

1. WHY ARTISTIC ACTIVISM? | Center for Artistic Activism

https://c4aa.org/2018/04/why-artistic-activism

2 quotes and short response

2. An Introduction to Activist Art | The Collector | by Stefanie Graf

https://www.thecollector.com/introduction-to-activist-art/
2 quotes and short response

3. The 25 Most Influential Works of American Protest Art Since World War II

The New York Times Style Magazine

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/t-magazine/most-influential-protest-art.html

2 quotes and short response

OR *PLEASE GET ACCESS TO A DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION FOR NYTIMES(either free/student access or $1 a week) if you REALLYcannot access the NYTimes article above please read this one below instead.

Artists Using Their Creativity to Drive Activism | Global Citizen

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/artists-activists-using-creativity-for-change/

2 quotes and short response

WATCH:

Cases for Political Art | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfXad3HVox4&list=RDCMUCmQThz1OLYt8mb2PU540LOA&start_radio=1&rv=RfXad3HVox4&t=30

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DUE WEDNESDAY 2/5

READINGS DUE:

REVIEW from last week: Understanding Patriarchy by bell hooks (on BLACKBOARD)

READ: Chapter 1 from our textbook, The Art of Activism: Your All-Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible by Steve Duncombe and Steve Lambert
2quotes and a short response

MEME AS RESISTANCE POST
How CAN memes act as a form of resistance and advocacy? Use the articles from last week to create a response to this question using the memes that you made in class with your group. Post the three memes that you made together, or three new memes you made on your own to help illustrate ways that memes can express complaints, calls to action and advocacy for real political change. Express how these short critiques might make way for larger action and awareness. Use this short post to make an argument for memes as a form or part of resistance.

1- Post the 3 memes with your short response of 1-2 paragraphs.

2- Below your memes post a definition of patriarchy and a definition of activism. Include/Post your 2 quotes from each of the readings above.

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DUE WEDNESDAY 1/29

READINGS DUE: Choose 2 quotes from each reading below (6 quotes total for the three readings) and write a short reaction/response to each quote

1- Understanding Patriarchy by bell hooks (on BLACKBOARD)

2 quotes and short response

2- What Memes Owe to Art History | Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-memes-owe-art-history

2 quotes and short response

3- Memes Are Our Generation's Protest Art | VICE https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbzxa3/memes-are-our-generations-protest-art

2 quotes and short response

SELF INTRODUCTION POST (on the blog)

Who are you? Are you an activist? Share a short description of yourself, your ambitions, and your artistic adventures. Post it to the blog. Be sure to share art, design, social justice, political causes and creative practices that you may already be exploring. Include one selfie or other photograph (you made) that helps introduce you. Add the 6 quotes and responses from the assigned readings to your blog post.

WATCH:

Art As Activism: Statements of Democracy | Untold History

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6jDZaREk74&ab_channel=UntoldHistory

Guerrilla Girls – 'You Have to Question What You See' | Artist Interview | TateShots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uKg7hb2yoo

Complain creatively. | The Guerrilla Girls | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i5cEhd6Vt8

GET THE BOOKS!

The Art of Activism, Your All-Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible by Steve Duncombe and Steve Lambert, OR Books, New York 2021

This Is What I Know About Art by Kimberly Drew, Penguin Workshop, New York 2020

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RESOURCES/LINKS

Actipedia Creative tactics that help bring about change.

https://actipedia.org

Art 21 short art profiles

https://art21.org/watch/

Center for Artistic Activism C4AA helps people use their creativity and culture to effect power.

https://c4aa.org

Guerrilla Girls anonymous artist activists
https://www.guerrillagirls.com

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LINK TO SYLLABUS

The course material and discussions can often be provocative and challenging. We must therefore be careful to be respectful of each other and of our viewpoints.

Discussion guidelines We must come to class prepared and ready to discuss the readings. Please keep discussions focused on the readings and class materials and keep examples rlevant and appropriate. If you have not done the readings you are not to participate in the discussion.

Acts of Resistance Spring 2025

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