DRAFT

 MIDTERM INTERVENTION 1: In Real Life 

Inspired by our readings from the Art and Activism textbook and the readings on art, photography and memes as well as the videos linked each week, think about a way that you can insert or use activism and art in your own communities that intersect with your professional journey. Choose an issue that you have been activated to participate in raising awareness. Look to current events for a clear example of something that needs to change. Choose something that you feel particularly passionate and knowledgable about. Think about a community you would like to create the intervention to support or motivate. Our own NJCU campus is a good start and should be considered as a good location for your intervention but you can create your intervention anywhere. Find other art projects that might help address your issue or use a strategy that you may want to use as well. This is part of your research.

Create a physical poster(s), interactive installation, a wearable object, or a sculpture, that acts as protest art. How can we use signs and posters or wearables to inspire advocacy in others? How can interactive projects work to create conversations and awareness about issues with other members of your communities? Use the art examples from our readings thus far movement to inspire your own protest art intervention. You must create a physical project and share it in some way with others - a community - an audience. Place it in a public place, carry it as a sign of resistance and awareness, put it on your car, draw on the sidewalk, put it outside for others to read, etc. Have a clear message and idea for how it will be seen by others. Test out your strategy. Show your results.

POST YOUR INTERVENTION ON THE BLOG: 

-Take good images of your intervention and its place in public and post it on the blog with a brief explanation of the sign, your intentions and your thoughts about signs and protest. 

-Write an explanation of your project, your research and the message of your project. Connect your project to at least two art intervention or art projects you read about or found in your research. Use the readings to help you connect your intervention to the history of protest. Explain how your project works as an intervention. Include at least two quotes from the readings. You must include at least TWO images of your intervention in public. 

~400+ words, 2+ quotes (with citation), 2+ images (with captions)

BRING YOUR PROJECTS TO CLASS TO PRESENT IN A SHORT PRESENTATION ~3min on 3/19 

DRAFT due 3/5: Map out your ideas and your research and the process for your project. Include as much of your final intervention as possible IN PROGRESS on the blog before 3/5. You can edit and work on the project further over Spring Break. Presentation in class will be on 3/19

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~400+ words, 2+ quotes (with citation), 2+ images (with captions)

intervention- 

My intervention will focus on different disabilities and issues they can have with access. I plan to create a poster that you are able to take zines from. The zines will be informative about some disabilities. I'm thinking about adding some non-visible ones too. The location for the poster and zines will be in public places like train stations. 


other art projects- 


Create-
poster and zines

where-
placed in public areas like train stations