Evaluative Reflection Overall, I have thoroughly enjoyed the Creative Dissent module. The structure of writing weekly blogs has inspired me to do more writing each week about my own work, and even to spend time each week researching what is happening in the world around us; or even, an event in the past that has…
Week 10, Blog Entry 6. 29/04/2020
How COVID is affecting creative protest, and our future. Impossible to ignore the global chaos of COVID-19, normal social life has been made impossible. Workers are to work from home, students are to study online and workouts must be done from inside: but where does this leave the active protestors amongst the globe? The coronavirus…
Week 9, Blog Entry 5. 4/04/20
Activism on Police Brutality and The War On Drugs In week 2, we were shown a video of Kate Deciccio’s work for the Women’s March on Washington D.C. I was particularly interested to see how graphic art can spark a change where visual posters were deployed as free weapons on the home ground for people…
Week 8, Blog Entry 4. 28/03/20
Performance Activism and The Pussy Riot: Modern Madness or Exceptional Activists I wanted to explore performance art and performance protest in this week’s blog. Having had exposure to many inanimate visual pieces the last couple of weeks, I wanted to research how performance could be creatively used to challenge rule, ideas and riots. It felt…
Week 7, Blog Entry 3. 21/03/20
Artistic Activism During the Iraq War: Merely Protest Cardboard? or Artistic Masterpieces? During the first semester, I wrote an essay on Kennardphillips’ Photo Op, exploring the photomontage protest art against the Iraq war of 2003. My research for the essay exposed my understanding to the extreme volume of protest art that was created in opposition…
Week 5, Blog Entry 2. 7/03/20
Using Sculpture and Bodies as Weapons for the Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s to 1960s saw one of the most powerful fights for freedom that the world has ever seen. The protest for racial equality became a playground for artists to use their visual talents to communicate activism. Art became…
Week 3, Blog Entry 1. 22/02/20
How a collage can protest against the War on Terror Art as a protest can allow a singular image to speak a hundred words. In the modern day, graphic designers use the power of the internet as their digital ‘street’ to demonstrate their artistic protest. As Boris Groys argues, Art Activism as protest is an…
Hattie Abbott : SAB935 Creative Dissent 