"Fensterln" from the project Tourist Office, Graz, Michikazu Matsune , 2011
The visitor is invited to look into a bedroom of a local resident.

























"Mir fehlt das Meer"("I miss the sea), Vienna, Pablo Chiereghin, 2013
 "The Ruines of the Empire" Gianmaria Gava, 2011.

This work was shot in Tunisia at the beginning of the so called "Arab Spring", right after the former President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali left the country with his family. The wrecked surfaces of former luxury and wealth function as question marks about the relation between the management of power and the responsibility for it.

"Cada día tus ilusiones se cruzan con las nuestras" ciudad Valdeluz, photographie 2011, by Pierre Andrieux

Ciudad Valdeluz is a city on the outskirts of Madrid, boomtown struck by the subprime crisis and housing crisis, called ghost town by the media. The phrase painted by the artist was taken from a Spanish lottery advertising widely visible throughout the city of Madrid.

"Polizei-Wholecar" grafiti from the book “Action Painting: Bringing Art To The Trains
"Depot" use of a Police light-box sign as money deposit. See video. By Leopold Kessler, 2006
"Polizei lügt", from the series „Anschläge“ by Peter Weibel, 1977

"Stazione Mobile" Two Italian Carabinieri crossing borders and operating out of there home country. Performance in Munich, By Aldo Giannotti e Stefano Giuriati, 2006
Little burned police car toy



"Somebody Else ‘s Car" Ögüt transforms two found cars using readymade paper cut outs without requesting the owners’ permission. By Ahmet Öğüt, 2005.
"Polizei Packung Car". Unknown artist, 2013
"Provoking performances, urban intervention and protest are in this acclaimed Brazilian short movie: "Poetic Terror 4: Consolidating The Dissidence" by MaicknucleaR
BOUYEAH!”, mit Emilien Leroy by Jérôme Fino 2012


"Skulptur zur Beförderung der freien Rede / Sculpture to promote the free speach" by Werner Reiterer, 2011. Ein permanentes Projekt für die Gemeinde Hitzendorf - Steiermark / Permenet project for the Hitzendorf municipality - Steiermark

Photoshop work by unknow artist
Bicycle and Flag from '366 liberation rituals' by Igor Grubić

"Liberation ritual against trash", 2008, by Igor Grubic

"Globe. A globe on which only the countries I have visited are visible,"  by Anne Marteoveraa.
“In den Zillertaler Alpen” by Hank Schmidt in der Beek



"Nachdenken über Buren" by Andreas Perkmann,  2013



"Gehzeug (walkmobile)" by Hermann Knoflacher, 1974

Weelchair protest action, unknown, 2012.
Grafiti, Vienna, 2012

"AKTION/Interspecific bargain" for untergangart by Leopold Kessler, 2012.

Packages of 3 fishes belonging to 3 different species are displayed in the fish dept of a supermarket. // Pacchetti di pesci di diverse specie e dimensioni sono posizionati nel banco frigo di un supermercato.

"Listen" (from the series) by Newsha Tavakolian
"Everyones' Best Friends", 2009, by Maria Anwander
Cutouts of banknote-portraits from eight different currencies. / Ritagli di ritratti da banconote di otto diverse valute.

More than 1000 minutes smile against Berlusconi - from Declining Democracy at CCC Strozzina

Il progetto buuuuuuuuu 1 minute smile against Berlusconi ha superato i 1000 video. Qui sotto una selezione delle proteste raccolte durante la mostra Declinig Democracy at CCC Strozzina Palazzo Strozzi Firenze.

The buuuuuuuuu project 1 minute smile against Berlusconi reached over 1000 videos. Here three playlists that are just a selection af all the partecipants that took part during the exhibition Declinig Democracy at CCC Strozzina Palazzo Strozzi Firenze.














if you want to see all the videos click here
"Security", 2009 by Conny Abbel
 "Cob's Auto-da-fe or fucking Prometeus" by Voina, 2011.

The Russian group Voina announce “On December 31, 2011 at 23:25 Voina activists climbed over the fence to the yard of the police station №71 in St. Petersburg to hold an auto-da-fe for a police prisoner transport truck. The prison-on-wheels was set on fire with Molotov cocktails and totally burned down"... "a gift to all political prisoners of Russia."

Il gruppo russo Voina annuncia "il 31 Dicembre 2011, alle 23:25 gli attivisti di Voina hanno scavalcato la recinzione della stazione di polizia №71 a St. Pietroburgo per fare un auto-da-fe per un camion per il trasporto prigionieri. La prigione su ruote e´ stata messa fuoco con molotov e completamente bruciata."..."un regalo a tutti i prigionieri politici in Russia"
"Economist zombies" by José António Fundo
"The End of History" by Karen Knorr
"One second of silence", 2008, by Edith Dekyndt



"I don't know what Union I want to belong to any more" 2003, by Vlad Nanca

"One Day" 2009, by Milica Tomic

"VENT DES GLOBES", 2009, by Melodie Mousset

(an hommage to Berlusconi resignation, Buuuuuuuuu)
"It's my island", 2007, by Antii Laitinen
"Washington, DC" by Mark Jankings

One minute smile against Berlusconi at Declining Democracy - La strozzina

New videos for "One minute smile against Berlusconi" from the protest workstation at Declining Democracy - La strozzina
see the project here

see the playlist

Political Slogan

Instructions / Istruzioni

1-Submit on the comments of this post your own Political Slogan.
2-Your slogan will be recorded and played on megaphones spread around the rooms of Palazzo Strozzi during the exhibition Declining Democracy .

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1-Scrivi nei commenti di questo post il tuo slogan politico.
2-Lo slogan sará registrato e amplificato attraverso megafoni nelle stanze di Palazzo Strozzi durante la mostra Declining Democracy.



This Buuuuuuuuu project is part of the exhibition Declining Democracy (Firenze 23 Sep - 22 Jan). more info: Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina


here some slogans collected on the exhibition blackboard






Adbuster, 2011


"Pensiero unico", by Cesare Pietroiusti, 2003

Protesters at Tahrir Square in Cairo 2011


"Libertad, ¿para qué?" (Freedom, what for?//Liberta´ per cosa?) by Democracia, 2011

Grafiti in the old harbour of Trieste, 2011

CAFFÉ PAGATO

1-La prossima volta che vai al bar per bere un caffé pagane uno in piú.
2-Chiedi al barista di offrire il caffé alla prossimo cliente che lo ordinerá.


1-The next time you get an espresso pay one more.
2-Ask the waiter to offer the espresso to the next customer who will order it.






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