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Let Them Eat Cake Poster printed in L’Humanitie© newspaperLet Them Eat Cake Poster printed in L’Humanitie© newspaper, France invited as part of a series of posters supporting today’s social and political struggles on the 50th anniversary of May 68.
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Hidden FistHiiden Fist Poster featured in exhibtion book catalogue
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Postcards for PalestinePostcards for Palestine, online website and in shows in Berlinskej Model Gallery in Prague, 12 December 2023 and Claire De Rouen Books, London, 14-16th December 2023. Postcards for Palestine is an artist-led initiative, and a collective call to action. It is made up of over 1000 original postcard sized artworks contributed by hundreds of artists from over 40 countries around the world. PfP was founded in October 2023 by artist Peter Watkins as a direct response to the devastating humanitarian crisis which continues to unfold in Gaza and the West Bank today. Over 9,000 EUR was raised at two fundraising events held at Berlinskej Model Gallery, Prague and Claire de Rouen Books, London in early December 2023. All proceeds were donated to UNRWA and PCRF. https://www.postcardsforpalestine.com/artists
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Flood Tides of Resistance Exhibition, CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito in EcuadorTwo Posters 'No Breathing Space' part of group show at Flood Tides of Resistance Exhibtion, CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito in Ecuador. Del 23-nov-2022 al 19-feb-2023 OVERGROUND RESISTANCE. Resistencias a la luz del sol Exposición curada por Oliver Ressler Evento de Inauguración 23 de noviembre de 2022 a las 19h00. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito Entrada Libre OVERGROUND RESISTANCE. Resistencias a la luz del sol es una exposición curada por Oliver Ressler (Austria) en colaboración con el Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito y A4C ArtsForTheCommons. Una muestra que reúne la mirada de artistas de diferentes partes del planeta, que producen sus obras en diálogo con los movimientos por la justicia climática, en los que se consideran partícipes desde la intersección de la producción artística y los activismos. Las urgencias globales que sugiere el colapso climático se manifiestan a diario a través de los medios de comunicación. Lamentablemente, los incendios forestales, las sequías, las temperaturas extremas, el derretimiento de los glaciares y otros síntomas medioambientales causados por el capitalismo aún no han generado una respuesta adecuada de los planes de gobierno y programas institucionales, por lo que los gobiernos y demás instituciones siguen sin poder responder efectivamente ante acciones necesarias para una reparación integral, generando legítimos procesos de activismos y resistencia desde la organización civil. Históricamente, la resistencia ha sido organizada de forma clandestina por organizaciones civiles o colectivos insurgentes. Los activismos climáticos, por el contrario, están organizados en la superficie, a la luz del sol y a gran escala, atravesando los límites de lo que se considera “legal”. Las obras que conforman la exposición Overground Resistance. Resistencias a la luz del sol, proceden de todo el mundo. Los artistas o colectivos involucrados son parte o están estrechamente asociados con movimientos de justicia climática. La exposición será inaugurada el 23 de noviembre de 2022 a las 19h00 en las galerías del cubo bajo del Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito con 17 obras en formato audiovisual e instalación. Como parte de la exposición se realizará un programa educativo que acercará los contenidos de las obras y ejes transversales de la muestra hacia los diferentes públicos. Este programa, empezará el 24 de noviembre con el encuentro: Arte y activismos por la justicia climática; actividad en colaboración con Acción Ecológica y A4C ArtsForTheCommons, que reunirá a artistas y activistas por la justicia climática y donde participarán: * Rosa Jijón – A4C artsforthecommons * Oliver Ressler – curador y artista Overground Resistance * Angie Vanesita – artista visual * Ivonne Ramos – Acción Ecológica * Boloh Miranda – artista visual * Sofía Acosta – artista visual Artistas de la exposición: Tiago de Aragão (BRA), Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio (EE. UU.), Noel Douglas (GBR), Francisco Huichaqueo (Mapuche Nation / CHL), Gilbert Kills Pretty Enemy III (Hunkpapa Lakota de la tribu Standing Rock Sioux / EE. UU.), Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner & Aka Niviâna (MHL / GRL), Laboratorio de Imaginación Insurreccional (FRA), The Natural History Museum (EE. UU.), Oliver Ressler (AUT), Rachel Schragis (EE. UU.), Seday (FRA), Jonas Staal (NLD) ), Tools for Action (HUN / NLD), Rosa Jijón y Francesco Martone A4C ArtsForTheCommons (ECU – ITA), Boloh Miranda (ECU) y Sofia Acosta (ECU)
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Finalist. The international Cyprus Poster Triennial, State Gallery Of Art, Nicosia, Cyprus.My Grenfell Next of Kin Augemented Reality Poster selected for The international Cyprus Poster Triennial (CPT) is to be a nonprofit institution that aims to promote and disseminate knowledge and creativity in the field of graphic design by focusing on the poster as a major medium of visual communication. From the early printing of broadsides in the beginning of the 19th century to the present day of the digital era, posters have been influential not only as vehicles that provide information but also as tools responsible for social change, developing awareness on crucial issues, dissemination of revolutionary or political ideas and propaganda. The aspiration of the Cyprus Poster Triennial (CPT) is to establish a graphic design event in the Mediterranean at a place that, on the one hand, can function as a bridge between East and West, and on the other, can bring together designers from all over the world with a variety of perspectives to meet and celebrate the wondrous power of the graphic poster. We welcome poster submissions from any part of the world, as long as they do not include offensive material in respect of any ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or physical condition. Participation in the Triennial is open to all talent, emerging or established, and does not require any submission fees, as the entire venture will depend exclusively on voluntary work and sponsorship. Evripides Zantides, Omiros Panayides and Savvas Xinaris, visionaries and founders of the Cyprus Poster Triennial.
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CRITICAL DE?!GN / DESGINERS TROUBLEMAKERS, MEDIUM Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislav, Slovakia. Bratislava.CRITICAL DE?!GN DESIGNERS TROUBLEMAKERS Exhibition about critical graphic design 1– 16/9/2022 MEDIUM Gallery, Bratislava Curators: Katarína Balážiková, Lenka Hámošová Curators’ text The international exhibition CRITICAL DE?!GN / Designers troublemakers talks about critical design as an advocate for change. The position of the designer is changing in today’s media society, as well as the influence of design studies. Its field of action is much broader – the designer needn’t serve only the market, but also choose the content to communicate. The design we create is no longer just a tool, it is also a carrier of messages and itself becomes an important message and a reflection of the times in which we live. Critical design can have various faces and names. Some theorists or practitioners call it socially engaged, while others call it reflective or speculative. However, it has the same goal – it wants to bring about changes in society, to highlight problems, to ask questions, to provoke debate, and to question the seemingly unquestionable. It needn’t be the solution to a problem – it can be the creator of it. The exhibition and symposium explain critical approaches in design through a variety of methodological approaches by international and local designers, which are presented through selected practical examples. Often these are not established and strictly defined methods, but creative authorial approaches based on a sincere interest in one’s surroundings, questioning the established ruts of the design profession, and taking a critical reflection on our society. Design thinking here is not subservient to the demands of industry, but – in conjunction with critical thinking – rather functions as a tool of knowledge that can bring a different way of looking at the world and the ways we design for it. Each author’s approach is unique, but from the methodological perspective specific practices can be decoded and inspire other designers and critical thinkers to replicate them in a different context. For Slovak professional and lay audiences alike, this exhibition can provide a long-missing stimulus for reflection and an impetus for their own critical thinking. The exhibition presents a selection of texts and key projects by national and international authors from the Critical Daily blogzine, illustrating various critical design methods. The installation of texts and visual documentation in the space foregrounds the project’s background and authors’ critical approach, rather than the project output’s final design . The viewer is thus compelled to read and not only perceive the aesthetic level of the exhibited works. The website www.critical-design.com – which was created on the occasion of the exhibition and the Designers Troublemakers International Symposium – encourages interactive participation and offers a space for designers to participate in mapping these methodological approaches. The exhibition is aimed both at designers and a critically-minded audience which is interested in design as a discipline that shapes our contemporary world.
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No! 20 Years of Stop the War – a visual retrospective at the Bow Arts Gallery, London.No! 20 Years of Stop the War – A Visual Retrospective at the Bow Arts Gallery in East London, showcased the artistic legacy that the movement has inspired in the process of mobilising millions of people against foreign wars including artists, designers, filmmakers, photographers and musicians. The exhibition featured work from Banksy, Vivienne Westwood, Ben Eine, David Gentleman, Brian Eno, kennardphillips, Katherine Hamnett, Robert Montgomery, Martin Rowson, Ed Hall, Karmarama and many more. Over a thousand people visited the exhibition during its 10-day run.
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Flood Tides of Resistance at Neme Projects Space and Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus. Curated by Oliver Ressler.Two posters No Breathing Space part of group show Flood Tides of Resistance at Neme Projects Space and Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus. Curated by Oliver Ressler. Flood Tide of Resistance Visit this project's documentation. Διαβάστε μετάφραση του άρθρου στα Ελληνικά. NeMe and curator Oliver Ressler are pleased to invite you to the exhibition opening of Flood Tide of Resistance on Friday, 7 October 2022, 7:30pm. The worldwide scope and visibility of the environmental movements reflect the terrifying global scale of the threat and also the unprecedented social breadth and depth of collective determination to counteract it. Millions of people determined to prevent total planetary climate collapse – to preserve the Earth as habitat for future generations – are joining the climate justice movements and collectively taking action. This is also true of many artists, more and more of whom have shown over the last few years that they no longer regard climate breakdown merely as “subject matter” for their works. Climate activism does not only take place as a land-locked form of resistance, but in the past few years has also expanded to the sea. One of the most impressive examples are the activities of No Grandi Navi in Venice. This exhibition brings together artists who produce their works in dialogue with the climate justice movements related to both land and sea, in which they consider themselves participants. Artists: Tiago de Aragão (BR), Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio (US), Noel Douglas (UK), Francisco Huichaqueo (CL), Gilbert Kills Pretty Enemy III (US), Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner & Aka Niviâna (MH/GL), Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination (FR), The Natural History Museum (US), Oliver Ressler (AT), Enar de Dios Rodríguez (ES), Theo Prodromidis (GR), Rachel Schragis (US), Seday (FR), Jonas Staal (NL), Tools for Action (HU/NL), No Grandi Navi (IT). Flood Tide of Resistance is a new and extended configuration of Overground Resistance, first exhibited at frei_raum Q21 exhibition space, Vienna, Austria in 2021. Following the events in Cyprus, this project will travel further to CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito, Ecuador, in late November 2022. Flood Tide of Resistance is under the auspices of the Austrian Embassy, Cyprus. Events calendar Exhibition opening: Friday, 7 October 2022, 7:30pm – 10pm. Opening days/times 11-14 October 2022 (Tuesday-Friday), 5:30pm-8:30pm 18-20 October 2022 (Tuesday-Thursday), 5:30pm-8:30pm 21 October 2022 (Friday), 6:00pm-10:00pm 22-23 October 2022 (Saturday-Sunday), 12:00pm-8:00pm 25 October-4 November (Tuesday-Friday), 5:30pm-8:30pm Seminars/Workshop Saturday, 8 October 2022, 6:30pm. Seminar speakers: Oliver Ressler (AT), Lena Reisner (DE), Noel Douglas (UK), Sophie Goltz (De). Sunday, 9 October 2022, 11am-1pm. Sign Wars Workshop: How can we talk with and add to political struggles with images? led by Noel Douglas. Saturday, 22 October 2022, 6:30 pm. Public discussion with presentations by Cyprus based speakers Martin Hellicar (Birdlife Cyprus), and Maria Hadjimichael (Environmental researcher and activist).
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CRITICAL DE?!GN / DESGINERS TROUBLEMAKERS, MEDIUM Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislav, Slovakia. Bratislava.Various works exhibited as part of CRITICAL DE?!GN / DESGINERS TROUBLEMAKERS, MEDIUM Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislav, Slovakia. Bratislava. Curators: Katarína Balážiková, Lenka Hámošová The project CRITICAL DE?!GN/Designers troublemakers doesn’t talk about design as a useful artistic discipline, but rather as a tool and advocate of change in media society. It brings an up-to-date perspective to critical design – an area that is still relatively unexplored. It talks about critical design as an advocate for change. The position of the designer is changing in today’s media society, as well as the influence of design studies. Its field of action is much broader – the designer needn’t serve only the market, but also choose the content to communicate. The design we create is no longer just a tool, it is also a carrier of messages and itself becomes an important message and a reflection of the times in which we live. Critical design can have various faces and names. Some theorists or practitioners call it socially engaged, while others call it reflective or speculative. However, it has the same goal – it wants to bring about changes in society, to highlight problems, to ask questions, to provoke debate, and to question the seemingly unquestionable. It needn’t be the solution to a problem – it can be the creator of it. The exhibition and symposium explain critical approaches in design through a variety of methodological approaches by international and local designers, which are presented through selected practical examples. Often these are not established and strictly defined methods, but creative authorial approaches based on a sincere interest in one’s surroundings, questioning the established ruts of the design profession, and taking a critical reflection on our society. Design thinking here is not subservient to the demands of industry, but – in conjunction with critical thinking – rather functions as a tool of knowledge that can bring a different way of looking at the world and the ways we design for it. Each author’s approach is unique, but from the methodological perspective specific practices can be decoded and inspire other designers and critical thinkers to replicate them in a different context. For Slovak professional and lay audiences alike, this exhibition can provide a long-missing stimulus for reflection and an impetus for their own critical thinking.
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The international Cyprus Poster Triennial, State Gallery Of Art, Nicosia, Cyprus.Grenfell Augmented Reality Poster Selected for The international Cyprus Poster Triennial, State Gallery Of Art, Nicosia, Cyprus. The international Cyprus Poster Triennial (CPT) is to be a nonprofit institution that aims to promote and disseminate knowledge and creativity in the field of graphic design by focusing on the poster as a major medium of visual communication. From the early printing of broadsides in the beginning of the 19th century to the present day of the digital era, posters have been influential not only as vehicles that provide information but also as tools responsible for social change, developing awareness on crucial issues, dissemination of revolutionary or political ideas and propaganda. The aspiration of the Cyprus Poster Triennial (CPT) is to establish a graphic design event in the Mediterranean at a place that, on the one hand, can function as a bridge between East and West, and on the other, can bring together designers from all over the world with a variety of perspectives to meet and celebrate the wondrous power of the graphic poster. We welcome poster submissions from any part of the world, as long as they do not include offensive material in respect of any ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or physical condition. Participation in the Triennial is open to all talent, emerging or established, and does not require any submission fees, as the entire venture will depend exclusively on voluntary work and sponsorship. Evripides Zantides, Omiros Panayides and Savvas Xinaris, visionaries and founders of the Cyprus Poster Triennial.
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20 Years of Stop the War: A Visual RetrospectiveRegime Change Begins At Home Playing Cards and Drop Bombs Not Beats Poster as part of 20 Years of Stop the War: A Visual Retrospective group show. Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts, London. Great protest movements have always inspired artists. The anti-war movement of the last 20 years is no exception. In the process of mobilising huge numbers of people against foreign wars, the Stop the War movement has inspired a wide range of artists, designers, filmmakers, photographers and musicians. They have used their skills to help the movement project its message, to create a vibrant record of its activities and produce a body of anti-war art that has spoken personally to millions. The movement which began in 2001 with demonstrations against the invasion of Afghanistan, mobilised millions against the Iraq war, and continued protesting over Palestine and the Middle East wars, sparked the political consciousness of a whole generation. This exhibition is the product of this encounter. It provides a brief history of the movement and some idea of the remarkable creativity that truly popular mobilisation can unleash. Other exhibitors: Banksy, Vivienne Westwood, Brian Eno, Ben Eine, David Gentleman, kennardphillipps, Katherine Hamnett, Rob Montgomery, Martin Rowson, Ed Hall, Jess Hurd, Guy Smallman, Kristian Buss, Amir Amirani, Jim Aindow
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Overground Resistance at the frei_raum Q21 exhibition space, Vienna.No Breathing Space Poster as part of group show, Overground Resistance at the frei_raum Q21 exhibition space, Vienna. Other exhibitors: Tiago de Aragão (BR), Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio (US), Francisco Huichaqueo (Mapuche Nation/CL), Gilbert Kills Pretty Enemy III (Hunkpapa Lakota of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe/US), Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner (Marshall Islands) & Aka Niviâna (Greenland), Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination (FR), The Natural History Museum (US), Oliver Ressler (AT), Rachel Schragis (US), Seday (FR), Jonas Staal (NL) and Tools for Action (HU/NL).
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Stuck Up part of the Nu Art Street Art Festival, AberdeenGrenfell, Tory Plague Doctor and The Johnson Variant Poster shown at Nu Art Street Art Festival, Aberdeen as part of Stuck Up. Stuck Up Aberdeen City Centre prepares for 1500ft paste-up wall in worldwide collaborative project! Art can be humble while still making an impact; as much craft as high concept, while still grabbing attentions and changing minds. The more accessible the initial process of making art becomes, the more likely it is to reach a wider audience. Looking past the widely-known terms of Street Art & Public Art, and further beyond familiar ideas of Graffiti, Muralism and Stencil Art, we wondered how many people would know they were passing by a ‘Wheat Paste’, a ‘Paste-Up’, a ‘Locative Collage’. The answer to that was ‘not enough’ – a whole world of often-overlooked art operating in a space that is uniquely liminal (which in this case we like to think of as somewhere between legal and criminal). With that in mind, Nuart has secured 1500ft of space in Aberdeen City Centre to create what we hope will become the world’s largest paste-up wall, bringing three separate collections of art together: • Nuart’s founder and creative director Martyn Reed, in partnership with flyposting legends UNCLE, will bring a curated selection of Nuart artists to the wall, line up to be announced soon. • Flyingleaps, the subversive counter-culture arts initiative founded in response to the Brexit referendum result, will celebrate its fifth anniversary with street poster art spanning its revolutionary archives, created by a global coalition of urban contemporary political artists. • Nuart are now inviting subm issions from across the globe, in an ‘open call’ to artists, poets, witches and pirates to contribute to the spectacle, creating a truly collaborative concept and ignoring the borders that become more oppressive each year.
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AdBrake campaign by BrandalismNo Breathing Space posters for #AdBrake campaign by Brandalism put up on over 100 billboard and bus stop sites around the UK.
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From Nope To Hope, Brixton Recreation Centre, London.Make June The End of May and Occupy Design Austerity WTF! Posters exhibitied at From Nope To Hope, Brixton Recreation Centre, London.
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Hope To Nope, Design Museum, London.Occupy Design Graphic Archive displayed as part of Hope to Nope: Graphics and Politics 2008-18 28 March – 12 August 2018 at the Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High Street, Kensington, London W8 6AG. Public engagement with politics has changed dramatically since 2008. Discover how graphic design and technology have played a pivotal role in dictating and reacting to the major political moments of our times. #hopetonope
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People Power: Fighting For Peace, Imperial War Museum, LondonRegime Change Begins At Home Playing Cards shown as part of People Power: Fighting For Peace, Imperial War Museum, London
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Brandwashing, TTIP Game Over mass ad takeover, Brussels, Belgium.TTIP Supermaket Poster part of Brandwashing, TTIP Game Over mass ad takeover, Brussels, Belgium. Plus de 80 œuvres d'art dénonçant la mainmise des multinationales sur la démocratie à travers les traités de libre-échange tel que le CETA et le TTIP, ont été installées ce matin, mardi 1 octobre, à Bruxelles, capitale européenne du lobbyisme. Les affiches ont remplacé les publicités existantes et elles répondent à l’appel de TTIP GAME OVER à réaliser des actions de désobéissance civile dans le cadre du 2ème round, prévu ces 3, 4 et 5 novembre 2016. Le collectif Brandwashing s’est inspiré du projet Brandalism, qui a réalisé des actions similaires lors de la COP21 l’an passé à Paris. Leur objectif est de se ré-approprier l’espace public, tout en soulignant les liens entre la publicité, le consumérisme et le pouvoir des multinationales. Les œuvres d’arts ont été réalisées par plus de 20 artistes belges et internationaux, qui se sont réunis pour faire porter leur message visuellement. C’est au travers de dessins, photos, peintures, montages… qu’elles-ils s’expriment et entendent braquer les projecteurs sur les acteurs qui négocient le TTIP et tirent les ficelles des négociations : lobbyistes, commission européenne et gouvernements. Plus d'info : brandalism.org.uk/the-project
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A World to Win: Posters of Protest and Revolution William Morris Gallery, London.Our World Is Not For Sale Poster and Memes collected by the author displayed as part of A World to Win: Posters of Protest and Revolution William Morris Gallery, London. A century of posters agitating for political change, from the Suffragette campaigns of the early twentieth century, to the Arab Spring, political activists around the world have used posters to mobilise, educate and organise A World to Win: Posters of Protest and Revolution shows a spotlight on how political activists around the world have used posters to mobilise, educate and organise. The exhibition will present around 70 posters drawn from the national poster collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Showcasing the work of diverse artists, graphic designers and print collectives it will include new acquisitions gathered from recent outbursts of protest in the UK, Russia and the Middle East. Making or displaying a poster is in itself a means of taking political action, while for many social and political movements, posters have represented an important form of cultural output. The show will feature posters made by the Atelier Populaire during the student protests in Paris in 1968, as well as examples from the Russian, Chinese and Cuban Revolutions. The exhibition will also host artist Ruth Ewan’s A Jukebox of People Trying to Change the World, an ongoing collection of over 2000 idealistic or political songs collated by Ewan and disseminated via a CD jukebox. Exhibition organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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Brandalism, Cascina Cuccagna, Milan, Italy.Wasteland Poster exhbited at Brandalism Exhbjtion, Cascina Cuccagna, Milan, Italy. Can we fight the big companies that induce consumerism, those that pollute the environment, with street-art? This is what the Brandalism project did at COP21 in Paris. Told by a protagonist, with the slogan: “He who kills the climate kills you too, tell him to stop” Brandalism is an anti-advertising campaign. A project that recovers the original spirit of street art, with unauthorized and unsettling interventions, to oppose consumerism and false needs that brands, advertising, advertising and mass media generate daily. Two days before the launch of COP21, the December 2015 , 2015, six hundred posters were installed in outdoor multimedia spaces throughout Paris. Eighty-two artists from nineteen different countries have created works of art to protest against the control exercised by multinationals, to reveal to the public the connections between advertising, the promotion of consumerism and climate change. A complaint about the influence of multinationals in climate negotiations. From 10 to 20 March 2016, a selection consisting of 30 of these six hundred opereworks in total will be on display at Cascina Cuccagna in Milan. The project is carried out by Cascina Cuccagna and Giacimenti Urbani with the collaboration of Terre di Mezzo.