short assignment on ACTIVISM IN VISUAL AND MEDIA CULTURE
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Compare/contrast a recent instance of an activist gesture, intervention, or mobilization (local or global, experienced directly or through various forms of media) in
which visual cultural and/or artistic strategies were employed with an example of a work of art in an institutional/ized context that recalls recent of historical
instances of activism in the public sphere. What happens in the translation of activism into the institutional context (eg. banners and placards as art objects, re-
stagings of political mobilization, etc.), and vice versa? 3-4 pages, double-spaced