Hundreds of protesters are arrested in Washington, DC as Donald Trump is inaugurated as US president, and the following day, an estimated 470,000 people rally for the Women’s March on Washington. “Pussy Grabs Back.”

Ciradau (excerpt)

Created for Mischa Kuball’s light and sound installation,
res•o•nant,
at the Jewish Museum, Berlin.

Ciradau (Hemycapnoise Deepseeing) [excerpt]

Created for “Cities and Memory: Sound Photography”

One Million Bones Project

Ūriḷikiguṇālanigāli

Work using personal field recordings and
electromagnetic field generated sounds recorded in Linz, Austria.

“It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country.”

• Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

1911

Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata proclaims his Plan de Ayala, laying out his ideology and program of land reform, whose slogan “Land and Freedom!” was a watchword of the Mexican Revolution. “The nation is tired of false men and traitors who make promises like liberators and who on arriving in power forget them and constitute themselves as tyrants.”

1931

1948

1969

2008

2010

Demonstrations begin in Tunisia, the day after street vendor Mohammed Bouazizi self-immolated in protest of harassment from officials, setting off what would eventually become the Arab Spring.

Google Doodles Honoring Oskar Fischinger’s 117th Birthday

1957

1947

“The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also
the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.”
—Eugene V. Debs

1968

1916

Vito defunctio

Vito Acconci (1940 – 2017)

Two packed photos and demulsifier (omaggio)

1980

Citizens of Kwangju, South Korea, seize control of their city, demanding democratization, an end to martial law, and an increase in the minimum wage.

1963

1813

Simón Bolívar issues his “decree of War to the Death” for independence from Spain in Trujillo, Venezuela.

“Spaniards and Canarians, count on death, even if indifferent, if you do not actively work in favor of the independence of America. Americans, count on life, even if guilty.”

1961

1872

1889

1877

Nez Perce leader Hinmatóowyalahtq̓it,
also known as Chief Joseph,
ends a legendary three-month flight
to Canada by surrendering to US forces.
“Do not misunderstand me,
but understand fully with
reference to my affection for the land.
I never said the land was mine to do with as I choose.
The one who has a right to dispose of it is the one who created it.”

Analogue à la doctrine de la séroconversion

Work using personal field recordings and
electromagnetic field generated sounds recorded in Linz, Austria.

Phật 32 ⬙ Garvadhina khenano

Phật 109 ⬙ Ē’uṭā cakku

Phật 123 ⬙ Manataeyahaidaīta

1902

1899

1818

1934

1973

1984

1946

Millions of Japanese take part in the Food May Day demonstrations, protesting the country’s broken food delivery system.

1892

2014

A white police officer is acquitted in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri, setting off protests nationwide under the moniker Black Lives Matter.