Artistic activism might be cutting edge but if it doesn’t deliver the goods what good is it? Research into making artistic activism more effective, and affective, is at the core of our work.
Center for Artistic Activism Research is creating a living digital global map of organizations engaged in the field of artistic activism.
Mapping Artistic Activism
Artistic Activism Research Colab
An international network of researchers studying the field of creative activism at a global level.
The Center for Artistic Activism collaboration with A Blade of Grass to inform their work supporting socially engaged art.
Research and Rebuild
Projects
Actipedia.org
Our open-source, user-generated database of over 2,000 case studies of artistic activism.
Æfficacy
A multi-year, multi-stage investigation into the affective and effective impact of artistic activism.
Field Studies
Large-scale public experiment comparing the impact of creative vs. conventional activism
Pop Culture Salvage Expeditions Podcast
A dive deep into popculture, and its relevance for artistic forms of activism.
Creative Resistance Series
A podcast covering the basics of Artistic Activism, Audience, Tactics & Strategies.
Talks, Lectures & Publications
Building scholarly and popular knowledge about the field of artistic activism.
Research News
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The Powers of Art
Art is powerful. And social scientists can tell us why. A couple years ago, Center for Artistic Activism Executive Director Rebecca Bray started to research what social scientists tell us about the powers of art. She dug into the literature looking at the role art and creativity play in our world. Rebecca wanted to put…
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Towards an International Research Co-Lab on Artistic Activism
Last week we held a second meeting to give shape to what we are calling an international research collaboratory (co-lab) on artistic activism. This is an initiative bringing together researchers from the Aoteroa/New Zealand, China, Denmark, Peru, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. Our collective objective is to generate a…
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Creative vs. Conventional Activism – Published in Social Movement Studies Journal
The Center for Artistic Activism’s Stephen Duncombe and Silas Harrebye’s evidence-based, empirical study demonstrates the effectiveness of creative activism.
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How to talk about voter suppression
How do you talk about voter suppression and election issues without amplifying the doubts and fears seeded by those who benefit from voter suppression? This resource we’ve been sharing with our Unstoppable Voters Project participants. It’s an interview with Anat Shenker-Osorio in Rolling Stone: “There’s a Right and a Wrong Way to Talk About Trump’s…
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The Copenhagen Experiment: The Report
This is the first ever public experiment on the comparative efficacy and afficacy of artistic activism vs more traditional forms of activist intervention.
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The Copenhagen Experiment
This is the first ever public experiment on the comparative efficacy and afficacy of artistic activism vs more traditional forms of activist intervention.
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