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30.05.2021
Memefest has been commissioned to design the official poster for Festival de la Imagen in Manizales Colombia. It is the 20th anniversary of the festival with which Memefest has a long standing and close relation. The topic of the festival is Inter/Species and the poster depicts managerial, bureaucratic, rationalist design language as manifested in everyday forms (charts, Xls sheets etc). This lan…
13.04.2020
Few days ago a member of our Memefest social network has on our web site published an Openblog post titled "Coronavirus COVID-19 is an act of war?"
While we trust the good intentions of the author of the post, after discussing it in the Memefest collective, as well as after receiving feedback from our broader network members- we decided to delete the post.
The post did not meet our communi…
04.02.2020
With strong feelings we are announcing the world premiere of Thieves in Our Home!
Thieves in Our Home shows Aunty Hazel, the founder of the Grandmothers Against Removal, as she explains how it feels when Aboriginal children are forcibly taken away as part of an ongoing process of colonization in Australia. This film is an exploration of radical intimacies inviting us to listen and see a whole …
06.01.2020
We're launching the first edition of the Blueprints for Change Progressive Organizing and Campaigning Manual, a culmination of two years' worth hard work from our core group of 20+ helpers and includes field wisdom from over 100 kickass organizers and campaigners who contributed.
A bit more promo before we get to downloading:
14 detailed how-to guides on cutting-edge approaches to progr…
11.02.2019
The Situationists had an immense influence on Memefest from its very beginnings in 2002. The concepts of détournement and dérive played a big role in developing our own tactics and are still part of Memefest arsenal of tools when we develop public interventions or teach about them.
One of the very important tactics Memefest used is publishing, which we see as a intervention into the public sp…
24.12.2018
Food democracy is sold out and is now being reprinted. The only change will be a slightly thicker cover. Thinking of the undisciplining and extradisciplinary nature of our intellectual cullture, methodology, pedagogy, our activist history and not at least the very publishing culture behind this book we like to think of this as a great achievement. This would not be possible without the deep colla…
26.10.2018
Dear comrades,
our friends from Universidad Caldas in Manizales Colombia have made this video to draw attention to the extremely bad situation in Colombian higher education, which has reached a stage that urged some of the professors and a student to begin with hunger strikes.
Universidad Caldas is tightly connected to Memefest. For years there has been an operating local Memefest node. R…