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Memefest

20.03.2023

Memefest

13.06.2020

Oliver Vodeb and Arturo Escobar in Dialogue

We are excited to announce a special dialogue between Oliver Vodeb and Arturo Escobar at the Festival de la Imagen, Manizales, Colombia. The dialogue will happen online via Zoom infront of the festival audience @ 2.30 pm Tuesday, June 16th, Manizales time.

The Onto-epistemic Politics of Participatory Design: A Dialogue Between Oliver Vodeb and Arturo Escobar

Oliver Vodeb and Arturo Escobar…

Memefest

28.03.2020

Goodnight and Good Luck: a Letter to My Colleagues.

* a random selection of some Australian university advertisements

We are publishing this letter by Australian scholar, professor Justin O'Connor, written to his Colleagues when he left the University he was part of for several years. The letter is a concise analysis of some of the crucial issues at the core of the Australian university sector. Justin is a friend of Memefest and we share a de…

Memefest

03.09.2018

FOOD DEMOCRACY BOOK: ON PLEASURE PRAXIS AND OTHER THINGS

Here is full info on the book:

Food Democracy, Critical Lessons in Food, Communication, Design and art. Edited, curated and written by Oliver Vodeb, Published by Intellect Books, Uk

We worked hard to keep the price of the book low. BUY THE BOOK HERE OR HERE- check what works better for you.

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What prompted you to create Food Democracy?

I am mostly developing research around w…

Comerades

18.03.2018

Open call for residence!!! Occupy the kitchen !

the project

Occupy the kitchen! is a food artivism project where contemporary practices that are connected to art and economics are explored through food. This activity – of research and production – is carried out through a transdisciplinary approach and an activist attitude. What interests us is examining the exchanges, cross references and the osmotic and/or conflictual relationships bet…

Comerades

17.01.2018

New book out on DIY activism

I'm hoping to interest members in my new book TINKERING. It's a journalistic and scholarly investigation into the political implications of material culture. It spans across sociology, art & technology history, anthropology and politics.

TINKERING profiles Australian DIY activisim and the political and economic concerns of home-based production and labour. Here's an extract: http://www.smh.com…

Comerades

19.03.2017

Occupy the Kitchen !

ZONA FRANCA | OCCUPY THE KITCHEN! |

Foodrioters Franca Formenti, Evelyn Leveghi and Francesca Sironi are looking performers to show their work in “Zona Franca” in Varese- Italy.

“Occupy the kitchen!” is a ZONA FRANCA project, a series of events where artists, agronomists, activists, farmers, chefs, intellectuals, horticulturalists and nutritionists talk about their research and their expe…

Comerades

02.06.2016

El placer en el ambiente sano

Nada causa mas PLACER y felicidad, que un lugar digno para vivir.

Comerades

11.07.2015

" the worst thing you did to us was to make politicians out of all of us"

A haunting piece that articulates the thematic concerns of Memefest 2014, as the author concludes - " the worst thing you did to us was to make politicians out of all of us": http://indianexpress.com/…/book-review-kashmir-the-vajp…/99/

Comerades

02.06.2015

Imaginary POSTERS : MAPPING Workshops

London College of Communication

Wed 10th June

– 16.00 in room D209

Lecture by Oliver Vodeb: Workshops as a Design research method and intervention


Thu 11th & Fri 12th June

– 10.30-16.30 in room D209

Workshop

This praxis based two-day design workshop will be investigating the medium of posters as a critical mapping tool.

The workshop will focus on design as a process a…