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19.08.2024
New Podcast Series Alert!
Get ready for deep dives, radical ideas, and mind-bending conversations! We’re announcing that we work on a new podcast series featuring our book Radical Intimacies: Designing Non-Extractive Relationalities. We aim to break down barriers, rethink design through insightful conversations with Oliver Vodeb and the amazing minds who contributed to this amazing and beau…
26.02.2020
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 …
25.10.2019
This year seven members of the international Memefest network from Slovenia, Australia, USA and Canada will meet in Baltimore (Nov 4.- 22.), invited by Goucher College, to collaborate with Black Yield Institute, Goucher students, academics and members of the community.
Memefest has in its 17 years history a rich experience of implementing its methodology in various contexts, cultural setting…
20.10.2019
We are announcing our next exhibition together with the Memefest event happening in Baltimore this November.
Capitalism’s domination of our food system has far reaching consequences. The treatment of life as a machine for consumption, and corporate control of food resources, have devastating effects on the environment, our health, and our communities. In response, groups around the world are c…
02.09.2019
09.06.2019
We have lately again become interested into Culture Jamming, a practice we have been very involved in in the early 2000' and have been nurturing for many years. At the very start of Memefest Culture Jamming was central to our understanding that we can reclaim the media and that media interventions should to be fun.
Lot's has happened since than and Culture Jamming became for a while very popul…
27.12.2018
A project aiming to establish a heightened sense of connectivity between the chef, the kitchen and the community
We are students that have spent three weeks in Patan, Nepal developing a body of work surrounding the concepts of unlearning photography and pleasure media through the lens of food
To see more find us on instagram @cookupdialogue
19.01.2018
Food/Media/Crisis:
Memefest Los Angeles sessions
Feb 9-10, 2018
Pomona College LA
A special two-day workshop / critical discussion facilitated by Memefest on the intersections of Media Theory, Tactical Communication, Design and Food Politics.
This workshop will examine the corporate takeover of our food by connecting Media Theory, Tactical Communication, Design and Food Politics. Food/…