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01.12.2012

The DEBT Workshop/Seminar/Intervention- First Impressions

First Memefest/Queensland College of Art extradisciplinary workshop/seminar/intervention, here in Brisbane, happened in late November. We invited a diverse international group to research DEBT further, to learn about it's relation to Brisbane and to intervene.

The collaborators, participants, mentors and conspirators were Ashlea Gleeson, Jack Loel, Darcy Mangan, Belinda Li, John Nicholson, E…

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18.11.2012

Stormy Discussion

Brisbane has provided a temporary (if tempestuous) home for our community of students, professionals, artists, researchers, educators, and activists to assemble and discuss how we can combat alienation and reclaim the public sphere for dialogue on issues of debt.

A great but exhausting few days so far starting with presentations of work by the Memefest "Imaginative Critical Intervention" awa…

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12.11.2012

Listening to Brisbane

Dear all Memefest/QCA DEBT Workshop/Seminar participants- two more days and we start. See you soon.

DAY one 15 November 15th:

9 am- @ Queensland College of Art
Welcome and Introduction to the Workshop/Seminar (Oliver Vodeb), introduction of participants.

Presentation of Memefest/QCA Awardees:

10.00 Vladimir Turner: Wonderland series
10.40 Soren Rosenbak: Surplus Debt
11.20 Ivan …

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29.10.2012

Pre DEBT Workshop activities

Dear all, a bit more than two weeks and we will all meet in beautiful Brisbane!
We will have enough time to collaboratively reflect on the many issues of DEBT at the workshop. However as announced we will collaboratively investigate some sources that will be of help for our work before the actual meeting.

Here are three documentaries, necessary to watch, as they relate directly to our work a…

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18.10.2012

 Re-Imagining DEBT: An Intimate Encounter

We are happy to announce the framework for this years special Memefest workshop. A few more weeks to go and we will meet in Brisbane.
Bellow you can find information regarding the event. More will follow soon.

GOALS: The workshop/seminar aims to research DEBT and its hidden effects in current Brisbane. It seeks to create a process that will help us to develop knowledge necessary to understand…

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17.10.2012

CULTURAL EMBASSY of PALESTINA in Ljubljana and Maribor

From 20th of October to 1st of December Cultural days of Palestinian culture will take place in Maribor and Ljubljana (Slovenia).

Cultural embassy consist of exhibitions, palestinian poetry, documentaries, talks, etc.

For detailed programme visit the FB event site (just in slovenian language):
http://www.facebook.com/events/116124775210525/

I was involved in project as a designer of th…

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19.09.2012

Art and Society

Talk about art and society
" imaginary scene where they reach the real frustrations "

this will be the first time that Memefest will be presented in Mexico

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17.09.2012

Exhibition of Alana Hunt, Memefest co-curator and Ingrid Dernée

In case some of you are in Sydney I very warmly recommend this show!
Alana Hunt is one of Memefest's co-curators and her work is very impressive and inspirational. It shows that bringing change to unacceptable circumstances is deeply relational. Her work offers very gentle yet powerful insight that the core of who we are and what we can be is forming with listening , dialogue and taking time.

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11.09.2012

52 SHADES OF GREED

I came along a realy great project - a set of deck playing cards made with the help of 28 illustrator all over the world.

They visualised Wall Street executives and politicians who were (and still are) the master of (financial) distaster.

http://52shadesofgreed.com/

The cards are on sale through ROCKETHUB – crowfunding engine.
Another goal of the group is to print up a 1000 ecks of c…

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24.08.2012

The Crisis of Civilization in a movie

source: https://diasp.org/posts/1308802

Like the book on which it is based, the film consists of seven parts which explore the interconnected dynamic of global crises of #Climate-Catastrophe; #Peak-Energy; #Peak-Food; #Economic-Instability; International #Terrorism; and the #Militarization Tendency -- with a final section on The #Post-Peak World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMgOTQ7D_lk