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20.11.2013
Last week we finished the official part of the second Memefest/QCA extradisciplinary seminar/workshop/direct action here at the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane. The theme was Food Democracy, and we wanted to explore it in relation to local Brisbane. We worked together with the wonderful and inspirational people of the Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy in order to strengthen the food pro…
31.10.2013
We are excited to announce this year’s special Memefest /QCA workshop. A few more days to go and we will meet in Brisbane. Bellow you can find information regarding the event and the program.
GOALS: The workshop/seminar aims to research FOOD DEMOCRACY in relation to current Brisbane. The whole event will focus on the Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy and its radical food program. We will …
23.10.2013
RIO DE JANEIRO – On Tuesday, 15 October, 2013, more than 200 protestors were arrested by the Rio de Janeiro state Military Police, as part of the continuing criminalization of social movements in the city. Those arrested were sent in small groups to over 10 different police stations, with the clear objective of impeding their access to legal assistance.
On Monday, 21 October, the Brazilian Ju…
20.10.2013
So..here we go. Bellow is a draft of the program for the event here in Brisbane that will take place from the 4.11.-11.11. http://tinyurl.com/l3m28mm
(update (25.10): there have already been few changes made since this was posted)
Have a look, especially the event participants, and let us know what you think. The finished version will be published end of this following week.
MONDAY N…
22.09.2013
This years Memefest event will be held from November 4th to November 11th in Brisbane. We are very exited to announce that the project will be a special collaboration with the Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy. Investigating further the topic of Food Democracy, we will focus on the Embassy's food program and create communication design/art that will through intervention in the city of Brisban…
26.08.2013
Dear friends, dear comrades,
our community has lost a dear friend and one of our first and most important members. Shoaib Ahmad Nabi passed away few days ago. Shoaib established contact with Memefest already in 2003 in an effort to provide his students at the American University in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates with the opportunity to work on socially critical and engaged design work, to…
13.08.2013
After our Friendly Competition results, here our second harvest this year, again, with fantastic outcomes.
We are excited to announce this years special Memefest/ Queensland College of Art- Griffith University Award for Imaginative Critical Intervention.
The award for Imaginative Critical Intervention is given to support critical thinking, as the ability to see situations as they are and i…
23.07.2013
Dragi MEMEFESTOVCI!
Objavljeni su radovi Memefestovog (2013) natečaja FOOD DEMOCRACY!
Pozivamo vas da posetite našu GALERIJU 2013 i pogledate prispele radove u svim festivalskim kategorijama. http://www.memefest.org/sr/gallery/works2013/
Kuratori i editori ovogodišnjeg festivala su odradili svoj deo posla. (Ove godine je prispelo ogromno radova, čak iz 25 država sveta.) Njihov rad nije b…
20.07.2013
Food. Our closest relationship with nature. When we started to research this years theme FOOD DEMOCRACY it was almost impossible to imagine how far reaching it is. How very fundamental to our existence, our relationship to nature, to each other and to our selves it is.
The Food System is designed to serve a tiny minority of food producing corporations backed by copyright regimes. It serves d…
10.07.2013
Na začetku 90-ih let prejšnjega stoletja je prišlo do geneze specifičnih procesov, ki zadevajo industrializacijo in mondalizacijo prehrane. Svetovne institucije kot so WTO (prej GATT), MMF, WB so težile s svojimi programskimi politikami, da se liberalizira svetovna trgovina s hrano, medtem ko so veliki proizvajalci začeli težiti k standardizaciji prehranskega blaga. Omenjene institucije in sporaz…