Tonight is the opening of This is Not a Gateway Festival. The festival will run from tomorrow until Sunday and there are plenty of interesting events. I've selected two here I'd like to attend but have a look at the programme for other talks and events.
The festival brings together people, living and working in Europe, who's main preoccupation is the city. TINAG creates platforms for emerging academics, activists, human rights canvassers, artists, youth workers, filmmakers, architects, students and more, whose point of departure is the city. TINAG also builds platforms for those outside of established circuits including illegal migrants, travellers and people living in cities of past or continuing conflict. There is no doubt compelling new ideas and knowledge on cities is located and developed here. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Productive Dystopias, Or... An Architecture Of Unintended Consequences //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Can we conceive of an alternative practice where current power structures of patronage and regulation are channeled, subverted or engaged in new ways? And how might dystopian visions paradoxically offer a productive way of approaching the urban question? Panelists: Tomas Klassnik (Klassnik Corporation), Elena Pascolo (Urban Projects Bureau), Austin Williams (Future Cities Project), Finn Williams (Common Office), Karl Sharro (ManTowNHuman) Alex Warnock-Smith (Urban Projects Bureau, AA) and Amin Taha. Friday 23 / Hanbury Hall 20:00-21:30 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Reclaim the Imagination! Aesthetic Politics in Social Movement //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Autonomous politics have a long and rich relation with artistic production and movements. From Dada through Reclaim the Streets, aesthetic politics have been essential in expanding the collective imaginations of revolutionary movements, turning social resistance into joyful encounters, communicating rage at injustice with poetry and beauty. Come join us to celebrate the release of two books that explore the ongoing relation of radical aesthetics and politics: Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today by Josh Macphee (PM Press), a major new collection of contemporary politically and socially engaged printmaking, and Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self- Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life by Stevphen Shukaitis (Autonomedia / Minor Compositions), an philosophical inquiry into the formation of collective imagination in social movement organizing. Josh and Stevphen will present and discuss their books while engaging in a broader conversation about art and politics with Anja Kanngieser. Sunday October 25th 6:30-7:30pm Main Hall in the Kobi Nazrul Centre MORE INFO: http://www.thisisnotagateway.net -- Olga P Massanet -------------------------- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
