Keep the Fire Burning! Memefest/QCA Food Democracy Brisbane Seminar/Workshop/Direct Action
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 work together with BASE members to create a process that will help us to understand possibilities for imaginative critical direct action. Communication tools, strategies and tactics will be developed and used - as reality resists knowledge, direct action is necessary.
Our goal is also to contribute to the development of a local scene engaged in critical theory and practice, reflecting public effects of communication/design, art and education, connecting the university's potentials with bold non-institutionalised counter cultures and initiatives.
What follows bellow is the program of the event, and bellow some resources for you to check before the event.
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The Event takes place at the Queensland College of Art. Building: Webb Centre: Level 4 (Design Department) Rooms 4.35 and 4.36
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MONDAY Nov 4
10.00 Registration & Welcome to Country
10.30 Introductions of participants
10.50 Sam Burch-UQ Lecture: "Time for Sovereignty: First Nations Rights and Food Democracy."
11.30 Radical research methodologies panel discussion- facilitated by Dr Oliver Vodeb-Memefest/QCA: Dr Zala Volcic- UQ, Dr George Petelin- QCA, Jason Grant-Jordan Mcguire: Inkahoots -Ben Mangan: Inkahoots/Memefest/Uni Ballarat)
12.30 Lunch
1.30 A look in to last years Memefest Brisbane workshop/intervention:Dr George Petelin and Dr Oliver Vodeb
2.00 Dr Bil Platz Lecture-QCA: Zombie culture in protest and activism
2.45 Dr George Petelin Lecture: Problems with Food: Production, Distribution, Mediation, Consumption
3.30 Excursion to Voice and Reason, with a tour of the exhibition conducted by curators at the Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA).
*The exhibition highlights contrasting voices and draws attention to the reasoning, knowledge and experience behind the work of Indigenous artists, some in dialogue with works by non-Indigenous artists.
5.00 Group discussions outside of GOMA
6.30 Design Exhibition at QCA
TUESDAY Nov 5
Recipients of the Memefest/QCA 2013 Award for Imaginative Critical Intervention presentations
10.00 Mohammad Naser (Bangladesh)
10.30 Dr Miha Mazzini and Marko Plahuta (Slovenija)
11.00 Mariano Mussi (Argentina)
11.30 Robert Perkin- Food Connect, Lecture: 'The democracy principle, getting real!’
12.15 Break
12.30 Lecture/Presentation Aboriginal Culture, the Sovereign Embassy & Food Distribution: Wayne Wharton, Karen Fusi
13.30 Lunch
14.00 Dr Mark Andrejevic- UQ, Lecture "Curtailing Surveillance: Ag-Gag Laws and Activism"
14.45 Alana Hunt Lecture: "Don't expect a thank you, and other myths and misfits of the outback"
15.30 Recipient of the Memefest/QCA 2013 Award for Imaginative Critical Intervention: Eugenio Tiselli Skype Presentation (from Kigali, Rwanda): ojoVoz project/ICT and Agriculture
16.15 Break
16.25 Dr Oliver Vodeb Lecture: "Everybody Must Get Stoned! Food, Drugs and Social Control"
17.00 Break
cca 18h Evening and light dinner at the Woolongabba art gallery
WEDNESDAY November 6th
9.30 Presentation of works related to Aboriginal culture and/or Food democracy: QCA academics and students:
9.30 Bianca Beetson
9.50 Dr Susan Ostling
10.10 Bob Mercer
10.30 Oscar Waugh
10.45 Thomas Roohan
11.00 Sophie Van der Drift
11.15 Dru Handebo
11.30 Kelsey Hutchinson
11.45 Break
12.00 Phil Winzer, Boe Spearim, Callum Clayton Dixon: Presentation of the Aboriginal Sovereignty Manifesto
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00 Workshop in groups
18.00 Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy meeting in Musgrave Park
19.30 Drinks in West End
THURSDAY November 7th
10.00 Critical Photo Journalism and Presentation of the Australian Photo Journalist publication: Food Issue, Alan Hill and Joe Ruckli
11.00 Workshops
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Critiques on workshop process including Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy members
14.30 Workshops
17.00 Movies on Indigenous Culture and Food Issues
18.00 Evening: Free
FRIDAY November 8th
9.30 Workshop- Group Work
12.30 “Political cooking” (concept/theme to be announced)
Lunch at QCA
13.30 Workshop
18.00 Free evening
SATURDAY November 9th
11.00 Workshop /production of media
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Workshop /production of media
19.00 Party at Bob’s
SUNDAY November 10th
Direct Action/Documentation (groups do the direct action according to the developed strategies)
MONDAY November 11th
Morning: if necessary still direct action
11.00 Critique/Discussion of results with Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy, planning and strategies for future collaboration
12.30 Planned Skype meeting with Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra
14.00 (Maybe) Boondal Bush Tucker Guided Tour
17.00 Celebration/ picnic in the park
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Pre event preparation:
Download and read “The Militant Research handbook”:
http://www.visualculturenow.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/MRH_Web.pdf
Download and read: “A Userr's Guide to Demanding the Impossible”:
http://www.memefest.org/en/gallery/works2010-11/448/
Have a look at the four part documentary about the history of the National Embassy in Canberra, which is part of the history of the Embassy in Brisbane too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoIdi1seNbA&feature=youtu.be
And also check the video about the Brisbane Embassy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhTUWspWP1A&feature=youtu.be
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