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24.06.2019
A CALL TO RESPOND
Issue six of the Equal Standard finds us delving into the world of extremes. Let us know what you think! We are now accepting written and artwork submissions until 5 AUGUST, 2019. To find out more, visit the submission page of the website: https://theequalstandard.wordpress.com/call-for-submissions/
How do we as a society make space for the “extreme”? How could we come to a…
30.07.2018
Issue #5 of The Equal Standard is out now! The Equal Standard Broadzine is Australia’s latest free independent press publication, bringing you the world in the raw. We turn the spotlight on life as we know it to inform, intrigue and provoke. From politics to art and everything in-between – we hope we entertain you and maybe, just maybe, tune you into a new standard.
The Equal Standard is produ…
18.03.2018
the project
Occupy the kitchen! is a food artivism project where contemporary practices that are connected to art and economics are explored through food. This activity – of research and production – is carried out through a transdisciplinary approach and an activist attitude. What interests us is examining the exchanges, cross references and the osmotic and/or conflictual relationships bet…
15.12.2017
Three weeks ago I did this live Webinar with Online School of Food Design founder Francesca Zampollo. We discussed the Food Democracy book and food design. Here it is in full recorded. Check it out. Here also the link to the book: http://memefest.org/en/fooddemocracy/
19.03.2017
ZONA FRANCA | OCCUPY THE KITCHEN! |
Foodrioters Franca Formenti, Evelyn Leveghi and Francesca Sironi are looking performers to show their work in “Zona Franca” in Varese- Italy.
“Occupy the kitchen!” is a ZONA FRANCA project, a series of events where artists, agronomists, activists, farmers, chefs, intellectuals, horticulturalists and nutritionists talk about their research and their expe…
13.07.2016
Estoy iniciando un nuevo proyecto, siempre me ha gustado recolectar frases que dicen las personas durante las conversaciones cotidianas, ahora me he decidido a ilustrarlas. Lo he titulado "Las Frases chiquitas"
https://www.facebook.com/fraseschiquitas/
27.03.2015
In 2012 Memefest Awarded Czech artist Vladimir Turner the special award for Imaginative Critical Intervention and invited him to our in residence program which was held in subtropical Brisbane. As participant in our extradisciplinary symposium and workshop at the Queensland College of Art on the theme Debt in Brisbane, Vlad produced fantastic work and inspired and moved us all with his crazy inte…
03.12.2014
In contemporary Australia the words ‘country’, ‘decolonisation’, ‘family’ and ‘law’ are loaded with meanings that differ greatly from person to person across this nation’s Aboriginal and migrant communities.
As part of Memefest's Radical Intimacies, a small group of us got together a few weeks ago and developed a work that explored this diversity while challenging our understanding of ourselv…
