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 Nov 4
10.00 Registration & Welcome to Country
10.30 Introductions of participants
11.00 Food Democracy Lecture (speaker to be announced)
11.30 Radical research methodologies panel discussion (Zala Volcic- UQ, George Petelin- QCA, Jason Grant-Jordan Mcguire-Ben Mangan: Inkahoots, Oliver Vodeb-Memefest/QCA)
12.30 Lunch
1.30 A look in to last years Memefest Brisbane workshop/intervention: George Petelin and Oliver Vodeb
2.00 Bil Platz Lecture-QCA: Zombie culture in protest and activism
2.45 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
9.30 Mariano Mussi (Argentina)
10.00 Miha Mazzini and Marko Plahuta (Slovenija)
10.30 Mohammad Naser (Bangladesh)
11.00 Robert Perkin Food Connect, Lecture: 'The democracy principle, getting real!’
11.45 Break
12.00 Lecture/Presentation Aboriginal Culture, the Sovereign Embassy & Food Distribution: Wayne Wharton, Karen Fusi
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Mark Andrejevic Lecture "Curtailing Surveillance: Ag-Gag Laws and Activism"
14.45 Alana Hunt Lecture: On Aboriginal Art and Intercultural communication/relations/problems
15.30 Eugenio Tiselli Skype Presentation (from Kigali, Rwanda): ojoVoz project/ICT and Agriculture
16.15 Break
16.25 Oliver Vodeb Lecture: "Everybody Must Get Stoned! Food, Drugs and Social Control"
17.00 Break
cca 18h Evening and 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 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
10.30 “Political cooking” lunch Cooking session (concept/theme to be announced)
12.30 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
Intervention/Documentation (groups do the intervention according to the developed strategies)
MONDAY November 11th
Morning: if necessary still intervention
11.00 Critique/Discussion of results with Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy, planning for future collaboration
12.30 Planned Skype meeting with Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra
14.00 Boondal Bush Tucker Guided Tour
17.00 Celebration/ picnic in the park
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