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12.04.2013
Here we go - the posters are cooked!
The ingredients for this year dish was:
- 2 kg of images with strong but at the same time open narration
- 6 pieces of vernacular typography normally used in small local groceries
- a pinch or two of supportive text
and an extra doze of imagination.
Here are the results.
Enjoy the meal/Dober tek/DObar tek/Buen apetito/Buon apetito/Gutten Ap…
08.04.2013
Food is a social medium. Michael Rakowitz explores in this beautiful project exactly this dimension. As a medium food can carry a story and it can raise questions. Food has symbolic meaning and it creates meaning in situations. It can serve as a tool for intervention and it can have explicit political connotations. It does create new relations and it can question established ones.
My friend A…
05.04.2013
Numerosos medios alertan sobre la reciente aprobación de Barack Obama y el Senado a la ley HR 993, más conocida como la “Monsanto Protection Act” (Ley de protección de Monsanto), que le otorga a la corporación inmunidad a la hora de ser investigada.
Monsanto crece y lo hace a pasos agigantados. Ya vimos lo que está sucediendo en Sudamérica, pero ahora es el turno de Estados Unidos. La aprobaci…
05.04.2013
03.04.2013
(odlomek iz prihajajoče knjige o hrani)
Ali je mogoče invazijo instantne trash american materializirane ideologije v obliki fast fooda misliti kot del ameriške neoliberalne ekspanzivne politike; kot kontrarevolucionarni odgovor na svetovno kritiko amerikanizma in zahteve svetovne kulturne revolucije in antisistemskih gibanj konec 60. let?
Tezno vprašanje ni nedolžno, če vemo, da je proces…
01.04.2013
Vandana Shiva's text Stolen Harvest is part of this years Memefest Food Democracy Festival outlines. Things connect more and more. Last Memefest we have researched DEBT(http://tinyurl.com/bs3k5c8). Guess what- 270 000 Indian farmers committed suicide because they were driven in to debt.
19.03.2013
Zašto DEMOKRATIJA HRANE?
Na isteku prošlog veka smo stanovnici ovoga planeta počeli ozbiljnije da shvatamo EKOLOŠKE PRETNJE našeg vremena. Pre svega mislim na promenu klime, uništavanje biodiverziteta i monokultura, narastanje toksičkog odpada, kao i zagađivanje izvora vode i okoline. Počeli smo da se bavimo pitanjima prirodnog kapitala, među koje spada i HRANA.
Usled NEOLIBERALNE DEREGU…
16.03.2013
In the era of privatisation of everything fundamental human needs get colonised through corporate strategies. The food system becomes a machine, which excludes people. We have almost no chance to participate in the production and distribution of food. The consumption is to a big degree predefined as well- our desires to achieve pleasure with food are in many ways the product of the prevailing foo…