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29.03.2013
Short video teaser on how critical the role of farm workers are and how little attention is payed to the very people who help produce the food we eat on a daily basis.
Full article:
http://www.good.is/posts/enjoying-that-tomato-on-your-sandwich-don-t-forget-to-thank-a-farmworker#good_comments_container
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…
18.02.2013
Animation created in Flash and After Effects
looking at mans relationship with the natural world.
Music: In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg.
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17.02.2013
At the moment that I am writing this text, the massive social uprising in Slovenia continues and enters, with even fiercer political determination, into a new stage of political maturity. What began as an isolated sparkle in late November 2012 in Maribor, the second biggest city of Slovenia, spread to other cities and weeks later culminated in an all-Slovenian uprising composed of unprecedented…
20.01.2013
This report is worth to read! How rapidly growing extreme wealth and inequality are harmful to human progress.
We know a lot about the subject, but there are some number which makes you really really sad and angry...
For example this:
"The top 100 billionaires added $240 billion to their wealth in 2012- enough to
end world poverty four times over."
Or this:
Over the last thirty years i…
15.12.2012
DEBT was our theme of interest for almost a year. The importance of critically researching DEBT can hardly be exaggerated. DEBT has become a major instrument of social control. Millions are victims of DEBT, and indebted life has become naturalised. DEBT has become the primary mechanism that takes power from the people and gives it on to the hands of the rich and powerful. But DEBT is rarely quest…
01.12.2012
First Memefest/Queensland College of Art extradisciplinary workshop/seminar/intervention, here in Brisbane, happened in late November. We invited a diverse international group to research DEBT further, to learn about it's relation to Brisbane and to intervene.
The collaborators, participants, mentors and conspirators were Ashlea Gleeson, Jack Loel, Darcy Mangan, Belinda Li, John Nicholson, E…
18.11.2012
Brisbane has provided a temporary (if tempestuous) home for our community of students, professionals, artists, researchers, educators, and activists to assemble and discuss how we can combat alienation and reclaim the public sphere for dialogue on issues of debt.
A great but exhausting few days so far starting with presentations of work by the Memefest "Imaginative Critical Intervention" awa…
12.11.2012
Dear all Memefest/QCA DEBT Workshop/Seminar participants- two more days and we start. See you soon.
DAY one 15 November 15th:
9 am- @ Queensland College of Art
Welcome and Introduction to the Workshop/Seminar (Oliver Vodeb), introduction of participants.
Presentation of Memefest/QCA Awardees:
10.00 Vladimir Turner: Wonderland series
10.40 Soren Rosenbak: Surplus Debt
11.20 Ivan …