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23.10.2013
RIO DE JANEIRO – On Tuesday, 15 October, 2013, more than 200 protestors were arrested by the Rio de Janeiro state Military Police, as part of the continuing criminalization of social movements in the city. Those arrested were sent in small groups to over 10 different police stations, with the clear objective of impeding their access to legal assistance.
On Monday, 21 October, the Brazilian Ju…
20.10.2013
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 N…
22.09.2013
This years Memefest event will be held from November 4th to November 11th in Brisbane. We are very exited to announce that the project will be a special collaboration with the Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy. Investigating further the topic of Food Democracy, we will focus on the Embassy's food program and create communication design/art that will through intervention in the city of Brisban…
26.08.2013
Dear friends, dear comrades,
our community has lost a dear friend and one of our first and most important members. Shoaib Ahmad Nabi passed away few days ago. Shoaib established contact with Memefest already in 2003 in an effort to provide his students at the American University in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates with the opportunity to work on socially critical and engaged design work, to…
13.08.2013
After our Friendly Competition results, here our second harvest this year, again, with fantastic outcomes.
We are excited to announce this years special Memefest/ Queensland College of Art- Griffith University Award for Imaginative Critical Intervention.
The award for Imaginative Critical Intervention is given to support critical thinking, as the ability to see situations as they are and i…
23.07.2013
Dragi MEMEFESTOVCI!
Objavljeni su radovi Memefestovog (2013) natečaja FOOD DEMOCRACY!
Pozivamo vas da posetite našu GALERIJU 2013 i pogledate prispele radove u svim festivalskim kategorijama. http://www.memefest.org/sr/gallery/works2013/
Kuratori i editori ovogodišnjeg festivala su odradili svoj deo posla. (Ove godine je prispelo ogromno radova, čak iz 25 država sveta.) Njihov rad nije b…
20.07.2013
Food. Our closest relationship with nature. When we started to research this years theme FOOD DEMOCRACY it was almost impossible to imagine how far reaching it is. How very fundamental to our existence, our relationship to nature, to each other and to our selves it is.
The Food System is designed to serve a tiny minority of food producing corporations backed by copyright regimes. It serves d…
10.07.2013
Na začetku 90-ih let prejšnjega stoletja je prišlo do geneze specifičnih procesov, ki zadevajo industrializacijo in mondalizacijo prehrane. Svetovne institucije kot so WTO (prej GATT), MMF, WB so težile s svojimi programskimi politikami, da se liberalizira svetovna trgovina s hrano, medtem ko so veliki proizvajalci začeli težiti k standardizaciji prehranskega blaga. Omenjene institucije in sporaz…
05.06.2013
We are very excited to have received works from around the world to this years Friendly competition!!
The theme FOOD DEMOCRACY has triggered lot's of creative energy and work. It was and is a highly interesting journey for us too. The more we investigate, the more we see how alienating and exclusive the current food system is. What we can do is to think of possibilities for redirection, inova…
04.06.2013
Dragi memefestovci, u ponoć 31. 05. smo zatvorili naš prijateljski natečaj. Predaja radova na Memefest 2013 nije više moguća. Zahvaljujemo se za poslane vizualne i tekstualne radove koji su tematizirali ovogodišnju festivalsku temu DEMOKRATIJA HRANE.
U narednim danima ekipa Memefesta imaće puno posla. U predselekcij, pregledaćemo sve prijave i razvrstiti vaše radove prema festivalskim kategor…