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28.01.2015
As many of you know, Memefest has been working with Aboriginal activists in Australia for a couple of years now. As part of last year's symposium and workshop we made contact with many new friends in Melbourne who are working towards genuine recognition of the sovereignty that was never ceded to the colonial invaders 277 years ago in this country. Australia is the only Commonwealth country that h…
25.01.2015
a still from the long awaited project from Valerio Evangelisti, the most acclaimed Italian Sci Fi writer.
The movie depicts the end of Europe and the rise of an organization born from the ashes of nazism.
13.01.2015
18.12.2014
not so far in time we were used to create out of nothing, to create without thinking in terms of stuffs and gizmos but in terms of results and meaning and innovation out of void. Now this approach is in the hands of teachers and workshops maker that have the slog to clean the brain of young artists and to force them to carve the work out of a dirty garage with a 486 and shoestring.
17.12.2014
If worries about our impending social and environmental apocalypse threaten to ruin your holidays, below are some thoughts from my upcoming book that might provide some hope. Season’s Greetings!
Is our planet screwed? Are we going to run our civilization into the ground, as many doomsayers claim?
When you look at the cold figures science provides us, they are certainly terrifying. The combi…
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…
