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24.06.2016
Hello comrades, friends,
Great news for all of you who missed the deadline for submission of your works!
We received strong works from four continents but have received a lot of requests to extend the deadline. We want to listen to our community and have decided to give you some more time and because of the summer / winter holidays we extended the deadline to September 20 2016! So, enough t…
08.06.2016
“Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks.”
Ian Hamilton Finlay cited in George McKay’s Radical Gardening: Politics, Idealism and Rebellion in the Garden.
When I first saw the theme for this year’s Memefest Friendly Competition, my instant response to the word ‘Pleasure’ was gardening. Not very radical might be one’s first response but for me the pleasure of gard…
02.06.2016
02.06.2016
30.05.2016
Dear Friends and Comrades, use this link to submit your work to the Festival's Friendly Competition:
http://memefest.org/en/competition/application_form/
PLEASURE is the theme of this year’s Memefest. We are interested in processes where pleasure meets with conflict and especially in ways we can experience pleasure in our everyday life, which can contribute to its radical transformation t…
10.05.2016
The matter is a new nascent social network: a desktop of proposition, confrontation and deliberation that could be used both to make seriously advance democracy and simply to have fun. Tribes of friends, associations, working équipes, condominiums, sports teams, political movements and parties, governments and families: all these people often face important or mundane turning points and need a co…
12.03.2016
Pleasure is central to our lives and communication/design and art play a major role in our relationship to it.
While pleasure can be used to live life fully, as well as to render people into tools it seems we rarely think of it outside its immediate effects and certainly we think even less of pleasure as social practice and something we could relate to the world in transformative ways that ch…