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11.06.2016

A pleasure that puts your life in danger

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08.06.2016

The Pleasure of Radical Gardening

“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…

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02.06.2016

El placer de ayudar a los caninos sin hogar

El placer de ver la colaboración en el control de poblaciones de caninos sin hogar, donde también se ve beneficiada la población desde el punto de vista de la sanidad y la seguridad.

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02.06.2016

El placer en el ambiente sano

Nada causa mas PLACER y felicidad, que un lugar digno para vivir.

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31.05.2016

Memefest

30.05.2016

Pleasure: Submit Your Festival Work Here!

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…

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28.05.2016

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10.05.2016

The Patchwork Model

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…

Memefest

12.03.2016

Memefest 2016 Festival Outlines: PLEASURE

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…

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15.02.2016

Expanded social documentary: strategies, techniques, and experimental forms.

Photo, video, research and storytelling master class led by Memefest curator Scott Townsend not to be missed!

A 7 day course introducing new techniques and ideas of social documentary.

Using different ways of recording and interpreting (sound, interview, photo, video, etc.) people and their practices and environment, students will create, edit, synthesize and communicate their research as c…