Artivistic 2009 Call for participation: infracrews
Call for participation in infracrews
http://artivistic.org/en/content/infracrews
Artivistic is a gathering around the interPlay between art, activism,
and information. This year we're bringing together people who have
thought about sex, social relations, and technology to exchange their
thoughts in various engaging ways. Because power, politics, and social
change operate at every level, all the way down to our mind and
practice. Sex illustrates this perfectly, for it speaks to our manner
of acting out how we see the world, and how thus it moves. And it
moves, irresistibly.
Think about it.
* What kind of world is worth fantasizing about? How do you use
your imagination beyond the body and how does it use you? Fantasy
always plays a role in political projects when we imagine the "world
we want", but how does that fantasy become reality? What feedback
loops are created between what we desire and the lives we live everyday?
* What actually makes resistance irresistible? The different
notions of sex, gender and sexuality draw our attention to the task of
naming. That task can be appropriated in liberating ways. How do we
move away from tired and troublesome terminology in order to create
different relationships that unleash new ways of thinking (and
relating) and new strategies for political action? How can reimagining
sex contribute to a process of decolonization in every sense of the
word?
* What are the alternative infrastructures of sex? How we address
sex might get us somewhere more, say... stimulating, by welcoming the
critical analysis of the production and consumption of sex, and an
exploration of self-organized, even intimate, initiatives.
In line with the self-organized aspect of the upcoming gathering, the
Artivistic collective seeks proposals that intervene in the very
(infra)structure of the event, welcoming proposals that involve food,
space, venue, communications, hardware, software, skill sharing,
documentation, dissemination and so on. The gathering further
encourages submissions that take on the challenge of collective
participation and collaboration, opening onto unconventional praxes
and theses of knowledge production.
In order to contribute to the unfolding of history and the advent of
sexy occurrences, we are looking for people to participate in a
variety of exciting ways. Currently developing "infracrews" to work
with include:
Documentation (infoCrew)
* Documenting the event and TURN*ON more widely or more
parochially with the CKUT radio collective AudioSmut.
* Gathering and sharing TURN*ON information and documentation,
interfacing with Dyke Rivers collective and others.
Food & eating (infraBouffe)
* Promoting a TURN*ON relationship between people and their socio-
natural environment. Plants and animals are people too!
Activities might include gleaning urban herbs and fruits, preparing
meals and decadencies, discussions about sexy food and eating as social.
Space / set-design + material (infraStudio)
* Creating a TURN*ON space conducive to consciousness and
political arousal.
Live blogging + net participation (infraInformationsuperhighway)
* Promoting a variety of corporeal participation. "Detouring" and
taking back virtual participation and blurring the boundaries between
real and virtual. Addressing the corporeality of agency. TURN*ON
internet style!
Reading circle & other nerdisms / autonomous analysis (infraNerd)
* Discussion group on TURN*ON - Live!
Welcome centre (infraTheatrics)
* Welcoming people, communicating "safe space" principles and
encouraging participation over spectatorship (that's why we call
Artivistic a gathering, because it is ostensibly not a spectacle to
witness, but a process to TURN*ON through action or various kinds
(including consensual voyeurism)).
Look-out / safe space area / sexual harassment vibe watching (infraVibe)
* Looking out for non-consensual solicitation, and informing
participants of resources and safe spaces at the event. Offering such
resources and safe spaces. Promoting "sex-positive" engagement and
rendering the gathering as accessible as possible.
Translation (inFranglish)
* Montreal style.
Communications / ideologico-(sub)cultural translation (infraOutreach)
* Talking to all kinds of people about TURN*ON in order to
encourage their participation in their own language of analysis and
practice. Activating TURN*ON in popular parlance and manners.
Outreach. Public
Private Partnerships Baby!
Technology / Geek / projection (infraWires)
* Toyz
These are merely the basic components of the gathering. Many more are
desired. Interested participants are encouraged to propose their own
infracrews and projects. Let's talk about it and take it from there.
If you build it, they will cum.
---> Contact : infra @ artivistic . org
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