Resistance Strategies, Unionizing, and Coalition Building in a Time of Global Conflict and Contradiction.
This third issue of the ArtLeaks Gazette brings together art workers dealing with these urgent questions about models of organizations, unionizing, and strategies of resistance, and helping us to illuminate new ways of production and coalition building in international and local environments.
Framer Framed is proud to present an evening program that focuses on
YanukovychLeaks and Videoccupy; two artistic projects respectively from
Ukraine and Turkey. The projects are concerned with the notion of
archiving in relation to current political issues in these countries.
Tuinzaal, Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, September 17, 2014, 20.30 hrs.
Exposing Systems of Power & Injustice
Conferece & Book Launch:
Whistleblowing is one of the most difficult means of exposing misconducts and informing the public about unknown facts that must be revealed. It is an act based on ethics, honesty and accountability, that confronts abuses, discrimination, corruption and exploitation. Whistleblowers are people that want to change systems for the better, but that in many cases encounter reprisal and persecution. In other cases, they trust the systems too much, realising too late, and at high personal costs, that these systems are not willing to improve.
By Rika Tyler, Hands Up United Director
The commemorative anniversary weekend of the death of Michael Brown Jr. has come to an end. Weekend warriors are packing their bags and heading home. It was a beautiful and uplifting weekend, but we knew it wouldn't last. After all the silent marches, vigils, memorials, sermons and concerts, people in the street are still screaming,"No justice, No peace!" because we're still living in a state of crisis.
1. Autogenerative Europe
In our imagination, eastern Europe was always black and white. Traveling to East Germany or Poland meant suddenly leaving colorful western Europe and entering a movie from the forties or fifties. Later we simply couldn't remember having seen any color, not the green of the trees, nor the red of the brick buildings. When we went to the movies to see a film by Wajda, Kieslowski or Tarkowsky, the filmmaker's experiments with color only reinforced our image of the east as gray. Europe clearly had an ideologically motivated neurosis when it came to the perception of color.
Exhibition, Bratislava, May 23 - June 22, 2014:
We are living in a prolonged period of economic, social, political and
environmental crisis, in which the yearning for global, redeeming
visions of the future has become increasingly frustrating, if not
obsolete. However, it is not possible to live without expectations,
without being able to imagine better conditions, a more positive state
of affairs. And what if ? as many thinkers, cultural producers and
various practitioners propose ? instead of heading towards fixed images
of the future, we understand utopia, as a continuous process of becoming
in which we participate? That is, instead of viewing the future as an
end, a goal we should attain in an ever-delayed 'some day', we actualize
it in the present, perform it in the everyday?
tranzit is a network working independently in Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia since 2002.
ReadBehindthemask is a writer and activist who has been involved in Nottingham Indymedia and the UK Indymedia network for the past 8 years.
ReadJo van der Spek is a journalist, radio maker, and an activist dealing with issues around migration and international conflict zones.
MOVING FOREST LONDON 2012 is presented by AKA the Castle:
ReadMuriam Haleh Davis is a
graduate student in the Department of History at New York University.
Her research interests focus on race and decolonization in Algeria. She is also a regular contributer to Jadaliyyah.
Pavlos Hatzopoulos is managing editor of Re-public.
Nelli Kambouri is a researcher at the Center for Gender Studies and Equality, Panteion University, Athens.
ReadChair in Media and Communication Studies
Uppsala University
Department of Informatics and Media Studies
Artist and activist.
http://karlabru.net/
ACT UP is a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis.
ReadAlex Ortiz, co-curator, received his BA from Brown University in 2009, graduating with a double major in Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern studies.