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--Fwd--- Envelope-to: [hidden email] X-Original-To: [hidden email] Delivered-To: [hidden email] Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 15:23:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Anna Feigenbaum" <[hidden email]> To: [hidden email] List-Id: nouvelles et informations radicales a Montreaal/radical news and information for Montreal <act-mtl.masses.tao.ca> List-Archive: <http://masses.tao.ca/pipermail/act-mtl> List-Post: <mailto:[hidden email]> List-Help: <mailto:[hidden email]?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://masses.tao.ca/lists/listinfo/act-mtl>, <mailto:[hidden email]?subject=subscribe> +++++++++++++++++ Call for Contributions +++++++++++++++++ ======= [ctrl] [alt] ======= alternatives, encounters, movements May 3-6, 2007 Montreal, Quebec, Canada [ http://www.ctrlconference.org ] + submission due date: September, 18 2006. + please see below for SUBMISSIONS information. ----------------------- [ctrl] [alt]: 2007 ----------------------- In the Fall of 2004, 90 activists, artists and academics from diverse disciplines gathered at McGill University in Montréal, Canada to explore the threat of a global society moving into networks of mechanisms of control. From RFID chips to the cult of beauty, from the Patriot Act to Canadian multicultural policy, from the War on Drugs to the War on Terror, conference participants explored the pressing realities of social, political, economic and institutional modes of control and the urgent significance of constructing an actional politics to (en)counter them. The challenge of theorizing and developing new forms of resistance will be taken up in [ctrl] [alt]: alternatives, encounters, movements. As the event's subtitle indicates, [ctrl] [alt] will address potential strategies and tactics for confronting these mechanisms of control. Working from the notion that control is often best (en)countered via practices that engage experimental methods, transdisciplinarity and creativity, we hope to foster an environment in which we can construct collective visions for social change. Academia often regards itself as an end in itself, apart from concrete social struggles. Even when progressive academics engage the social world theoretically, they often do not acknowledge an indebtedness to, and impact upon, political struggles. At the same time, anti-intellectualism often circulates within activist groups. And art often becomes a fashionable and institutionalized product, failing to actualize its radical potential. Given this mess, we seek imaginative works that cross borders between genres and disciplines including the highly political boundaries between art practice, academia and activism. We are particularly interested in papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, interventions, performances and artworks that incorporate critical, anti-oppressive perspectives. We invite contributions by artists, activists, scholars and writers as well as any others working in non-traditional spaces of knowledge production. Possible themes to address include, but are not limited to: ---------------------------- Alternatives to [CTRL] ---------------------------- non-capitalist economic practices critical pedagogies/pedagogies of the oppressed sub, post-sub and counter cultures sex/gender radicalism queering culture and cultural space reclaiming/creating public and community space radical citizenship Anti-copyright, Copyleft and Creative Commons practices alternative, radical, autonomous, tactical, and citizens¹ medias anticorporate cultural production ---------------------------- Encountering [CTRL] ---------------------------- art as activism/activism as art writing resistance/resistant writing mapping resistance/resistant mapping cosmopolitics decolonialization and postcoloniality negotiating governmentality and bureaucracy ---------------------------- Movements against [CTRL] ---------------------------- immigrant, refugee and migrant worker movements affinity politics and coalition building post/modern protests transnational feminisms radical queer movements unions and organized labour chaos, ontological anarchy and Temporary Autonomous Zones theatre in the street the media democracy movement net.criticism, hacktivism, hacker media diasporic communities global social justice movements indigenous movements anticapitalism and anti-imperialism co-op movements squatter movements artisinal movements, D.I.Y. and crafting culture artist-run movements dis/ability movements anti-poverty movements antiracist movements anti-oppression training --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please send submissions by September, 18 2006. --------------------------------------------------------------------- _SUBMISSIONS_ For individual papers, workshops or roundtables send abstracts of 250 words max. in .rtf format to : [hidden email] . *Papers are single presentations of (15-20 min). *Workshops are interactive and instructive sessions led by individual or group (1-2 hours). *Roundtables are facilitated group discussion around a specific theme or question (1-2 hours). *Panels are collections of individual papers around the same theme or issue (1-2 hours). For panels, send abstracts of 600 words max. which includes both panel rationale and individual paper abstracts in .rtf format to: [hidden email] **For art projects & performances, send an artists statement (250 words max) and a description of the proposed project (250 words max) including materials needed in [.rtf] format to: [hidden email]. If images or documentation of the project are available, please contact Horea to make arrangements. *Interventions: Show up! Please address general inquiries to: [hidden email] ++++++++++++++++ [CTRL] [alt] 2007 http://ctrlconference.org .ministry.of.propaganda. ---------------------------- **************** ******* ***** *** ** **** *** ** ****** * ** ****** *** ** ** +--------*-----------------------+ ** * |WE ARE WATCHING YOU : 2007 :::::| * |-- [ http://ctrlconference.org ]| * +--------------------------------+ * * *** ** * **** ***** **** * ** **** * *** ** ****** ** ***** ******* ********************** _______________________________________________ act-mtl mailing list [hidden email] https://masses.tao.ca/lists/listinfo/act-mtl ########################################################## Judyth Mermelstein "cogito ergo lego ergo cogito..." Montreal, QC <[hidden email]> Canada H4C 2P9 <[hidden email]> ########################################################## "A word to the wise is sufficient. For others, use more." "Un mot suffit aux sages; pour les autres, il en faut plus." |
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