Strategic guide to a tactical festival: three men give wise advice
Author: redactie redactie
A tactical media festival requires a strategic guide. With so many things to see, hear and do, one can easily get lost in the tactical jungle. The organisers seem to be aware of this problem. That’s why this edition of Next 5 Minutes kicked off on Friday morning with a guideline, a ‘red thread’ of this festival that one can choose to follow.
A tactical media festival requires a strategic guide.
With so many things to see, hear and do, one can
easily get lost in the tactical jungle. The organisers
seem to be aware of this problem. That’s why this edition of Next 5 Minutes kicked
off on Friday morning with a guideline, a ‘red thread’
of this festival that one can choose to follow.
Not only activists and artists are aware of their role
as guides in their righteous quest for social change.
Paul Keller, Eric Kluitenberg and Menno Grootveld took
this role upon them as well. In front of a half full
Grote Zaal at the Balie, they gave their advice on the
program.
Paul Keller told the audience they should be on the
lookout for a big white bus with a satellite dish on
top. These are the people of the No Border front, and
the bus is their media lab. At Next 5 Minutes
they participate both by broadcasting and by
discussing their activistic strategies of past,
present and future. More information will follow as it
takes place.
Eric Kluitenberg told us what the difference is
between the day and the night program. The days are
mainly for debates and film screenings. Certain
aspects are continuous, like the Hybrid Media Studio
and the Media Library, both at the Melkweg. In the
evening the focus will be more on performances.
Whether it will be Latin-American political hip-hop at
the Paradiso, the performances at the Sabotage
Performance Night, or the beats of Fem Snd, one will
not be able to resist moving. ‘If I can’t dance, I
will not take part in your revolution’ Emma Goldman
once said. She was right.
Concluding, Menno Grootvelt promoted the Tactical
Tourism bus-tour through revolutionary Amsterdam. He
also pointed out that the Amsterdam television
centre Salto will broadcast live from the Hybrid Media
Studio, every night.
More was said. The three men advised on several
definite ‘do’s’ of the festival. ‘Don’ts’ did not
exist. Still, a guide has politics of its own.
Every participant is completely free to make his own
festival. This cannot be expressed often enough.
Jouke Turpijn