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BORDERPANIC is an exhibition/ symposium/ tactical media lab, co-production of the Performance Space, Sydney, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and Next Five Minutes 4, Amsterdam.
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BORDERPANIC
September 2002
The BORDERPANIC project seeks to bring together socially engaged cultural producers and thinkers working with the contemporary concentration of preoccupations around
geopolitical and metaphorical border dis/order.
BORDERPANIC aspires to in-the-world presence and resonance through varied manifestations.
EXHIBITION All gallery space at the Performance Space 7-22 September will
be devoted to exhibiting existing work made in response to, and as agents in, these debates. The exhibition will survey work
across media and borders without attempting to catalogue the diversity and scope of cultural production in the field.
LAB + SYMPOSIUM A three day intensive lab environment will nurture productive interface and exchange between media makers, artists and speakers to devise and critique
strategic cultural projects.
The lab will precede a two day symposium at the MCA, an event for broad discussion and
participation. The symposium will comprise formal lectures and informal discussions, outlined below.
DAY ONE: 2-6pm Southern Function Room MCA
Community and cultural encounter: presentations, artists' talks and
facilitated workshops, outcomes
from lab projects presented and evaluated.
Invited participants from Refugee Action Collective, No-one is illegal, Borderhack!, boat-people.org and Urban Theatre Projects (++)
DAY TWO: 11am- 4pm Amex Hall MCA
Past, present, future: cultural response
Ground-laying speech: unconfirmed speaker acknowledges Eora country and discusses the question of who welcomes who.
Topics:
Refugees of the exterior vs refugees of the interior Historical perspective: artists as social agents. The role of the archive in crystallising discourse. The seductions and failures of new media as activist tool Border panic as policy: defence and defiance Artists organising here and now Institution, art and social change: reading the city
The NEXT next 5 minutes: transnational organising.
Tactical mediation.
BRAINSTORM : How can we respond to the xenophobia emergency?
Borderpanic appears in association with the MCA Reporting the World: John Pilger's Eyewitness Photographers exhibition.
For more information, contact Zina Kaye : zina@laudanum.net, and Deborah Kelly, dkellysocialchange@yahoo.com. |
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