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[ecrea] CONTRAvention, Saturday 25th May, RIBA, London

Tue May 07 13:06:17 GMT 2013



The main CONTRAvention event - Cultural Hijack: Rethinking Intervention, takes place at RIBA (the Royal Institute of British Architects), Saturday 25th May 9am -- 6pm.


Moving beyond contemporary art discourses to the concerns of city living, the built environment and urban futures, Cultural Hijack: Rethinking Intervention foregrounds the practices and concerns of the interventionist and the artivist. This part of the CONTRAvention brings together leading voices of dissent, provocation and critical practice, offering ways of advocating, analyzing and agitating for alternative futures.


Speakers include: *Gregory Sholette, Voina, John Jordan, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Space Hijackers, Ztohoven, Yana Sana, Ben Parry, Peter McCaughey, Vanessa Norwood, David Pinder, Graham Jeffery...and others*


What might the tools, tactics and poetics of the interventionist artist offer the insurgent imagination of activism and social movements? Do small acts of resistance and creative disruption build muscle that encourages an appetite for real alternatives to neoliberal capitalism or do they end point and sate such an appetite? And what of 'commissioned resistance', is it implicitly flawed, sponsored by the system it seeks to critique, or can it, despite its origins, have impact? These questions, and yours, will be picked over in the CONTRAvention.

Tickets can be booked here: http://culturalhijack.eventbrite.co.uk

More information about Cultural Hijack, the exhibition, which runs until 25th May at the AA School, Bedford Square, London can be found at www.culturalhijack.org <http://www.culturalhijack.org>


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Graham Jeffery
Reader: Music and Performance
Chair:  Art, Music and Performance Subject Development Group
School of Creative and Cultural Industries
University of the West of Scotland
Paisley Campus
High Street
Paisley
PA1 2BE

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