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

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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