[spectre] The Boredom Patrol at Artivistic 2007!

[lotu5]

Artivistic 2007 [http://artivistic.org] is taking place in Montreal,
from October 25-27th. Artivistic is an international transdisciplinary
three-day gathering on the interPlay between art, information and
activism. Artivistic emerges out of the proposition that not only
artists talk about art, academics about theory, and activists about
activism. Founded in 2004, the event aims to promote transdisciplinary
and intercultural dialogue on activist art beyond critique, to create
and facilitate a human network of diverse peoples, and to inspire,
proliferate, activate.

The Boredom Patrol of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army
[http://circasd.org] will be there, playing with all the other amazing
creative people who are coming. The Boredom Patrol is a gaggle of clowns
who utilize their bodies to create chaos and laughter in the borderlands
to combat the dreadful seriousness and straight lines of borders and
their enforcers. Then, they take their actions online to public culture
spaces like YouTube, engaging anti-immigrant vigilantes in an online
dialog about the politics of immigration, along with anyone else who
wants to join in the fun. What ensues is a networked performance
[http://transition.turbulence.org/blog/?s=rebel+clown+army&x=0&y=0], an
empassioned, raucous dialog about contemporary politics of migration,
spurred on by the digitization of the bodies of the clowns, vulnerable
and silly, face to face with the anti-immigration activists. See their
videos and join in on the fun here: http://circasd.org/clown-media.html

Or even better, join them in Montreal at Artivistic for the premiere of
their video The Circus of (Im)Migration and a rebel clowning workshop!

More about Artivistic 2007:

For the third edition of Artivistic, the expression [ un.occupied spaces
] was chosen to stimulate new ideas in response to the hidden confusions
caused by the infinite networks of 21C globalization and neo-liberalism.
[ un.occupied spaces ] dares to link the charged issues of
environmentalism, indigenous and migrant struggles, and urban practices
together through the angle of occupation. In an interconnected world,
critical thought and action cannot but become flexible and
uncompromising at once. To think with occupation consequently becomes a
strategy for approaching these issues in a way that will reveal their
interdependence, and fuel creative and tactical collaborative actions
between “co-artists” (artists and non-artists). Built around three
interrelated questions, the event consists of roundtables, workshops,
interventions, exhibitions, performances, and screenings at our
temporary headquarters at 5455 av. de Gaspé, #701 and in different
venues and spaces of Montreal.


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