[oldboys] Announcement: BORDERPANIC (Next 5 Minutes in Sydney)

[Julianne Pierce <jules@autonomous.org>]

I saw the announcement for the Next 5 Minutes 4 at Imagine IC on the 
list and thought I would send through the Sydney event, which is also 
happening in September 2002. It has been co-ordinated by two 
excellent Australian old boys - Zina Kaye and Deborah Kelly.

cheers Julianne

PS. ANAT (the organisation I work for) are supporting production of 
the BORDERPANIC reader, which will be available at Next 5 Minutes in 
Feb, 2003.

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BORDERPANIC
September 2 - 22, 2002 (Sydney, Australia)
http://www.borderpanic.org

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.

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 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 An 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 (Sept 21 & 22) 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.
Speakers:
Julian Burnside QC
Nikos Papastergiadis
Ghassan Hage
Elizabeth Ann MacGregor
Serafina Maiorano

Topics:
Refugees of the exterior vs refugees of the interior
Historical perspective: artists as social agents
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 mediational
The role of the archive in crystallising discourse
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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