/// Pixelache Helsinki 2013 Festival

Pixelache Festival 2013 is entitled ‘Facing North – Facing South’ and
is organized as a dual-city event, both in Helsinki and Tallinn during
16-19 May 2013. If every North as its South and every South its North,
this is an invitation to alternately face North and South from
multiple points of views.

With this theme, Pixelache expands it’s on-going 'Signals from the
South' programme, that has focused on presenting media, art and
technology projects from Africa, South America and Asia since 2009. It
explores further the relationships between South and North, looking at
these notions from various perspectives, including geo-political,
cultural, economical, both on global, regional and local levels.

>From a regional point of view, organizing part of the festival in
Tallinn poses the question of what it means to bring these cultural
actions across the water. Indeed, not only geographically, but also
economically, Tallinn is still in the South of Helsinki. The term
'Talsinki' has in the past often been used by Estonians "to imply that
the commercial centre of Tallinn has become the ‘Helsinkians’ living
room" (Wikipedia). On the other hand the biggest group of immigrants
to Finland is Estonians, especially construction workers. There is an
economical benefit from relocating South. Shall we and how, deal with
this dissimmetry as a festival? Can we build something meaningful
between both capitals, that would contribute realizing the
Talsinki/Hellina twin city ambition as envisioned by the think-tank
Demos Helsinki and the two cities themselves?

>From a global point of view, relations between commonly understood
North and South are even more complex and the problematics raised by
cooperation issues are multifaceted. Various non-western initiatives
have been encountered through the Pixelache Network during the past
years and also contributed to disseminating approaches strongly
relying on the potential of open source, D.I.W.O. and peer-learning
practices. In that context, both individuals and Pixelache Network
nodes have been exploring two-way exchanges and on-going processes. At
the time when many countries in Europe today are also starting to face
the same water, energy and food dependency crisis than in the South,
more than ever we should explore the ideas and initiatives emerging in
the South and imagine new ways to tackle together these common issues.


/// Call for Programme Planner

We are looking for organisations, groups or individuals who would like
to organise a seminar and an exhibition for the 'Facing North – Facing
South' programme of Pixelache in Helsinki in 2013, with the hope that
the programme will bring interesting insights and points of views to
the question of North-South relationships.

The selected organisation, group or individual will be given a
production budget and a fee for the realization of the 'Facing North –
Facing South' seminar and exhibition.

Applications will be reviewed in early December by a committee
consisting of Marion Louisgrand (Kër Thiossane, Dakar, Senegal),
Raquel Renno (Catholic University of Sao Paolo, Brasil), Peter Kuria
Githinji (Shalin, Helsinki, Finland), Mathieu Marguerin (Mal au Pixel,
Paris, France), Vanessa Gocksch (Intermundos, Santa Marta, Colombia),
Reet Aus (Trash to Trend, Tallinn, Estonia). Facilitation and
production of the selected proposal will be carried out with support
of the Pixelache Helsinki office, beginning in mid-December 2012.

Application deadline: 5.12.2012


MORE INFO & APPLICATION FORM
http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/festival-2013/


--
Vanessa Gocksch
www.intermundos.org
www.systemasolar.com