Facing north / facing south sounds like something we've been positively
doing in this list... how about organising a brico-hop in helsinki? I
think I'll be that side of atlantic by then...

efe

On 08-11-2012 14:59, Vanessa Gocksch wrote:
> /// 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/
>
>