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> Call for Participation // Projects // Presentations // Provocations
> Version>06 :: Parallel Cities
> April 20- May 6, 2006 Chicago U$A
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> DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: FEB 28, 2005
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> Version is a hybrid festival focused on emerging discourses and
> practices evolving between art, technology and social and political
> activism. Version examines the activities of local configurations and
> external networks that use visual and conceptual art strategies,
> innovative social practices, creative uses of new technologies,
> organizing strategies, emerging activist/artist initiatives,
> campaigns, public interventions and DIY projects.
>
> During this annual convergence we engage in a dialogue about the
> possible futures ahead that may interdict or provide alternatives to
> current social, cultural and political trajectories. Version>06 is our
> fifth convergence and is dedicated to the theme of Parallel Cities. We
> will investigate and share local strategies and models to inspire
> action within local and global counter cartographies.
>
> We will convene in Chicago for a seventeen day open laboratory to
> explore a diversity of tactics and strategies to activate our
> communities and amplify our ideas and practices. Alternative spaces
> will be open for staging actions. Public spaces and corporate places
> will be terrains of intervention.
>
> Version presents a very diverse program of activities featuring an
> experimental art exposition, artistic disturbances, exhibitions,
> networked urban events, screenings, interactive applications,
> performances, street art, presentations, talks, workshops, art
> rendez-vous, parties, and action.
>
> By bringing together a convergence of allied cultural and social
> forces and practices we hope that Version can help establish new
> methodologies and networks of cooperation. Representatives from other
> cities are invited to present their local counter cartographies as we
> reveal our own. We want to share your everyday micro actions as well
> as conceptual and practical projects and activities that can help us
> to transform personal and shared environments. We want to examine and
> showcase projects that can be duplicated in our urban environments. We
> want to hear stories of victories, large and small in making a
> difference in the various communities that we inhabit. We want to wage
> the culture war with fresh tactics and renewed energy.
>
> Please visit www.versionfest.org for more information or go to
> adoptanamerican.com/version06 to use the online submission form.
>
> Alternatively you may mail your proposals to:
> Version>06
> 960 W 31st St
> Chicago Il 60608
> USA
>
> contact ed(at)lumpen.com for help.