//BORDERPANIC

Aug. 20, 2002

Type: discussion

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BORDERPANIC 
The borderpanic project brings together artists and thinkers working
on current preoccupations with geopolitical and metaphorical borders.
Borderpanic is a co-production of the Performance Space, Sydney, the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and Next Five Minutes 4,
Amsterdam. 
]exhibition 
5-21 September . Performance Space Redfern .
NSW . Australia 
Wed-Sat 12 -6pm 
Opening 5/9 - 6pm 
Performance Space exhibits work engaged in contemporary border
debates, surveying across media and borders without attempting to
catalogue the diversity of cultural production in the field. Participants
include: Dacchi Dang, Horit Herman Peled, Kein Mensch ist Illegal
(Germany), No-one Is Illegal (Melbourne), Ruth Watson, Brook Andrew,
Bonita Ely, Jamil Yamani, Mel Donat, Bronia Iwanczak, Gordon Hookey, Guan
Wei, Geert Lovink, Stephen Best, Hossein Valamanesh, Lisa Andrew, Peter
Lyssiotis, Sodacake, Joseph Pugliese, Shafiq Munis, boat-people.org,
Think Again, Jassim Al Abaddy, Steve Cannane/JJJ morning show, Trebor
Scholz+Carol Flax, Borderland TV, Vivienne Dadour 
more]
<a href="http://www.borderpanic.org/" eudora="autourl">http://www.borderpanic.org 
</a>]avantcard
competition 
Borderpanic is running an avantcard
competition for artwork in postcard format which powerfully addresses the
themes. The winning entry will be printed in 20,000 postcards and
distributed in venues around Australia. 
We are looking for a brilliant and beautiful idea which can fulfill an
anti-racist function as a stand alone card that people will send to their
friends or keep. 
]application details
 
All entries must be in electronic format,
emailed to: 
[email protected] 
]artwork
requirements 
. TIFF or eps file in CMYK at 300 DPI.
 
. sized to 107 x 157mm 
. compressed files are fine 
Please include in the body of the email your name, contact details, the
title of the image and a statement about it. 
]the prize 
The winning entry will be printed on
20,000 postcards distributed around Australia. 
The artist's name, and contact details if desired, will appear on the
reverse. 
The winner will be notified on September 21st,and announced at the
Symposium at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 22nd September. 
<a href="mailto:[email protected]" eudora="autourl">mailto:[email protected] 
</a>Curators: Zina Kaye and Deborah Kelly
[email protected] 
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2002-08-22 01:00, y-s ueda

BORDERPANIC
Symposium + Tactical Media Lab

21-22 September $60/50(members)/$35
The Museum of Contemporary Art,
Circular Quay / George Street side, Sydney.
Bookings: 9252 4044.
[email protected]

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DAY ONE: 2-6pm Southern Function Room, Museum of
Contemporary Art

An informal lab environment for exchange between media
makers, artists and speakers including presentations and workshops.
Invited participants include RAC, V.I.S.A.S., No-one is illegal,
boat-people.org,
Urban Theatre Projects and more, who will briefly present regional
political/cultural
statements on troubled border issues.

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DAY TWO: 11am- 5pm Amex Hall, Museum of Contemporary Art

Formal lectures and presentations. Past, present, future: cultural response.
Introduction from MCA Director Elizabeth Ann MacGregor, with speakers:

Cathy Craigie - Independent writer and head of the Aboriginal and Torres
Strait
Islander Board of the Australia Council for the Arts
Ghassan Hage - author Phobic Disorders (forthcoming)
Julian Burnside QC - founder of spareroomsforrefugees;
Nikos Papastergiadis - The Australia Centre For Ideas, University of Melbourne
Suvendrini Perera - School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, La
Trobe University.

PUBLIC BRAINSTORM FINALE: How can we respond to the xenophobia emergency?

For more information, contact curators: Zina Kaye or Deborah Kelly:
[email protected]
http://www.borderpanic.org