Artivistic: TURN*ON Reviewed by Gabriel Menotti on Furtherfield.

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This year's edition of Artivistic (Montreal 15-17 October), brings the fields of art, politics and academia together under the theme of TURN*ON - according to its curatorial statement, 'a fragile bridge extending, over a valley of which the depth you cannot see, to a life centered on pleasure, consciousness, togetherness, understanding, and joy'.

Artivistic is an international transdisciplinary three-day gathering on the interPlay between art, information and activism. Artivistic emerges out of the proposition that not only artists talk about art, academics about theory, and activists about activism. Founded in 2004, the event aims to promote transdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue on activist art beyond critique, to create and facilitate a network of diverse peoples, and to inspire, proliferate, activate.

Gabriel Menotti (Brazil, 1983) is an independent curator and producer engaged with emerging media circuits. He has been involved with pirate movie screenings, remix film festivals, videogame championships, porn screenplay workshops, installations with super8 film projectors and generative art exhibitions. Currently, he is a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths (University London).


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