Media Impact. International Festival of Activist Art.

crédits: Vincent Roumagnac

kom.post@mediaimpact / September2011, 21-26

Following its interest in contextual and in situ projects, the international collective of artists and researchers kom.post  is proposing here a specific chain of impacts where the alive is prolongated and augmented in the virtual, thus giving to this media a new capacity to affect and design the real. From its diving into  the program of the festival, in the different propositions invited and in the very beginning of their installation in the exhibition space kom.post extracts words, connections and potentials of dialogue which find an embodiment in the specific and 2by2 meetings of the micromondes

These various and alive propositions structure progressively the internet platform created for the occasion at the same time when they are transforming this media in the message: The form of the website is speaking by itself of these new paradigms and strategies of contemporary art and  activism. As the MediaImpactors it tries to propose direct and sensitive alternatives to the political, social and economical system we are in, not under a “for or against” logic but under one of contemporary dialectic, not with a new theory and discourse of power but with a room given to interwords (Medialisation /mondialisation; international collective / blocks; contemporary network / multiculturalism; politics / politic, variety of interconnected speeches / monolithic discourse…)

The debating and dissensual platform will generate content and form for the final direct meeting proposed by kom.post under this same logic of connections of the differences not at a global level but at an interpersonal one: the shared factory

Join us !

21st-22nd of september: following of the street interventions and documentation+ update of the internet platform in order to share it from the gallery (opening 23rd) toward an international audience:

23rd-24th of september: from info collected, preparation of the different shared factories proposed to artists/spectators and theoreticians in the exhibition space the 25th and 26th.