Pixelache: Baltic Boxwars: Call for Finnish Boxwarriors!
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if you or someone you know would like to get involved in this event,
be in touch! hope you are well,
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**Call for Finnish Boxwarriors!**
‘Baltic Boxwars: Northern League’ is a networking project with the ambition to make 2-day workshop & performance events, which bring together 'cardboard-clad' warriors across North-Eastern Europe. (http://notyetbe.stikipad.com/balticboxwars/)
We are seeking aspiring boxwarriors to get involved in the first-ever Boxwars event in Finland, during Pixelache festival for electronic arts and subcultures, mid March 2008 (http://university.pixelache.ac/)
Are you ready to "Fight or Be Recycled"?!
13.03: 1200-1900 Workshop led by Demian Deadly & Tamsyn Pop Tart (Boxwars UK) at Taidekoulu MAA, Suomenlinna.
14.03: 1200-1900 Workshop led by Demian Deadly & Tamsyn Pop Tart (Boxwars UK) at Taidekoulu MAA, Suomenlinna.
14.03: Outdoor (before 2200) & Indoor (after 2200) fight-performance at Pixelache Club, Korjaamo.
Workshop is free and open access to non-students.
Attendance can be 1 or 2 days, depending on ambition and time.
It will be possible to make cardboard armour & weapons anytime from midday 13th until evening of 14th.
Some cardboard, tape and tools will be supplied.. But to be sure, get prepared and bring your own.
See below for further information about genre.
Respond by 11th March to: balticboxwars@gmail.com
NB/ Please state your name, organisation-or-affiliation, contact details (email + mobile) & which workshop day(s) you want to come.
*Please forward this call* to those who you believe are ready to take up cardboard arms!
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*Boxwars: What is it?*
‘Boxwars’ is a concept-event involving cardboard-clad ‘warriors’ who engage in gladiator-style fight-performances, in music-club and outdoor contexts. Created by cardboard enthusiasts in Melbourne in 2001, Boxwars UK was transposed to Edinburgh in 2006 by Demian Deadly. He and friends developed the concept within the punk and ‘DIY’ cultural scene, integrating live music/ club enviroments, as well as outdoor events such as flash-mob-style imromptu battles, and Box-Car Racing.
http://boxwars.co.uk/
http://myspace.com/boxwars
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*Pedagogical and cultural interest*
Boxwars is a excellent example of grassroots creativity by young organisers, producers and participants.
Involved is self-organising, event production in music club and outdoor contexts, networking and promotion, community and audience-building, use of popular technology platforms, media and journalistic interaction, and multi-disciplinary cultural activity.
From a network-media studies perspective, Boxwars harnesses the ‘free’ proprietary platforms familiar with young people, to promote social and cultural events in physical space, as well as syndicate new music and bands in the underground club scene. The practice of Boxwars offers an alternative model to the mainstream, corporate-induced ‘prosumer’ relationships, in which the materials for getting involved in a creative cultural community are brought to a new cardboard level.
http://notyetbe.stikipad.com/maa/
http://taidekoulumaa.fi
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*Baltic Boxwars: development in FI & EE*
‘Baltic Box Wars’ is a cross-national cultural networking and event-workshop project, that expands ‘Box Wars UK’ event series in Edinburgh, Scotland, to North-Eastern Europe. This process was initiated by artist-organiser Andrew Gryf Paterson.
It aims to develop the ambition for a scalable network of practitioners and event-organisers; and introduce alternative, grassroots cultural production, with pedagogical value and good practice to young adults. Workshops developing custom-made individual ‘armour’ and ‘weapons’, presentations, reflecting upon experience of self-organising and developing one’s own cultural practice, will be held at two venues, in different festival contexts. Performance ‘fight’ events will take place at the end of the workshops, to a gathered audience.
The Pixelache Network in Helsinki, promotes events and workshops under the banner of Electronic Arts and Subcultures, with the theme in 2008 being that of ‘university’. This pedagogical theme extends to include alternative education in network and media arts, as well as local and grassroots initiative.
The Haapsalu Horror and Film Festival is a growing festival event promoting this particular subculture in the Baltic region, with horror and fantasy films from near and far. The 3rd installation takes place in cooperation with the City of Haapsalu and Black Nights Film Festival.
http://university.pixelache.ac/
http://poff.ee/hoff/
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andrew gryf paterson
http://agryfp.info/
mobile [FI]: +358 50402 3828 : sms only!
landline [US]: +1 212 937 6580 ext 230
email: agryfp@gmail.com
skype/AIM: agryfp
locale: New York, USA
nyt: http://seedersnleechers.info/
upcoming: http://university.pixelache.ac/