[spectre] Autonets: Performance and Workshop in Montreal Today and Tomorrow

[micha cárdenas]

I’ll be performing Wednesday in Montreal at HTMlles in collaboration
with Life After Life and the 2110 Center for Gender Advocacy at
Concordia. Join us!

PERFORMANCE
Open process
co-hosted by PIXEL LIBRE
November 14, 20h
Eastern Bloc, 7240, Clark (metro de Castelnau)
Regular Price $10, Reduced Price $5

Nancy Mauro-Flude (AU), Micha Cárdenas (US), Jim Bell (CA), Anne Goldenberg (CA)
The theme of “Open Process” unites four artists, local and
international, who will share their creative processes, which is both
risky and full of possibilities – “by sharing our creative process
with others, we demystify the technology and create a larger community
to help each other, and to innovate.

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Also, come to my workshops tomorrow in Montreal to be in the
performance! The first part of this workshop will focus on using
theater of the oppressed, dance and performance techniques to think
differently about different kinds of violence we face in our
communities and how we can respond collectively, using technology or
not. We’ll develop together a performance to present at HTMlles. So
the participants in the workshop will be asked to join me in the
performance, but of course it won’t be required. I’m hoping to get at
least 10 people to join the performance though.

Also, the second part of the workshop will be “pay what you can” and
focus on an introduction to wearable electronics using conductive
thread and fabric to develop handmade sensors such as pressure sensors
and flex sensors.

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Inscription / Registration: risque at htmlles.net

Partie 1: Free ! / Gratuite! | CENTRE 2110 FOR GENDER ADVOCACY
Partie 2: 20 – 30$ sliding scale / Tarif régulier: 30$ ; Tarif réduit:
20$ | EASTERN BLOC
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WORKSHOP PART 1, 1pm-4pm, 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy, 1500 de Maisonneuve
Free !

Workshop Part I – Local Autonomy Networks (Autonets) is a line of mesh
networked electronic clothing with the goal of building autonomous
local networks that don’t rely on corporate infrastructure to
function, inspired by community-based, anti-racist, prison
abolitionist responses to gendered violence. Autonets seeks to respond
to the daily risk of violence that continues to increase as capital
becomes less stable.
The Autonets workshop engages participants in a discussion, using
Theatre of the Oppressed and performance exercises, of how we can form
local networks of autonomy and solidarity in order to create
community-based responses to violences which are personal, gendered or
state sponsored.
Co-presented by Life After Life, a working group of QPIRG McGill and
QPIRG Concordia and an action group of the 2110 Centre for Gender
Advocacy.

+ free
+ wheelchair accessible
+ traduction chuchotée
+ childcare available with 48 hours advance notice /
+ light snacks provided
+ supported by 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy and QPIRG-McGill

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WORKSHOP PART II, 6pm-9pm, Eastern Bloc, 7240 Clark
20 – 30$ sliding scale
Payment at the door

Workshop Part II – Building Local Autonomy Networks – Interested
participants can take part in the second workshop on building mesh
networked wearable electronic fashion.

+ childcare available with 48 hours advance notice /

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ATELIER PARTIE 1, 13h-16h, 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy, 1500, rue
de Maisonneuve
GRATUIT!

Atelier Partie I – Local Autonomy Networks (Autonets) est une ligne de
vêtements électroniques en réseau maillé dont le but est de former des
réseaux autonomes locaux qui ne dépendent pas des infrastructures
commerciales pour fonctionner et qui sont en complémentarité avec les
stratégies communautaires contre le racisme et le complexe carcéral.
Autonets vise à combattre le risque quotidien de la violence qui ne
fait qu’augmenter à mesure que le capital devient de plus en plus
instable.
L’atelier sur les Autonets convie les participant-e-s à une discussion
sur les manières de créer des réseaux locaux autonomes de solidarité.
Utilisant des exercices de performance et le Théâtre de l’opprimé, cet
atelier vise à construire des stratégies issues de la communauté pour
faire face aux formes de violence personnelle, basée sur le genre et
étatique.
Coprésenté par Life After Life (2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy, QPIRG
McGill, QPIRG Concordial).

+ gratuit
+ accessible aux chaises roulantes
+ traduction chuchotée
+ gardiennage disponible avec 48 heures de pré-avis
+ avec collations
+ supported by 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy and QPIRG-McGill

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ATELIER PARTIE II, 18h-21h, Eastern Bloc, 7240, rue Clark
Tarif régulier: 30$ ; Tarif réduit: 20$
Paiement à la porte

Atelier Partie II – Building Local Autonomy Networks – Un second
atelier pratique porte sur la fabrication de vêtements électroniques
en réseau maillé.
Paiement à la porte

Gardiennage disponible avec 48 heures de pré-avis

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Presented as part of The HTMlles 10: Feminist Festival of Media Arts +
Digital Culture, November 10 – 18, 2012, produced by Studio XX.

Présenté pas Les HTMlles 10: Festival féministe d’arts médiatiques +
culture numérique, 10 au 18 novembre 2012, produit par le Studio XX.

www.htmlles.net
www.studioxx.org

For more information / Pour plus d’info: (514) 845-7934


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micha cárdenas
PhD Student, Media Arts and Practice, University of Southern California
Provost Fellow, University of Southern California

New Directions Scholar, USC Center for Feminist Research

MFA, Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego

Author, The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities,
http://amzn.to/x8iJcY

blog: http://transreal.org