[P2P-F] Fwd: Pixelache Helsinki 2017 Festival Announcement: Local & Decentralised, 22-24.9. at Suvilahti cultural complex.

Fri Jun 2 06:00:19 CEST 2017

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From: andrew gryf paterson <agryfp at gmail.com>

andrew

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LOCAL & DECENTRALISED

Pixelache Festival in Suvilahti cultural complex, Helsinki, 22nd-24th
September 2017

After the 2015 festival that travelled through Living Spaces, and the 2016
festival delving deep into Interfaces for Empathy, Pixelache festival 2017
gathers stories of Local & Decentralised governance. Tapping in to the
shift from centralised -capital based economies to de-centralised -peer
based resource distribution, we offer the festival as a meeting point for
local initiatives working on similar experiences.

The festival is titled Local & Decentralised and it happens from 22.9 to
24.9 in Suvilahti, Helsinki. Local and decentralised governance seems to
happen when collective design and a tangible group effort come together. In
order to decentralise temporally the festival and to materialize the
festival theme itself, reflecting perhaps on the current edification of
Helsinki, from the 15.9 to 21.9 Suvilahti hosts a model construction site
by teams participating in the Recycling Olympic Games, who build the main
venue of the festival. These new spatial configurations along with existing
DIY area such as the skate-park coagulate together with the festival
participants to create fluid places where knowledge can emerge and where it
can be applied.

Pre-festival and festival activities will happen also at Oranssi premises
from 18.9 to 24.9. The role of Oranssi organisation, of Suvilahti permanent
tenants and of Pixelache members' contributions as part of the main
program, is an important element for the identity of Local & Decentralised.

Major developments of decentralization can and do occur: currency, energy,
resources, and feelings are being decentralised and distributed. These
developments bring about problems that cannot be solved on a purely
conceptual level; they need to be embodied and lived through for a shift to
yet different models. Thus fear of the unforeseen and unpredictable must
also be addressed.

>From the festival activities stories emerge that depict how governance
functions between civil society, individual initiatives and government, and
also how citizens themselves coagulate into structures where governance
happens locally, and where we can come to terms with inefficiencies,
passivity, interests, time, jargon.

How is it possible to express a multiplicity of will, is the present
practice of a State effective enough to convey it? Often the movements
towards local and decentralised structures are related to privatisation in
economical models, how can diverse collective interest meet on economical
terms? Can we be local and decentralised and yet be connected globally,
micro-organisms breathing within a vast complex macro system?

Local & Decentralised festival does not let you down, it will be your local
event to differentiate consensus from silence: talking of ecological
issues, promoting visual culture as a shield against pessimism, presenting
how democracy benefits from digital media -or not, playing games to prove
that we are as connected as we are, offering workshops to learn again the
pleasure of learning things together, finding music and contemporary art
that make sense more than science, and divulging science as creative as
drama.

The festival is free entrance and suitable for families.

VENUES, PLACES AND SCHEDULE

--- Pre-festival activities in Suvilahti and central Helsinki

Construction site for Decentralised venue at skate-park (Suvilahti, next to
Valvomo building), from 15 to 21.9.2017

Workshops at Oranssi (Suvilahti, Valvomo building), from 18 to 21.9.2017

At MUU Galleria (Lönnrotinkatu 33, central Helsinki), Exhibition 'Pixelache
and Koelse 15 years' curated by Antti Ahonen, opening day 21.9.2017

--- Local & Decentralised festival program in Suvilahti

At Oranssi building (Valvomo building), from 22.9 to 24.9.2017

Decentralised festival venue at skate park (next to Valvomo, on
metro-side): from 22.9 to 24.9.2017

Consult map of Suvilahti area.

CONTACT FESTIVAL DIRECTORS

Egle Oddo, egle [-ät-] pixelache.ac

Mikko Laajola, mikko [-ät-] pixelache.ac

Local & Decentralised festival is supported by the Finnish Ministry of
Education and Culture, the City of Helsinki Cultural Office, and Svenska
kulturfonden.

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<p><strong>LOCAL & DECENTRALISED</strong></p>

<p>Pixelache Festival in <a href="http://www.suvilahti.fi/">Suvilahti
cultural complex</a>, Helsinki, 22nd-24th September 2017</p>

<p>After the 2015 festival that travelled through Living Spaces, and the
2016 festival delving deep into Interfaces for Empathy, Pixelache festival
2017 gathers stories of Local & Decentralised governance. Tapping in to
the shift from centralised -capital based economies to de-centralised
-peer based resource distribution, we offer the festival as a meeting point
for local initiatives working on similar experiences.</p>

The festival is titled Local & Decentralised and it
happens from 22.9 to 24.9 in Suvilahti, Helsinki. Local and decentralised
governance seems to happen when collective design and a tangible group
effort come together. In order to decentralise temporally the festival and
to materialize the festival theme itself, reflecting perhaps on the current
edification of Helsinki, from the 15.9 to 21.9 Suvilahti hosts a model
construction site by teams participating in the Recycling Olympic Games,
who build the main venue of the festival. These new spatial configurations
along with existing DIY area such as the skate-park coagulate together with
the festival participants to create fluid places where knowledge can emerge
and where it can be applied.

Pre-festival and festival activities will happen also at <a href="
http://www.oranssi.net/">Oranssi</a> premises from 18.9 to 24.9. The role
of Oranssi organisation, of Suvilahti permanent tenants and of Pixelache
members' contributions as part of the main program, is an important
element for the identity of Local & Decentralised.

Major developments of decentralization can and do occur: currency, energy,
resources, and feelings are being decentralised and distributed. These
developments bring about problems that cannot be solved on a purely
conceptual level; they need to be embodied and lived through for a shift to
yet different models. Thus fear of the unforeseen and unpredictable must
also be addressed.

<p>From the festival activities stories emerge that depict how governance
functions between civil society, individual initiatives and government, and
also how citizens themselves coagulate into structures where governance
happens locally, and where we can come to terms with inefficiencies,
passivity, interests, time, jargon.</p>

How is it possible to express a multiplicity of will, is the present
practice of a State effective enough to convey it? Often the movements
towards local and decentralised structures are related to privatisation in
economical models, how can diverse collective interest meet on economical
terms? Can we be local and decentralised and yet be connected globally,
micro-organisms breathing within a vast complex macro system?

<p>Local & Decentralised festival does not let you down, it will be
your local event to differentiate consensus from silence: talking of
ecological issues, promoting visual culture as a shield against pessimism,
presenting how democracy benefits from digital media -or not, playing games
to prove that we are as connected as we are, offering workshops to learn
again the pleasure of learning things together, finding music and
contemporary art that make sense more than science,
and divulging science as creative as drama.</p>

<p>The festival is free entrance and suitable for families.</p>

<p> </p>

<p><strong>VENUES, PLACES AND SCHEDULE</strong></p>

<p><strong>--- Pre-festival activities in Suvilahti and central
Helsinki</strong></p>

<p>Construction site for Decentralised venue at skate-park (Suvilahti,
next to Valvomo building), from 15 to 21.9.2017</p>

<p>Workshops at <a href="http://oranssi.net">Oranssi</a> (Suvilahti,
Valvomo building), from 18 to 21.9.2017</p>

<p>At <a href="http://www.muu.fi">MUU Galleria</a> (Lönnrotinkatu 33,
central Helsinki), Exhibition 'Pixelache and Koelse 15 years'
curated by Antti Ahonen, opening day 21.9.2017</p>

<p> </p>

<p><strong>--- Local & Decentralised festival program in
Suvilahti</strong></p>

<p>At Oranssi building (Valvomo building), from 22.9 to 24.9.2017</p>

<p>Decentralised festival venue at skate park (next to Valvomo, on
metro-side): from 22.9 to 24.9.2017</p>

<p>Consult <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4731621847#map=18/
60.18644/24.97268">map of Suvilahti</a> area. </p>

<p> </p>

<p><strong>CONTACT FESTIVAL DIRECTORS</strong></p>

<p>Egle Oddo, egle [-ät-] pixelache.ac</p>

<p>Mikko Laajola, mikko [-ät-] pixelache.ac</p>

<p> </p>

<p>Local & Decentralised festival is supported by the Finnish Ministry
of Education and Culture, the City of Helsinki Cultural Office, and Svenska
kulturfonden.</p>

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