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MONDAY 21 OCTOBER
Representing
Difference - From Fringe to Mainstream, or When's the Celebration
Over?
11.00am,
Monday 21 October: Room 2
Many popular movements for
social change have started from a dissenting drive for change.
Many of these consciously adopted a strategy of Celebration in
order to legitimise their marginalised positions. There is now
a widespread re-examination of the nature of dissent and its
problematic relationship with celebration.
- Is social
change still on the agenda for these movements focussing on celebration?
- What's mainstream and what's
fringe? What's selling out?
- What lessons can be learnt
from embracing celebration?
- Do communities risk being
sidelined if more dissent is introduced?
- What is the role of a 'radical
fringe'?
Panel
- Tony DOYLE, a leading advocate of Disability
Culture, formerly with Arts Action SA and founder of High Beam
Festival.
- Alexander KOUTTAB, Co-founder of Al Haqq and Secretary
of the Australian Arabic Council.
- Jonathon PARSONS (TBC), Associate producer
at 2002 Adelaide Festival.
- Jason SWEENEY, sound hustler, text wrangler performance-maker
and advocate of Queer theory, trying to reach into the mainstream
while maintaining a dissenting focus.
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