III DESVIAT FESTIVAL
Contratac
COPYFIGHT
COPYFIGHT ARRIVES in GIRONA!
8-17 NOVEMBER 2007. CENTRE CULTURAL LA MERCÈ, GIRONA.
A project by Òscar Abril Ascaso y Elástico.
A proposal by Nau Côclea.
In collaboration with the Centre d’Art SantaMònica.
If intellectual property had always existed, humanity would never have known epics such as Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible and the Koran.
II DESVIAT FESTIVAL
CONTRATAC: ART I REVOLUCIÓ presents:
SHORTS, ROCK’N’ROLL, TALKS, ACOUSTIC MUSIC, DJs
“At its best, art is a lie that helps us realise the truth, at its worst, it is a confirmation of the lies that we inherit”.
Pablo Picasso
The art and culture market, alongside the service sector, has become the great new inexhaustible source of riches to be exploited by the neoliberal economy. This economic model is progressively colonising, absorbing, privatising and marketing the whole of our lives (communication, relations, and habits, etc.). The pleasures associated with beauty and knowledge are no exception, but rather are now a spearhead for this process.
In light of this situation, art and culture have two clear options: 1) To accept that “we are economic and thus allow ourselves to be guided, coopted and exploited by the capitalist economy”; 2) to assert that “we are free and that thought, feeling and creativity will never be vulgarised nor alienated by mercantilist production”. Without entering into analysis and controversy about the pros and the cons of either, we wish to manifest that there is a difference and it is not trivial. In the process of producing art and culture, its results, its objectives and its dissemination, many things depend on this choice.
At a time when autocratic totalitarianism of the market is silencing (through the constant, hypnotic and cunning noise its products make) expressions that are not in keeping with its idiosyncrasies, extremely lively and vital sectors (those in which art and culture are practical forces and not fossilised relics on display in glass cases or “use and throw away” consumer articles) are emerging to defend the idea that our thought and feelings are neither buyable nor for sale. Hence, last year’s occupation of Barcelona’s Teatre Arnau, a collective initiative aimed at freeing a site for culture, in which personalities such as filmmaker Joaquim Jordà, musician Pau Riba, the band Ojos de Brujo, and others took part.
On the basis of the demands for widespread freedom of the great art movements of last century (surrealism, Dadaism, rock, punk, hardcore, Situationism, and Fluxus, etc.) and experiences in disseminating and creating an independent culture in opposition to Power (such as the vast anarchist cultural movement of the early twentieth century in Spain, and particularly in Catalonia), the second Desviat Festival intends to contribute to the following task: to assert that art and culture with an aspiration to total freedom do indeed exist, have always existed and hopefully will always exist.
Desviat Festival Organising Committee
November 2006
Programme
At Nau Côclea:
6.00 p.m.. Inauguration and screening of “Refused are Fucking Dead”, Kristofer Steen.
6.45 p.m.: Talk on the art of insurrection by Ferran Aisa and Carlus Jové.
8.00 p.m.” Screenings of Remodelling the structure (Blai Dalmau), The Revolutionary Origin of Jesus Christ (Lucas Duane).
8:30 p.m.: Closure and projection of Critique of Separation, Guy Debord.
+ Exhibition of the graphic art of The Crass, 1977-84
+ Stalls of material of El Respingo, La Felguera, El Viejo Topo.
Llampaies Theatre:
11.00 p.m.
LES AUS, BCN Rock-Experimental
TWO DEAD CATS, Girona Emo
VECHIA, Alt Empordà Emorock
JOCS SIMPLES, exiled at BCN Solitari
+ DJ BRÜL Rock 80’s
DJ TRANGRESS Electro rock, dancefloor, electro techno.
* Exhibitions