THE OFFICIAL
VERSION 05 WEBSITE IS NOW LIVE:
PLEASE VISIT http://www.versionfest.org
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Version
is a festival that focuses on art, media, technology and politics. Our
fourth annual convergence, Version>05 Invincible Desire, is an experiment
in navigating emerging or sub cultures. The festival combines the visual
and
performing arts
with activism and creative uses of new technologies. It explores strategies
and aesthetics of artistic intervention and political change.
Version>05 will expose the activity of countercultures through diverse
programs featuring an experimental art expo, networked urban events, video
screenings,
pirate broadcasts, public interventions, performances, exhibitions, workshops,
discussions, parties and street action. We envision a festival through
which local and international artists and workers can share interests and
projects
- a New Renaissance summit of radical cultural workers, a meeting place
for friends and lovers.
We will convene in Chicago for a ten-day open laboratory where we will
explore a diversity of methods for activating our communities, amplifying
our ideas,
and ultimately creating viable permacultures parallel to consumer society – and
capable of superceding it. The city itself will be used as a map to stage
micro-actions. Blueprints for strengthening emerging alliances and counter-institutions
will
be unveiled. Alternative spaces will be open for exploration and collaboration.
Public space, corporate and otherwise, will be our terrain for intervention.
Version>05 Invincible Desire is a forum designed to create and strengthen
connections between artists, writers, curators, vigilante gardeners, activists,
surrealists, scientists, musicians, pirates, filmmakers, space hijackers,
tactical media provocateurs, radical cartographers, students, designers,
dreamers, architects,
adventurers, critical thinkers and cultural workers of all kinds.
Please join us as we examine rhizomatic systems confronting a monoculture.
Join our little utopia and share yours. Participate in a cultural reclamation.
Come out and visit us in Chicago April 22 – May Day. We need you
to make it happen.
To download a PDF program that can be printed click
here.
Attention all participants and visitors to Version>05
If you plan on going to more than 3 events we suggest you purchase either
a $25 VERSION PASS or a $50 REGISTRATION PASS.
The VERSION PASS is a $70 value in beverages and entry fees to all screenings
and events (except Animal Collective).A $50 REGISTRATION PASS is reccomended
to all
participants. In order to make your Version>04 experience more fluid and
help us cover the expenses for the 10 day convergence (meals, drinks, production
expenses
etc) we ask that you purchase one. Visitors may also purchase a REGISTRATION
PASS or you can just pay entry fees at the door for selected events, screenings
etc.
The REGISTRATION PASS is a $200 value in materials, drinks, food and entry
fees to all screenings and events (except the animal collective show).
This is what you get when you purchase a: Version Pass:
Certificates for free food and coffee, Maps to Chicago, Select #8 DVD, Terry
Plumming products, Version Posters, The Fufi Fufi Zine, War News, A Syndrome
T-shirt, 10 Version bucks ! (Use your Version currency to buy drinks and
dinners at all events), assorted stickers and ephemera.
Passes may be purchased at Buddy 1542 N Milwaukee Ave 2nd Floor before and
during events.
Much of Version>05 Invincible Desire was programmed via an open online submissions platform.Other projects and programs were selected by the Version>05 Organisers.
Submissions to the festival were made online after receving the Version call for participation website.
ABOUT VERSION
Version>05 is produced by Select, Lumpen and Public Media Institute, a not
for profit corporation. Version>05 is partially supported by a grant from
the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. Version is also generously supported
by the Zhou B. Center (zbcenter.org)
Version>05 Organizers
Jeff Creath, Dave Dobie, Andrea Fritsch, Elisa Harkins, Helen Kongsgaard,
Eric Graf, Matt Malooly, Ed Marszewski, Rotten Milk, Terry Plumming. Hospitality:
Joe Proulx. Production Coordinators: Patrick Will,i David Marine, and Randall
Kober.
Thanks
Version would like to thank the following organizations, collectives,
institutions and individuals for their help and support, without which Version>05:
Invincible Desire, would not be possible:
Zhou B. Center, Ideotech, Oskar Friedl, Heaven Gallery, highschool, Zhou
Brothers, Elliot Dicks, Maria Marszewski, Michael Marszewski, Yoshie Suzuki,
J Cookson,
Souvenir, Alvaro Ilizarbe, Omaha posse, Mila Gomez, Young Archer, Aay Preston-Myint,
Silas Dilworth, MN Gallery, Brant Villieux, David Marine, John Salhus, Joel
Bruner, Linda Kim, Paul Fitzgerald, Junk Space, Ken of Far Rad, Luke Cho,
Maripa Adam and Dave of Rodan, Penelope's, Syndrome, Randall Kober, Rick
Price, Daniel
Tucker, NPR, Red Line radio, WPBR, Daniel Pope, Tom LaPorte, Bridgeport Café,
Kathryn and Biz 3, Spare Room, Patrick Willi, Bas Van Der Kirk, Logan Bay,
Buddy, Liz Armstrong, basekamp, Tim Wood, Rose Parisi, CAN TV, So So Brothers,
nata2.org, OnShore, open-end, Polvo, Marty of House of Payne, Quimbys, Una
Mae's, Joe Bryl and Sonotheque, Spareroom, ThreeWalls, Lost Film Festival,
The Windish Agency, and all the volunteers and folks that helped us fundraise,
promote, install works, donated materials, make food and kick ass.
Program Credits
Editing: Helen, Andrea, Elisa, Matt and Edmar
Cover materials: Alvaro Ilizarbe
Other materials : Souvenir
Layout: Edmar
Internetologist: Elisa Harkins www.pooptronica.com
Website friends: Nata2.org, Onshore
Version
960 W 31st St
Chicago Il 606008
contact: ed@Lumpen.com
773.837.0145
Some of the organisers: from left: Patrick Willi, Matt Malooly, Helen Kongsgaard, Elisa Harkins, Rotten Milk, Ed Marszewski, Andrea Fritsch.
