[NetBehaviour] + 40:CALL FOR CULTURAL RESISTANCE developed by QUACK2012.ORG

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: CALL FOR PROPOSALS

by Miguel R-Z

Link: http://www.melloweb.com/QUACK2012/

Location:
everywhere & nowhere

+ 40:CALL FOR CULTURAL RESISTANCE is a project developed by 
QUACK2012.ORG with the aim to disseminate the message and the spirit of 
the iconic guerilla book How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology 
in the Disney Comic (Dorfman & Mattelart), published in 1971 in Chile.

“How to Read Donald Duck” constitutes a fascinating model of how a work 
of cultural resistance can successfully reach millions of readers from 
around the world and from every possible social background. Written in 
1971, in the middle of a Chilean revolutionary process, which advanced 
not just the social and economic emancipation of its citizens but also 
its cultural liberation from imported forms of mass entertainment, the 
book was an insolent manifesto that appropriated copyrighted images 
without consent; the first of its kind to offer a radical interpretation 
of the neo-liberal values that were being transmitted through the 
(apparently) not so innocent comic strip characters of the world of Disney.

Burned in Chile on September 11, 1973, the book then spread like 
wildfire around the world with more than a millions copies in print in a 
dozen languages. The book became a cornerstone in the field of cultural 
studies and communication. John Berger aptly called it a “manual for 
decolonization”.

In 1975, the US government seized 3,500 copies of the book for copyright 
violations. Even though they lost the case, no one has dares to publish 
it in the USA. Download the Apendix about this fascinating case.

The call is for electronic art, graphic design (posters, logos, comic 
strips, stencils), collective action (performance, happenings, flash 
mobs, etc…) and video (short and animated clips).

The pieces selected will be part of a virtual and physical-site exhibit, 
interactive and urban installations, video screenings, and a 
web-conference that will be launched on May 1rst, 2012.
Deadline: March 16, 2012


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