Proposal for Conference

Conference title:
Living in the 3D's: Displacement, Dislocation, Diaspora

key note address: Paloma Campbell

Panel discussions:

*Healing as Performance: Connecting with the Sacred Clown
with A.A. Bronson, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Skeena Reece, Naomi Steinberg

*Languaging Freedom: Performance in the "Empire of Pure Speed"
with hakim bey (or another scholar), New Mind Space, Mitch and Gina Cope, Andrea Cavagnaro,

*Cy-brid: Reconnecting the Informatics of Diaspora
with Anne Hamilton, Holly Schmidt, Derya Akay and Genevieve Cloutier

Show Venues: Gallery Gachet, cyberspace and TBA-TAZ's around Vancouver

Press release:
CBC radio release, Vancouver Sun, Georgia Straight, Instant Coffee, postering, sidewalk tagging, facebook (and other social internet networks), Emily Carr mass e-mail.
In a time where technology has become so intimitly entrenched in our lives, and shapes the way our relationship/communities/economies function, one needs to consider the question: "Who are we in relation to our technology and what agency do we have in relation to shaping it?" This conference seeks to create a discousre to disect and deconstruct and ultimetly Dragu* the
Vancouver landscape.

Dragu: verb To create conscious collective order in harmony with chaos. This phenomenon is usually witnessed in the form of using human bodies to insert xoxo's into the world.

Budget: $500 for each artist's artist's fees (plus travel expenses)
Accomodation - Billeting
Travel - carpool, craigslist, rideshare
Food and Bevarages at opening: Potluck and homebrew