With rising poverty rates across Canada and much of the industrialized world, this is an increasingly popular theme. A look at the increasing gap between the haves and have-nots through media projects and poems from people who want to see ...
With rising poverty rates across Canada and much of the industrialized world, this is an increasingly popular theme. A look at the increasing gap between the haves and have-nots through media projects and poems from people who want to see poverty and homelessness become a thing of the past.
État d'Urgencetakes place over a period of four days, around the clock, at Montreal’s Place Émilie-Gamelin, and brings together the general public and those citizens who experience homelessness on a daily basis: the homeless.This ephemeral village has allowed well-known and up-and-coming artists from all disciplines, to express their thoughts on homelessness and precarity in aesthetic and human terms, and to present their work in a setting conducive to direct encounter and concrete aid.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DON’T QUITE FIT INTO THE “PACKAGE”?A satirical critique of the glossy, squeaky-clean view of the world championed by travel agency brochures, which extol happiness as an all-inclusive package deal, the theme for the 2010 edition will mark a watershed for the event, with ATSA providing its own take on the whole aesthetic of the ALL-INCLUSIVE (bracelet, palm tree, deck chairs and parasols), questioning the phenomena of normalization, delegated control, institutionalized convenience, and the instant, all-you-want mindset. It promises to be the most impactful État d’Urgence yet.
Beyond the ALL-INCLUSIVE, ATSA aims to emphasize respect, integration and coming together: the ALL INCLUDED.
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Nice video
by David Dose
Sat, 04/14/2012 - 03:26
Nice video
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