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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">From November 21st to November 28th, Memefest will hold an international symposium, workshops and interventions, at Swinburne University.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Our aim is to connect students, academics from different disciplines and members of the community with refugee and asylum seeker networks and Aboriginal networks in order to research and create
socially responsive public interventions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">This year our focus is PLEASURE. We are interested in processes where we can experience pleasure in<i> our everyday lives, which can contribute to radical transformations towards social justice
in terms of how we experience and act in the world</i>.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">How can pleasure transform the way we live, laugh, listen, eat, create, think, imagine, dream, play, work and relate to each other?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">To see the outcomes of the 2014 event see <a href="http://www.memefest.org/en/memeblog/2015/08/radical-intimacies-many-different-fruits-our-dialogue/">http://www.memefest.org/en/memeblog/2015/08/radical-intimacies-many-different-fruits-our-dialogue/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Pleasure is designed through visual communication, media and technology and it then shapes our aspirations and lifestyles. Aren’t we supposed to have pleasure all the time and does not the promise
of success in life promise us a life full of pleasure? We can choose to follow this path but, in order to be successful, we then have to follow written and unwritten rules - so we need to ask who makes the rules and whom are the rules benefiting?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">As a human experience, pleasure can be an illness or a cure and many times it can be both at the same time. It can bring people together, connect them and decrease human suffering. But it can
also set them apart and cause harm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Pleasure is also connected to our use of substances - from food to legal and illegal drugs, whatever we take into our bodies to experience pleasure changes us and the world around us. If you think
of it in this way, we experience pleasure many times a day. But how does this make us relate to the world?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">You are warmly invited to participate! Please register at</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/2nd-memefestswinburne-extradisciplinary-symposium-workshop-intervention-tickets-28748618893">https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/2nd-memefestswinburne-extradisciplinary-symposium-workshop-intervention-tickets-28748618893</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Lisa Gye, Roderick Grant and Oliver Vodeb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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