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About TINA07
It's the five days of the year where you get to share your ideas, passions and saliva with like-minded crew from all over Australia. This Year This Is Not Art is composed of four very special festivals, and a series of events combining talents from the across the board.
This Is Not Art has grown and developed over the last nine years, providing an annual extravaganza with a variety of workshops, panels, performances, speakers and exhibitions on all kinds of important topics. We’ve have remained true to our core aims - innovating, developing and showcase emerging art and media forms.
And this year is no exception. Throw in some spontaneous performances, artist networking, radio broadcasting and a some ripe social & political cheekiness, and you have a rough idea of what This Is Not Art Festival has become, the largest and most diverse annual media and arts festival in Australia.
This Is Not Art 2007 is composed of four very special programs:
Electrofringe
Electrofringe is a festival of experimental electronic arts and culture dedicated to skills development and artistic exchange. It focuses on uncovering emergent forms and places a particular emphasis on encouraging exchange between emerging and established artists.
Electrofringe 2007 represents the festivals tenth anniversary and will include hands on workshops, panel discussion, masterclasses, presentations, exhibitions, screenings across five days from 27 September - 01 October 2007.
International guests include Leafcutter John (UK), Sebastien Roux (France), Ralph Steinbruchel (CH) and Jason Kahn (USA).
www.electrofringe.net
National Young Writers' Festival
The National Young Writers' Festival is Australia's premier event for emerging writers, publishers, performers and trouble-makers.Far from the seas of white hair, book signings and celebrity author worship you might expect, the NYWF is a DIY, hands-on conversation between equals.
NYWF 2007 features the biggest showcase of independent books and publications in the southern hemisphere, an interventionist hit-and-run theatre and writing program, a showcase of unconventional and provocative spoken word performance, a comprehensive workshop and masterclass program, and a range of vibrant, in-depth discussions, arguments and showdowns.
Special guests include Shaun Tan, Anna Funder, Samuel Wagan Watson and Henry Reynolds.
Sound Summit
Sound Summit exists to support brilliant independent artists, labels and people that work and play in the world of electronic and hip-hop music from both Australia and abroad. This year’s conference will focus on production skills, tools and creation with master-classes and performances from some of the most innovative music makers in the world today. And in the evenings, we provide the parties. Headliners this year include Aloe Blacc (Stone’s Throw, US), and Mark Pritchard (Harmonic 33, Troubleman) www.musicnsw.com/soundsummit/
Critical Animals
Critical Animals musters together honours and postgraduate students (as well as those recently graduated and still at a loose end), early career academics, quasi-intellectuals and anyone else interested in devouring critical contexts for the kinds of experimental and emerging arts and media practices in the This Is Not Art program. www.criticalanimals.org
Festival Directors
Meet the 2007 Festival Directors for Electrofringe, National Young Writers' Festival, Sound Summit & Critical Animals. And get their contact details here. Now.