Ways of participating in TURN*ON

Artivistic is a gathering around the interPlay between art, activism, and information. This year, we are bringing together people who have thought about sex, social relations, and technology to exchange their thoughts in various engaging ways. Because power, politics, and social change operate at every level, all the way down to our mind and practice. Sex illustrates this perfectly, for it speaks to our manner of acting out how we see the world, and how thus it moves. And it moves, irresistibly.

In order to contribute to the unfolding of history and the advent of sexy occurrences, we are inviting people to participate in a variety of exciting ways. Currently developing infracrews to work with include:

Documentation (infoCrew)

• Documenting the event and TURN*ON more widely or more parochially with the CKUT radio collective Audio Smut.
• Gathering and sharing TURN*ON information and documentation, interfacing with Dyke Rivers collective and others.

Food & eating (infraBouffe)

• Promoting a TURN*ON relationship between people and their socio-natural environment. Plants and animals are people too! Activities might include gleaning urban herbs and fruits, preparing meals and decadencies, discussions about sexy food and eating as social.

Space / set-design + material (infraStudio) 

• Creating a TURN*ON space conducive to consciousness and political arousal.

Live blogging + net participation (infraInformationsuperhighway)

• Promoting a variety of corporeal participation. "Detouring" and taking back virtual participation and blurring the boundaries between real and virtual. Addressing the corporeality of agency. TURN*ON internet style!

Reading circle & other nerdisms / autonomous analysis (infraNerd)

• Discussion group on TURN*ON - Live!

Welcome centre (infraTheatrics)

• Welcoming people, communicating "safe space" principles and encouraging participation over spectatorship (that is why we call Artivistic a gathering, because it is ostensibly not a spectacle to witness, but a process to TURN*ON through action of various kinds, including consensual voyeurism).

Look-out / safe space area / sexual harassment vibe watching (infraVibe)

• Looking out for non-consensual solicitation, and informing participants of resources and safe spaces at the event. Offering such resources and safe spaces. Promoting "sex-positive" engagement and rendering the gathering as accessible as possible.

Translation (inFranglish)

• Montreal style.

Communications / ideologico-(sub)cultural translation (infraOutreach)

• Talking to all kinds of people about TURN*ON in order to encourage their participation in their own language of analysis and practice. Activating TURN*ON in popular parlance and manners. Outreach. Public Private Partnerships Baby!

Technology / Geek / projection (infraWires)

• Toyz.

Childcare (infraMunchkins)

• Tricks, gamez, and bright colours.

These are merely the basic components of the gathering. Many more are desired. Interested participants are encouraged to propose their own crews and projects of infrastructural nature. Let's talk about it and take it from there.

To participate, you can start by creating a user account on this site and insert a bio so that other participants can start getting to know you better (your profile will show in the list of participants).

Or show up in person at our headquarters starting October 15:
Le Milieu (6545 Durocher, corner Beaubien)

If you build it, they will cum.

Contact: infra [at] artivistic [dot] org