OFF LABEL Festival
The Art of the Placebo
October 26 To November 2, 2011
Open Space and other Victoria locations
OFF LABEL is a weeklong festival that brings together an international group of artists and intellectuals to explore health, spirituality and the effects of technology in a digitally mediated world. The festival comprises gallery exhibitions, performances, workshops, lectures, panel discussions and thematic excursions.
The festival is a partnership between Digital Art Weeks, Zurich, Open Space Arts Society, Victoria, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, Visual Arts Department, University of Victoria, The Wayward School, Victoria, among a host of other community organizations, gallery funders and sponsors.
The OFF LABEL Festival is an exploration of experimental thinking, seen through the triple lenses of art, technology and spirituality. The festival’s name is derived from a medical practice in which pharmaceuticals are prescribed for illicit use, breaking with approved standards of medication in order to engage new — if sometimes contested — possibilities for treatment. The festival takes up the term and its variations — in ways both literal and allegorical — to examine the possibilities, politics and variations of meaning in a technologically enabled, artistically motivated and ideologically-invested world.
Please visit the festival website for full event listings, schedule and participant biographies.
http://www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch/web/DAW11
For further information on the festival and to request an interview please contact:
Doug Jarvis : program.coordinator.openspace@gmail.com
