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PRAGMA Festival

PRAGMA Festival is an event-based platform for exchange between different practices. It is open to people from across a wide range of fields: arts, music, crafts, business, politics, law, science, engineering, etc. The participants are invited to formulate and present their practices, as well as to get influenced and changed by the practices of others. It's a festival of cultivation, exchange, and alterity, with a particular focus on concrete actions (PRAGMA), which inscribe imaginary into the real. It's not so much about the artists learning how to do accounting or politicians learning how to cook (although this may also happen). The main focus is on bringing something back into your practice from another practice. An artist may learn something about accounting, which may inspire their own artistic practice and compel them to do a totally different piece of art. A politician may learning something about cooking, which will completely change their way...

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Durational Conference

Durational Conference is a regular event produced by the Special Agency where the participants are invited to share the topics that are of urgency to them at the moment in an intimate setting without the time / format pressures that standard conferences usually come with. Its main goal is to challenge and enhance the format of a conference and to invite the participants to shift away from standard modes of representation based on self-promotion towards a more engaged, comprehensive, self-critical and slower discussion, involving not only the words and stage, but also the body, the walls, and any other objects, visual and sonic elements, that are available. To read more about the concept of the Durational Conference, read our article on Conference and Representation. Also read about the use of text network visualization for conference topic profiling....

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