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November 18, 2017
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by agent Paranyushkin

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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January 23, 2016
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by agent Paranyushkin

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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January 23, 2016
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by agent Paranyushkin

Local Prophets

Local Prophets is an invite-only jamming session bringing together the artists and musicians to share and exchange music, creations, inspiration and vibes. The word "prophet" itself derives from pro 'for' or 'before' + phētēs 'speaker' (from phēnai 'speak'). A prophet receives and transmits further. The prophet is first spoken to and then he speaks to the others. They also say that "no man can be prophet in their own country". Therefore, a Local Prophet takes what there is and then brings it somewhere else. Every event we encourage people to play together for the first time and to try things out that they've never tried before, creating the starting points for new threads and collaborations. The live sessions are recorded, stored, archived, and released for future iterations. Everyone's contribution is recorded using the Common Allocation Matrix. We then divide the total amount of profits by the total number of hours invested into the event...

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January 23, 2016
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by agent Paranyushkin

3AM Event

3AM is an open-source ad-hoc event created to celebrate diversity within the local creative scene and to bring together artists, musicians, activists and various people who are interested and who are ready to be engaged to make things happen in the frame of one night. There are important principles of operation that set 3AM apart from other event series: 1) EQUALITY - The lineup of the event is made from everyone who makes the event possible: cleaners, bar people, artists, organizers, etc. 2) COLLABORATION - Every time a new team of organizers is invited to curate the event; 3) INCLUSIVITY - The open call for works to be presented is distributed among the people who took part in the previous editions of the event; 4) SELF-ORGANIZATION - The event operates based on the Allocation Matrix, which maps the resources needed to create the event to the people who are participating in it - either with tasks or with a financial...

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