Abandon Normal Devices Festival: Are Olympics too big to fail? #citizenrelay

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#citizenrelaycurating a citizen-led legacy for London 2012?

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So what?

IMAGE OF RINGS

Disruptive

• WHAT NARRATIVES ARE ACCEPTABLE CRITIQUE?

• OPENING CEREMONY

• NATIONAL MOOD CHANGE (DRUG REFERENCE)

It works!

Too big to fail?

• LIVED EXPERIENCE

• WHAT DID WE DO?

• IMPACT (MEDIA SIGNIFICANT, CATALYST FOR CHANGE, TRANSFORMATION, CONTEXTUALISATION, NATIONAL/LOCAL IDENTITY)

• TRAINING IMAGE

• HELPMEINVESTIGATE THE OLYMPICS

Making explicit the implicit

Occupy the narrative?

• GRAND NARRATIVES AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE, CRITICALLY AWARE OF MEDIA - PRODUCER NOT CONSUMER.

Do we need an “Olympics” to make this happen?

“Collective” narrative

“Collective” history

Legacy?

PROTEST CEREMIN

What will ‘we’ remember of London

2012?

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