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I am invited to be a keynote speaker at the conference in July
University of Porto, Portugal
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto • Via Panorâmica, Portugal

In terms of topic, an account of your work photographing protest events and similar gatherings in the UK would be great. There will be audio-visual equipment for you to use on the day.

Professor Andy Bennett
School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science
Gold Coast Campus
Griffith University

Thus, have prepared this presentation of photographs >>

Listing:
00:00 Festivals & Travellers, B&W
07:29 Stonehenge
10:20 Beanfield & Policing
14:50 Festivals, Colour
18:09 Free Party / Rave
30:08 CJA Protests
34:11 Reclaim the Streets RTS
41:32 Surveillance
45:00 Finish

https://www.kismifconference.com

KISMIF Conference is an international academic/cultural/artistic event based in the city of Porto (Portugal) and focused on discussing and sharing information about underground cultures, DIY practices, urban arts and other related topics. KISMIF focuses on cultural practices that are used to face more massive and uniform forms of cultural production/creation/mediation, by activating an anti-hegemonic ethos centered around the aesthetics and policies of the daily ‘arts of doing’.

KISMIF is, so far, the only congress in the world that analyzes the theory and practice of underground scenes and DIY cultures as increasingly significant cultural forms in a global context of precariousness and uncertainty.

The KISMIF Conference has a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspective, open for contributions from the global community of researchers, artists and activists who work on all aspects of underground scenes and DIY cultures and conduct their research within a plural methodological approach. The objective is to debate not only about music, but also other artistic fields such as cinema and video, graffiti and urban art, theater and performing arts, literature and poetry, radio, programming and publishing, graphic design, drawing, architecture, or even cartoons and comics.

The first edition of the KISMIF Conference was held in 2014 and focused on ‘Underground Music Scenes and DIY Cultures’. The second edition (2015) was dedicated to the theme ‘Crossing Borders of Underground Music Scenes’. The third edition (2016) promoted a discussion about ‘DIY Cultures, Spaces and Places’. The fourth edition took place in 2018 and was focused on ‘Gender, differences, identities and DIY cultures’. The fifith edition that took place in 2021 focused on the theme of ‘DIY Cultures and Global Challenges’. The sixth edition happened in 2022 and it was about ‘DIY Cultures, Sustainability and Artistic Ecosystems‘.

The next edition will occur in 2024 and it will be focused on ” DIY Cultures, Democracy and Creative Participation’. All editions of the KISMIF Conference also offer a summer school / advanced seminar, where participants can discuss/analyze in more depth some specific issues around these themes.

Each edition of the KISMIF Conference, in addition to its scientific program, also consists of a diverse social and cultural program formed by a set of artistic events, with a focus on underground music and its artistic expressions. It is intended, therefore, to provide all participants with a unique sensory and scientific experience in terms of global DIY cultures.

MY BIT:

https://www.kismifconference.com/keynote-speakers/alan-lodge

Alan Lodge is a freelance photographer with interests in the press, social concerns, youth and multicultural subjects, and ‘alternative’ lifestyles. His photo library includes 40+ years of editorial and commercial photography of events, social and environmental issues.

A photographer who deals with aspects of “alternative” lifestyles and subcultures. Photographing many free and commercial events, “free party” (‘rave culture’), travelers, environmental protest, land rights with surrounding social concerns. Aims to present a more positive view of people and communities that are often misrepresented.

Unlike so many press photographers looking for a dramatic story; he wants to give a more insightful view that only people who have been accepted into a community can truly achieve. Such events often involve police operations.

He has provided images to illustrate articles for publications such as the Guardian, Independent, iD Magazine, etc., and has contributed to a number of TV projects with the BBC and Channel4.

Member of the National Union of Journalists, he is a documentary photographer, photojournalist and ‘storyteller’.

Lecture Title:

Photographing and Documenting Counter-Cultural Culture

Websites:

http://alanlodge.co.uk

https://alanlodge.co.uk/OnTheRoad

The event, where I’ll present, will be at the Casa Da Musica, Porto, Portugal

📆 10th JULY || 11h45 — 12h30: PLENARY LECTURE
📍 Room 2, Casa da Música, Porto

Alan Lodge
“Photographing and Documenting Counter-Cultural Culture”

Alan Lodge, Documentary Photographer, Photo-Journalist and Storyteller, United Kingdom
Chair: Andy Bennett, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, Australia

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Prof George McKay
Bumped into the wonderful documentary photographer of the UK counterculture 1970s-90s @tashuk @KISMIFpunk last night. I’d love to see a hi-quality photography book of his unique body of work across decades from free festivals & parties, new travellers, punks ravers & squatters…
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