Author: lokomotiva

Lokomotiva ::: Independently curated programme which is based on collaboration with artists working with live arts, or dance, choreography and performance. Program is supporting research and production of art and knowledge through residencies, productions of dance, lectures-presentations, conferences, workshops, symposiums etc., in which certain problems in the field are reflected, reassessed and critically reconsidered.

Residency “Dance in (non) democracy”

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Lokomotiva in collaboration with GPS, Movement Research, New York and Station- Service for Contemporary dance, Belgrade

Residency “Dance in (non) democracy” with Justin Cabrillos (USA), Sam Kim (USA), Jovana Rakić (SRB) and Aleksandra Petrushevska (MK)

Curators: Marijana Cvetković (SRB) and Biljana Tanurovska – Kjulavkovski (MK)

26 September – 05 November, 2022 @ Belgrade & Skopje

 

Title of the residency “Dance in (non)democracy” is thought as a trigger for collective reflection on the practices and roles of dance artists in social and political situations in which they are faced with partial or complete damage of democratic social protocols and institutions. In a small lab format artists will talk about their practices in those directions, exchange, give and take, and aerate their permanent care for their social/artistic/political context.
A week together in Belgrade and in Skopje is meant to be a place for critical thinking and mutual support.

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ACT: Art, Climate, Transition/ Partners meeting in Hamburg, Germany

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ACT: Art, Climate, Transition/ Partners meeting/ Networking

September 29-30, 2022

@ Kampnagel Internationale Kulturfabrik, Hamburg, Germany

 

On 29th and 30th of September representatives from Lokomotiva attended ACT Network meetings held in Hamburg, Germany as part of the Art Climate Transition project.

During these 2 days the program organized by Kampnagel Internationale Kulturfabrik, Hamburg (Germany) was followed by representatives of the project partners: Art Admin/London, Bunker/Ljubljana, Kaai Theater/Brussels, COAL/Paris, Domino/Zagreb, Kampnagel/Hamburg, NTIL/Riga, Rotterdam Theatre/Rotterdam, The Change Management Research Group/ The Hague, and Lokomotiva/Skopje.

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Public lecture by Bojana Kunst “Thinking and Making beyond the project: Making temporal kinships” in Struga

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“Open Course “Curatorial Practice and Context” 2022”

Summer School “Curating in context”/ public lecture 

“Thinking and Making beyond the project: Making temporal kinships” by Bojana Kunst 

Wednesday, 31.08.2022 at 19:00pm

@ Summer stage, Cultural centre, Struga

 

In the frame of the summer school “Curating in context” that will happen in Struga, public lecture “Thinking and Making beyond the project: Making temporal kinships” (Precarity and artistic work) will take place at 31st of August, at 7pm, at the “Summer stage” in the Cultural centre in Struga.

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Critical Movement Residency and workshops by elena rose light and Frida Laux

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(Non)Aligned Movement/ Critical Movement Residency

Research residency by elena rose light and Frida Laux

August 28 – September 3, 2022, @ Struga and Skopje

Summer school “Curating in Context”/ “Curatorial Practices in Context”

Workshop with elena rose light and Frida Laux

August 30th, 2022 @ Cultural centre, Struga

 

In the period of August 29 – September 3, 2022 in Struga, Lokomotiva, Skopje is hosting Critical Movement Residency as part of the project (Non)Aligned Movement. One of aims of the residency is to deepen collaborations in the field of dance and choreography and support young choreographers and performers including the residents elena rose light and Frida Laux.

The residents will investigate choreography and dance practices throughout the process of discussion, thinking and writing. Their work and research intend to deepen the choreographic processes through collaboration, sharing and meeting with local artists and cultural workers and extending their collaborative network.

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SUMMER SCHOOL CURATING IN CONTEXT 2022

SUMMER SCHOOL CURATING IN CONTEXT
STRUGA, NORTH MACEDONIA
29.08.2022 – 02.09.2022

PROGRAM/Abstracts and Bios
Summer School “Curating in Context”/ Intensive week in Struga, North Macedonia Aug. 29 – Sept. 2.

29.08. Monday
11.00- 12.15// Introduction and context presentation/ Brief introduction on the course presentation of the SKH, OPEN course and presentation of the participants by Tove Salmgren and Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski

Bio: Tove Salmgren works as a dancer, choreographer, curator and educator. Since 2016 she leads, together with the artist Kajsa Wadhia, Köttinspektionen Dans, an artist-driven platform and place for experimental dance and choreography in Uppsala, Sweden. As a choreographer, she explores shifted perspectives and reality, often through tiny interventions, based on the interest in negotiating what art (and non-art) can do and be as a place for the emancipatory unknown. Tove has over the last decade been part of various artistic collaborations, such as “The Blob” (initiated by Anna Efraimsson), a curatorial persona exercising and practicing an institutional critique of art, knowledge and beyond, the curatorial collaboration “We happen things” (with Manon Santkin and Moa Franzén) and since 2018, she forms, together with Moa Franzén and Kajsa Wadhia, a performance trio which explores the voice as physical materiality and choreographic tool. Since 2017, she has been employed as a Lecturer in perfomative practices at SKH, Stockholm University of the Arts.

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(Non)Aligned Movements “Summit” organised in Struga

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(Non)Aligned Movements/ Nomad Dance Academy Summit

25 – 30 August 2022@ Hotel Drim, Struga

Nomad Dance Academy presentation at Summer School “Curating in context”

Tuesday, 30th August 2022 at 19:00pm @ Foyer, Cultural centre, Struga

 

Lokomotiva, Skopje in the period from 25th till 30th of August 2022 in the small city of Struga, will organize “Summit” meetings of the Nomad Dance Academy network, as part of the project (Non)Aligned Movements.

The “Summit” of the Nomad Dance Academy will be attended by individuals and organizations, members of the Nomad Dance Academy, and they will discuss the ways of cooperation in the region, networking between festivals for contemporary dance and performance, the development of residential programs in that field, and the regional archive for contemporary dance and performance on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, will be discussed as well.

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Three activities as part of the (Non)Aligned Movements project organised in Struga

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Lokomotiva, Skopje in the period from 25th of August till the 3rd of September in the small city of Struga, will organize three activities as part of the project (Non)Aligned Movements:

  • from 25.08.-30.08.2022 meeting of the Nomad Dance Academy network, entitled “Summit”,
  • from 28.08.- 03.09.2022 International Summer School “Curating in Context” part of the Open Course “Curatorial Practice in Context” at the Stockholm Academy of Arts, 
  • “Critical movement” residencies by Frida Laux (France) and Elena Rose Light (USA) from 28.08.- 03.09.2022.

The “Summit” of the Nomad Dance Academy will be attended by individuals and organizations, members of the Nomad Dance Academy, and they will discuss the ways of cooperation in the region, networking between festivals for contemporary dance and performance, the development of residential programs in that field, and the regional archive for contemporary dance and performance on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, will be discussed as well.

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Повик за ангажирање на координатор/ка

Здружение на граѓани ЛОКОМОТИВА – Центар за нови иницијативи во уметноста и културата во Скопје бара координатор/ка на определено време од 9 месеци, почнувајќи од октомври 2022г. Првите три месеци е период на адаптација со скратено работно време, останатите 6 месеци ангажманот е со полно работно време со можност за продолжување.

ЛОКОМОТИВА е организација со динамична средина за работа, соработува со бројни локални, регионални и меѓународни соработници и партнери и нуди голема можност за личен и професионален развој на своите членови. Повеќе на www.lokomotiva.org.mk. 

Координаторот/ката е потребно да ги исполнува следните квалификации:

  • да има завршено високо образование;
  • да има одлично познавање на англиски јазик;
  • да има претходно искуство во развој на проекти;
  • да има претходно искуство во координирање на тимови и проекти;
  • да има основно познавање од буџети и основни финансиски операции;
  • да поседува комуникациски и организациски вештини;
  • да има флексибилен однос кон времето и животниот стил бидејќи работата не е секогаш со фиксни работни часови, а и вклучува патувања во земјата и странство;
  • претходно искуство во здруженија на граѓани ќе се смета за предност;
  • познавање и искуство од полиња на хуманистичките науки ќе се смета за предност.

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European Dancehouse Network’s General Assembly meeting in Barcelona

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European Dancehouse Network 

General Assembly Meeting

27-28 June 2022

@ Mercat de les Flors, Barselona

 

After long break during 27th and 28th of June, in Barcelona will happen the General Assembly meeting of European Dancehouse Network – EDN. As representative of Lokomotiva, Skopje, Biljana Tanurovska – Kjulavkovski attended the assembly. During these days the representatives of the member organizations will have opportunity to meet again and have important discussions, information sharing and decision-making.

During the General Assembly, co-organised by Mercat de les Flors, held in Barcelona on 28 June 2022, EDN members voted for new president and board members of the European Dancehouse Network.

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“Beyond Present Future Feminisms” a text by the participants of Critical practice (Made in Yugoslavia)

Critical practice (Made in Yugoslavia)

Beyond Present Future Feminisms, text by

Anka Herbut, Jette Buchsenschutz, Kasia Wolinska, Masa Radi Buh, Maeve Johnson, Elena Novakovits

June 20, 2022

 

In a cruel twist of fate, I fear that the movement for women’s liberation has become entangled in a dangerous liaison with neoliberal efforts to build a free-market society. That would explain how it came to pass that feminist ideas that once formed part of a radical worldview are increasingly expressed in individualist terms. (…) A movement that once prioritised social solidarity now celebrates female entrepreneurs. A perspective that once valorised ‘care’ and interdependence now encourages individual advancement and meritocracy. [1]

This text stems from the need to enter into a dialog with the Feminist Futures Festival that was held in Amiens and Lisbon in January this year. As one of five twin or tripled festivals happening between 2021 and 2024, each festival takes place in similar versions, one after the other in two different cities. Initiated by the apap – advancing performing arts project, the festivals are a part of the larger EU-funded programm apap – FEMINIST FUTURES with the high aim of – in its own words – “initiate powerful social changes through art”.

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