We are happy to share with you the publication From Praxis to Policy: Environmental Shift through Art and Culture that we developed and produced as part of the Art Climate Transition project, and our journey through it.
Category: #ACT
ACT – ART, CLIMATE, TRANSITION
Lokomotiva – Center for new initiatives in art and culture as a member of the partner network ACT ̶ Art, climate, transition that unites art and what was previously known as ecology, but now more appropriately called the climate crisis, participated in the closing event of the Mladi levi festival organized by the partner organization Bunker.
ACT partners meeting and Art, Climate, Transition (ACT) Symposium || 27-29.07.2023 London
From 27th – 29th ACT partners are meeting in London on the partners meeting and Art, Climate, Transition (ACT) Symposium.
The ACT Symposium will feature lectures, panel discussions, performances, audio walks, and feasts. This programme includes: a practical exploration of resilience within environmental movements with Zamzam Ibrahim, a movement workshop with Brussels-based artists Daniel Linehan & Michael Helland, a masterclass in Legislative Theatre with Katy Rubin, weaving with Sheila Ghelani, and a keynote performance lecture from Mathieu Charles, whoseinnovative performance art reflects his Mauritian Creole heritage, his stance on anti-colonialism, and his embrace of diasporic futurisms.
Summerlab Skopje, 2023 – Public Negative Spaces
Lokomotiva announces: Summerlab Skopje, 2023, happening from 4 – 9th June in Skopje.
The theme of the summer lab will be related to public spaces, more specifically to the designated and planned ‘empty spaces’ in the city, or the so-called negative space in urbanism.
The summer lab will take the participants trough the parts of the city where those ‘empty spaces’ remain and those which are misused and reformed in places for private matters.
See the full program of the Summerlab Skopje 2023 HERE.
ACT: Art Climate Transition / OPEN Call-out for ACT Symposium
Art, Climate, Transition (ACT) partnership
28th/29th June 2023 Artsadmin
Deadline: 13 February, 2023
On the 28th/29th June 2023 Artsadmin and Art, Climate, Transition (ACT) will be co-hosting an international symposium exploring the intersections between contemporary performance, democratic participation, & environmental justice. This two-day symposium will be based at Toynbee Studios in London and sits alongside What Shall We Build Here festival.
Check out the information on the open call for the ACT Symposium organised by our partner Artsadmin:
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ACT: Art, Climate, Transition / Between Glitter and Compost a Conversation on Ecofeminism
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ACT: Art, climate, transition/ Talk
Between Glitter and Compost
A Conversation on Ecofeminism
Suzana Milevska and Myriam Bahaffou, Moderated by Philsan Osman
October 14, 2022
In May 2021 Kaaitheater invited philosopher Suzana Milevska for an online lecture on ecofeminist art practices. This October she will resume this talk in live Brussels and will be joined by researcher and ecofeminist activist Myriam Bahaffou.
Patriarchal systems in different world cultures have long interpreted women as obsessed with cleansing and purification, parallel to the anthropologically driven representation of women as ‘dirty’. How can ecofeminism create environmental awareness while also deconstructing the stereotypical and patriarchal hierarchical assumptions of women’s creativity and productivity?
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.
ACT: Art, Climate, Transition / Summer lab #3 – Magical peatlands, Riga, Latvia
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ACT: Art, Climate, Transition
Summer lab #3 – Magical peatlands
Organized by New Theatre Institute of Latvia
13 – 17 June, 2022, Lake Kaņieris, Kemeri National park, Riga, Latvia
In the period form 12th till 18th of June Lokomotiva, Skopje North Macedonia invited Ivana Mirchevska a visual artist and a researcher to participate of the third summer lab titled Magical peatlands organized by New Theatre Institute of Latvia, as part of European project Art, Climate, Transition. The invited artists, researchers and representatives of the partnering organisations: Julie Navarro (COAL, Paris, France), Elīne Buka (New Theatre Institute of Latvia, Riga, Latvia), Benno Stainegger (Kaaitheater, Brussels, Belgium), Dijana Protić (Domino, Zagreb, Croatia), Zoe Laureen Palmer (Artsadmin, London, United Kingdom), Noor Stenfert Kroese (Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Maria Antunes (Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal), Heli Mäkinen (Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany), and Lea Kukovičič (Bunker, Ljubljana, Slovenia), also attended summer lab organized and programed by Bek Berger, Ieva Briede and the volunteer Una Valaine from New Theatre Institute of Latvia. The invited artist and filmmaker Rebecca Birch from UK, and the observer Merel Heering, dance dramaturge, facilitator and alignment coach from Holland, followed the program together with Zorica Zafirovska, an artist and cultural worker who joined the summer lab program as a representative from Lokomotiva, Skopje.
ACT: Art, Climate, Transition/ Partners meeting at Multimedia Institute MaMa, Zagreb, Croatia
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ACT: Art, Climate, Transition/ Partners meeting/ Networking
May 24-25, 2022
@ Multimedia Institute MaMa, Zagreb, Croatia
On 24th and 25th of May representatives of Lokomotiva attended ACT Network meetings held in Zagreb as part of the Art Climate Transition project.
During these 2 days the program, organised by Domino, Zagreb 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.
At the edge of climate catastrophe: Art, culture, ecology and policy making in the 21st century, conference in MoCA
At the edge of climate catastrophe:
Art, culture, ecology and policy making in the 21st century
Conference/ May 20-21, 2022
@ Museum of Contemporary Art – Skopje
“Culture is an important part of humanity. Development agencies, religious leaders, and academic institutions are increasingly recognising its central role in the political, economic and social life of communities. A focus on culture is important to environmentalists as well as to traditional communities. Too often, when we talk about conservation, we don’t think about culture. But we human beings have evolved in the environment in which we find ourselves. For every one of us, wherever we were, the environment shaped us: it shaped our values; it shaped our bodies; it shaped our religion. It really defined who we are and how we see ourselves.”
Wangari Maathai: The Cracked Mirror, Resurgence Magazine, November 11, 2004
This conference was conceptualized as a platform that brings together theoreticians and practitioners of various kinds to share and discuss knowledge about the possible ways of transforming the future into a livable one, for both humans and non-humans (in an ecofeminist, post-colonial framework of care, solidarity and anticapitalism). The conference is part of the activity “Other Spaces”, from the EU project “ACT – Art, Climate, Transition”, which consists of lectures, discussions, artistic research, discursive programmes and other formats. Through them, we try to open up spaces for reflecting, questioning and mapping the role and responsibility of culture and art in our society and their political action; including their relation to issues of extractivism, erosion/appropriation and preservation/development of the commons and the environmental catastrophe.