Publication: “Curating in Context – Political and Performative Curatorial Imaginaries”

 

We are pleased to announce the publication/book “Curating in Context – Political and Performative Curatorial Imaginaries” edited by Biljana Tanurovska – Kjulavkovski and Slavco Dimitrov which was generated as part of their curatorial work on the International summer school “Curating in Context” in the period of 2020-2022.

 

The book includes texts from exceptional writers – theorists, curators, artists as Danae Theodoridou, Florian Malzacher, Suzana Milevska, Amelia T. Jones, Anastasia Proshutinskaya, Jasmina Založnik, Rok Vevar, Kirsten Maar, Dominic Johnson and Voin de Voin.

 

The publication/book “Curating in Context – Political and Performative Curatorial Imaginaries” in printed by Lokomotiva and shorty summaries the following:

In this publication editors wanted to interrelate the notion of the curatorial to a problem, or a situation, to time, space, conditions and processes of work, and to observe its transformation in those relations.

They are addressing the term as such and try to reflect it as “programming- dramaturgy – producing – organizing – presenting – exhibiting – reflecting or in its broadest sense, as a process of thinking and doing, and taking care of the context in which artwork is developed and appears.”

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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.

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Residences and presentations: “Queer dance art and performance”

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Lokomotiva in collaboration with Movement Research, New York

(2-11 June, 2022)

 

Artists in residence: Jasmine Hearn, zavé martohardjono, Sarah A.O. Rosner, Raymond Pinto (USA), Vladimir Bjeličić (SRB), Olja Grubić (SLO) and Aleksandar Georgiev (MK)

GPS Visiting Scholar: Levi Gonzales (USA)

 

Program:

2-10 June @ Macedonian National theatre and Mala Stanica (laboratory for exchanging practices and meetings with artists and cultural workers)

 

@ 09 June, 20:00 @ Mala Stanica/ @Skopje Pride Weekend Festival 2022

“Performing presentations” by Jasmine Hearn, zavé martohardjono, Raymond Pinto and Sarah A.O. Rosner

 

Movement Research (NY) and Lokomotiva (MK) are developing a collaboration that will gather artists, theorists, and researchers from USA and Balkans who define them and their work as queer, each from their specific artistic perspective.
During the collaboration we will try to explore diverse practices among themselves, as artists and cultural workers, also bringing closer local perspectives and situations in which such work appears and is developed.
Collaboration is developed through laboratory for exchanging practices, meetings and presentations on the Pride Weekend 2022, Festival for queer arts, culture and theory.

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Premiere of “Echoes of S” by Aleksandar Georgiev

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 Contemporary choreography and dance/ Choreographed bodies

“Echoes of S” landscaped choreographic work by Aleksandar Georgiev

@Skopje Pride Weekend Festival

Thursday, 02 June 20:30 h

@ Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje

Echoes of S is an artistic proposal by the choreographer Aleksandar Georgiev within the frame of his ongoing interest around “anal politics”. In this work, Aleksandar choreographs a collaboration with the photo artist Martin Atanasov and creates an environment that activates the spaces between live performance and photography, focusing on the poetic potentials the anus entails, conceptually and physically.

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Exhibition “Ecstatic Bodies: Archive of Performative Queer Bodies in Macedonia” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje

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Programme Art Institution Politics Body / AIPB

Exhibition “Ecstatic Bodies: Archive of Performative Queer Bodies in Macedonia”

Curators: Slavcho Dimitrov and Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski

Skopje Pride Weekend 10 / Ecstatic Bodies

02 June 20:30 h.

@ Museum of Contemporary Art – Skopje

 

with: Wolfgang Tillmans | Nora Stojanovic | Milosh Kodzoman and Dragoljub Bezan| Hristina Ivanoska | Velimir Zernovski |Yane Chalovski | Sands Murray Wassink | Kocho Andonovski | Natasha Geleva | STEAM ROOM | Aleksandar Georgiev | Viktorija Ilioska | Laura Fer| Mirko Popov | Zoran Ristevski-Bajbe | Ivana Dragsic | Sonja Ismail |TEMPLUM | Euro-Balkan Institute |Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities Skopje | Museum of Contemporary Arts | FRIK Festival | First Born Girl | Skopje Pride Weekend|

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Skopje Pride Weekend 10 “Ecstatic Bodies”

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Skopje Pride Weekend 10 | Ecstatic Bodies

Co-collaboration Programme 

 02 – 11, June 2022

@ Museum of Contemporary Art / YCC/ KSP Jadro/ S26/ Mala stanica/ Skopje

 

📅 02 June (Thursday) 20:30 h. Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje

„Ecstatic Bodies: Archive of Performative Queer Bodies in Macedonia“ – Exhibition –

Curators: Slavcho Dimitrov and Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski

with: Wolfgang Tillmans | Nora Stojanovic | Milosh Kodzoman and Dragoljub Bezan | Hristina Ivanoska | Velimir Zernovski | Yane Chalovski | Sands Murray Wassink | Kocho Andonovski | Natasha Geleva | STEAM ROOM | Aleksandar Georgiev | Viktorija Ilioska | Laura Fer | Mirko Popov | Zoran Ristevski-Bajbe | Ivana Dragsic | Sonja Ismail | TEMPLUM | Euro-Balkan Institute | Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities Skopje | Museum of Contemporary Arts | FRIK Festival | First Born Girl | Skopje Pride Weekend |

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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.

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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.

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Mural painting and educational program for the Egyptian Vulture at the primary school “Goce Delchev”

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ACT: Art Climate Transition/ Your birds, our birds – campaign

Opening of a mural painting of the Egyptian Vulture by Dorotej Neshovski

Children’s workshop for mural painting and making bird masks

Lecture and presentation for the Egyptian Vulture by Nenad Petrovski 

Friday, May 13, 2022/ 9:00 – 12:00 

@ primary school “Goce Delchev”, Skopje

 

Lokomotiva аs partner of the project ACT: Art Climate Transition,  is one of the partners in the campaign “Your birds, our birds” which is organized in Marseille and in the member countries of the ACT network in Europe. The campaign brings together 10 cultural and art organizations from 10 European countries that will create a mural and a programmme to give visibility for a certain rare bird in the region in which they operate. The project ACT puts the stories of these 10 murals into a collection across Europe, to be presented September 2022 online and onsite.

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Critical Practice (Made in Yu) at the Feminist Futures Festival in Amiens and Lisbon

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Critical practice (Made in Yugoslavia) 

Feminist Futures Festival in Amiens and Lisbon

April 19, 2022

 

La Maison de la Culture d’Amiens and Teatro Nacional D. Maria II have teamed up in an exceptional way to organize the Feminist Futures Festival, a unique venture shared between Lisbon and Amiens from January 17 to 29, 2022. This festival is part of the Feminist Futures project by the apap network.

The participants of the Critical Practice programme attended the programmes co-curated by the two institutions in both cities from 20 to 27 January and participated to several open and internal debates that questioned the issues of feminist curating, feminist festival and institutional model, critical reflection of decolonization in performing arts, feminist dance and performance practices etc.

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