What does it mean to engage with critical practice within and around the arts? A Problematic Book is a journey throughout one year of gatherings and discussions on art and politics across Eastern and Western Europe. It approaches a critical thinking and art making by taking the notion of “problem” as a point of departure: …
Cultural policies after the crisis lecture by Robert Alagjiovski 6 May 2017, 12 – 2 p.m. Skopje, Youth Cultural Center (Младински Културен Центар Скопје) Abstract Based on definitions and theoretical approaches from authors like Matarasso, Bianchini, Landry, etc. this presentation would focus on some general dilemma and problems in the goals and understanding of …
CP3_Reader (2016): Contents Agamben, Giorgio (2011). “Toward a Theory of Destituent Potential“. in The Use of Bodies. Stanford Uni Press: Stanford CA. Badiou, Alain (2004). “Dance as a metaphor for thought“, in Handbook of Inaesthetics. Stanford Uni Press: Stanford CA. Bohm, David (1989). “Meaning and Information“. in Pylkkanen, Paavo (ed.), The Search for Meaning – …
As part of Critical Practice_Made in Yu on Locomotion 8 festival, we organized critical reflections on the program of the festival. Conversations were part of radio streaming of the project of Macedonian artist Gjorgje Jovanovik – Radio Slobodno Skopje (Radio Free Skopje) https://www.facebook.com/events/1673469136273385/ https://www.mixcloud.com/gjorgje-jovanovik/ Ana Vujanovic in conversation with Shir Hacham and Aisling Marks …
This lecture will deal with the “critical writing” in the exhibition space, assuming that each exhibition presents a kind of “scripted space” generated through communication and socialization, sometimes a joint action – as the space of both the stage and the everyday life, or their mutual interconnection. We will look at the examples of experimental and alternative forms of exhibition practice, focusing on several “cases” of artistic and curatorial critical interventions performed in (post) Yugoslav space of the 1970s and now.
Contents: Ahmed, Sara (2007). A phenomenology of whiteness. Feminist Theory, 8: 149. http://www.rainbow-season.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Feminist_Theory-2007-Ahmed-149-68.pdf Etchells, Tim (2012). Alphabet of Festivals. http://www.timetchells.com/notebook/february-2012/alphabet-of-festivals/ Garcia, Tristan (2014). Arts and Rules. In Form and Object: A Treatise on Things, Edinburgh UP. Lacan, Jacques (1992). The Object and the Thing. In VII seminar: The ethics of psychoanalysis, Routledge: New York & …
Aldo Milohnić Performing arts and the fictional structure of the law Opening lecture – contemporary performance & dance festival Locomotion Skopje, 27th October, 2014 In contemporary art practices there is a growing group of artists whose key methodological guiding line is the relation between art and the law. This orientation, in Slovenia characteristic especially …
Contemporary Dance in Europe: Vicissitudes of the Field seminar with Bojana Cvejic 13 June, 3pm-6pm & 14 June, 1pm-4pm, Brussels During the 1990s, a new set of actors and working conditions, as well as institutional infrastructures emerged in the European dance scene, often coupled or identified with “performance”. In retrospect, it is considered under …
Critical Practice (Made in Yugoslavia): Cycle 1 (2014-15) A GENERAL READER 1. Is this art at all? Arthur Danto, “The Artworld,“ Journal of Philosophy LXI, 1964 (PDF) George Dickie, “What is Art?; An Institutional Analysis“, in Art and Philosophy, W. E. Kennick (ed), New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1979 2. On the (new) politicality of …
This program is realised as an addition of Critical Practice - training for emerging dance writers, initiated within apap - FEMINIST FUTURES, a project co-founded by the Creative Programme of the European Union.