Con-texts: the curatorial, the lake, the writing bodies and bodies of water 

The Summer School was held in Struga in the south-western part of Northern Macedonia, where I have never been before. The context was new for me – as it was for all of us. After having spent the prequel few days in Skopje – a city touched with the monumentosis compulsion, I found this decentralizing decision to meet in Struga bold and tempting, and soon I also realized that it brought my thinking about curatorial practices down to earth, maybe even to the underlands of its mission, to the very context of where we are, what we can(not) give to the context, what we can(not) take from it, what temporalities we still keep in our bodies, and with who we would be shifting them in days to come.

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Beyond Present Future Feminisms

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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.

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

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Emerging authors (writers, critics, researchers, theoreticians) and those interested in further professional development in the field of critical practice in contemporary performing arts can advance their writing and discussing skills within the Critical Practice (Made in Yugoslavia) programme. Mentors of the programme: Ana Vujanović, Marijana Cvetković and Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski.

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On Dance as a Circumstance

Reflection on the Dance vs Circumstances symposium (Tanznacht Berlin, August 2016) by Ana Letunić In the context of rising precariousness in Berlin’s contemporary dance scene, as well as its influences on the production processes, it seemed only sensible to programme a symposium on working methods and production conditions as a part of the 9th Tanznacht …

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SCHEDULE OF THE GATHERING IN SKOPJE, 26 – 31 OCTOBER 2016

Critical practice (made in Yugoslavia): Cycle 3 Gathering in Skopje, at Platform(a), 26 – 31 October 2016   SCHEDULE  October 26 8 pm: Future read in concrete and stone (performance): Bojan Djordjev 9.45 pm: Critical Time: Critical Practice October 27 4 – 6 pm: Working session: Critical Practice (MKC) 8 pm: Empty Voice (performance): Per Art …

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NOW OUT: A Problematic Book by Critical Practice (Made in YU) 2

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: …

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SCHEDULE OF THE GATHERING IN BELGRADE, 21 – 26 OCTOBER 2016

Critical practice (made in Yugoslavia): Cycle 3 gathering in Belgrade, at Kondenz festival, 21 – 26 October 2016   SCHEDULE   October 21 SPECIES: Jovana Rakić Cultural Centre REX, 7 pm Critical Time: Critical Practice Cultural Centre REX, 8.30pm   October 22 RESIDENCY PRESENTATION: Levi Gonzales & Mariana Valencia (Movement research) Magacin in Kraljevića Marka …

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