PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE RECOLLECTION OF A CITY: MICRO UTOPIAS AND REALITIES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FRIDAY 22.11.2013 19:00h- 22:45h. GEM club 18:30h -19:00h Coffe 19:00h-19:15h. INTRODUCTION: Filip Jovanovski and Ivana Vaseva 19:15h - 21:30h. SESSION 1: FAILED CITY Presentation of local and regional activist practices Nikola Naumoski/citizen initiative Parkobrani, Skopje The fight for the parks by hotel Bristol Nikola Naumoski, MA in political communication sciences and an activist of the city of Skopje who was member and took part in many different orGanizations and initiatives on the human riGhts front, the public property expenditure and public spaces. In this moment he is the president of the association for activism art and theory "Ploshtad Sloboda" - Skopje, known for the protests aGainst the implementation of the project "Skopje 2014" since the very beginninG until now. Teodor Celakoski/ initiative RiGht to the City, Zagreb Deformation of Public Space, Right to the City and Tactical Networking Teodor Celakoski is project coordinator at Multimedia Institute, ZaGreb. In last ten years he initiated several projects and platforms focused on advocating change in the Croatian culture policy field like Clubture, ZaGreb Culture Kapital of Europe 3000, Alliance Operation City. Recently he is enGaged with The RiGht to the City campaiGn fiGhtinG against devastation of public spaces in ZaGreb and Croatia. Tadej Kurepa/ Cultural Center REX , platform Who builds the city? The possibility of equality in a society marked by inequality Tadej Kurepa is a Graduated journalist-bachelor in political science from BelGrade. In the first half of 2013 he was a cooperator to the panel Smarter building, in the project Who builds the city. Since SSeptember 2013 he's been at the position proGram orGanizer in the Cultural Center REX. Besides that, he has been active in the field of communication, publishing, and cinematoGraphy. He is a member of Anarcho syndicalists initiative. Maksim Naumovski and Oliver Ilievski/ initiative I love GTC, Skopje I love GTC Oliver Ilievski and Maksim Naumovski are assistants at the Faculty of Architecture and DesiGn at UACS (University American ColleGe Skopje). They are the organizers of the Skopje Week of Architecture within the experimental project "Skopje City of fraGments, City of Situations", which encouraGes examination of the forms of behavior in people. The accent falls on the physical space in some urban fraGments of the city and of the initiative "I love GTC" (Go sakam GTC) Vasko Lazarevski/ citizen initiative AMAN, Skopje Public space or Lebensraum? Vasko Lazarevski is part of the nonformal coalition "70 years of Antifaschism" which also organizes the celebration of Macedonian National UprisinG Day and is one of the founders of the leftist movement "Solidarity" (2012). In AuGust 2012 he actively participates in the protests against the increasment of the prices and in the citizen initiative "AMAN". After December 24, 2012 he participated in the "Resistance" campaiGn. In 2013 he takes part in the initiatives "Parkobrani", "The battle continues" and is one of the orGanizers "Macedonia loves everyone". 20:00h - 21:30h DISCUSSION Moderator: Ivana Dragsic/ NGO Square Freedom Ivana DraGsic graduated at the Faculty of SocioloGy at "Ss Cyril and Methodius" University in Skopje and also spent some time at the Bard ColleGe in New York. Despite beinG an artist she is also an activist and part of the organization "Ploshtad Sloboda". She had exhibited in the Cultural center "Tochka", Skopje, the Culture center "CK"; Museum of the City of Skopje;Stedefreund Gallery, Berlin; Multimedia center "Mala Stanica" etc. 22:00h – 00:00h (Beer house Kapan an) Dinner only for the participants in the conference ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SATURDAY 23.11.2013 11:00h – 22:00h. Bar Menada (downstairs) 11:00h coffee 11:00h - 11:15h INTRODUCTION: Filip Jovanovski and Ivana Vaseva 11:15h - 12:00h СЕСИЈА 2: IS THE ORNAMENT A CRIME? Presentation of local and regional art practices Initiative KOOPERACIJA/ self-financed Group of artists, Skopje “Kooperacija – temporary zone”, prezentation Slobodanka Stevcevska KOOPERACIJA is an initiative whose purpose is artistic activity outside the inert institutional frameworks, thus suGGestinG an exceptional approach to the creation and experience of contemporary art. KOOPERACIJA stands for shifting and redefining the borders between public and personal space. Its objective is to unlock questions concerninG the dynamic role of art in the context of centralized cultural politics and social discourse. KOOPERACIJA strives to encouraGe the interaction between the artist and audience. KOOPERACIJA’s basic strateGy is the occupation of temporarily free space dispersed throuGhout the urban landscape and exhibiting via a chain of blitzkrieg events. The desired effect is a constructive dialogue regarding the re-questioning of the critical positions in art and producing a favorable environment for a free exchange of ideas, experience and freedom of expression. Boris Bakal/ non-profit international artistic and production platform Shadow casters, ZaGreb Presentation of the outcomes of the workshop AUTOMAKEDONIJA – safe place? In Skopje, and of the project Vitic dances in Zagreb Boris Bakal - theatre/film director and actor, intermedia artist, activist and macrobiotic cook born in ZaGreb, SFRJ (now Rep. of Croatia). Throughout more then thirty years of his career, he authored theatre and film projects, performances, installations and multimedia artworks which have been presented at festivals and exhibitions in over 20 countries worldwide (including Bologna Cultural Capital of Europe 2000, Steirischer Herbst, Bollwerk Beluard International, Eurokaz, Urbanfestival, Thealter, Bitef, Interferences, MESS and others). His work is marked, amonG other, by pronounced exploration of the site/time-specific and the interactive elements of arts. Boris Bakal was also visiting lecturer at: New York University, Stony Brook University, SACI Studio Art Centers International (Florence) and Columbia University. He is co-founder of several artistic and activist platforms/associations, e.g. Shadow Casters, FlyinG University, Orchestra Stolpnik and Croatian Antiwar Campaign. Boris is currently working on various film, intermedia and theatre projects: “Ex-position” (film/postproduction), “Concrete love” (film/production), “Urban Hum” (theatre/production) and “On the Verge of Reason“ (video-web-serial/postproduction). Nemanja Cvijanovic/ artist, Rijeka The sweetest dream Applause! The Monument to the Memory of the Idea of Internationale W IL POTERE POPOLARE In his artwork Nemanja Cvijanović uses almost all the media and techniques of visual and performinG arts. His work is based on conceptual / post-conceptual / settinG and is developed throuGh the practice of collective performance, the performance of interactive installations and facilities, video production and multimedia projects, painting, photography, and sound works. His focus of interest is questioninG and uncoverinG the mechanisms of production, manipulation and consumption of meaninG in post-modern culture that is based on a critical attitude towards the ideoloGical and aesthetic values of modernist culture and society. His criticism is manifested in the works of art based on the structural and semantic order of pre-existing works, historical events or phenomena, by means of mimesis and / or simulation as well as the use of visual meta-lanGuaGe. Cvijanović lucidly links past and present, parallel realities of different social systems and different artistic strateGies. 12:00h – 13:30h DISCUSSION Moderator: Elena Veljanovska, art historian and curator Elena Veljanovska is a freelance curator based between Skopje and Berlin. In 2006, Graduates at the Art History and archaeology Faculty in Skopje, currently signed an MA course in the filed of Cultural studies at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, Skopje. Since 2003 is working actively in initiating cultural projects and exhibitions. She is using the curatorial practice as a tool for critical approach and creating an environment for problematizinG issues that are in her wider interest and are in a close or distant relation with arts: public space, technology, politics, politics of memory. In 2006 she is forming Line I+M, platform for new media art and technology, and in 2009 she works as a Guest-curator in Stedefreund Gallery in Berlin, and as a co-curator of the Macedonian Pavillion at the 53 International Art exhibition in Venice. 2009-2010, she is holdinG lectures as part of the “Visions of art - Contemporary Art E-learninG proGram” (Germany-Mexico); and realises several international projects. In 2010-11 works as a curator and editor of the publication for the SEAFAIR – Electronic arts festival ’10 and ‘11th edition. Since 2012 she is actively involved in the creation of the Association of the Independent cultural scene as a proGram coordinator and part of the decision makinG board of the Association, and also workinG as an executive director of the cultural orGanization Kontrapunkt, Skopje. 13:30h – 13:45h break 13:45h - 16:00h SESSION 3: THE CITY, CENTRAL MARGINE Presentation of local and regional activist practices Nikola Gelevski/ web portal OKNO, Skopje Skopje 2014 as Disneyland Nikola Gelevski is the director of the publishinG house "Templum" since the very beGinninG 1989 he is the Editor