Lokomotiva ::: Independently curated programme which is based on collaboration with artists working with live arts, or dance, choreography and performance. Program is supporting research and production of art and knowledge through residencies, productions of dance, lectures-presentations, conferences, workshops, symposiums etc., in which certain problems in the field are reflected, reassessed and critically reconsidered.
After long break during 27th and 28th of June, in Barcelona will happen the General Assembly meeting of European Dancehouse Network – EDN. As representative of Lokomotiva, Skopje, Biljana Tanurovska – Kjulavkovski attended the assembly. During these days the representatives of the member organizations will have opportunity to meet again and have important discussions, information sharing and decision-making.
During the General Assembly, co-organised by Mercat de les Flors, held in Barcelona on 28 June 2022, EDN members voted for new president and board members of the European Dancehouse Network.
In a cruel twist of fate, I fear that the movement for women’s liberation has become entangled in a dangerous liaison with neoliberal efforts to build a free-market society. That would explain how it came to pass that feminist ideas that once formed part of a radical worldview are increasingly expressed in individualist terms. (…) A movement that once prioritised social solidarity now celebrates female entrepreneurs. A perspective that once valorised ‘care’ and interdependence now encourages individual advancement and meritocracy.[1]
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. Initiated by the apap – advancing performing arts project, the festivals are a part of the larger EU-funded programm apap – FEMINIST FUTURES with the high aim of – in its own words – “initiate powerful social changes through art”.
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.”
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.
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)
“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.
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.
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|
@ 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 |
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.
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.
