Author: lokomotiva

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.

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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Critical Movement Residency with Nina Gojić, Darío Barreto Damas, Viktorija Ilioska, and Aleksandar Georgiev

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(Non)Aligned Movement/Critical Movement Residency

Research residency with Nina Gojić, Darío Barreto Damas, Viktorija Ilioska, and Aleksandar Georgiev

April 16 – 24, 2022

@ Mladinski Kulturen Centar/MKC (Youth Cultural Center)

 

Lokomotiva is hosting Critical Movement Residency that is aimed to support collaboration in the field of dance and choreography with the dramaturg Nina Gojić and choreographers and performers Darío Barreto Damas, Viktorija Ilioska, and Aleksandar Georgiev.

This residence will investigate the choreography and dance practices of the authors active in the region, throughout the process of discussion, thinking and writing together. Their work and research intend to deepen the choreographic processes through dramaturgical collaboration and sharing.

During the residency four authors will also meet local artists and cultural workers and will extend their collaborative network.

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POETIC BODIES research residence by Zhana Pencheva  

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Contemporary choreography and dance/ Research residence and presentation

POETIC BODIES with Zhana Pencheva

11-15th April 2022

@ Youth Cultural Center

 

ICC (Imaginative Choreographic Center) together with Lokomotiva – Center for a new initiative in art and culture, in the period from 11 to 15 April 2022 organized the research residence of the program line of POETRY BODIES, led by Zana Penceva. During the selection process Iskra Prodanova artist, Jovana Zajkova, dance artist, Jovan Gakovski, artist and performer, and Kiril Gjorevski were selected and contributed and shared their practices in Youth Cultural Centre in Skopje, North Macedonia. POETIC BODIES is a program line that offers the infrastructure to dig into an artistic interest or topic under the frame of situation. ICC proposes a situation as a short research guided by a specific artist who is joined by professionals from the field from the region under the role of co-researchers. A situation takes place throughout a working week.

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Premiere of “Dance baby, dance” by Zhana Pencheva in the Youth Cultural Center

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Art Politics Institution Body/ Premiere of the choreographic work

“Dance baby, dance” by Zhana Pencheva 

April 11th, 2022, 20:00  

@ Youth Cultural Center

 

Dance baby, dance is work of a choreographic research focused on the relational potentialities that can occur when people come together and dance.

Work is seen as a choreographic concert with specific pathways and internal rules, where 6 kinetic/dancing bodies go through a variety of situations – flirtation, mystery, transparency, illogicality, irritability and other sensitive spaces.

The concert is submerged in a party-club-like atmosphere and showered with contemporary electronic and pop music.

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Open Call for the Open Course “Curatorial Practice and Context” 2022

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Open call for the Open Course “Curatorial Practice and Context” 2022

29th of August – 3rd of September 2022 @ Struga, North Macedonia

3rd of October – 7th of October @ Online 

7th of November – 17th  of November @ Online

International School Curating in Context that was organised online by LOKOMOTIVA-Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture, and co-curated by Biljana Tanurovska – Kjulavkovski and Slavcho Dimitrov in 2019 and 2020, this year, will be happening in Struga, North Macedonia, as part of the Open Course “Curatorial Practice and Context” 2022  organized by Stockholm University of the Arts, in collaboration with Lokomotiva.

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“Morning Choreographic Concerts” (MCC) with Zhana Pencheva

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Contemporary choreography and dance/ Workshop

“Morning Choreographic Concerts” (MCC) with Zhana Pencheva

11-15th April 2022, 10:00 – 11:00 h

@ DMBUC “Ilija Nikolovski – Luj” -Skopje

 

ICC (Imaginative Choreographic Center) together with Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiative in Arts and Culture organize Morning Choreographic Concerts (MCC) led by Zhana Pencheva from 11th – 15th April 2022 in Skopje. The MCC are free of charge.

About MCC:

MCC is 5 day morning training where we will meet for one hour and celebrate dancing together through different body practices and music varieties.

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OPEN CALL: POETIC BODIES #ZhanaPencheva   

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Contemporary choreography and dance/ Research residence

OPEN CALL: POETIC BODIES with Zhana Pencheva

11-15th April 2022, 11:00 – 16:00 h

@ Youth Cultural Center

 

ICC (Imaginative Choreographic Center) together with Lokomotiva – Center for New Initiative in Arts and Culture, launches an open call to select 3 ARTISTS (co-researches) to participate in ICC program line POETIC BODIES, this time led by Zhana Pencheva, in Skopje, North Macedonia. Co-researchers artists will be paid for their engagement.

 

About POETIC BODIES:

POETIC BODIES is a program line that offers the infrastructure to dig into an artistic interest or topic under the frame of situation. ICC proposes a situation as a short research guided by a specific artist who is joined by professionals from the field from the region under the role of co-researchers. A situation takes place throughout a working week.

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Workshop:  Preserving place and space for marginalized belongings through culture, heritage and arts

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Contemporary Culture and Public Policies/ Workshop

Preserving place and space for marginalized belongings through culture, heritage and arts

University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture (N. Macedonia) and Cultural Heritage Without Borders (Albania)

Participants: Dea Vidović, Francesca Gotti, Francesca Sabatini, Ana Žuvela, Hanna Szemzö, Laura Tapini, Peter Dragoev, Lea Vroman, Carole Debuck Luka Knežević- Strika, Artan Sadiku, Jasmina Bilalovikj, Ivo Krug, Flaka Xerxa Beqiri, Ivana Vaseva, Filip Jovanovski, Irena Ružin
Chairs: Claske Vos, Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski and Ana Žuvela

23, 24 March 2022

@ Upper foyer Kino Frosina, Youth Cultural Center

 

All across Europe, and in particularly in urban settings, public places and spaces of belonging as well as public goods have come under pressure. Even though the existence of open and inclusive public spaces has long been recognised as a key factor for promoting the development of more sustainable and resilient urban societies, several developments such as neoliberal policies of privatisation, deregulation and liberalisation and rising xenophobia have hindered the preservation of such spaces. In these times in which inclusive public places and spaces are shrinking, the culture, heritage and arts sector has become central in the creation of spaces in which the general public can channel its dissatisfaction, alternatives can be shown and creativity and free thought be expressed. Several initiatives have been developed with as it main aim to create ‘concrete utopia’s’ –  concrete action towards the anticipation of the not-yet. By developing new forms of governance, places and spaces for alternative engagement are provided safeguarded which allow for the continued existence of marginalized belongings.

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“Urban Gardens: Connective Tissues”, process project by Ana Lazarevska

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ACT: Art Climate Transition/ Other Spaces

“Urban Gardens: Connective Tissues” durational project by Ana Lazarevska

Friday, December 24, 2021/ 4 pm-6 pm, 

@ Greenhouse, Faculty of Pedagogy, Skopje

In this development/process project, Ana Lazarevska presents part of her research which is based on careful and unrushed observation of nature and society, their functions, relations, and ways of functioning as a system. She compares them to the system by which the human body functions, which exists in its complexity as nature does, which depends on the functionality of the organs, their connection, the environment in which it develops and lives, depends on external influences, trauma, safe keeping, love , care, etc. By deconstructing the body, she reflects on the process of creating and on the bodies and systems in which they function, i.e. how cells combine to form tissues, tissues to form organs, and organs to form organisms that exist in systems – social systems and ecosystems.

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