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.

“Queer and feminist dance practices”, online workshop

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Cooperation between Cultural Workers and Artists from the USA and the Balkans

Queer and feminist dance practices/ Online Workshop

Monday, December 20, 2021/ 17.00 CET/ 11.00 ET 

Movement Research (NY) and Lokomotiva (MK) are developing collaboration that will gather artists from USA and Balkans who define them and their work as queer, each in 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 appear and it is developed.
Collaboration will be developed through formats of online and live gatherings in Skopje and New York.

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Critical Practice (Made in Yu) / Seminar 2021

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Critical practice (Made in Yugoslavia)
Seminar 2021
Conceived and led by Ana Vujanović

13 – 17 December 2021

 

The initial seminar of the new cycle of the Critical Practice (Made in YU) program will focus on recent critical discourses in performing arts and culture, coming from the cultural space of Yugoslavia. We will combine different formats of work: discussions of assigned readings, interviews with invited authors, and internal group work meetings / talks.
The seminar is followed with a reading list proposed by Ana Vujanović; the texts selected to be discussed or talked about with invited authors are to be read in advance.
The seminar is supposed to result in a new reading list, composed of the texts proposed by the participants. Further seminar-like situations will be self-organized.

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“Politics of the Commons” online lecture by Jovana Timotijević

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ACT: Art Climate Transition/ Other Spaces 

“Politics of the Commons” online lecture by Jovana Timotijević

Мoderator: Ivana Dragšić

Monday, November 29, 2021, 19:00 h CET

Faced with increasing inequalities and the inability of the neoliberal state to offer institutional mechanisms for the fulfilment of all people’s social and economic rights, which the market simultaneously fails to provide, the pressure to find alternative modes of production, social relations and forms of organization is overwhelming.

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ACT: Art, Climate, Transition/ Partners meeting/ NETWORKING 

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ACT: Art, Climate, Transition/ Partners meeting/ Networking

November 25-26, 2021

@ Cultugest, Lisbon, Portugal

Networking as part of the ACT project is important segment where partners are sharing and discussing development of the activities. This meeting was organised and hosted by Culturgest, Lisabon with participation of other project partners and representatives from: 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.

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PARTICIPANTS OF THE FOURTH PROGRAMME CYCLE (CP4)

Critical Practice (Made in Yugoslavia)

PARTICIPANTS OF THE FOURTH PROGRAMME CYCLE (CP4)
November 20, 2021

 

Jette Büchsenschütz is doing her doctorate at the Free University of Berlin on participatory performance formats and the concept of practice. Before that she studied Sinology and Dance Science in Berlin and Hangzhou. She published regularly in the online magazines gallerytalk.net and PW-Magazine. She is editor in the curatorial platform Montag Modus in Berlin. In 2018 she was awarded the AICA Prize for Young Art Critics.

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“Co-teaching: dots of sheltering bodies” kultrening with Viktorija Ilioska and Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld

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Kultrening/ Choreography and dance workshop

“Co-teaching: dots of sheltering bodies” with Viktorija Ilioska and Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld

(Non)Aligned Movements/ Public presentation 

Research by Viktorija Ilioska, Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld and Aleksandar Georgiev

November 18-19, 2021, 17:00 – 19:00 h

@ Mandolin orchestra, Youth Cultural Center

 

Due to compliance with the 19 protocols, it is necessary to present a vaccination certificate or a certificate of eligibility with a validity of not older than 45 days.

In the frame of Kultrenig this year’s choreographic research team of the (Non)Aligned Movements project: Viktorija Ilioska, Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld and Aleksandar Georgiev, will hold public presentation on 19th of November, about their research work, as an exchange with the local scene.

Sign up by e-mail at Kultrening@gmail.com the number of participants is limited.

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Discussion “Culture and art on the edge of crisis” in the space of YCC

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 ACT: Art Climate Transition/ Other Spaces 

“Culture and art on the edge of crisis” (environmental, public good, institutional, KOVID 19, etc.) /

Discussion with Simona Getova, Ana Jovanovska, Viki Mladenova, Zoran Petrovski and Artan Sadiku.

Moderators: Ivana Dragšić and Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski

Wednesday, November 17, 2021, 18:00 h

@ Upper foyer Kino Frosina, Youth Cultural Center

 

Due to compliance with the 19 protocols, it is necessary to present a vaccination certificate or a certificate of eligibility with a validity of not older than 45 days.

This program activity is part of the Art Climate Transition project, and consists of lectures, discussions and research, in order to open up spaces for posing questions and mapping the role and the responsibility of culture and art in our society, their political action, and their relation to issues related to the erosion and appropriation of public goods and the environmental catastrophe. Furthermore, the aim is to find ways for these fields to be inspired by similar actions that oppose extractivist practices and the devastation of the public, i.e. advocate for the development and preservation of public goods and the environment.

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(Cancelled) “Poiesis of self” performance by Snježana Premuš together with Rok Vevar in the frame of MOT

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Art, politics, institution, body/ Performance

“Poiesis of self” by Snježana Premuš and Rok Vevar

November 22, 2021, 22:00 – 22:50

46th edition of Mlad otvoren teatar

@ Cinema Frosina, Youth Cultural Center

Due to compliance with the 19 protocols, it is necessary to present a vaccination certificate or a certificate of eligibility with a validity of not older than 45 days.

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Premiere of “The Power of S“ with Aleksandar Georgiev together with Zhana Pencheva and Dario Barreto Damas in the frame of MOT

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Art, politics, institution, body/ Performance

“The Power of S“ with Aleksandar Georgiev together with Zhana Pencheva and Dario Barreto Damas

November 22, 2021, 22:00 – 22:50 h

46th edition of International Theatre Festival – MOT

@ Dancing hall 25 May, Youth Cultural Center

Due to compliance with the 19 protocols, it is necessary to present a vaccination certificate or a certificate of eligibility with a validity of not older than 45 days.

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