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.

“After the Art Spaces and Residences Summit: some thoughts” by Milica Ilic

 

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Art Spaces and Residencies Summit/ Thoughts and reflections

“After the Art Spaces and Residences Summit: some thoughts”

Text by Milica Ilic

 

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Once again, Skopje feels so easy to comprehend. I have never spent a lot of time there and in fact, don’t know the city well. Like in many other places I’ve been to, I’m incapable of finding my way and have on my mental map only very few references of local places and faces to feel connected to. In fact, in reality, it is just one of those places that a conference or a festival brings me to for two or three days, on very rare occasions.

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“What if?” by Dejan Srhoj

 

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Art Spaces and Residencies Summit/ Thoughts and reflections

“What if?” 

Text by Dejan Srhoj

 

It has been three months since our meeting. I am at the office, nobody on the street, nobody at the offices nearby. Everything is silent. I am watching at the entrance of the space we wish to rent. 160m2 one studio, 70 m2 the other one, 10 euro per square meter.

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“My experience with artist in residency programs” by Oliver Musovik

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“My experience with artist in residency programs” 

Text by Oliver Musovik

 

“Artist in Residency programs provide artists with time and space away from their home environment, where one can reflect, conduct research, and investigate new works or means of production.

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On the art spaces and residencies summit by Slobodanka Stevceska

 

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Art Spaces and Residencies Summit/ Thoughts and reflections

“On the art spaces and residencies summit” 

Text by Slobodanka Stevceska

 

I was invited to this gathering as an artist who works in the context of the Republic of North Macedonia and has already participated in quite a number of residencies. As a contribution to that, I would briefly drop my experiences and reflections on the existing models of artist in residency programs.

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“Six fragments on the practice of residencing and other dwellings” by Danae Theodoridou

 

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Art Spaces and Residencies Summit/ Thoughts and reflections

“Six fragments on the practice of residencing and other dwellings” 

Text by Danae Theodoridou

 

 

  1. 2016, A LETTER

 

In 2016, Art Centre BUDA in Belgium celebrated its 10 years with a publication called The Wonderful Workspace of the Future. In it, artists supported by BUDA were asked to write a short text about the future of similar workspaces.

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“The state of becoming” by Morten Goll

 

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Art Spaces and Residencies Summit/ Thoughts and reflections

“The state of becoming” 

Text by Morten Goll

 

Reflections on the Art spaces and Residence Summit, Kino Kultura, Skopje, December 2019

 

Let me start with an introduction to the events that took place in Copenhagen during the days of our summit. I hope it will be productive to share this with you since I feel that I went through a steep learning curve during those days. The summit was an eye-opener to me, but so was a pending shit storm, which was a growing threat to the survival of Trampoline House.

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“Summit in Skopje 2019, reflections” by Marijana Cvetkovic

 

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Art Spaces and Residencies Summit/ Thoughts and reflections

“Summit in Skopje 2019, reflections” 

Text by Marijana Cvetkovic

 

 

Reflections

 

For the occasion of the Summit that took place in November 2019 in Skopje, I presented the model of cultural and social center in Belgrade, Magacin. With the focus of the Summit on new thinking about the residency programs and what a residency could be, I wanted to stress the importance of the context in which any residency, and therefore any creative work can take place.

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“Rethinking the idea of art residency” by Violeta Kachakova

 

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Art Spaces and Residencies Summit/ Thoughts and reflections

“Rethinking the idea of art residency”

Text by Violeta Kachakova

 

Observing the concept of residency

In contemporary world of art, the residency, as Florian Schneider[1] precisely explains “connects space and time through a subjectivity that is based on and generates a somehow paradoxical effect: a continuity of temporary presence; furthermore, it is supposed to generate outcomes that sustain, no matter how they perform; and in doing so, it prepares the ground for the possibility to affect change”.

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“Reflection on Summit” by Jan-Philipp Possman

 

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Art Spaces and Residencies Summit/ Thoughts and reflections

“Reflection on Summit” 

Text by Jan-Philipp Possman

Reflecting on the second summit in Skopje, I realize the importance of reflecting the concept of locality in the current time. I wonder whether the technical innovations around digitization (the internet, social media, the mobile computer/smart tools) or the much older phenomenon of economic globalization, cheaper travel, or a more globalized awareness and identity have influenced our current concept of locality.

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“Cultural and art institutions are dead! Let’s claim for new – or notes on discussions” (self-interview) by Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski

 

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Art Spaces and Residencies Summit/ Thoughts and reflections

“Cultural and art institutions are dead! Let’s claim for new – or notes on discussions” (self-interview)

Text by Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski

 

 

What is your personal/professional relation to space and institution in arts and culture?

December 2019, four years after starting Kino Kultura, and two years after the summit in Mannheim, still focusing with the notions of institution and space, and their relations to the practice of curating, to art, to labor, to conditions of work, to collaboration, to ownership, to power and its distribution, to different/ various forms of self-management… Probably these are ongoing issues, notions that are always on my horizon.

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