Open Call for performing art students and young professionals to join the Imaginary School gathering in Giessen, Germany

2nd-6th of December 2019, Giessen, Germany

We are inviting young artists, students, professionals, writers and thinkers to engage together in the imagining of the alternatives of working and being together, reacting to the populist and nationalist wave in Europe. We would like to examine new institutionalization, practices and modes of producing, especially related to the work of the young artists, who are working in the increasingly but also precarious international field and at the same time fighting for the right to work and remain in their local surrounding, fighting nationalism and populist pressure. We will exchange and share models and practices, current and historical one, which insist on the creation of experiments, feminist, radical and progressive practices, which insists on equality, solidarity and work against the populist political imagination.

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Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski today in Dijon will present her PhD Thesis “Theory of institutions and cultural policies for contemporary performative practices” nominated for the for the ENCATC Research Award

Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski today in Dijon will present her PhD Thesis “Theory of institutions and cultural policies for contemporary performative practices” nominated for the for the ENCATC Research Award.

The presentation is organised in the frame of 2019 ENCATC Congress on Cultural Management and Policy in Dijon 2-5 2019, dedicated on the subject of “Diversity and sustainability at work; Policies and practices from culture and education”. During the congress Tanurovska Kjulavkovski is also engaged as mentor in 2019 ENCATC Research Boot Camp – Governance

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Lokomotiva – Skopje, one of the partners of the project -Imaginary school for the future of the (art) institutions

Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski is one of the presenters at the Seminar in Lublin, Poland, held from 22 to 24 September, organized in the framework of the project “Imaginary school for the future of the (art) institutions”. She will have her presentation on the subject  “We want to work here! – curatorial strategies for spaces of interdependence” followed by discussion at Labyrinth Gallery on 23rd September 2019.

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MOONLIGHT performance at 44.MOT Festival

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15.09.2019, 22:00, Kino Kultura

Lokomotiva Skopje in collaboration with 44.MOT 2019 is presenting you the performance MOONLIGHT

Choreography and performance: Aleksandar Georgiev and Dario Barreto Damas
Duration: 45 min.
Language: without text

 

About the performance:
MOONLIGHT is a choreographic project focused on poetic structures, a staged exploration of dispersed meanings, a malleable reality. This proposal rediscovers persistently established identities, unfolding and queering normativity. MOONLIGHT functions as a quick machinery of change and disruption.

 

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Dream State

Локомотива Скопје во соработка со 44.MOT 2019​ ви го претставува перформансот DREAM STATE/ Lokomotiva, Skopje in collaboration with 44.MOT 2019 is presenting you the performance DREAM STATE.

Кореографија и изведба/Choreography and performance: Valentino Apostolovski
Музика/Music: Victor Apostolovski
Драматурзи соработници/Dramaturgy collaborators: Ivana Ivkovic ana Nina Gojic
Продукција/Produced by: Lokomotiva, Skopje, as part of the project „What is choreography?“ curated by Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski
Проект менаџер/Project manager: Violeta Kachakova

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Lecture by Mike van Graan at 44. МОТ Festival

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🎭 44. MOT 2019 🎭

Theatre and the post-apartheid/post-colonial condition: the role of theatre in social transformation – a South African experience.
Theatre is credited with having played a role in providing international audiences with insights into the human impact of apartheid, thereby contributing to global pressure to end this crime against humanity.

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Workshop „Choreographing relations” with Aleksandar Georgiev and Dario Barreto Damas

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Workshop „Choreographing relations” in KINO KULTURA

| 9 September | Kino Kultura |
| 11.00-18.00 – workshop |
| 18.00-19.00 – public presentation |

| The workshop is open to all interested participants. If you are interested to participate please send your full name to contact@lokomotiva.org.mk, with an e-mail title: “Application for Choreographing relations Workshop Participation” |

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Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski, one of the finalists of the 2019 ENCATC Research Award on Cultural Policy and Cultural Management

On 27 August, ENCATC, the leading European network on cultural management and policy, revealed the four finalists in the running for the 2019 ENCATC Research Award on Cultural Policy and Cultural Management:

– Annatina Aerne for her PhD “The Creation of a Public Sphere through a Network of Art Publics in Bogotá” obtained from the University of
St.Gallen in Switzerland;

– Karla Nunes Penna for her PhD “A critical autoethnographic study of context-related influences on cultural heritage preservation education
of World Heritage sites in Northeastern Brazil” obtained from Murdoch University in Australia;

– Minna Ruusuvirta for her PhD “Does sector matter? Plural characteristics and logics in third sector festival organisations” obtained from the
University of Jyväskylä in Finland;

– Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski for her PhD “Theory of institutions and cultural policies for contemporary performative practices” obtained
from the University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Serbia.

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Two performances by Marko Gutić Mižimakov

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4 September | Kino Kultura

20:00 | Drugovanje
author/production:
performers: Marko Gutić Mižimakov & MarQ2
Drugovanje is an excerpt from a series of works named A Performing Site For Affective Clones & Whatever They Want
http://performing.site

With just one side and one margin you resemble the Klein bottle or a Möbius strip. As if there is no inside or outside, your polygon-made body dances along the pixels of the LCD screen. The everlasting negotiation and transfer of information between the GPU and the CPU. The polygons of your polymesh made skin upon which a variety of textures and properties are stretched and skewed take the appearance of the organic only when shot with the ray from a point of view of a hypothetical camera, analyzed by the rendering engine which processes you into a photorealistic form. A form in which I recognize you.

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Performance by Sonja Pregrad

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| 3 September, Open Graphic Studio, 20:00 |
| Carnival tent rusts in the evening breeze – un/packing of objecthood |
Author/performer: Sonja Pregrad
Production: Četveroruka/Fourhanded
duration: 40 min.

The event-space functions simultaneously and in contradiction as a performance and as an exhibition. Within it 9 ‘objects’ are exhibited/performed – performance as an object consisting of time, objects borrowed from the audience, a re-enactment of a performance art work Meeting Point by Sanja Iveković, a wall-writing, a teenage diary from 1991, garments bought at the Kamensko factory in bankruptcy, sugar cubes, and the dance as an object. The performer/author/curator instigates a game where objects are relations, relations are movements and movements are objects.

Sonja Pregrad (Zagreb/Berlin) is a dance maker, performer and teacher with MA in Solo/Dance/Authorship obtained at Universitaet der Kunste Berlin and bachelor’s degree obtained at ArtEZ Arnhem. Her solo works and collaborations with Willy Prager, Silvia Marchig, Marjana Krajač and many others have been performed in festivals in Germany, Croatia and the rest of Europe. She performs for Meg Stuart, Boris Charmatz, Sanja Iveković, Isabelle Schad and others. Since 2007, she is one of cofounders and organizers of the festival IMPROSPEKCIJE. She is teaching within SMASH Berlin program and the Academy for Fine Arts, Department for Animated Film and New Media among others. She got Croatian Theatre Award for the best female performance and the best work in total in 2018 for In here and Out there and a special mention at the 26th Slavonian biennale for the Carnival tent.

Open Graphic Studio is partner in realisation of the performance.

The performance is realised in the frame of the RESIDENCY STAY of the Croatian artists Sonja Predrad (choreographer / performer) and Marko Gutić Mižimakov (visual artist / performer) in Kino Kultura Skopje, organized by Lokomotiva – Skopje.

The Residency is part of the “Contemporary Choreography and Dance” programme of Lokomotiva supported by Ministry of Culture, the City of Skopje and the Municipality of Centar.

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Перформанс на Соња Преград

| 3 септември, Отворен графичко студио, 20 часот |
| Carnival tent rusts in the evening breeze – un/packing of objecthood |
Автор/изведувач: Соња Преград [Хрватска]
Продукција: Četveroruka/Fourhanded
времетраење: 40 мин.
Настанот и просторот на „Carnival tent rusts in the evening breeze – un/packing of objecthood” функционира истовремено и во спротивност како перформанс, и како изложба. Во него 9 „предмети” се изложени/изведени – перформанс како објект што се состои од време, предмети позајмени од публиката, риенактмент на перформансот „Meeting Point” на хрватската уметничка Сања Ивековиќ, пишување на ѕид, тинејџерски дневник од 1991, облека купена во хрватската фабрика за текстил во банкрот – Каменско, шеќерни коцки и танцот како предмет. Изведувачот/авторот/кураторот поттикнува игра каде предметите се релации, релациите се движења и движењата се предмети.

Соња Преград (Загреб/Берлин) е кореографка, изведувач и професор со завршени магистерски студии на Соло/Танц/Авторство на Universitaet der Kunste Berlin и диплома на ArtEZ Arnhem. Нејзините соло дела и соработки со Willy Prager, Silvia Marchig, Marjana Krajač и многу други се изведени на фестивали во Германија, Хрватска и во останатиот дел од Европа. Таа како изведувачка се појавува во делата на Meg Stuart, Boris Charmatz, Sanja Iveković, Isabelle Schad и други. Од 2007 година таа е една од ко-основачите и организаторите на фестивалот IMPROSPEKCIJE. Таа предава на програмата SMASH Berlin program и the Academy for Fine Arts, Department for Animated Film and New Media. Таа е добитничка на наградата Croatian Theatre Award за најдобар женски перформанс и најдобро дело во 2018 за претставата In here and Out there и специјално признание на 26th Slavonian biennale за делото Carnival tent.

Партнер во реализација на перформансот е Отворено Графичко Студио

Перформансот се реализира во рамки на УМЕТНИЧКАТА РЕЗИДЕНЦИЈА во Кино Култура на Соња Преград (кореограф/изведувач) и Марко Гутиќ Мижимаков (визуелен уметник/изведувач) од Хрватска во организација на здружение на граѓани Локомотива – Скопје.

Резиденцијата е дел од програмата „Современа кореографија и танц” на Локомотива која се реализира со поддршка на Министерство за култура / Ministria e Kulturës, Град Скопје и Општина Центар

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Activities within the programme “Contemporary Choreography and Dance”:

School of Choreography/ Contemporary Choreography and Dance

SCREENSAVER – premiere of the choreographic work of Aleksandar Georgiev

 

Performance by Sonja Pregrad

Residency stay of the Croatian artists Sonja Pregrad and Marko Gutić Mižimakov in Kino Kultura, organized by Lokomotiva

Two performances by Marko Gutić Mižimakov

Workshop „Choreographing relations” with Aleksandar Georgiev and Dario Barreto Damas

 

Activities within the programme “Art, Politics, Institution, Body”:

Failure as Practice, Online workshops and events