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.
Seminar in Lublin | 22-24 September in Lublin | Program
22th September, Sunday
arrival
Events in frames of Meet the Neighbours project:
Osiedle Słowackiego, LSM, Lublin
18.00
Asa Horvitz feat. Albert Karch & Kuba Więcek | Open Sound | concert | open form theatre Słowacki housing complex (osiedle Słowackiego)
20.00, 21.00
Ludomir Franczak | Ludomir Franczak | 6 / mobile theatre | performance | “Miejsce” studio, ul. Balladyny 16 (Osiedle Słowackiego, LSM, Lublin https://Labirynth.com/miejsce-pracownia-magdaleny-i-ludomira-franczakow/ | registration required: mtn@Labirynth.com | admission free)
23rd September, Monday
Osiedle Słowackiego, LSM, Lublin
9.00, 10.00, 11.00, 12.00 (5-7 people each our)
Iwona Nowacka and Janek Turkowski | ^| video – performance | market ul. Wileńska
10.00-18.00
Barbara Gryka | Architecture From the Inside | exhibition
10.00-18.00
Magdalena Franczak | Stacze | installation | “Miejsce” studio, ul. Balladyny 16
10:00 – 18.00
Benjamin Verdonck | letter | “Miejsce” studio, ul. Balladyny 16
13.00-14.00 lunch in Labyrinth Gallery
Labyrinth Gallery
14.00 opening
14.15 – 15.30 Care and the practice of performance | Bojana Kunst, professor | Institute for Applied Theatre Studies, Justus-Liebig University Giessen | lecture and discussion
15.30-15.45 break
15.45 – 17.00 We want to work here! – curatorial strategies for spaces of interdependence | Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski, executive director | Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture, Skopje | presentation and discussion
19.00 dinner | Café Trybunalska, Rynek 4, 20-400 Lublin
optional:
19.00 or 20.00
Ludomir Franczak | Ludomir Franczak | 6 / mobile theatre | performance | “Miejsce” studio, ul. Balladyny 16 (Osiedle Słowackiego, LSM, Lublin https://Labirynth.com/miejsce-pracownia-magdaleny-i-ludomira-franczakow/ | registration required: mtn@Labirynth.com | admission free)
24 September, Tuesday, Labyrinth Gallery
10.00-11.15 The worst is yet to come | Beata Barda director | Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest | presentation and discussion
11.15-11.30 break
11.30-12.30 Feminist Institution – the Agreement project at Teatr Powszechny in Warszawa | Marta Keil, curator | EEPAP /Performing Arts Institute, Warszawa
12.30-13.00 wrap up session
13.00-14.00 lunch
departure / optional:
14.00-15.30 CREART CONFERENCE, Labyrinth Gallery: Affects and Archetypes: Can We Ever Unlearn Nation? | Övül Durmuşoğlu, curator, writer, researcher | Berlin/Istanbul
15.45 CREART CONFERENCE, Labyrinth Gallery: Anti-fascism in the age of anti-communism | lecture | Vasyl Cherepanyn | head of Visual Culture Research Center (VCRC), Kiev
more information on the conference: http://labirynt.com/en/jak-rozmawiac-ze-strzelba-ktora-chce-sie-zabic-sztuka-w-dobie-post-prawdy-teorii-spiskowych-i-negacjonizmu-konferencja/
Speakers:
Beata Barda studied first English and History then Dramaturgy, worked for Pro Helvetia for a while and since 2006 has been working in Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, first as programmer, then as artistic director and since 2017 as executive director.
Marta Keil performing arts curator, researcher and dramaturg, based in Warsaw. Together with Grzegorz Reske works as a curatorial tandem Reskeil. Since 2019 co-runs Performing Arts Institute in Warsaw, Poland. She initated the EEPAP and worked as curator and dramaturg with i.e. Agnieszka Jakimiak, Rabih Mroué, Agata Siniarska, Ana Vujanović. Editor of several books, incl. „Choreography: Politicality” (2018) and „Reclaiming the Obvious: on the Institution of Festival” (2017).
Bojana Kunst is philosopher, dance and theatre theoretician, dramatist and teacher. She works as a professor at the Institute for Applied Theatre Science at Justus – Liebig University Giessen. She is living in Frankfurt, Germany. Her primary research and teaching interests are contemporary dance and performance with the special focus on the late 20th century and 21st century. She also teaches history of performance, media arts, philosophy and political theory.
Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski is a cultural worker and curator in performing arts based in Skopje, co-founder and executive director of Lokomotiva, co-founder Nomad Dance Academy (NDA) and Kino Kultura- project space for contemporary performing arts and culture. She has initiated, curated and managed various projects and programs related to the contemporary arts, cultural policy, regional and international collaboration, etc. She has authored several articles and co-edited multiple magazines and books. She is visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Music Arts in Skopje, Macedonia and other programs and Universities. She holds PhD from the Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade.
Participants:
Monika Kwaśniewska Mikuła (PHD, lecturer at Jagiellonian University in Kraków), Piotr Morawski (professor, University of Warsaw), Stanisław Godlewski (lecturer, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) and students from Jagiellonian University in Kraków, University of Warsaw, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Theatre Academy in Warsaw.
Artistic program is realised in frames of the Meet the Neighbours project which addresses questions around changes in city environments, comparing 5 different yet relatable urban conditions. How are cities changing shape and what is the role of artists in the process? How can artists have a progressive and critical voice in relation to urban regeneration and development? How is access to cultural provision affected by the presence of artists in neighbourhoods? How can artists create space and relationships where conversations and action might occur?
In Lublin, the project will take place in the residential district of Lubelska Spółdzielnia Mieszkaniowa (LSM), which was born of a utopian urban living project in the 1960s. The core activities will happen at Osiedle Słowackiego settlement. Its architects, Zofia and Oskar Hansen, imagined the city as a common wealth, with shared spaces and responsibilities.
But today these ambitious ideals appear to have failed: shared spaces lie abandonedand uncared for and the idea of the common needs to be revisited.
Artists: Magdalena Franczak, Ludomir Franczak, Barbara Gryka, Asa Horvitz, Iwona Nowacka, Janek Turkowski, Benjamin Verdonck
Curators: ResKeil (Grzegorz Reske & Marta Keil)
Meet the Neighbours is a three-year cross-artform project inviting artists into rapidly evolving neighbourhoods in five cities across Europe and North Africa. Co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme, Meet the Neighbours is taking place in Manchester and Salford, UK; Béthune, Lillers & Bruay-la-Bussiere, France; Lublin, Poland; Marrakech, Morocco; and Groningen, Netherlands.
About the project “Imaginary school for the future of the (art) institutions”
What if none of the conditions of work that we knew are left? How can we regain the notion of democracy and reclaim the imagination, taken over by the populist narratives? Where to find a space that would not be trapped between the frames of ‘capitalist realism’ on one hand and neo-nationalism on the other?
The aim of the Imaginary School is to enable a free, independent exchange of ideas and experiences, to reinforce a real dialogue and long-term cooperation of performing artists and thinkers in Europe, to reclaim the notion of democracy and to open ways to imagine possible (and impossible) alternatives of being together. It is an answer to the populist, nationalist wave in the Eastern European societies and a space for imagining what seems unimaginable.
The first edition of the project focuses on the topic of artistic institutions in the socio-political and economic context of populism on one hand and late capitalism on the other. It will aim at inventing, naming and practicing ways of reclaiming institutions as public good and common wealth.
The second part of the project will take place in Giessen, Germany, from 2- 6 December.
Partners of the project are: Lokomotiva- Center for New Initiatives for Arts and Culture, BADco. – Zagreb, Croatia, ColectivA- Cluj, Romania, Institute for Applied Theatre Studies, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, Nomad Dance Academy- Ljubljana, Slovenia. The project is realised thanks to the support from Allianz Kulturstiftung.
