How do we work in the (independent) performing arts scene? – performing arts scene meetings in Skopje

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How do we work in the (independent) performing arts scene?

ONDA meeting local performing arts scene

20.04 – 23.04.2023

@ MKC, Skopje

Lokomotiva in collaboration with ONDA, as part of its interdisciplinary program, with the aim to encounter the Macedonian contemporary performing arts scene with 25 curators from diverse theatres and festivals in France, is organizing and curating from 20-23 of April, 2023 in Skopje a program that includes performances, artists talks, discussions and meetings.

The French curators will have an opportunity to meet with the artists and talk about the actual performances, processes of development of the ideas, as well as with the larger scene on topics related to the working conditions, policies and politics in which they operate locally and internationally, how are the spaces for performing arts organized, production facilities, distribution of the performances in the country and internationally. Lokomotiva will also raise the issue of whether we need an institution on contemporary performing arts?

20 years of LOKOMOTIVA

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It’s been 20 years of coexistence of the community called Lokomotiva which was, not so peacefully, steering and sailing through our macadams… but still, if we look back to some point in 2003, we see a path, a very colorful one, full of sound, filled with lots of art, breaking lances, different crosswinds, more art, conversations, laughter, research, various challenges, struggles, victories, many lessons learned, communities created, spaces and changes we wanted…

A long journey is yet ahead of us, but this year, we will take a little break to say thank you to all of us who see ourselves as part of that coexistence, as collaborators, as audience and as friends, as those without whom Lokomotiva would never have been possible.

We want to dedicate this year to what that coexistence was based on for the past 20 years, i.e. to what makes Lokomotiva what it is – the collaborations here, in the region and beyond, research in art and cultural policies, commitment to the production and presentation of contemporary art , advocating for the needs of artists and cultural workers, creating new thinking spaces and discursive perspectives, new pedagogies and methods of how we learn together, how we build the community through solidarity and spaces where we create and coexist…

Thanks to Ana Jovanovska who is behind the design of this jubilee.

#ArchiveOfReflections interview with Agnes Quackels artistic director, and performing arts curator

/македонски подолу/

ACT: Art Climate Transition

Other spaces/ Contemporary Culture and Cultural Policies

#ArchiveOfReflections/ Where are we now, and where are we going?

Interview with Agnes Quackels

July 14, 2020

Where are we now, and where are we going? Archive оf reflections interview with Agnes Quackels artistic director, and performing arts curator (Belgium)

The interview is in the English language, video link lokomotivaonline

#ArchiveOfReflections interview with Janez Janša, performance artist, and researcher

/македонски подолу/

ACT: Art Climate Transition

Other spaces/ Contemporary Culture and Cultural Policies

#ArchiveOfReflections/ Where are we now, and where are we going?

Interview with Agnes Quackels

July 13, 2020

Where are we now, and where are we going? Archive of reflections interview with Janez Janša, performance artist, and researcher (Slovenia)

The interview is in the English language, video link lokomotivaonline

Animality, Care and Accountability – Speculative accountability for animal kinship, lecture by Alvise Favotto

/македонски подолу/

ACT: Art Climate Transition/ Other spaces

Contemporary Culture and Cultural Policies

Animality, Care and Accountability – Speculative accountability for animal kinship

Lecture by Alvise Favotto

July 6, 2020

On Thursday, 06/07/2020, at 20:00h in frame of the programme Contemporary Culture and Cultural Policies/Other Spaces, Lokomotiva organises series of lectures with discussions related to the position of the artists and cultural workers in the labour market, relations between artists, managers and the public and their interrelations and influences, as well as, the mutual influence with the social authorities and the environment in which we operate. Besides, lecturers will offer views related with the ethical dilemmas and thoughts about the responsibility towards the relations between us, but also the environment, nature and other beings with which we share the world.

#ArchiveOfReflections interview with Dea Vidović, cultural manager, editor, journalist, and researcher

/македонски подолу/

ACT: Art Climate Transition

Other spaces/ Contemporary Culture and Cultural Policies

#ArchiveOfReflections/ Where are we now, and where are we going?

Interview with Dea Vidović

July 3, 2020

Where are we now, and where are we going? Archive оf reflections interview with Dea Vidović, cultural manager, editor, journalist, and researcher (Croatia)

The interview is in the English language, video link lokomotivaonline

Art’s participants and their “fidelity to art event”. On Badiou’s application of the event of the art concept, lecture by Eleonora Montagner

/македонски подолу/

ACT: Art Climate Transition/ Other spaces

Contemporary Culture and Cultural Policies

Art’s participants and their “fidelity to art event”.

On Badiou’s application of the event of the art concept

Lecture by Eleonora Montagner

July 2, 2020

On Thursday, 02/07/2020, at 20:00h in frame of the programme Contemporary Culture and Cultural Policies/Other Spaces, Lokomotiva organises series of lectures with discussions related to the position of the artists and cultural workers in the labour market, relations between artists, managers and the public and their interrelations and influences, as well as, the mutual influence with the social authorities and the environment in which we operate. Besides, lecturers will offer views related with the ethical dilemmas and thoughts about the responsibility towards the relations between us, but also the environment, nature and other beings with which we share the world.

#ArchiveOfReflections interview with Kirsten Maar, theatre, and dance scholar, and dramaturg

/македонски подолу/

ACT: Art Climate Transition

Other spaces/ Contemporary Culture and Cultural Policies

#ArchiveOfReflections/ Where are we now, and where are we going?

Interview with Kirsten Maar

July 1, 2020

Where are we now, and where are we going? Archive оf reflections interview with Kirsten Maar, theatre, and dance scholar, and dramaturg (Germany)

The interview is in the English language, video link lokomotivaonline

#ArchiveOfReflections interview with Eva Johansone, a journalist

/македонски подолу/

ACT: Art Climate Transition/ Other spaces

Contemporary Culture and Cultural Policies

#ArchiveOfReflections/ Where are we now, and where are we going?

Interview with Eva Johansone

June 20, 2020

Where are we now, and where are we going? Archive оf reflections interview with Eva Johansone, a journalist (Latvia)

The interview is in the English language, video link lokomotivaonline

#ArchiveOfReflection interview with Zvonimir Dobrović, artistic director of Queer Zagreb and Perforations festivals

/македонски подолу/

ACT: Art Climate Transition/ Other spaces

Contemporary Culture and Cultural Policies

#ArchiveOfReflections/ Where are we now, and where are we going?

Interview with Zvonimir Dobrović

June 29, 2020

Where are we now, and where are we going? Archive оf reflections interview with Zvonimir Dobrović, artistic director of Queer Zagreb and Perforations festivals (Croatia)

The interview is in the English language, video link lokomotivaonline

Lokomotiva – Skopje

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How do we work in the (independent) performing arts scene? – performing arts scene meetings in Skopje

20 years of LOKOMOTIVA

#ArchiveOfReflections interview with Agnes Quackels artistic director, and performing arts curator

#ArchiveOfReflections interview with Janez Janša, performance artist, and researcher

Animality, Care and Accountability – Speculative accountability for animal kinship, lecture by Alvise Favotto

#ArchiveOfReflections interview with Dea Vidović, cultural manager, editor, journalist, and researcher

Art’s participants and their “fidelity to art event”. On Badiou’s application of the event of the art concept, lecture by Eleonora Montagner

#ArchiveOfReflections interview with Kirsten Maar, theatre, and dance scholar, and dramaturg

#ArchiveOfReflections interview with Eva Johansone, a journalist

#ArchiveOfReflection interview with Zvonimir Dobrović, artistic director of Queer Zagreb and Perforations festivals