INTRODUCTION
The International Summer School “Curating in Context” is realized from August 25 to September 15, 2020. The programme comprises seminars, lectures and presentations, workshops, discussions, artists’ and curators’ talks, public program reading groups and mentoring, led by acclaimed professors, theoreticians, curators, dramaturgs, producers and artists from North Macedonian and international contexts. The Summer School aimed to critically reflect and address different socio-political and economic contexts and develop curatorial methods to rethink performing arts practices in relation to activism, social movements, and self-organization in a dialogue with contemporary critical theories and trans-disciplinary studies. Furthermore, it aimed to reflect and open a dialogue in the subjects related to the given topics of the school; to open a discussion and explore non-hegemonic forms of collective practices and self-organization in the field of cultural production; to bring the performing arts in a dialogue with the curatorial as a non-restricted field, or as a field that is not exclusively related to visual arts; to establish a platform of dialogue between cultural and art workers, curators, critical theorists and activists.
ORGANIZATION AND SUPPORT:
The International Summer School “Curating in Context” is produced and organized by the citizens association Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture with the support of the Ministry of Culture of North Macedonia and the Erasmus + program for Education, Training, Youth and Sport of the European Union. It is also supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of North Macedonia.
The Summer School’s program is divided into three courses:
COURSE I: Re-Schooling and Curating Art Projects
COURSE II: Performing in Context
COURSE III: Strategies of Curating
Organization:
Lokomotiva -Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture
School Curators:
Slavcho Dimitrov and Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski
Program producer:
Violeta Kachakova
Coordinator and PR:
Zorica Zafirovska
Volunteer:
Jana Dimitrova
LECTURERS AND PARTICIPANTS INVITED BY LOKOMOTIVA:
Suzana Milevska (North Macedonia), Ivana Vaseva (North Macedonia), Kristina Lelovac (North Macedonia) and Jana Kocevska (North Macedonia), Marta Popivoda (Serbia/Germany), Marijana Cvetković (Serbia), Rok Vevar (Slovenia), Jasmina Zaloznik (Slovenia), Dragana Alfirević (Serbia/Slovenia), Danae Theodoridou (Greece) Cassils (USA), Mariana Valencia (USA), Lydia Bell (USA), Anastasia Proshutinskaya (Russia).
LECTURERS AND PARTICIPANTS INVITED BY PARTNERS:
Kirsten Maar (Germany), Goran Sergej Pristas (Croatia), Silke Bake (Germany), Goran Pavlić (Croatia), Una Bauer (Croatia), Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris (Sweden), Martin Sonderkamp (Germany / Sweden), Tove Salmgren (Sweden), Jasna Jasna Žmak (Croatia), Nikolina Pristaš (Croatia), Anna Effermson (Sweden), Maria de la Paz Ponce (Germany), Darko Dragicević (Serbia/Germany).
STUDENTS:
Kristina Todoroska Petreska (North Macedonia), Ivana Mircevska (North Macedonia), Jana Dimitrova (North Macedonia), Marko Gutić Mižimakov (N. Macedonia/Croatia), Magda Dimou (Greece), Christina Eleftheriadou (Greece), Eleni Mentekidou (Greece), Antonia Dorbic (Croatia), Nataša Antulov (Croatia), Aleksandra Mišić (Croatia), Sofie Burgoyne (Tasmania), Leah Landau (Australia), Johanna Thorell (Sweden/Austria), Moa Johansson (UK/Sweden), Sasha Amaya (Germany/Canada), Kike García Gil (Spain), Sharon Mercado Nogales, Evangelina Papadopoulou (Germany/Greece).
SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS BY:
Kirsten Maar (Germany), Goran Sergej Pristas (Croatia), Suzana Milevska (North Macedonia), Una Bauer (Croatia) and Danae Theodoridou (Greece).
LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS/DISCUSSIONS BY (click here for bios):
Silke Bake (Germany), Goran Pavlić (Croatia), Lydia Bell (USA), Anastasia Proshutinskaya (Russia), Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris (Sweden), Martin Sonderkamp (Germany / Sweden), Tove Salmgren (Sweden), Marijana Cvetković (Serbia), Rok Vevar (Slovenia), Jasna Jasna Žmak (Croatia), Jasmina Zaloznik (Slovenia), Nikolina Pristaš (Croatia), Anna Efraimsson (Sweden), Paz Ponce (Germany), Darko Dragicević (Serbia/Germany), Dragana Alfirević (Serbia/Slovenia), Mariana Valencia (USA), Cassils (USA), Marta Popivoda (Serbia/Germany), Ivana Vaseva (North Macedonia), Kristina Lelovac (North Macedonia) and Jana Kocevska (North Macedonia).
ARTISTS' AND CURATORS' TALKS
We are inviting artists and curators who will share their principles, approaches and strategies of work and collaborative processes, as well as dilemmas, thoughts, struggles and perspectives. Each of them will prepare a presentation/lecture followed by discussion.
2020 artists and curators:
1. Dragana Alfirević (Serbia/Slovenia)
2. Mariana Valencia (USA)
3. Martin Sonderkamp (Germany/Sweden) and Darko Dragičević (Serbia/Germany)
4. Anna Efraimsson (Sweden)
5. Paz Ponce (Germany)
6. Nikolina Pristaš (Croatia)
7. Cassils (USA)
8. Ivana Vaseva (North Macedonia - see the presentation on YouTube here)
9. Marta Popivoda (Serbia/Germany)
10. Tiiiit! incl. Jana Kocevska and Kristina Lelovac (North Macedonia - see the presentation on YouTube here)
PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR IN-DEPTH MATERIALS FROM EACH COURSE.