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V (an interactive event)
A grab and run action, in cooperation with OZT Fabrika
Date: 14 July 2012 (Saturday) Location: Dimitar Vlahov 10, Vinica Time: 19:30 (The event will last until July 20th in the period of 11:00-14:00 and 18:00-21:00)
Hundreds of books compose together a monument whose singular elements are individual sculptural works; a monument, which constantly alters its shape, mass, weight, meaning or content; a monument that relates to collective memory and the disregarded role of the book. A monument whose new meaning will be discovered once again in the recurrent distribution/ dissemination of the exact number of segments from which it is constituted, among the number of citizens to which it truly belongs.
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(објавено на okno.mk на 10.07.2012)
Опустошувачкиот налет на груевизмот не ја поштеди ни македонската културна сцена. Институциите од областа на културата изминативе неколку години една по една беа збришани со катастрофалната кадровска политика. Квалитетната културна продукција, во отсуство на каков било културен систем, исто така се намали до ниво на безначајност. Continue reading
Personal Politics / Photos
Personal Politics, 29.06.2012
Personal Politics
Location: boul. 8 September, 4 (groundfloor space), Skopje Opening: 29. 06. 2012, Friday / 21:00 The exhibition will be open every day in the period od 30.06-03.07 from 18:00 till 21.00
Ines Efremova, Snezana Altiparmak, Dijana Bogdanovska, Nemanja Cvijanovic,
Boris Shemov, Vladimir Jancevski, Marcelo Brajnovic, Velimir Zernovski,
Harald Schenker, Nikola Uzunovski, Simon Uzunovski, Gjorgje Jovanovik,
OPA (Slobodanka Stevceska & Denis Saraginovski), Filip Jovanovski, Igor Toshevski
Politics and art have many crossing points. Politics is determined by a defined course of action adopted for the purpose of efficiently achieving specific goals. In the broadest sense, they are synonymous, especially considering the communication aspect of art. Opinions on what makes art political vary from those maintaining that art in general is always engaged, to those who argue that it consists of explicit messages scribbled on the walls of a “conflict zone”. What is evident though, is that corresponding to contemporary occurrences, artists are able in asserting certain political views through their art, just as they are capable to act within any other social structure. However, when confronted with the artwork, the question of how to approach it remains: is it a subjective, personal point of the author, or do we perceive it according to the effect that it renders upon us?
Правото не познава чуда, текст на Данило Мандиќ
(објавен 23 jуни, 2012 во Граѓански, бр. 8)
Цензурирање и уништување на уметнички (авторски) дела кои задираат во религиозни содржини не се невообичаени на ниту едно општество, дури и во оние демократски општества каде што слободата на изразување е основно загарaнтирано човеково право. Познатото уметничко дело на Андреас Серано фотографијата Piss Christ (Уриниран Христос; (Из)мочан Христос) каде мало распетие е ставено наводно во урината на уметникот, повеќе од две децении е предмет на дебати и напади од верските заедници чии чувства се навредени. Continue reading
CENSORSHIP PROHIBITED BY CONSTITUTION
Article 16
The freedom of personal conviction, conscience, thought and public expression of thought is guaranteed.
The freedom of speech, public address, public information and the establishment of institutions for public information is guaranteed. Continue reading
Breaking: those responsible for the censorship
According to latest reports (Vest, #3593, 16/17 June, 2012), the City of Skopje rejects any responsibility linked with the vandal act of destruction of the artwork of OPA, which was part of Ars Acta’s project within the Skopje Kreativa Festival. According to the mayor, responsibility should be requested from the festival’s manager, Mr. Miodrag Kostik.
KOOPERACIJA pledges to follow the development of the process inquiring official statements by those responsible for such destruction of public artwork and intellectual property.
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
Following the recent brutal act of censorship upon the artwork of OPA, which was part of the Skopje Kreativa Festival and organized by the City of Skopje, KOOPERACIJA publicly condemns the incompetence of the organizers who allowed the reactions of certain citizens and the Macedonian Orthodox Church to affect the decision to destroy this work deliberately, even though it was the property of the City and thus, the people of Macedonia.
Not only does this violent act directly disregard all basic standards and principles for the protection of Human Rights for freedom of expression and free speech, but presents an attack upon the core values of the country’s democracy.
The artists who revolve within KOOPERACIJA are completely disgusted by this unprincipled stance of the City of Skopje and express their utmost regret and disappointment of the fact that this institution has failed to show capability in protecting these valuable civil rights.
KOOPERACIJA
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Visual Consumer Society by Senka Anastasova, PhD (excerpt from the ‘Philosophy of the Popular’, upcoming, CCCR, 2012)
Between consumption on visual culture and production of ‘desires’
The contemporary theory of visual society shows that visual images (digital and analog forms) are not completely ‘free’ and play a primary role in trade within modern societies. Today, it seems that art is expected to have (thick) financial value to supply the art market. By this logic, visual discourses have a primary role in the functioning of commercial strategies of the ads. Images take a central role in visual commodity society (culture) and its artistic ‘value’ depends on the constant production of goods, on behalf of their ‘function’.
Photos / STRATEGIES OF REMEMBRANCE #1
STRATEGIES OF REMEMBERANCE #1, June, 6, 2012