UTOPIAS / DYSTOPIAS: DOCUMENTS

Location: ARHITEKTRI, Franklin Roosevelt 68 1/2, Skopje
Opening: 20. 04. 2013 (Saturday), 20.00 hrs
(the exhibition will be open only that evening until 22.00 hrs)

Mirna Arsovska, Ivana Dragsic, Aleksandar Spasoski, Oliver Musovik, Igor Toshevski, Harald Schenker, Ines Efremova, Slavica Toshevska, Dijana Bogdanovska, Tihomir Jancovski, Vladimir Nedelkovski, Gjorgje Jovanovik, Jana Jakimovska, Nikola Uzunovski, Filip Jovanovski, Danilo Mandic, Vladimir Jancevski, Mile Nicevski, Daniel Gontz (Romania), Sinisha Labrovic (Croatia)

 

“Utopias/Dystopias: Documents” tends to address the question of society’s idealised mega-projections of the future as well as the success/ failure of such constructs. It does so by means of tangible artistic interventions in public space where diverse interests, tendencies and interpretations form a social reality. At the same time, it is an attempt to pose new questions and perhaps offer fresh interpretations and definitions of public space, its potential and function in the wider social context. 

For a democratic society in a continuous process of reconfiguration, such temporary artistic interventions today are of crucial importance. In its own unique way they are a manifestation of the artistic freedom to shape, criticise, and re-define the ideals and contradictions within the context it occupies. Thus, opposing definition and canonisation, art offers a platform for research, re-examination and articulation of the individual expression of pluralism. This expression thrives within the urban landscape filled with various characters and implied meanings, sometimes compatible and often contradictory.

“Utopias/Dystopias: Documents” is an attempt at finding the connecting dots between isolated individuality and opportunities in order to map the space where such connections and associations would not restrict individual aspirations. On the contrary, the assumption is that underlining the importance of direct, rational communication can oppose the manipulative and strategically uni-directional messages that dominate the public space.

The exhibition consists of interventions conducted in the urban context documenting them as individual traces of ephemeral gestures. The documents form a collaborative mini-archive consisting of separate, undetermined realities that are happening here and now. It is an attempt to negate the normative of a totalitarising, unifying, static and impersonal image of reality.

 

Franklin Roosevelt st 68, 1/2 (first floor), Skopje

Kooperacija would like to thank ARHITEKTRI for putting the space at our disposal.