Aesthetic education expanded - artistic experimentation and political culture in the age of networks
(2012 – 2014) Various locations, Skopje, Macedonia
Role in the project: Program coordination and production | Content editor
Project partners: Multimedijalni institut (CR), kuda.org (SR), Berliner Gazette (D), Kontrapunkt (MK) and Mute (UK).
Project website: http://www.aestheticeducation.net/
Events:
The Enlightenment era has forged the concept of aesthetic education as a model to deal at once with the phenomena of (political) revolution, (technological) evolution – print and publishing – and cultural change (emerging literary public). And as much as the project of Enlightenment might have become troubled, concept of aesthetic education has lost little of its fascination. The driving idea behind this project was to re-appropriate this very concept of aesthetic education, investigating if it is able to offer an upgraded and expanded version that will manage to create a new common space where people, devices and ideas meet.
The focus of Skopje events is to raise the question of the possibilities for developing the emancipatory practices of the resistance, and to question how much the political and the aesthetic categories could be efficient in creating new societal values on a theoretical as well as on a practical level. Further on, it is going deeper into questioning the possibilities for critical thought and action through activist and art practices, as well as the possibilities for developing political responsibility in the frames of the artistic and the socio-cultural sphere, having in mind the political context where the freedom of speech, expression and performativity is almost completely ruined.
Project partners: Multimedijalni institut (CR), kuda.org (SR), Berliner Gazette (D), Kontrapunkt (MK) and Mute (UK).
Project website: http://www.aestheticeducation.net/
Events:
- 03.2012, “Emancipation of the resistance” – 3 day lecture program (Marina Grzinic, Dmitry Vilenski- “Chto Delat”, Suzana Milevska)
- 12.2013, “Small School of Anti- fascism” – 3 day event: Exhibition, discussion, book and movie promotion (Arkzin, Boris Buden, Zelimir Zilnik)
- 04.2014, “Love and the artist” – 2 day event, Lecture and Seminar (Alexander Garcia Düttmann)
The Enlightenment era has forged the concept of aesthetic education as a model to deal at once with the phenomena of (political) revolution, (technological) evolution – print and publishing – and cultural change (emerging literary public). And as much as the project of Enlightenment might have become troubled, concept of aesthetic education has lost little of its fascination. The driving idea behind this project was to re-appropriate this very concept of aesthetic education, investigating if it is able to offer an upgraded and expanded version that will manage to create a new common space where people, devices and ideas meet.
The focus of Skopje events is to raise the question of the possibilities for developing the emancipatory practices of the resistance, and to question how much the political and the aesthetic categories could be efficient in creating new societal values on a theoretical as well as on a practical level. Further on, it is going deeper into questioning the possibilities for critical thought and action through activist and art practices, as well as the possibilities for developing political responsibility in the frames of the artistic and the socio-cultural sphere, having in mind the political context where the freedom of speech, expression and performativity is almost completely ruined.