Archives of violence
The exhibition demonstrates the power of the archive to speak up about the violence. It puts on display six research artistic projects, which work with concrete cases of violence in the wide range of social and political crises, be it human rights violation, gender inequality, and environmental destruction or impediments to the right to housing, education, free speech or freedom of movement.
The exhibition demonstrates the power of the archive to speak up about the violence. It puts on display six research artistic projects, which work with concrete cases of violence in the wide range of social and political crises, be it human rights violation, gender inequality, and environmental destruction or impediments to the right to housing, education, free speech or freedom of movement.
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Observations: Light
The exhibition ‘Observations: Light’ approaches the subject of visual art’s most fundamental element, the light and the role it plays as an active component for artistic creation and visual perception. The works in this exhibition are analysing the visible, chromatic qualities of light and the transformative power of natural light and trying to depict the dark, emphasizing or altering the sculptural characteristics of objects. On the other hand, they are observing the metaphoric, philosophical and spiritual meaning of light. |
About a stone
In the series of drawings ‘About a stone’, comprising of drawings made in the Macedonian prehistoric observatory Kokino, Fleur Helluin is focused on the research of the natural light and the dark, it’s importance for the drawing and it’s chromatic quality and saturation. By combining different materials and using the variety of their material values the artist creates a small material collection of fragments that were found around the observatory, in the attempt to capture the same sight, make sense of the space, and to see it in the same way as the ancient tribes who created it. |
ex.ordinary
Over the past twenty years, resisting the idea of “borders and nations” in the region of former Yugoslavia became more or less utopian thinking. Backed by the ideology of liberation from the authoritarian state, the process of division seems to have been irreversible while the fragmentation into smaller (also authoritarian) enclaves of nations and religions appeared to be the only way to achieve the already ongoing processes of change. The Ex-Ordinary group exhibition reflects the general state of mind in the area of former Yugoslavia at present by presenting individual stories, analyses and visions of collective memories. |
Justifiably Present - The Freedom ExperiencesJustifiably Present - The Freedom Experiences is a three day action, a resume of the yearly activities and production of the Independent Cultural Sector in Republic of Macedonia. The attempt of the event is to put on display the vast amount of work and the significance of the Independent Cultural Scene in the past 20 years of its existence.
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Energy, Biopolitics, Resistance Strategies and Cultural SubversionSEAFair 2011 contextualizes the artistic and theoretical discourses developing around Bio-politics, aiming at re-evaluating its meaning today, as well as address the possibilities for resisting the dominant international discourses through emancipation and cultural subversion. The ability to code life into symbols, and being able to interpret these symbols, has changed the very notions of what we understand as life.
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Soft BordersSoft Borders was the main theme of the 4th Upgrade! International Conference & Festival on New Media Art, that took place in São Paulo, Brazil, October 18-21, 2010. Soft Borders embraced a wide variety of topics, cross-disciplinary approaches and presentations of cutting edge technologies. This exhibition has developed as the outcome of the 4th Upgrade! International gathering.
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Private/ Public, taking space ---> making spaceGo and explore the city! The four-day event of cultural interventions in private and public space invites the citizens to stroll around the city and take part in unusual experiences at unexpected places throughout Skopje: to gather, to explore and to (re-)create. ‘Private | Public’ wants to provide a cultural platform for new ideas and concepts on how to use and reshape the city and to what extent the private, the subjective and the individual are interwoven with public expressions in town, affecting and reflecting it: Is the Individual just a consumer or an active and mature civilian, making space in the city by taking it?
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The Apparatus of Life and Death"The Apparatus of Life & Death" looks into the appearing modalities of developing biotechnology, its influence on bio-political doctrines of bio-power and bio-domination, in a theoretical, critical, cultural and artistic context. Biotechnologies are also appealing to the general public, and we can detect a rising interest in DNA profiling, personal genomics, bio-data gathering, and lately genetic social networking. One of its outcomes is the creation of a genetically-based value system. At the same time, artistic and cultural research in the area of biotechnology has questioned established philosophic beliefs, questioned commercial and ethical practices, and proposed new ways of looking at life and society.
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Creative cities, artistic towns and fantastic villagesThe exhibition aims to wipe up the characteristic impressions of the cities and to expose personal artistic viewpoints thus showing the invisible, the imaginary, the dark and unusual – the different contrasts of living in one city. It introduces cities seen not only as places of birth or places of origin but cities that differentiate according to the emotion that the individual creates for one place: place of birth, city that I live in, city that I’m passing by, city as “transit zone”, city which makes me comfortable, vanishing city, imaginary city, museum city, monster city – cities as communication, confrontation, of creation and inspiration.
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My sunshine"My Sunshine" by Nikola Uzunovski is a utopian project, suspended between art and science, visionary ideas and social issues, poetry and hyper - technology. Its aim is to produce a flying object that reflects sunlight to a specific area of Earth and appear as the Sun itself. A broader version of My Sunshine contemplates the production of several copies of the aerostat, which shall create the effect of multiple suns in the sky. The project concentrates on areas around the Arctic Circle where, due to the rotation of the Earth’s axis, during the winter the Sun stays below the horizon, its rays unable to illuminate the ground.
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The World Within“The World Within” consists of an exhibition, a screening program and a discussion. The project is inspired by the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, one of the most significant events in recent European history. The focus is put on projects that examine the meaning of borders and their influence on the people living within them. The aim of this series of events is to publicize stories, to show different positions and aspects of inevitable systemic changes and to demonstrate how a singular historical moment influences personal transition in each of us.
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Chain Reaction"Chain Reaction" brings together artists, curators and art producers from more than 20 cities worldwide (Asia, Canada, Europe, North America, South America, South Africa, New Zealand). The artistic program shows current tendencies in the use of hardware and software development for artistic means. The artists presented here are the emergent creative force on the international new media art scene. One of the dominant principles that have emerged in this collection of works is the blurring of the boundaries between art, cultures, technology and physical surroundings.
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Skopska streetSkopska Street, a former main artery of the city of Skopje (today only some 100-odd meters long) is the leitmotif of the exhibition. In a photograph by Ana Jakimska, an NMP member, we can see the remains of that old part of town blending together with a new, urban, post-earthquake architecture. It cuts the city in two and creates a new urban structure, leaving an occasional trace of the old town. The show attempts to present a new group of artists and mark the changes occurring in the city today, which some day are to be part of a past urban culture.
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CitismCitism is an attempt to detect the unique characteristics of Skopje by defining the codes of the urban language. The artists of the project process their researches through different forms of expressions by using and analyzing graphical languages, projecting special interventions, and processing sound. Each and every form operates to capture unique segments of city life.
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SK-320-IBThe installation consists of columns with license plates, 25 different numbers, in fact, registrations of cars, which have previously endangered the artist's security. There is a book with license plates numbers opened in the gallery. The enormous devotion by which these numbers are gathered has a therapeutic effect, having no opportunity to react at higher authoritative instances. The whole installation in space has a minimalist attitude, thus expressing the general cold acceptance of the consequences and the reconciliation with the whole situation that always looks hopeless.
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