[spectre] ³CURATING EXCHANGE² , 13-16 June 2012, Skopje, Macedonia

[Basak Senova]

³CURATING EXCHANGE²
13-16 June 2012
Skopje, Macedonia

 
press to exit project space is pleased to invite you to Curating Exchange,
the international symposium, which will take place at the GEM club in Skopje
(Macedonia), from the 13th until the 16th of June 2012.
 
Guest lecturers: Slavco Dimitrov (Macedonia), Sofija Grandakovska
(Macedonia), Antonia Majaca (Croatia), Suzana Milevska (Macedonia), Dorothee
Richter (Switzerland), Basak Senova (Turkey), Marko Stamenkovic (Serbia) and
Yane Calovski (Macedonia) as moderator.
 
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Curating Exchange is designed as a weeklong symposium addressing local and
regional need for an insightful and qualitative exchange of experience and
knowledge in terms of artistic research, curatorial practice and education.
 
The simposium program is open to the public as a forum envisioned to address
questions of social, political and cultural identification of recent
curatorial and research practices with guests from Macedonia, the Balkan
region and beyond. The format of the symposium allows for four evening
sessions in which two guests each evening present and discusses recent
curatorial and theoretical research projects. Topics covered include
changing ideas about art theories and current institutional practices, the
status of the curator as a critical instigator and educator, the different
perceptions about the socio-political role of the curator, the identity of
the curatorial practice as an academic discipline open to renovation, etc.
Participants include: Suzana Milevska (Macedonia), Basak Senova (Turkey),
Antonia Majaca (Croatia), Marko Stamenkovic (Serbia), Sofija Grandakovska
(Macedonia), Slavco Dimitrov (Macedonia), Dorothee Richter (Switzerland) and
Yane Calovski (Macedonia) as moderator.
 
As a project, Curating Exchange will emphasize the need to reassess the role
of the curator in these complex socio-political times and to question the
potentiality of the curator to be a catalyst for socio-political and
cultural change. We hope to provide insight into the collective regional and
international perspectives in the field of curatorial practices and
integrate new knowledge and expertise in the context of events in Macedonia.
The program includes workshop for young curators, with an intent to produce
exchange and development of critical, interdisciplinary and hybrid knowledge
in the field of curatorial practices and contemporary visual art and
culture.
 
 

The workshop, open to aspiring curators in Macedonia and the region, is lead
by Dorothee Richter, Head of Postgraduate Program in Curating, Institute for
Cultural Studies in Arts, Zurich University of the Arts. It is intended to
help the participants gain insight into the methodological, theoretical and
organizational strategies via presentations, discussions, and development of
individual and collaborative curatorial projects. Since there is a lack of
curatorial training opportunities, we feel that the workshop will be of
great importance for those who are interested but are not in position to
experience such educational programs abroad. Assisting Ms. Richter in the
workshop will be Ivana Vaseva, member of press to exit project space and
current participant in the Curatorial Programme of de Appel arts centre in
Amsterdam. 
 
Curating Exchange is realized as part of the "Visiting Curatorial
Initiative"(VCI) program, initiated in 2005, in order to stimulate and
support researches and implementation of new curatorial projects from young
and emerging international and local curators.
 
With the support of: Pro Helvetia - The Swiss Cultural Programme and
additional partners.
The program takes place in the GEM club ­ a resurrected space in the Old
bazaar in Skopje (address: Karaorman bb, Skopje) that connects cultural
workers, artists and activists to share ideas and projects.
To keep up with news and events related to press to exit project space,
follow http://www.presstoexit.org.mk/ . For all other enquiries, please
contact Yane Calovski, director of the project, at both
presstoexit at gmail.com and yanecalo at gmail.com.
 
 Programme: 
 
Wednesday June 13th
·     10h ­ 13h 1st session of workshop
           (Closed session. Only for the participants of the workshop)
·     19h-20h Dorothee Richter: Development of Curating and Mediating
Contemporary Art (Public presentation)
·     20.30h-22h Marko Stamenkovic: The Contested and Condemned; and
       Slavco Dimitrov: Emotional Archive of Queer Experiences
(Public presentations)
 
Thursday June 14th 
·     10h ­ 13h 2nd session of workshop
(Closed session. Only for the participants of the workshop)
·     20:30h -22h Basak Senova: Lost in Memory: Uncovered; and
       Sofija Grandakovska: The Jews from Macedonia and the Holocaust
(Public presentations)
 
Friday June 15th 
·     10h ­ 13h 3rd session of workshop
(Closed session. Only for the participants of the workshop)
·     20h ­ 21:30h Suzana Milevska: Curating Roma Protocol; and
       Antonija Majaca: Can you speak of this? The Exhibition as a Classroom
of   
       Difficult Questions
(Public presentations)
 
Saturday June 16th
·     10h ­ 13h 4th session of workshop
(Closed session. Only for the participants of the workshop)
·     20h ­ 21:30h ­ Group presentation: workshop participants w/ Dorothee
Richter 

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