The next segment of the collaborative project DISSONANT (CO) SPACES, a three day international conference entitled MODELLING PUBLIC SPACE(S) IN CULTURE is taking place in Skopje, Macedonia on October 12-14, 2017 at Kino Kultura.
The Conference Modelling Public Spaces in Culture is one of the activities of The Dissonant (Co)Spaces project, aiming to offer diverse thematic overview on “the public space” as a physical location that creates social ties and “the public sphere” as the collection of attributes contributing to the formation of public discourse.
At the conference, public spaces will be reviewed and discussed through two different aspects:
1. Revisionism and production of the history of culture and institution. In this thematic focus we will mostly engage in the modernist heritage from socialist Yugoslavia, critically examining the term “dissonant heritage”, and its usage in the contemporary context of culture. Another focal point is the development history of the institution in former Yugoslavia.
2. Organizational and institutional innovative approaches in governing and modelling institutions, or proposing new models of public spaces as new models of institutions. We will try to examine diverse approaches such as commons, participation and usership in modelling the new public spaces.
These thematic focuses will be developed in thematic modes of presentation, interviews, lectures, discussions etc.
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SCHEDULE
>>> Thursday, October 12
5:00 p.m. Kitsch throughout Skopje 2014 (Плоштад Слобода/ Freedom Square)
7:00 p.m. Opening
7:10 p.m. What is the Strategy for Institutional Development of the Ministry of Culture of R.M?, Minister of Culture of R. Macedonia, Robert Alagjozovski
7:30 p.m. From Instituting to Constituting Artistic Autonomy, Pascal Gielen, Antwerp Research Institute
8:45 p.m. Promotion of the book Cultural Diplomacy: Arts, Festivals and Geopolitics, participants> Robert Alagjozovski, Minister of Culture of R. Macedonia; Milena Dragićević Šešić, Head of UNESCO Chair in Interculturalism, Art Management and Mediation, University of Arts, Serbia, book editor,; Ljiljana Rogač Mijatović, Faculty of Dramatic Arts – Belgrade, book co-editor and co-author; and Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski, Lokomotiva, Skopje, author of a book chapter.
>>>Friday, October 13
10:00 a.m. Short presentation of the project Dissonant (Co)Spaces and Cultural Spaces for Active Citizens, Natasha Bodrozic, Milica Bozic Marojevic, Irina Ljubic, Violeta Kachakova and Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski.
THEME 1: Public Space in Culture, Institutional Agency in Public Sphere, Ways of Governing/ Local Context and Specificities
10.30 a.m. Methods of Institutional Agency in Public Sphere: Challenges and Achievements, Prof. Milena Dragicevic Sesic, Head of UNESCO Chair in Interculturalism, Art Management and Mediation, University of Arts, Serbia.
11:15 a.m. Moderator: Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski; Participants: Ana Žuvela, Critical Contribution to Understanding Participation: Linking the Concept With the Practice; Marijana Cvetković, Instituting Collaborative Arts Practices in Hostile Institutional Conditionsm; Sanja Ivanovska Velkoska, Trade Union of Culture of R.M. (SKRM), Its Role in Reforming the Public Institutions in Macedonia; Goran Injac, The Mladinsko Theater, An Institutional Example of Theatre as a Public Space.
THEME 2; Public Spaces and Their Dissonance – Using, Reusing or Abusing?
1:00 p.m. Moderator; Milica Božić Marojević: Participants; Nataša Bodrožić, Motel Trogir; Dragan Markovina, Split 3: Between Modernism and Revisionism; Ljiljana Rogac Mijatovic, Conceiving Cartography of Public Space and Memory; Claske Vos, Building European Cultural Spaces: Discussing the Impact of European Cultural Policy Regarding Conceptions of Memory and Identity in Southeast Europe: Danilo Prnjat, Dodatno Dopunska Nastava / Houses of Culture Past and Future, Goran Janev, Neoliberal Appropriation of Public Space in Post(anti)socialist Macedonia
THEME 3; What Kind of Public Spaces in Culture Do We /need? To Whom Should Public Institutions as Public Spaces in Culture Belong? Interventions in Governing, Gentrification of Public Sphere, Migrating Institutions, Destituent Spaces
Moderators; Slavco Dimitrov, Martin Sonderkamp and Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski
3:30 – 4:15 p.m. Gigi Argyropoulou, Destituent Spaces: Instituting as Intervention and Ivana Dragsic/ Commons as an Emancipatory Tendency in Times of Dissident Practices and Dissonant Spaces / Slavco Dimitrov m.
4:15 – 5:00 p.m. Dragana Alfirevic, Endurance, Nomadism and Glitter: The Example of Nomad Dance Academy as Solid Strategies and Fluid Structures, and Ingrid Cogne, Specific Strategies Proposed in Relation(s) to the Context(s) in Which Each (Artistic) Proposal Takes Place / Martin Sonderkamp m.
5:00 – 5: 45 p.m. Rok Vevar, A Short Historical Observation On The Absence Of The Contemporary Dance Institutions In Socialist Yugoslavia And In The Post-Yu Republics and Sasa Asentic, Again Nothing New in Novi Sad / Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski m.
6:00 p.m. Lecture -Performance, Images of Past as Images for the Future, doplgenger
6:45 p.m. Danilo Prnjat, presentation of the research on subject: Public Spaces in Culture/ Houses of Culture in Serbia and Macedonia
>>>Saturday, October 14
THEME 4: Which Institutions Are Possible in the Context of (Post) Political/Social Crises and How to Overcome the Public – Private – Civil Dualism?
10:30 a.m. –Moderator: Slavco Dimitrov; Adham Hafez and Adam Kucharski, Extra Territorial Ministry of Culture; Yane Calovski, Socio-Cultural Space Center-Jadro; Ivana Vaseva/ Filip Jovanovski, Creating Collective Public Space, as Political, Not Organizational Decision; Violeta Kachakova, Kino Kultura as Constituting the Public Space of Culture and Corrado Gemini, Patterns of Commoning: Ownership and Cultural Production in the Age of Automation
Discussion
1:00 p.m. Closing of the conference
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About the project: The Dissonant (Co)Spaces is a collaborative project involving three regional CSO’s: Lokomotiva from Skopje, the Foundation Jelena Šantić from Belgrade and Loose Associations (Slobodne veze) from Zagreb.
The project aims to reflect possibilities for reaffirming derelict, abandoned or “in between” spaces (due to unresolved ownership status or other issues) created within different socio-political and spatial paradigms, by exploring what those spaces can denote today as well as their potential for inclusion and civic participation through public debate, arts and culture.
This project is seen as an attempt to question and explore current processes of history and space-making, while preserving some of the common values and memory by developing new spaces for culture that will promote openness, horizontality, solidarity and inclusion. We aspire towards reactivating and re-making the spaces by producing new content, while preserving memory layers and developing a discursive field in which they will be reflected.
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Dissonant (Co)Spaces – Imagining New Institutional Models and Practices Project is supported by Balkan Arts and Culture Fund – BAC (BAC is supported by the Swiss Government through the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the European Cultural Foundation (ECF)) and by Ministry of Culture of Republic of Serbia and Ministry of Culture of Republic of Croatia.
The conference is also supported by CIVIKA Mobilitas (within the project “Cultural Spaces for active citizens („Културни простори за активни граѓани“) and Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Skopje.