CURATORIAL TRANSLATION
CURATORIAL TRANSLATION
24-30 September, 2007, Skopje
23.09. (Sunday)
Arrival of the participants
19:30 Dinner
24. 09. (Monday)
10:00-13:00 Curatorial Translation Lab *
Welcoming the participants and introductory workshop session led by the workshop leaders: Suzana Milevska, Nat Muller and Luchezar Boyadjiev.
Workshop leaders introduce the themes, the structure and the objectives of the workshops.
Participants will be divided in three different groups:
-Translating theory into curatorial practice (leader: Suzana Milevska)
-Intercultural curatorial translation (leader: Nat Muller)
-Translating artistic practice into curatorial projects (leader: Luchezar Boyadjiev)
Visual and Cultural Research Centre (address: Partizanski odredi 63)
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
Afternoon session
14:00-16:00 Visits to local art and cultural institutions *
Informal meetings with curators working in local institutions who will introduce the history and programmes, as well as the problems of the visited museums, galleries and cultural centres exhibiting local and international artists.
National Gallery "Daut Pasha Amam" (address: Old Skopje Bazaar) and National Gallery "Cifte Amam" (address: Bitpazarska Street, Old Skopje Bazaar)
16:00-17:00 Tea Break in Gallery 7 *
A break in Gallery 7 - a tea shop in the Old Skopje Bazaar that used to be an important alternative hangout of artists and intellectuals in Skopje that hosted some public art events during the 80s and 90s.
17:30 –19:00 Meetings with artists *
- studio visits and research interviews with artists.
The participants of each of the three groups meet different local artists.
I group: Liljana Gjuzelova
II group: Zaneta Vangeli
III group: Yane Calovski
19:30-21:30 Reception at press to exit project space *
Yane Calovski, artist and Artistic Director of press to exit project space will introduce the programme of press to exit project space and the exhibition: "Oskar Hansen’s Museum of Modern Art” (Hristina Ivanoska and Yane Calovski)
press to exit project space (address: Maksim Gorki, 19)
25.09. (Tuesday)
10:00-13:00 Curatorial Translation Labs *
Workshops devoted to the three major topics.
Participants are divided in three different groups in three spaces:
-Translating theory into curatorial practice (leader: Suzana Milevska, venue: Visual and Cultural Research Centre, address: Partizanski odredi 63)
- Intercultural curatorial translation (leader: Nat Muller, venue: press to exit project space, address: Maksim Gorki 19)
-Translating artistic practice into curatorial projects (leader: Luchezar Boyadjiev, venue: Cultural Centre “Tocka”, Kliment Ohridski 15)
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
Afternoon session
14:00-17:30 Visits to local art and cultural institutions *
informal meetings with curators working in local institutions: Museum of Contemporary Art (address: Samoilova bb) and Cultural Centre "Mala Stanica" (address: Zeleznicka 18)17:30 – 19:30 Meetings with artists *
- studio visits and research interviews with artists
The participants of each of the three groups meet different local artists:
I group: Aleksandar Stankoski (18:00-19:30)
II group: Tihomir Topuzovski (17:30-19:00)
III group: Dejan Spasovik (17:30-19:00)
19.30 Dinner
26. 09. (Wednesday)
10:00-13:00 Curatorial Translation Labs *
Workshops devoted to the three major topics and groups:
-Translating theory into curatorial practice (workshop leader: Suzana Milevska, venue: Visual and Cultural Research Centre, address: Partizanski odredi 63)
- Intercultural curatorial translation (workshop leader: Nat Muller, venue: press to exit project space, venue: address: Maksim Gorki, 19)
-Translating artistic practice into curatorial projects (workshop leader: Luchezar Boyadjiev, venue: Cultural Centre: “Tocka,” address: Kliment Ohridski 15)
13:00-15:00 Lunch Break
Afternoon session
15:00-16:00 Visits to local art and cultural institutions *
Cultural Centre: “Tocka”
16:00 – 18:00 Curatorship and Media *
Katerina Bogoeva, "Utrinski vesnik" - daily newspaper, Aleksandra Bubevska, A1 TV, Ivana Tasev "TEA" - weekly magazine A panel discussion with journalists from art and culture departments in local media. Curators often claim that they mediate the artistic concepts to the audience. This workshop will address the problems of mediating curatorial concepts to the audience through public media. Some of the questions to be tackled are: how to publicise and communicate curatorial projects to the press, what are the expectations of curators from different media, and how the journalists respond to these expectations? What is there for the art audience?
Cultural Centre: “Tocka”
19:00 Dinner
27.09. (Thursday)
10:00 – 13:00 Preparation of the public presentations *
This is when the three groups work on their own, without the leaders of the workshops. The participants try to self-organise, delegate a leader among themselves and/or delegate the work (research on internet, writing, make a ppt) among themselves. This session is to start putting together the public presentations (15 min each group) in order to complete the task given by the leaders (summarise the group work, come up with an idea for a new model and strategy of cross-cultural curating or new model of an institution).
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
Afternoon session
14:00 – 16:00 Preparation of the public presentations *
17:00 – 20:00 Workshop in Second Life - led by Ilias Marmaris *
Introduction to Second Life and its potentialities for art and curatorial projects. The workshop is going to be led by the Greek artist Ilias Marmaris who will discuss the potentialities and downfalls of Second Life and will offer the new arguments of the debate on SL. The participants will hear more on the advantages of creating an avatar, meeting the avatars of the other participants and “flying” in the Second Life's virtual space.
Visual and Cultural Research Centre (address: Partizanski odredi 63)
20:00 Dinner
21:00 Ballettikka Internettikka - guerrilla net ballet *
Presentation of Igor Stromajerorganised by CAC-Skopje in partnership with press to exit project space press to exit project space (optional programme)
28.09. (Friday)
11:00-13:30 Curatorial Line-Up (individual presentations) *
All participants get together and introduce their previous individual ideas/projects (audience: free-lance curators, journalists, cultural managers, artists and curators from local institutions, by invitation only).
Cultural Centre "Mala Stanica"
13:30-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-15:30 Curatorial Line-Up (group presentations) *
Presentations of the work in groups. Each group’s presentation lasts up to 15 min followed by a short discussion at the end.
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-18:00 Curatorial Translation in Theory, Culture and Art *
A conference challenging curatorial translation as a discursive concept of curating and questioning the ways in which curating intervenes into contemporary socio-political processes through translation of various theoretical, cultural or artistic concepts into exhibitions, public art projects and other events.
- Barbara Borcic: Aspects of Curating
- Maria Lind: Working with Others: The Cases of Moderna Museet Projekt and Totally Motivated - A Sociocultural Maneouver
- Nat Muller: Introduction to the Beginning of an Argument
- Louisa Avgita: Periphery and Contemporary Curatorial Practices18:00-18:30 Break18:30- 20:00 Curatorial Black *
A panel discussion dealing with various models of curatorial theories and practices and their institutional and non-institutional representations.Moderator: Suzana MilevskaParticipants: Louisa Avgita, Barbara Borcic, Ilias Marmaris, Maria Lind, Nat Muller
20:00 Entangled Fragments: ABC of Curatorial Black *
A project by Nikola Eftimov, featuring Iskra Sukarova
Curator: Suzana MilevskaCultural Centre "Mala Stanica" (address: Zeleznicka 18)
20:30 Dinner
29.09. (Saturday)
10:00-18:00 Optional visit to Matka/Nerezi (Lunch) *
18:00-19:30 Taking Part: Participating Singularities - Ontological Communities *
A public lecture by Prof. Dr. Irit Rogoff Cultural Centre "Mala Stanica" (address: Zeleznicka 18)20:00 Dinner
30.09. Departure
Stars' description:* public event * participants only, divided in groups* all participants, no audience* all participants, audience by invitation* optional event
Curator: Dr. Suzana Milevska
Director, Visual and Cultural Research Centre
Assitent Curator: Biljana Tanurovska
Younger Research Assistent, Visual and Cultural Research Centre
Curatorial Translation Participants:
Louisa Avgita, Ivana Bago, Gulsen Bal, Katerina Bogoeva, Barbara Borčić, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Aleksandra Bubevska, Yane Calovski, Slavčo Dimitrov, Nikola Eftimov, Liljana Gjuzelova, Nora Halimi, Hristina Ivanoska, Vladimir Jančevski, Petra Kapš, Vida Knezević, Svetlana Kuymdjieva, Suzana Milevska, Maria Lind, Tevz Logar, Ilias Marmaris, Vladiya Michaylova, Nat Muller, Irit Rogoff, Dejan Spasoviќ, Aleksandar Stankoski, Iskra Šukarova, Ivana Tasev, Tihomir Topuzovski, Žaneta Vangeli, Ivana Vaseva, Elena Veljanovska, Jelena Vesić, Maja Vuković, Velimir Žernovski
Address:Visual and Cultural Research Centre- "Euro-Balkan" Institute
Partizanski odredi 63
Skopje 1000
Macedonia
Tel./Fax: +38923075570
E-mail: visualculturalresearchcentre@gmail.com
Partners:
SCCA-Ljubljana, press to exit project space, EXIT - Peja, Belgrade Circle,
Minsitry of Culture of Republic Macedonia
Venue partners:
press to exit project space
National Gallery of Macedonia - "Mala Stanica"
Cultural Centre "Tocka"
The project was supported by European Cultural Foundation
and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia
24-30 September, 2007, Skopje
23.09. (Sunday)
Arrival of the participants
19:30 Dinner
24. 09. (Monday)
10:00-13:00 Curatorial Translation Lab *
Welcoming the participants and introductory workshop session led by the workshop leaders: Suzana Milevska, Nat Muller and Luchezar Boyadjiev.
Workshop leaders introduce the themes, the structure and the objectives of the workshops.
Participants will be divided in three different groups:
-Translating theory into curatorial practice (leader: Suzana Milevska)
-Intercultural curatorial translation (leader: Nat Muller)
-Translating artistic practice into curatorial projects (leader: Luchezar Boyadjiev)
Visual and Cultural Research Centre (address: Partizanski odredi 63)
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
Afternoon session
14:00-16:00 Visits to local art and cultural institutions *
Informal meetings with curators working in local institutions who will introduce the history and programmes, as well as the problems of the visited museums, galleries and cultural centres exhibiting local and international artists.
National Gallery "Daut Pasha Amam" (address: Old Skopje Bazaar) and National Gallery "Cifte Amam" (address: Bitpazarska Street, Old Skopje Bazaar)
16:00-17:00 Tea Break in Gallery 7 *
A break in Gallery 7 - a tea shop in the Old Skopje Bazaar that used to be an important alternative hangout of artists and intellectuals in Skopje that hosted some public art events during the 80s and 90s.
17:30 –19:00 Meetings with artists *
- studio visits and research interviews with artists.
The participants of each of the three groups meet different local artists.
I group: Liljana Gjuzelova
II group: Zaneta Vangeli
III group: Yane Calovski
19:30-21:30 Reception at press to exit project space *
Yane Calovski, artist and Artistic Director of press to exit project space will introduce the programme of press to exit project space and the exhibition: "Oskar Hansen’s Museum of Modern Art” (Hristina Ivanoska and Yane Calovski)
press to exit project space (address: Maksim Gorki, 19)
25.09. (Tuesday)
10:00-13:00 Curatorial Translation Labs *
Workshops devoted to the three major topics.
Participants are divided in three different groups in three spaces:
-Translating theory into curatorial practice (leader: Suzana Milevska, venue: Visual and Cultural Research Centre, address: Partizanski odredi 63)
- Intercultural curatorial translation (leader: Nat Muller, venue: press to exit project space, address: Maksim Gorki 19)
-Translating artistic practice into curatorial projects (leader: Luchezar Boyadjiev, venue: Cultural Centre “Tocka”, Kliment Ohridski 15)
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
Afternoon session
14:00-17:30 Visits to local art and cultural institutions *
informal meetings with curators working in local institutions: Museum of Contemporary Art (address: Samoilova bb) and Cultural Centre "Mala Stanica" (address: Zeleznicka 18)17:30 – 19:30 Meetings with artists *
- studio visits and research interviews with artists
The participants of each of the three groups meet different local artists:
I group: Aleksandar Stankoski (18:00-19:30)
II group: Tihomir Topuzovski (17:30-19:00)
III group: Dejan Spasovik (17:30-19:00)
19.30 Dinner
26. 09. (Wednesday)
10:00-13:00 Curatorial Translation Labs *
Workshops devoted to the three major topics and groups:
-Translating theory into curatorial practice (workshop leader: Suzana Milevska, venue: Visual and Cultural Research Centre, address: Partizanski odredi 63)
- Intercultural curatorial translation (workshop leader: Nat Muller, venue: press to exit project space, venue: address: Maksim Gorki, 19)
-Translating artistic practice into curatorial projects (workshop leader: Luchezar Boyadjiev, venue: Cultural Centre: “Tocka,” address: Kliment Ohridski 15)
13:00-15:00 Lunch Break
Afternoon session
15:00-16:00 Visits to local art and cultural institutions *
Cultural Centre: “Tocka”
16:00 – 18:00 Curatorship and Media *
Katerina Bogoeva, "Utrinski vesnik" - daily newspaper, Aleksandra Bubevska, A1 TV, Ivana Tasev "TEA" - weekly magazine A panel discussion with journalists from art and culture departments in local media. Curators often claim that they mediate the artistic concepts to the audience. This workshop will address the problems of mediating curatorial concepts to the audience through public media. Some of the questions to be tackled are: how to publicise and communicate curatorial projects to the press, what are the expectations of curators from different media, and how the journalists respond to these expectations? What is there for the art audience?
Cultural Centre: “Tocka”
19:00 Dinner
27.09. (Thursday)
10:00 – 13:00 Preparation of the public presentations *
This is when the three groups work on their own, without the leaders of the workshops. The participants try to self-organise, delegate a leader among themselves and/or delegate the work (research on internet, writing, make a ppt) among themselves. This session is to start putting together the public presentations (15 min each group) in order to complete the task given by the leaders (summarise the group work, come up with an idea for a new model and strategy of cross-cultural curating or new model of an institution).
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
Afternoon session
14:00 – 16:00 Preparation of the public presentations *
17:00 – 20:00 Workshop in Second Life - led by Ilias Marmaris *
Introduction to Second Life and its potentialities for art and curatorial projects. The workshop is going to be led by the Greek artist Ilias Marmaris who will discuss the potentialities and downfalls of Second Life and will offer the new arguments of the debate on SL. The participants will hear more on the advantages of creating an avatar, meeting the avatars of the other participants and “flying” in the Second Life's virtual space.
Visual and Cultural Research Centre (address: Partizanski odredi 63)
20:00 Dinner
21:00 Ballettikka Internettikka - guerrilla net ballet *
Presentation of Igor Stromajerorganised by CAC-Skopje in partnership with press to exit project space press to exit project space (optional programme)
28.09. (Friday)
11:00-13:30 Curatorial Line-Up (individual presentations) *
All participants get together and introduce their previous individual ideas/projects (audience: free-lance curators, journalists, cultural managers, artists and curators from local institutions, by invitation only).
Cultural Centre "Mala Stanica"
13:30-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-15:30 Curatorial Line-Up (group presentations) *
Presentations of the work in groups. Each group’s presentation lasts up to 15 min followed by a short discussion at the end.
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-18:00 Curatorial Translation in Theory, Culture and Art *
A conference challenging curatorial translation as a discursive concept of curating and questioning the ways in which curating intervenes into contemporary socio-political processes through translation of various theoretical, cultural or artistic concepts into exhibitions, public art projects and other events.
- Barbara Borcic: Aspects of Curating
- Maria Lind: Working with Others: The Cases of Moderna Museet Projekt and Totally Motivated - A Sociocultural Maneouver
- Nat Muller: Introduction to the Beginning of an Argument
- Louisa Avgita: Periphery and Contemporary Curatorial Practices18:00-18:30 Break18:30- 20:00 Curatorial Black *
A panel discussion dealing with various models of curatorial theories and practices and their institutional and non-institutional representations.Moderator: Suzana MilevskaParticipants: Louisa Avgita, Barbara Borcic, Ilias Marmaris, Maria Lind, Nat Muller
20:00 Entangled Fragments: ABC of Curatorial Black *
A project by Nikola Eftimov, featuring Iskra Sukarova
Curator: Suzana MilevskaCultural Centre "Mala Stanica" (address: Zeleznicka 18)
20:30 Dinner
29.09. (Saturday)
10:00-18:00 Optional visit to Matka/Nerezi (Lunch) *
18:00-19:30 Taking Part: Participating Singularities - Ontological Communities *
A public lecture by Prof. Dr. Irit Rogoff Cultural Centre "Mala Stanica" (address: Zeleznicka 18)20:00 Dinner
30.09. Departure
Stars' description:* public event * participants only, divided in groups* all participants, no audience* all participants, audience by invitation* optional event
Curator: Dr. Suzana Milevska
Director, Visual and Cultural Research Centre
Assitent Curator: Biljana Tanurovska
Younger Research Assistent, Visual and Cultural Research Centre
Curatorial Translation Participants:
Louisa Avgita, Ivana Bago, Gulsen Bal, Katerina Bogoeva, Barbara Borčić, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Aleksandra Bubevska, Yane Calovski, Slavčo Dimitrov, Nikola Eftimov, Liljana Gjuzelova, Nora Halimi, Hristina Ivanoska, Vladimir Jančevski, Petra Kapš, Vida Knezević, Svetlana Kuymdjieva, Suzana Milevska, Maria Lind, Tevz Logar, Ilias Marmaris, Vladiya Michaylova, Nat Muller, Irit Rogoff, Dejan Spasoviќ, Aleksandar Stankoski, Iskra Šukarova, Ivana Tasev, Tihomir Topuzovski, Žaneta Vangeli, Ivana Vaseva, Elena Veljanovska, Jelena Vesić, Maja Vuković, Velimir Žernovski
Address:Visual and Cultural Research Centre- "Euro-Balkan" Institute
Partizanski odredi 63
Skopje 1000
Macedonia
Tel./Fax: +38923075570
E-mail: visualculturalresearchcentre@gmail.com
Partners:
SCCA-Ljubljana, press to exit project space, EXIT - Peja, Belgrade Circle,
Minsitry of Culture of Republic Macedonia
Venue partners:
press to exit project space
National Gallery of Macedonia - "Mala Stanica"
Cultural Centre "Tocka"
The project was supported by European Cultural Foundation
and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia
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