On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency, Suzana Milevska (Ed.), Berlin: SternbergPress, 2015

 
 Suzana Milevska (Ed.)On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency

Texts by Tal Adler, Eva Blimlinger, Andrea B. Braidt, Jasmina Cibic, Das Kollektiv, Zsuzsi Flohr, Eduard Freudmann, Tímea Junghaus, Jakob Krameritsch, Jean-Paul Martinon, Suzana Milevska, Helge Mooshammer, Peter Mörtenböck, Trevor Ngwane, Karin Schneider, Primrose Sonti, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Working Group Four Faces of Omarska

On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency prompts a unique crossdisciplinary inquiry into the productive potential of the affect of shame. This book contests the ontological understanding of shame and the psychoanalytical interpretation of it based on personal traumatic experiences linked to lack, loss, memory repression, and absence. Rather, the book builds on complex issues (initially proposed by Paul Gilroy) that concern the coming to terms with a grim colonial and imperial past: How can one deal with the personal and collective memories of “paralyzing guilt” after dreadful atrocities and genocides? How can such negative experiences be transformed into “productive shame” (not only for the perpetrators but also for the victims and witnesses)?

This collection of essays, discussions, and interviews reflects on the intersection of the historicity, materiality, and structures behind culturally constructed race and racism, anti-Semitism, anti-Romaism, and queer shame across different disciplines, fields, and theories (for example, in philosophy, art and art history, visual culture, architecture, curating, postcolonial history, gender and queer studies). Various case studies and artistic projects employing collaborative and participatory research methods are analyzed as practices that empower the process of turning shame into productive agency. The ensuing role of productive shame is to prevent the recurrence of the institutional structures, patterns, and events that are responsible and constitutive of racism, and has been contextualized in recent debates on political responsibility and reconciliation in Europe and Africa.

Publication Series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, vol. 16
Design by Surface

December 2015, English
16.5 x 22 cm, 264 pages, 41 color ill., softcover
ISBN 978-3-95679-149-9
€22.00

Dr. Suzana Milevska is a theorist of visual art and culture and curator. From 2013-2015 she was the first Endowed Professor for Central and South Eastern European Art Histories at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. From 2010-2012 she taught art history and theory of visual art at the Faculty of Fine Arts – University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje.  From 2008-2010 she taught fine arts and digital art at BA and MA level at the New-York University in Skopje and from 2008-2010 she taught art history and analysis of styles at the Accademia Italiana Skopje when she was also its Dean. From 2006 to 2008, she was the Director of the Center for Visual and Cultural Research at the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Institute “Euro-Balkan” in Skopje and she taught Visual Culture to M.A. students in Gender Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths College in London (2006) where she taught from 2003 to 2005. In 2004, she was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in Library of Congress. . In 2004, she was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in Library of Congress. Her curatorial project The Renaming Machine (2008-2010) focused on the politics of renaming and overwriting memory in art and visual culture.  In 2010 and 2011 she curated two exhibitions of contemporary art by Roma artists, Roma Protocol at the Austrian Parliament (Wiener Festwochen), and Call the Witness, BAK Utrecht which was basis for the exhibition by the same title at Roma Pavilion - a collateral event at the 54 Venice Biennale. Recently she published the book Gender Difference in the Balkans (Saarbrucken, Germany: VDM Verlag, 2010) and edited The Renaming Machine (Ljubljana: P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, 2010).

http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1633&l=en&bookId=526&sort

INSIDE OUT - Not So White Cube (co-curated with Alenka Gregorič), City Art Gallery, Ljubljana

http://www.mgml.si/en/city-art-gallery/archive-of-exhibitions-411/inside-out-not-so-white-cube/

Inside Out - Not So White Cube

September 24. 2015 - November 22. 2015 (20.00) 

Gallery 1/1

Inside Out - Not So White Cube is a long-term research and co-curatorial cross-disciplinary project initiated by Alenka Gregorič, the artistic director of the City Art Gallery Ljubljana and CC Tobacco 001 (MGML), and Suzana Milevska, independent curator and art theorist based in Macedonia. The project consists of two exhibitions (or possibly more), a conference, and two publications (a catalogue and a reader).

*Opening of the exhibition: Thursday, September 24 at 8 p.m. at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana.*

Azra Akšamija, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Yane Calovski & Hristina Ivanoska, Nemanja Cvijanović, Vlasta Delimar, Goran Đorđević, Stano Filko, Andreas Fogarasi, Liljana Gjuzelova & Sašo Stanojkoviќ, Jusuf Hadžifejzović, Flaka Haliti, Albert Heta, IRWIN, Sanja Iveković, Dalibor Martinis, Ivan Moudov, Ilona Németh, Vesna Pavlović, Dan Perjovschi, Lia Perjovschi, Tadej Pogačar, Slaven Tolj, Goran Trbuljak

+ Interim Study Room: Dragoljub Raša Todosijević, Jugoslovenska dokumeta, Podroom, ArtLeaks, L. Logar, Támas St. Auby, Miklosz Erdely & Indigo Group, Artpool.

Inside Out - Not So White Cube is a long-term research and co-curatorial cross-disciplinary project initiated by Alenka Gregorič, the artistic director of the City Art Gallery Ljubljana and CC Tobacco 001 (MGML), and Suzana Milevska, independent curator and art theorist based in Macedonia. The project consists of two exhibitions (or possibly more), a conference, and two publications (a catalogue and a reader). The institution hosting the project is the City Art Gallery Ljubljana (MGML), in partnership with four principal long-term researchers (Vít Havránek, Zoran Erić, Vladimir Vidmar, and Raluca Voinea) and in collaboration with several other short-term researchers and curators (Sandra Bradvić, Barbara Dudás, and Lucia Gregorová Stach), institutions, and organizations from Central and South-Eastern Europe (the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka and the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade), which will stage additional events and exhibitions to be organized according to the relevance of the subtopics in the course of the development of the project.
Curated by: Alenka Gregorič & Suzana Milevska
The general aim of the Inside Out project is to analyze the existing theoretical and critical art practices proposed by artists, art collectives, researchers, or institutions from Central and South-Eastern Europe that focus on critiquing the existing models of institutions, their programs, and the work conditions in art production. The exhibition and the other parts of the project highlight the changing relations between the role of art and artists and the role of museums, galleries, and other public and private art institutions in producing, presenting, and collecting contemporary art in the period of sociopolitical and economic transition. The project’s main research questions are the following: How did institutions influence and change one another while interacting and/or cooperating during the transformation of the political system and the transition from the centralized to the free market economy? What impact did artists and art projects have on such transformations? The urgency of pursuing new alternative cross-institutional or trans-institutional models of institutions, strategies, and the roles of art institutions is also pointed out.

We decided to look at artists who focus on commenting on the existing art institutions and on the urgent need   to find new strategies and roles for themselves, or even on bringing back some forgotten values, standards, and criteria of work from the past. This exhibition at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana presents works and projects that focus on the late 1970s and the 1980s, with some works from the 1990s and the 2000s featuring as counterparts. Some of these art projects were considered seminal and particular to the “institutional debates” in the socialist context even before – and often regardless of – the emergence of institutional critique in American and Western European art. The sociopolitical and economic circumstances – and thus historical conditions – in the socialist (and post-socialist) institutional context produced a substantially different pattern of relations between institutions, artists, curators, etc.
Alenka Gregorič & Suzana Milevska
EVENTS AT CITY ART GALLERY LJUBLJANA:

Friday, September 25, 5 pm
Guided Tour (in English)
Alenka Gregorič and Suzana Milevska
Thursday, October 22, 5 pm
Guided Tour
Alenka Gregorič
Friday, November 20, 6 pm
A new version of the Schadenfreude Guided Tours
Luchezar Boyadjiev
Conference: 20. – 21. 11. 2015, Ljubljana
Publication’s launch: September 2016, Vienna

Photo: Dan Perjovschi, The Museum Drawings
***
The project is supported by the Erste Foundation.

CV - 2016, Education, employment and other professional affiliations

Dr. Suzana Milevska

RESEARCH, THEORETICAL AND CURATORIAL INTERESTS
Visual arts and postcolonial critique of hegemonic power in art;
gender difference and feminist art;
the construction of visual memory in photographic archives;
arts in postsocialist and transitional societies;
collaborative and participatory art practices.

Dr. Suzana Milevska is an art historian and theorist of visual art and culture from Skopje, Macedonia. 

From 2013-2015 she was the first Endowed Professor at the Academy of Fine Art in Vienna and she taught Central and South Eastern European Art Histories. In parallel she was a guest lecturer at the Visual Culture Unit at the Technological University in Vienna (TUW). In 2013 she was a visiting lecturer at the University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje where she was teaching Visual Culture and Gender at the Gender Studies Department. She was teaching Contemporary Art 

History at FON University Skopje (2013-2014). 

She holds a Ph.D. in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths College in London (2006) where she was a Visiting Tutor and taught Framing Art: Museum and Galleries; Curatorial Knowledge; Techniques and Technologies-History and Theory of Photography, from 2003 to 2005. From 2010-2012 she taught art history and theory of visual art at the Faculty of Fine Arts – University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje. From 2008-2010 she taught fine arts and digital art at BA and MA level at the New-York University in Skopje and from 2008-2010 she taught art history and analysis of styles at the Accademia Italiana Skopje and was its Dean in 2010. From 2006 to 2008, she was the Director of the Center for Visual and Cultural Research at the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Institute “Euro-Balkan” in Skopje and she taught Visual Culture to M.A. students in Gender Studies. In 2004, she was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in Library of Congress. 

She collaborated in many academic research projects and participated at various international art and academic conferences. She lectured extensively in various renowned universities and art institutions among others at Columbia University in New York; Library of Congress in Washington DC; Oxford University in Oxford; Alvar Aalto University and KUVA in Helsinki; Royal Art Institute in Stockholm, Gothenburg University; Goldsmiths College, SEES and SOAS in London; SVAC-East Anglia University; Academy of Fine Art in Frankfurt; Vienna Technical University, University of Applied Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna; Akademie der Kunst in Berlin; Oldenburg University; IUAV in Venice, The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, TATE Modern in London, Moderna Museet-Stockholm, KIASMA-Helsinki, MUMOK-Vienna, CAMK-Japan, etc. Her publishing records range from critical reviews and theoretical texts in art magazines, peer reviewed academic journals and exhibition catalogues to chapters in academic publications and editing and publishing individual books. She published the book Gender Difference in the Balkans (Saarbrucken, Germany: VDM Verlag, 2010) and edited The Renaming Machine (Ljubljana: P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, 2010).

Milevska also curates exhibitions that focus on different socio-political issues in art: since 1992 she curated over 70 local and international exhibitions and other interdisciplinary projects that investigate new formats of presentation and mediation of art. In her projects she includes different art media, artistic research, discursive events (seminars, conferences, workshops), and her academic and curatorial research methodology combine art, academic education and life-long learning formats (summer schools, workshops, seminars). She was the initiator and curator of the Open Graphic Art Studio at the Museum of the City of Skopje (1997-2005) and was the national coordinator for the Istanbul Biennial (1994-1999). Her long term research and curatorial project The Renaming Machine (2008-2010) focused on the politics of renaming and overwriting memory in art and visual culture. In 2010 and 2011 she curated two exhibitions of contemporary art by Roma artists, Roma Protocol at the Austrian Parliament (Wiener Festwochen), and Call the Witness, BAK Utrecht which was basis for the exhibition by the same title at Roma Pavilion - a collateral event at the 54 Venice Biennale. She was also a researcher for the projects East Art Map (initiated by IRWIN, 2001-6), Gender Check (curated by Bojana Pejić, MUMOK, Vienna, 2009-10) and Call the Witness –Roma Pavilion.                                     

Milevska is a member of the Advisory Board of the journals World Art and ArtMargins and a member of AICA (since 1995) and IKT (since 2005). She collaborated with internationally-renown artists from the Balkans, SE and EE, USA, UK, Austria, Germany, Canada, Sweden, etc.: Marina Abramović, Sanja Iveković, Lia Perjovschi, Marina Gržinić/Aina Šmid, Dan Perjovschi, Mladen Stilinović, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Maja Bajević, Danica Dakić, Tanja Ostojić, Oliver Musoviќ, Yane Čalovski, Hristina Ivanoska, Žaneta Vangeli, Aleksandar Stankoski, Tadej Pogačar, Susan Kelly/Stephen Morton, Candida Alvarez, Kay Rosen, Gaylen Gerber, Magnus Bärtås, Elin Wickstrom, Annika Erikson, Husseyin B. Alptekin, Warren Neidich, Hito Steyerl, Marika Schmiedt, Alfred Ullrich, Lynn Hutchinson-Lee/Hedina Sijerčić, etc.

 Milevska is the recipient of the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory; the ALICE Award for political curating (2012) and of the grant of the Foundation for Art Initiatives (2013).

I. EDUCATION:

2001-2006       PhD, Goldsmiths College – University of London, London, Visual Cultures Department, Gender Difference in the Balkans  
(Supervisors: Prof. Irit Rogoff, Dr. Jean-Paul Martinon)

1993-1994       Diploma, Central European College - Prague, History and Philosophy of Art and Architecture The Rhizomatic Structure of Fragments (Supervisor: 
Prof. Miroslav Petricek)

1979-1984       BA Faculty of Philosophy-University "Cyril and Methodius", Skopje, Art History Department.  

II. CURRENT AND PREVIOUS TEACHING POSITIONS:

2016 independent visual culture researcher, curator and art theorist

2013-2015  Endowed Professor for Central and South Eastern Europe, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna

2010-2012  Lecturer Professor in Art History and Theory; (undergraduates)

                   Lecturer in Aesthetics of 20^th c.; and Discourses of Visuality, Faculty of

Fine Arts – University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius – Skopje, MA level

2009-2010  Visiting Professor in Digital Art, Gender, Art and Media, New York University –Skopje (MA level)

2009-2010  Visiting Professor in History of Contemporary Art – FON University Skopje

2008–2009 Visiting Professor in Fine Arts, New York University – Skopje (undergraduate)

2008–2010 Professor in Art History and Analysis of Styles, Accademia Italiana - Skopje (undergraduate)

2006-2008  Lecturer in Visual Culture and Gender, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Institute “Euro-Balkan”, Skopje (MA, Ph.D.)             

2006-2008  Lecturer in Academic Writing, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Institute “Euro-Balkan”, Skopje (MA, Ph.D.)

2003/2005  Visiting Tutor, Goldsmiths College, University of London, Visual Cultures, (BA/Diploma/MA)
Courses: Framing Art: Museum and Galleries; Curatorial Knowledge; Techniques and Technologies- History and Theory of Photography,

III. EMPLOYMENTS AND  CURATORIAL POSITIONS

2011                     Roma Protocol, Austrian Parliament, Vienna

2010-2011            Researcher of the 2^nd Roma Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2011
2006-2008          Director and initiator of the Center for Visual and Cultural Research at the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Institute “Euro-Balkan”, Skopje

2005                     International Curator, ‘Workers’ Club Project’ – one of the co-curators of the International Contemporary Art Biennale - Prague, Czech     
                             Republic        

2004                     National Curator, Cosmopolis: Microcosmos X Macrocosmos – Balkan Biennial, Thessalonica, Greece

1997/2005            Curator at the Museum of the City of Skopje, Macedonia

1995-1999            National Curator, Istanbul International Art Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey

IV. AWARDS

2013 Foundation for Art Initiatives

2012 Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory
ALICE Award for Political Curating

V. RESEARCH GRANTS:           

2004                     Fulbright Senior Research Scholarship, Library of Congress, Washington D.C. Women Immigrants from the Balkans in the Early American    
                             Photography

2002-2004            Overseas Research Studentship, PhD: Gender Difference in the Balkans

2001                     P. Getty Curatorial Research Grant, Representation of Women in the Early Balka

                             Photography

1999                     Arts Link Grant – curatorial research, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL

VI. MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS, BOARDS AND JURIES:

From 2009           World Art, Journal, Rutledge, Advisory Board’s Member

From 2005           IKT (International Association of Curators), member

From 2005           Feminist Review, Collective Member, and International Correspondent, London  

2005                     SIGGRAPH, Electronic Art Festival, L.A. USA, jury member,

                             West Balkan Artist in residence programme, NIFCA, Helsinki, jury member,

2004 / 2006          International Advisory Board of Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan

From 1994           A.I.C.A. (International Association of Art Critic), member

From 2002           IFUW (International Federation of University Women), member            

1998                     Exhibition "Permanent Instability" - First International Exhibition, "ONUFRI'98" Festival,

                             Tirana, Jury member,
1997                     Exhibition "Murder One," Second Annual Exhibition of SCCA – Belgrade, Jury member

1996                     Exhibition "Icon on Silver" - Second Annual Exhibition of SCCA-Skopje, Jury member

CV 2016 - Selected curatorial projects

Dr. Suzana Milevska

Research, curatorial and theoretical interests:

visual arts and postcolonial critique of hegemonic power regimes of representation;

gender difference and feminist art;

the construction of visual memory in photographic archives;

arts in postsocialist and transitional societies;

collaborative and participatory art practices.

SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS 
(curated exhibitions, conferences and other discursive and educational formats-workshops, summers schools and residences)

2015-16
Inside Out - Not So White Cube, (co-curated with Alenka Gregorič) City Art Gallery, Ljubljana, exhibition and conference (catalogue and reader).

2014
On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency, international conference, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (book).

2011
Roma Protocol, press room, Austrian Parliament, Wiener Festvochen, Vienna,

Roma Pavilion – Call the Witness, member of the curatorial team for the Venice Biennial’s Collateral Event

Call the Witness, BAK, Utrecht, Netherlands

2009
Hito Steyerl – solo exhibition of Hito Steyerl and conversation with the artist, P74 Gallery, Ljubljana

2008/10
The Renaming Machine, series of 3 exhibitions (Ljubljana, Skopje, Vienna) and 5 conferences (Ljubljana, Skopje, Pristina, Zagreb and Vienna) in partnership with the leader of the project, P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, Ljubljana, Stacion, Pristina, g-mk, Zagreb and Open Space, Vienna.

2007
Translating the Self, International Conference, (curator/moderator of the conference), “Euro-Balkan” Institute and British Council, Skopje.

Integrating Cultures/Negotiating New Subjectivities, Summer School, Ohrid, “Euro-Balkan” Institute, supported by Life Long Learning programme - Jean Monnet, European Commission

Curatorial Translation, Regional Curatorial Workshop (curator of the programme), “Euro-Balkan” Institute in partnership with Ministry of Culture and ECF, Press to exit project space-Skopje, SCCA-Ljubljana, EXIT-Peje.

2006
Naming of the Bridge Rosa Plaveva and Nakie Bajram, Hristina Ivanoska, "Art under Construction", FWA/City University, London, 2005

Workers’ Club - International Prague Biennial: co-curatorial exhibition and conference – National Gallery, Prague (catalogue)

2004
Cosmopolis – Microcosmos X Macrocosmos (national curator), State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece (catalogue)

Unbalanced Allocation of Space, (co-curated with Julia Schäfer), Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany (catalogue)

Multiplication, City Museum of Skopje/British Council, Skopje (Macedonia) (catalogue)

2002

Divided Sky/Re-unified Territories, talk-show programme on TV Leipzig and a part of Introducing Sites II, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig,Germany (text in the catalogue for the long-term gfzk project "Cultural Territories")

2002
The Body Thinks, exhibition and conference, Open Graphic Art Studio – The Museum of the City of Skopje (Macedonia)

2001
Capital & Gender – International Project for Art and Theory, public art project Perfect Match and conference Capital & Gender, City Shopping Mall, Skopje (forward, text and edition of book)                                                                                                                                                      
Correspondences, IFA Gallery, Berlin, Stuttgart, Bonn, Germany (catalogue).

2000
Words, Objects, Acts, The Museum of the City of Skopje Skopje (Macedonia), ArtsLink collaboration with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (catalogue).

1999
Helmet - Art as Protection, independent project by Petar Hadzi Boskov for the Macedonian presentation at the Venice Biennial Skopje-Venice, 48th Venice Biennial (unrealised).

Neighbours, by Oliver Musovik, 6th International Istanbul Biennial, national curator (catalogue).

Always Already Apocalypse, in parallel with the 6th International Istanbul Biennial, Sabanci Art Center, Yildiz Technical University Istanbul, curated by Paolo Colombo (catalogue).

First Peep Show in the City, CIX Gallery, Skopje (catalogue)

1998
Little Big Stories, Riksarkivet, Stockholm (catalogue)

1997- 2005
National Curator for the representation of Macedonia at the 4th 5th and 6th International Biennial, Istanbul

1997
The Bridge, by Marina Abramovic, The Museum of the City of Skopje, Skopje (catalogue)

Leaving the Nest, by Bedi Ibrahim, national curator of the Macedonian representative, 5th International Istanbul Biennial, curated by Rosa Martinez (catalogue).

Liquor Amnii II, Convergence X, Festival, Providence, Rhodes Island, USA (catalogue).

1996-2005
Initiator of the Open Graphic Art Studio and curator of the exhibitions and artist in residence programme at the Open Graphic Art Studio, solo and group exhibitions of more than 50 young Macedonian artists.

1996
Liquor Amnii, ten women artists from Macedonia and USA, Skopje Summer Festival,
Cifte Amam, Skopje, Macedonia (catalogue)

1995
A Documentary about V.A. by Zaneta Vangeli, a national selector for the Macedonian representation at the 4th International Istanbul Biennial, curated by Rene Block (catalogue).

Participation at conferences and other discursive and educational projects, 1996-2016

Suzana Milevska
Key-note speeches, presentations at international conferences and individual lectures (selected):

2016                      
Normalities, panel at the exhibition opening, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, 19.01.
“Microhistories and Internalisation of Macrohistories,” book launch of Microhistories, Edited by Magnus Bärtås, Konsthall, Gothenburg, 19.03.                
“Infelicitous Participatory Acts”, lecture and seminar, Academy Valand, Gothenburg, 18.03.
“Through the Magnifying Glass of a Feminist: Representation of Women’s Body in Visual Art and Media”, School for Feminism, GEM Skopje, 20.02.

2015                     
“Reverse Recuperation”: The Philanthropist, the Critique/Critic and the Trickster, A Proposalfor Open Call, Exnergasse, curated by Vera Lauf and Barbara Mahlknecht,  Vienna, 13.11. 
CEI Venice Forum, Continental Breakfast-Studio Tomasseo, Trieste, 24.10
Microhistories, seminar and workshop, in collaboration with Konstfack, Stockholm and prof. Magnus Bärtås, 11-14.09.
“Butterfly Effect”, The Long Moment, curated by Lina Morawttz,  Exnergasse, Vienna, 03.09.
“Triangulations of Estrangement: The subject, the object and the animal”,  Summer Institute SAAS-Fee, Warren Neidich and Barry Schwabsky, 13.06.
“The Lack and its “Supplement”: The visible and invisible violence of monuments, Invisible Violence”, symposium, Salzburger Kunstwerein, 18.03.
“Landscapes Without Bodies”, lecture, In Transitional Landscapes symposium, Karin Reisenberg/Amila Siberbegović, Paradocks/TUW, (Packhaus), 17.01.2015, Vienna

2014                    
“From Parasitism to Institutional Critique”, Lecture in the context of the retrospective exhibition of Tadej Pogačar, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, 19.12.2014.
“Participatory Budgeting” workshop leader, Critical Management in Curating, Schnittpunkt, 09-10.12.2014 Vienna
“After Before: Re-writing Art Histories, Self-historisation and Other Contradictions”, me Collection, Berlin, 13.11.
“The Impossibility of Cultural Translation of Blue”, Blue Times, Kunsthalle, Vienna, 04.12.2014
Becoming-Curator, tranzit, 10.10.2014, Bratislava
Miracles Can Happen- A theoretical reflection on miracles, Microhistories (research project and exhibition by Magnus Bärtås),Tensta, Stockholm, 10.09.2014.
The (Im)Possibility of Commoning, Tranzit.Cz 17.07. 2014, Prague

Introduction and moderation of the session with Silvia Federici, Summer School
Commoning the City (organised by Prof. Anette Baldauf and Prof. Renate Lorenz, PhD by Practice, Academy of Fine Arts). 23.06.2014

Launch of the book: Performing the Sentence, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, 17.06.2014
BODY THINKS, Or Cognitive Body Vs. Essentialism, Objectification and Ideal Body Imagery, Lecture in the context of the retrospective exhibition of Vlasta Delimar, Museum of Contemporary Museum, Zagreb, 10.06. 2014 Zagreb, Croatia                                                                                                      
“Word Bridges - Dictionary of Curatorial Agency-workshop”,ECM Module Curatorial Agency, 13.04. 2014                                                  
Introduction of Esther Shalev Gerz and moderator of the session, Europe: The City is Burning (curated by Sophie Golz, Stadtkuratorien Hamburg) 
Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. 24.05.2014
“The Lack and its “Supplement”: Gender and Agency in Public Space”, Invisible Violence (symposium curated by Zoran Erić), Youth House, Belgrade, 10 May 
Immaterial Monuments, curator of the workshop with Art Agent Stockholm and Macedonian artists, Youth Cultural Centre, Skopje, 23-25 April 2014                     Presenter and moderator of a discussion, Microhistories (research project by Magnus Bärtås), Moderna Museet and Konstfack, Stockholm, 10-12.02. 2014  “Troubled Relation Between Theory and Curatorial Practice: A Reverse Perspective”, lecture and workshop, Igor Zabel Association/SCCA-Ljubljana, 05.02. 2014                                                                                                                                       
On Productive Shame, Reconciliation and Agency, curating and moderating the symposium, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 3-4 April 2014
“Not-Yet Ready Made”, public lecture, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 11.03. 2014                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

2013                      
“Becoming-Curator”, How to Become a Curator (with Ruth Noack), Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Erste Foundation. 15.11.2013                                         
“The Invisible Borderlines of Racism: From amnesia to racist allure in visual representation”, individual public lecture, Mauthausen Project series of lectures:
ERINNERUNGSORTE IN BEWEGUNG - Vortragsreihe zur Neugestaltung der KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen, TUW, Vienna, 04.11.2013.
“Veils/Folds/Events- Production of face in space-time”, Not Now/Now, curated by Renate Lorenz, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 17.10.2013.
Balkan is Now, moderator of the debate (curator Gulsun Bal), DEPO, Vienna. 10.10.2013                          
“Highly Curved Loops of Space-Time: Art History in Regional Perspective”, inaugural lecture, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies, Academy of Fine
Arts Vienna, 15.10. 2013 ‘
Woman must put herself into the text: Feminist Agency of Sanja Iveković’s Art’, workshop in the context of Sanja Iveković’s solo exhibition Unknown Heroine, 
15 participants, 27.01.2013, Calvert 22, London
"Gender and Agency in Public Space”, How to Identify with Difference? Curated by Elke Krasny, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, 29.01.2013.

2012                      
“Staging the Transgression”, Civil Partnerships: Queer and Feminist Curating, TATE Modern, London.
“Post-Representational Curating: Talking About Curatorial Agency Suzana Milevska In Conversation with Nora Sternfeld”, Alvar Aalto Univerity, Helsinki
“On the (Im)possibility of (Re)naming”, A Conversation about the formation of nationaliconographies and their framing, in the context of Jasmina Cibic’s exhibition, UGM, Maribor
“Agency and Reverse Recuperation”, More Europe, Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw
“Voices and Choirs of Dissent: Reverse recuperation” Curatorial Summer Workshop, Royal Art Institute, Stockholm
“Curatorial Agency as Cultural Translation and Knowledge Production”, lecture at ECM, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
“Curatorial Theory and Practice: A Reverse Perspective”, Angewandtes Ausstellen, University of

Applied Arts, Vienna

2011                      
“Epistemological and Ethical Turn in Curatorial Knowledge Production -practice and theory”- PhD by research programme with Renate Lorenz, Academy of Fine Art, Vienna

“Art Practice Based Research: Events of Production of Knowledge, Artistic Research and Ethical
Conundrums”, Conference report, SHARE/ELIA Conference, KUVA, Helsinki
“Roma Protocol”, Safe European Home? Architektur Zentrum Wien, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna
“Feminist Research in Art”, Art as a Thinking Process, IUAV and EARN, Venice, Italy
“NSK State – a relationship of ‘belonging without belonging”, Red District Symposium, Curated by Alexei Monro, Trbovlje, Slovenia                                  “Feminist Art as Agency: Apophatic vs. Kataphatic Principle”, TransYgoslav Feminsms: Women’sHeritage Revisited, Gliptoteka, Zagreb, Croatia

2010
“The Reciprocal Relationship between Art and Visual Culture in the Balkans,”Space (Re)solutions: Intervention and Research In Visual Culture, edited by Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer, Technical University Vienna

2009                      
“Can the Subaltern Speak East”, Workshop at the Gender Check, curated by Bojana Pejic, MUMOK,

Vienna

“What can transnational feminist theory learn from regional feminism”, Feminist Review Conference: Feminist Theory and                        Global Perspective, SOAS, University of London, London (UK)

                   “Internalisation of Institutional Critique”, Evaluating and Formative Goals of Art Criticism in Recent   

                   (De)territorialized Contexts, AICA Seminar, Cultural Centre “Mala Stanica”,

National Gallery, Skopje (Macedonia)

                   “The Importance of Gendered Interpretation of Contemporary Art”, CEI Curatorial Forum, Palazzo

Zorzi, Venice (Italy)

                   “Internalisation of the Institutional Critique”, Conference: The Next Step, Curated by Zdenka

Badovinac, Moderna Galeria, Ljubljana (Slovenia)              

                                      “Whatever Belonging”, IKT (Key-note speech at the opening of the International Association of

Curators Congress, KIASMA Museum, Helsinki

2008                              
World Art Forum, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

“Participatory Art and its Hierarchies”. On Participation – POPP’68 Conference, Academy of Visual

Arts, Berlin

2007                      
“Casting Žižek: Manliness as a Masquerade” (workshop with Katerina Kolozova), Humanities 

                                       Symposium: New Directions for the Humanities, Columbia University, New York (USA)

Globalization of Art, Stone Summer Theory Institute, Director: James Elkins, SAIC, Chicago, IL

“Phantasms of Belonging Vs. Participation”, key-note, Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria

2006                      
“Non-Schengen Art: The Phantasm of Belonging”, SSEES (School of Slavonic and Eastern      

                                       European Studies), Inclusion/Exclusion, London 

                                       “An-archiving Gender Difference in the Balkans”, ESC, Graz, Austria

Lecture: The Question of the Veil in the Balkans, and conference paper ‘Balkan Subjectivity as Neither’, Balkans Exhibited: A Debate: Art under Construction, City University London

“Non-Schengen Art: The Phantasms of Belonging”, Performance Rights, Queen Mary University

London

Lecture: “Not Quite Bare Life”, Conference Polture and Cultics, eipcp Vienna/Maison Del’ Europe, Paris

“Not Quite Bare Life: Rules and Exemption”, Documenta 12 Conference, Nehru University, New

Delhi

2005                     
“Staged Invisibility”, Conference Strategies of (In)visibility, Republicart project, eipcp, Vienna and

Goldsmiths College, Camden Art Centre, London

                                      “Political and Gender Troubles: Art in Eastern Europe”, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto,

Japan  

Workers’ Club Conference, (curator and participant) International Biennial - National Gallery Prague

2003                      
“Photography and Transgression of Identities in the Balkans”, Conference “Crossing the Borders in

 the Balkans,” Oxford University Balkan Society, Oxford (UK)

“Of Balkan Hospitality in the Age of Ultimate Postcolonial” Conference with Gayatri C. Spivak,

Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje 

2002                      
“Objects and Subjects: Politically Engaged Art”, Conference “Cultural Territories,” GfCA, Leipzig

(Germany)

“The Question of Ready-made and Fabrication of Objects and Subjects”, Badischer Kunstwerein,

Karlsruhe (Germany)

“Correspondences and Privileges”, Manifesta 4, Fine Art Academy, Frankfurt (Germany)

“The Home of the Other”, CATH Conference on Hospitality, University of Leeds, Leeds (UK)

“Ready-Made in Macedonian Contemporary Art”, Moderna Museet, Stockholm

“Fluids, Stories, Geographies”, lecture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Zagreb (Croatia)

“Several Paradoxes of Art Critique and Curatorship”, lecture, University of Zagreb, History of Art

Department, Zagreb (Croatia)

2001                      
“Fetish or Gift”, The Real, the Absolute, the Desperate (curator: Marina Grzinic) Steirische

Herbst Festival) Forum Stadtpark, Graz (Austria)

2000                      
Summer Institute in World Art Studies – Getty Foundation Program, University of East Anglia –

SCVA, Norwich (UK)

                                      “Self-referentialism Vs. Criticism”, AICA Congress, Tate Modern Museum, London 

“Church, House, Mother”, Co-operation – International Forum for feminist Art and Theory, curated

by Sanja Ivekovic, Dubrovnik (Croatia)

1999                      
“DAS  CAPITAL: Spectacle or Screen”, symposium "After the Wall," Moderna Museet, Stockholm

                   “Fluids, Desires, Stories”, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (USA)

1998                      
“The Western Curator Goes to East or Cinderella Syndrome “, Europe: Cluster for New Peripheries

(AICA), Manifesta 2, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg   

“East is East, West is West, Yugoslavia is the Best”, New Situations, Casino Luxembourg,

Luxembourg          

“Instability of the Balkan Subject”, National Art Gallery, Onufri Festival, Tirana (Albania)

1997                      
“Female Art through the Looking Glass”, Symposium Women Creators between the Two Seas,

Aristoteles University, Thessaloniki (Greece)

“Y is for Confluence?” lecture on contemporary women artists from Macedonia, MOBIUS Art Center

Boston (USA)/Lecture with slide and video projection about the project "Liquor Amnii" in

Providence, USA, SCCA-Skopje

Lecture about the 5th International Istanbul Biennial and about the project "Desiring Machines"

SCCA-Skopje     

The Body as a Spectacle, Art and Theatre, IFA, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje

“Un-ready Ready-made”, Ex-Natio - Annual Exhibition of SCCA-Bulgaria,Plovdiv (Bulgaria)

1996                      
“Documenting the Aura”, International Congress of AICA, University of Rennes (France),                                     

“Documenting the Aura”, "EAST V2", DEAF, Rotterdam (NL)

“Iteractivity: Promiscuity or Gesamtdatenwerk”, Interactivity, organized by SCCA, Skopje during the      

 Second Annual Exhibition "Icon on Silver" , Youth Cultural Center, Skopje (Macedonia)

                                       Presentation of the CD Rom "Icon on Silver", 9 electronic interactive projects by different

 Macedonian artists, Istanbul (Turkey), Yildiz Technical University   

   

1995                      
“Self-refferentiality and Criticism”, Central European University in Prague and the Göethe

Institute, Modernity and After, Prague (Czech Republic)

“Deprivation from Images”, 4th International Istanbul Biennial, conference Oriental Challenge in

Arts, Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul (Turkey)

“The Question of Fold  in Architecture and Film”, Architecture and Film, Faculty of Architecture (University of St. Cyril and Methodius"), Skopje (Macedonia)

1994                     
“Contemporary Art in the Balkans”, Art in Balkans - Middle Ages and Contemporaneity,              

Plovdiv (Bulgaria)

“Art Critique as Installation”, Göethe Institute, Symposium within the program of the Festival of German Art and Culture and the "Memento"  exhibition Prague (Czech Republic)

“Critical Regionalism or The Paradoxes of  Nationalism and Internationalism”,  conference Nationalism/Internationalism, Museum of the City of Skopje, Skopje

1993                      
“Intermedia”, Macedonian TV, Skopje (Macedonia), six 10 min. programs about the relations among

 the painting, photography, video and film

“Postmodernism - Religion without God”, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Student International

Biennial Skopje (Macedonia)

1992                      Deconstruction and Art Criticism (curator and moderator of the conference, invited speakers; Ferid

Muhić, Danilo Kocevski and Bojan Ivanov) Youth Cultural Center, Skopje (Macedonia)