ANNOUNCEMENTS

THE TERROR OF ‘POSITIVITY SOCIETY’ AND THE ‘ETHICS OF HAPPINESS’

Lecture by Marko Stamenkovic, PhD (Serbia)
and public discussion with the artist of Initiative Kooperacija (Macedonia) 

Date: 25. 02. 2015 (Wednesday), 8pm - 9.30pm
Location: Faculty of Philosophy / Philology (@A3)

 

There are various studies and surveys tending to quantify happiness by defining specific indicators and measurement values ​​for social development and well-being of different countries, based on various parameters including the standard of citizens, economic growth and social cohesion, the level of tolerance and political culture, media freedom and development of interactive cultural models.  Continue reading

THE HORSES’ LEGS ARE TOO SHORT

Opening: 24.11.2014 (Monday), 7 p.m. / artist talk: 6 p.m.
Location: Remont Gallery, Marsala Birjuzova, Belgrade, Serbia
The exhibition will be open until 29.11.2014

Igor TOSHEVSKI / OPA (Slobodanka STEVCESKA & Denis SARAGINOVSKI) /
Oliver MUSOVIK / Filip JOVANOVSKI / Nikola UZUNOVSKI / Gjorgje JOVANOVIK / 
Vladimir JANCHEVSKI

Remont Gallery, Marsala Birjuzova, Belgrade, Serbia

Remont Gallery, Marsala Birjuzova, Belgrade, Serbia

Frequent attempts to narrow down and eradicate the facility for an open debate and the visible repercussions of any anti-disciplinary act, manifest the embodiment of a long perceived crisis of rationality and the brutal instrumentalisation of its communicative potential. It is a tendency that, through local quasi-interpretations and prominent authoritarian tendencies disguised as a necessity, can only lead into a new era, which would present an actual anti-human dystopia for the common citizen. Continue reading

MELTING POINT: ART AS ANTI-HEGEMONIC PROPAGANDA

Location: Bul. Sv. Kliment Ohridski, br. 60A Skopje, R. Macedonia
Opening: Monday, 7th July 8.30pm
Visiting hours: every day from 6pm - 10pm (8-12 July 2014) 

Vitaly KOMAR, IRWIN, Santiago SIERRA, DETEXT (Valentin DUCEAC & Raul MARTÍNEZ), Nemanja CVIJANOVIC, Ibro HASANOVIC, Kristina GOROVSKA & Jure LAVRIN, Ines EFREMOVA, Vladimir LUKASH, Nikola UZUNOVSKI, Filip JOVANOVSKI, Gjorgje JOVANOVIK, Igor TOSHEVSKI, OPA, Vladimir JANCHEVSKI

Bul. Sv. Kliment Ohridski, br. 60A

Bul. Sv. Kliment Ohridski, br. 60A

In a time when efforts are made to maintain the idea of ​​pluralism, the radical imbalance of power is one of the fundamental problems in the attempt to resolve various conflicts, especially those in societies which strive to represent and propagate the necessity of integrity and unchallengeable unification.  Continue reading

ANOMALIES: In-disciplinary AesthEt(h)ic Constructions / Politics and Limits of Interpretation

individual exhibition of  Vladimir Janchevski

Location: Njudelhiska 6, Skopje
Opening: 24.06.2014 (Tuesday) at 21:00 h
The exhibition will be open every day from 19:00-22:00 till 
28.06.2014 (Saturday)

Vladimir JANCHEVSKI (* 1984, Skopje) graduated from the Institute of Art History (Contemporary Art) at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje. In the period 2009-2011 he was employed as a teaching assistant on the courses about Modern and Contemporary Art. Since 2011 participates in the activities of the Centre for Visual Studies – Skopje, which is part of the European network for visual culture. As an independent researcher, works in the field of contemporary art, art theory and visual studies. Since 2005 he organized many exhibitions, lectures and discussions, edited several publications, participated in several conferences and authored more than thirty texts.

In May 2012 he joined the Initiative Kooperacija and has participated in the conceiving and realization of all projects / activities (presentations, discussions and exhibitions), also exhibiting his works, both individual and collaborative.  Continue reading

Participation of Kooperacija on ‘BETWEEN FACTS AND FICTION’

in organization of ZFD Kosovo

27-28.01.2014
Kosovo Foundation for Civil Society, Prishtina

Participants: Flaka Haliti (RKS), Saranda Bogujevci (RKS/UK), Vladimir Miladinović (RS), Saša Šimpraga (CRO), Nita Luci (RKS), Eli Krasniqi (RKS), Eliza Hoxha (RKS), Marko Krojač (DE), Nataša Govedarica (RS), Linda Gusia (RKS), Blerta Zeqiri (RKS), Astrit Ismaili (RKS), Organic Initiative (RKS), Arben Llapashtica (RKS), Internally Displaced (RKS), Agata Rogoś – Kooperacija (MKD)

ZFD-Kosovo

Critical Art and Art Criticism: Responsibility as Common Denominator

Time: December 12, 2013 (Thursday), 6pm

Location: Concept café, Ruzveltova 37, Skopje

Public Discussion

Participants/Speakers: Elizabeta Sheleva, PhD; Bojan Ivanov, MA; and Vladimir Janchevski (Kooperacija)

Moderator: Elena Veljanovska

On the occasion of the exhibition “Reidentification” opened recently and the release of the first issue of “Kritika”, Kooperacija is organizing a event open for the public in order to discuss the role of criticism in contemporary art practices, the role of independent initiatives in the development of critical thought in general, as well as the cultural policies today and the possible directions for their modification and improvement.

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Concept café, Ruzveltova 37, Skopje

RE-IDENTIFICATIONS

Location: Ul. Mitropolit Teodosij Gologanov, br.70, lokal 2, Skopje 
Opening: 06. 12. 2013 (Friday) / 19:30 
The exhibition will be open until 14.12.2013

Snezana Altiparmak, Metodi Angelov, Mirna Arsovska, Urosh Veljkovic, 
Dijana Bogdanovska, OPA (Slobodanka Stevceska & Denis Saraginovski), 
Fotini Gouseti, Marko Gutic Mizimakov, Neda Firfova, Simon Uzunovski,
Sasho Dimoski, Dimitrie Duracovski, Dushan Drakalski, Ines Efremova, 
Ivan Ivanovski, Jana Jakimovska, Vladimir Jancevski, Vladimir Lukash, 
Filip Jovanovski, Aviv Kruglanski, Ana Lazarevska, Gjorgje Jovanovik, 
Oliver Musovik, Mile Nicevski, Vahida Ramujkic, Igor Sekovski, 
Aleksandar Spasoski, Slavica Toshevska, Igor Toshevski, Boris Shemov, 
Nada Prlja

Re-identifications aims to speak about anonymity from the position of obscurity, or renaming from the aspect of namelessness. Consequently, the main emphasis here is the very questioning of identity by exploiting the name as a sign / symbol and of course, the possible implications of the open (public) versus the hidden (anonymous) in the context of the inevitable relationship between the aesthetic and the political.  Continue reading

FOREIGN BODY

Exhibition of Kooperacija

Location: Greta Gallery, Ilica 92, Zagreb, Croatia
Opening: 11. 11. 2013, / 8 p.m.
The exhibition will be open until 17th of November 

Simon Uzunovski, Velimir Zernovski, Oliver Musovik, Gjorgje Jovanovik, Ines Efremova, Nikola Uzunovski, Hristina Ivanoska, Yane Calovski, OPA, Harald Schenker, Igor Toshevski, Aleksandar Spasoski, Vladimir Lukas, Filip Jovanovski, Vladimir Janchevski 

KOOPERACIJA is an initiative whose purpose is artistic activity outside the inert institutional frameworks, thus suggesting an exceptional approach to the creation and experience of contemporary art. KOOPERACIJA stands for shifting and redefining the borders between public and personal space. Its objective is to unlock questions concerning the dynamic role of art in the context of centralized cultural politics and social discourse. KOOPERACIJA strives to encourage the interaction between artist and audience.  Continue reading

bblackboxx – Art as Emancipatory Practice Against Border Politics

Talk by Almut Rembges, with discussion

Location: Café “Pablo”, Bul. 8 Septemvri, br.8, vl. 2, lokal 6, Skopje
Opening: 05. 11. 2013, Tuesday / 19:00 h.

“bblackboxx is an independent art space at the border of Switzerland, in the neighborhood of a detention complex, where 300 asylumseekers are kept and sometimes deported. Since 2007, a network of artists and theoreticians around bblackboxx have developed an curriculum of art actions and theoretical work, which stands up against the increasing xenophobic and suppressive migrations politics in the country.”

The initiator Almut Rembges will talk about the specific emancipatory practices of bblackboxx, as a counter model against a context which is otherwise defined by control and charity.  Continue reading

KOOPERACIJA participates in BALKAN(S) NOW

BALKAN(S) NOW, Status seminar and artistic survey

Venue: Mestna Galerija

Ljubljana, Sovenia, 25-26 October 2013

From the seminar’s announcement:

“BALKAN (S) NOW curated by Gülsen Bal and Marlene Rigler  in cooperation with Open Systems (Vienna), Mestna galerija (Ljubljana) and Remont (Belgrade) aims to actively engage with the current artistic practice in the former Yugoslavia because we believe that a much-needed political artistic practice is being shaped in countries such as Serbia, Macedonia, the Kosovo or Slovenia: a practice that relies on self-empowerment, strong networking across the region and a pro-European, yet critical attitude.Therefore, looking at the artistic landscape anywhere south of the Austrian border, one discovers a vivid, particularly interconnected art scene.”

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