Art::Politics::Institution::Body

/македонски подолу/ "Failure as Practice", Online workshops and events Concept, Artistic Direction: Darko Dragičević (Berlin)   11 - 28 December 2020 | KINO Kultura | UPIT program    Artistic Collaborators: Ruth-Johanne Andersson (Stockholm, SE), Christina Ciupke (Berlin, DE), Vladimir Janchevski (Skopje, MK), Nina Meško (Ljubljana, SI), Zorica Milisavljević (Belgrade, RS), Zorica Zafirovska (Skopje, MK) An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality. - John Cage   Failure is something we are ashamed of, we want to hide it, make it unnoticeable. Success integrates while failure means being rejected by society. But what happens when non-normative bodies come into the picture, opening up new spaces of counterhegemonic opportunity? These new possibilities could mark the shifts of existing configurations by rearranging the hegemonic dominance of the state, institutions and normative politics as alternative ethical views. Fa...

/македонски подолу/ "Just imagine" by Aleksandra Petrusevska dance performance (work in progress)   26 December 2019 | KINO Kultura | UPIT program   20:00 Thursday   Choreography and performance: Aleksandra Petrusevska Music Design and Performance: HRZL Duration: 30 min. Poster Design: Emmy Ermilova Just Imagine is a dance performance that emerged as an artistic response to already existing choreography. The reference point is “Try Leather” from 1975 by the Canadian dancer and performance artist, Margaret Dragu. With a few references to the original piece, Just Imagine ends up as an original piece that can stand independently by itself. The way the already existing work “Try Leather” is seen, approached and reacted to, by the author, at the end speaks mostly about herself. By imagining what else she can do with her body and with the already existing work, she began to embody the references and reshape them. Along the way, she and her body, she and the ...