Art::Politics::Institution::Body

macedonian below>>>> Performance: Variations on Slowness: TIME OUT Producer: Studio za raziskavo umetnosti igre/ Studio for the research on the art of acting Partners: Španski borci, Federacija, PTL, Bunker Authors and performers: No!training Lab team: Barbara Kanc, Barabra Ribnikar, Jan Rozman, Kaja Lorenci, Katja Legin, Nataša Živković Artistic team: Light design: Tomi Janežič Sound design: SZ3 Scenography and costumography: No!training Lab Costume advice: Marina Sremac Technical manager: Luka Curk Variations on Slowness: TIME OUT was made in a dialogue with the novel Slowness by Milan Kundera. The story of the novel was taken as a frame from which authors drew the literary time - space and motives for the performance, in which the themes of the novel are then questioned, associated on and carried out performatively. Similarly as Kundera in a relation to the substance of the novel, the performance tries to be in relation to what it stages, often shifti...

macedonian below>>> Open call for participation in the program “Art, Politics, Institution, Body” / APIB / Locomotiva – Center for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture announces an open call for participation in the first, of this type, continuous program titled “Art, Politics, Institution, Body”. The call is open to young professionals who want to be theoretically upgraded, in writing, analyzing as well as curating in the field of contemporary performing arts. The main goal of the program is to open up an opportunity to young professionals to critical reflection and comparative analysis of contemporary arts, and to perceive artist’s practices and cultural activities through the prism of the contemporary context. Viewing and reflecting art in relation to the context, that is, other public spheres, areas is the approach through which we will discuss contemporary performing arts, and we will look at the notions of art, politics, institution and body, and their relations...

macedonian below>>>> *** The performance "MAKE IT MAKE IT- DON’T FAKE IT!" is part of the program "Arts, Politics, Institutions and Body" as part of the PLATFORM(a) 2018 -Program for Contemporary Performing Arts, organised by Lokomotiva - Skopje. MAKE IT, MAKE IT, DON’T FAKE IT! Concept & Performance: Darko Dragičević, Esta Matković, Vanja Smiljanić Dramaturgy: Jasmina Založnik Choreographic consultant: Martin Sonderkamp Coproduction: Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture and Nomad Dance Academy in frame of Life Long Burning Project Supported by: Culture programme of the European Commission, Quartier am Hafen (Cologne), JSKD – Public fund of Republic of Slovenia for cultural activities and STATION Service for contemporary dance Belgrade “Why castigate these creatures Whose angelic features Are bumping and grinding on trash? Are they not spawned by our greed? Are they not our true seed? Are they not what we’ve b...

macedonian below>> *** With the performance "me again- but not alone", starts the program "Arts, Politics, Institutions and Body" as part of the PLATFORM(a) 2018 -Program for Contemporary Performing Arts, organised by Lokomotiva - Skopje. me again – but not alone 20 years are gone. The encounter with the musicians Gebrüder Teichmann brought Gisela Müller back on stage. me again – but not alone is a try out performance and an attempt to create a space of resonance where movement and sound converge. A space of exchange and of dialogue where the movement (dance) embodies sound and the sound picks up movement (dance). An interaction of tables, the dance floor and the players which might even lead to a battle. Concept: Gisela Müller and Gebrüder Teichmann Performance: Gisela Müller, Hannes + Andi Teichmann A production by Tanzfabrik Berlin in cooperation with Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia and Goethe Institute Location: KINO KULTURA Start: 20:00 Free ...

PLATFORM(a) is a new program of Lokomotiva, part of the Kino Kultura space for contemporary arts and culture, and a new step forward in our efforts to enhance development in the contemporary performing arts context in Macedonia. Lokomotiva has been organizing the Locomotion Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance for the past eight years; this year however, we decided to stop the festival since we had been facing various obstacles in the past period. Such are, among many others, the financial difficulties as well as the sub- standard working conditions, which seriously impede our ability to plan and to program strategically, instead forcing us to act more tactically and react fast.Therefore, we came to the decision to extend the event of festival into an ongoing program, a Platform(a) for contemporary performing arts that would allow us tactical planning and action, and also presentation –when possible– of different activities in the field of contemporary performing arts, real...