Listening to the Audience
(AKTO 7- Festival for Contemporary Arts. Bitola, Macedonia)
Listening to the Audience is a collaborative and participative project initiated by the Faculty of Things that Can’t beLearned, Filip Jovanovski, Suzana Milevska, Simona Manceva, Katerina Sokolova, Ivana Spiroska, Darko Aleksovski, Dragana Zarevska, and realized together with the volunteers of the AKTO Festival of Contemporary Arts-Bitola, Macedonia (Atanas Acevski, Stefani Adziovska, Sonja Angeovska, Denis Arslanovski, Elena Delovska, EmilijaDesanovska, Bujar Drala,Mateja Georgiev, Bojan Georgievski, Ana Cvetanovska, Biljana T. Dimko, Mario Filevski, Emilija Janakievska, Miron Kokaljari, Oliver Koljackov, Antonija Lazarevska, Martina Lazarevska, Niko Naka, TomislavNaka, Aleksandar Petrovski, Sara Pupalevska, Stefan Rajcevski, Sofija Razmovska, Monika Stojcevska, ZoricaStojcevska, Matej Šundovski, Marija Todorovska, and Dejan Talevski). In addition guest speakers such as TadejPogačar and the Škart Collective were invited to shed more light on different art and cultural formats of interaction with audience such are the art games, toys, artist books, etc. The project consisted of series of research and production workshops with the AKTO Festival volunteers and the one-day case study seminar Managing and Nurturing the Audience. The project Listening to the audience is a follow-up of the collaborative project In the Mind’s I - collaboration between Warren Neidich, d-r Suzana Milevska and the students from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje. Project’s partners are: P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute (Ljubljana), NI Center for Culture (Bitola), ŠKART (Belgrade), Stacion Center for Contemporary Art (Prishtina). The project is supported by European Cultural Foundation, OSI-Skopje and many local sponsors.
(AKTO 7- Festival for Contemporary Arts. Bitola, Macedonia)
Listening to the Audience is a collaborative and participative project initiated by the Faculty of Things that Can’t beLearned, Filip Jovanovski, Suzana Milevska, Simona Manceva, Katerina Sokolova, Ivana Spiroska, Darko Aleksovski, Dragana Zarevska, and realized together with the volunteers of the AKTO Festival of Contemporary Arts-Bitola, Macedonia (Atanas Acevski, Stefani Adziovska, Sonja Angeovska, Denis Arslanovski, Elena Delovska, EmilijaDesanovska, Bujar Drala,Mateja Georgiev, Bojan Georgievski, Ana Cvetanovska, Biljana T. Dimko, Mario Filevski, Emilija Janakievska, Miron Kokaljari, Oliver Koljackov, Antonija Lazarevska, Martina Lazarevska, Niko Naka, TomislavNaka, Aleksandar Petrovski, Sara Pupalevska, Stefan Rajcevski, Sofija Razmovska, Monika Stojcevska, ZoricaStojcevska, Matej Šundovski, Marija Todorovska, and Dejan Talevski). In addition guest speakers such as TadejPogačar and the Škart Collective were invited to shed more light on different art and cultural formats of interaction with audience such are the art games, toys, artist books, etc. The project consisted of series of research and production workshops with the AKTO Festival volunteers and the one-day case study seminar Managing and Nurturing the Audience. The project Listening to the audience is a follow-up of the collaborative project In the Mind’s I - collaboration between Warren Neidich, d-r Suzana Milevska and the students from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje. Project’s partners are: P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute (Ljubljana), NI Center for Culture (Bitola), ŠKART (Belgrade), Stacion Center for Contemporary Art (Prishtina). The project is supported by European Cultural Foundation, OSI-Skopje and many local sponsors.
WORKSHOP # 1: Artists' Books
Workshop leaders: Katerina Sokolova and Simona Manceva
The book as a tool of linguistic communication – The book as a cultural artifact.
This is a workshop in which we will discuss and work on the idea of the book as an art and cultural artifact and also as a communication tool. We will attempt to show the book as a cultural artifact with the presentation of its history and the artists who have worked on the topic. The participants will be given books which they will attempt to alter or contextualize as art objects, political symbols or historic artifacts. During the process the workshop will be documented with video and conduct short interviews with the participants. The end result should be a short movie and an exhibition of the produced artwork from the books. The final workshop’s results will be presented during AKTO festival days in August (9-12.08.2012).
Workshop leaders: Katerina Sokolova and Simona Manceva
The book as a tool of linguistic communication – The book as a cultural artifact.
This is a workshop in which we will discuss and work on the idea of the book as an art and cultural artifact and also as a communication tool. We will attempt to show the book as a cultural artifact with the presentation of its history and the artists who have worked on the topic. The participants will be given books which they will attempt to alter or contextualize as art objects, political symbols or historic artifacts. During the process the workshop will be documented with video and conduct short interviews with the participants. The end result should be a short movie and an exhibition of the produced artwork from the books. The final workshop’s results will be presented during AKTO festival days in August (9-12.08.2012).
