SUMMER SCHOOL CURATING IN CONTEXT

ARTISTS AND CURATORS TALKS///  Ron Athey, performance artist/// presentation of his artistic work ///   Ron Athey is an American performance artist associated with body art and with extreme performance art. He has performed in the U.S. and internationally (especially in the UK and Europe). Athey's work explores challenging subjects like the relationships between desire, sexuality and traumatic experience. Many of his works include aspects of S&M in order to confront preconceived ideas about the body in relation to masculinity and religious iconography. Ron Athey's earliest work dates back to collaborations with Rozz Williams during the early 1980s. Athey and Williams performed as "Premature Ejaculation," staging actions in clubs and galleries and producing experimental recordings and performances for camera. Their work together was photographed by Karen Filter and published in the punk magazine No Mag in 1982. The practice for which he is most known gro...

    PUBLIC DISCUSSION/// ARTISTS AND CURATORS TALKS /// COLLECTIVE CURATING OR CO-CURATORIAL COLLABORATIVE PROCESSES///  Jasmina Založnik, dramaturge, writer and producer /  Paz Ponze, independent curator, writer & researcher of contemporary artistic creation / Jovanka Popova curator in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje / Mira Gakjina, senior curator at the Museum for Contemporary Art, Skopje      Moderators: Biljana Tanurovska – Kjulavkovski and Slavco Dimitrov      Jasmina Založnik is a dramaturge, publicist and producer primarily engaged in the field of contemporary dance. Over the last years, she has focused on recent histories of contemporary performing art and choreography, and their multiple relations to everyday life. She is interested in strategies of social politicization and emancipation. Her work is mainly developed in a dialogue with various colleagues, most often in close collaboration with Rok Vevar w...

  ARTISTS AND CURATORS TALKS /// Voin de Voin, performer ///  presentation of his artistic work /// Voin de Voin - Born in 1978. He lives and works in Sofia. He holds an MA from DasArts,   Amsterdam, and diploma from Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, Goldsmith College,   London, EICAR –International School for film and cinema of Paris.   Since July 2016 he is running an independent art space in Sofia called ÆTHER with a sibling   sitalite space in The Hague called Æther Haga together with Marie Civikov. Since 2016 and he the initiator and organizer of SAW Sofia Art Week that happens each year since in Sofia city. Together with the Dutch curator and educator Lisette Smith, he set a new platform for fugitive learning called School of Kindness, that complete its first cycle in the summer of 2021. His foundation and space Æther were partners of Schloss Solitude Academy, Stuttgart for a program of expansion of Eastern European Networks of the Acade...

    ARTISTS AND CURATORS TALKS /// Dena Davida, PhD, postmodern dance practitioner as a performer, improviser, teacher, researcher, curator and writer ///  Presentation of Turba Journal for curating in live arts ///   Abstract: Turba is the first journal for the study, theory, and praxis of curatorial strategies in live arts. In it's pages, we will create a platform for the exploration of ideas, concepts, constraints, expectations, and contingencies which guide and drive curatorial practices. Through this biannual hybrid publication we seek to connect, amplify, and contextualize those movements and voices in which the past, present and future of live arts is experienced and imagined. Turba will serve as a seismographic observatory for the impact of the live arts on societies and cultures around the globe.The first issue poses the seminal question 'Why curate live arts?' and is launched in spring 2021. Reading list: -       ...