A multitude of artists,
writers and scholars from the Balkans and beyond will present in Prishtina as
part of the public program of Stacion’s art summer school.
13/07/2018 - 10:17
Philosophy and art buffs will
have their hands full starting next week as Prishtina is about to host a series
of talks and exhibitions as part of Stacion – Center for Contemporary
Art’s summer school.
Starting from July 16 until
August 2, Stacion is organizing the fourth edition of ‘Summer School as
School,’ an interdisciplinary set of courses lectured by artists, philosophers
and other academics. More importantly, the courses will run alongside a public
program which includes a series of exhibitions and lectures by well-established
philosophers, curators, and artists.
The public program contains
presentations by local and international lecturers of the school, as well as
artistic performances, film screenings, exhibitions and music events.
Albert Heta, director of
Stacion, explained that the public program serves as an intervention to the
courses, offering an interdisciplinary experience to non-participants.
“As a model it tries to create
an opportunity of opening up certain fields that are studied within the
courses,” he said.
The public program will
kick-off on July 16 with a presentation by Slovenian philosopher Mladen
Dolar, one of the co-founders of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis
alongside Slavoj Zizek and Rastko Mocnik.
Other presentations include
the German artist Felix Gmelin on July 26 and American writer and curator Carolyn
Christov-Bakargiev the former art director of the renown dOCUMENTA exhibition
on August 1. Another philosophy heavyweight, the Slovenian philosopher Alenka
Zupancic, will also hold a lecture on August 1.
In addition to the
presentations, Stacion will organize three exhibitions in various locations.
The first, Videoing by
Jakup Ferri, will open on July 16 at 9:00 pm at Kino
Armata. One of the well-established Albanian visual artists working today,
Anri Sala will also present at the Boxing Club on July 17 and show his
intervention If and only if at the same location on July 18 at 8:00
pm.
Participants and the general
public will also be able to visit theMuseum of American Art
in Prishtina at Stacion, a project dedicated to assembling, preserving
and exhibiting memories primarily on the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
This year’s program will also
have two presentations on the Yugoslav Black Wave, an experimental film
movement in former Yugoslavia.
“We are going to explore
artistic movies that are created outside of a [certain] industry. We are
interested in looking into practices that are not impacted directly from the
market. This is important, because we think that these [works] contain
important social content that does not fit with the market,” Heta said.
The Black Wave movies Nevinost
bez zastite (Innocence Unprotected) and Kad budem mrtav i beo (When
I am Dead and Gone) will be screened at Kino Armata on July 21 and July 28
respectively, preceded by presentations and followed by DJ sessions from theorist
and cultural critic Sezgin Boynik and writer and researcher Sami
Khatib.
According to Heta, Stacion’s
summer school endeavors to functionalize regional collaboration between
artists.
“We have noticed in other
endeavors, the scenes that emerged out of former Yugoslavia, [since] the
countries are relatively small, and influences are partialized around broader
issues… The idea of regional collaboration is that, if you combine the capacity
of the region around certain issues, the possibility of influence is much
higher,” he said.
On July 23, emerging artists
from Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia will discuss potential
collaboration between the countries.
“These artists are exposed to
other lecturers and curators, museum directors, and so on, and this panel sort
of exemplifies the nature of the project, which is about the creation of
opportunities, the creation a space, people come meet in Prishtina, high-level
professionals meet with new artists, lecturers, who have a common goal,” Heta
concluded.
To read the full public
program of Stacion’s Summer School as School visit their website.
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