Finally, Recontres de boites is published and available to everyone that is interested in the work of CIE Kumulus and their almost 7 year long, international project “Meeting of Boxes”. There is a wonderful section
dedicated to the project done in Skopje, Macedonia, in 2003, led by Elena Jovanova Marcevska. And also, Elena is a contributer writer to this wonderful, full color, collective book!
Recontres de boites
August 27, 2008 at 8:08 am (Performance work)
Tags: book, Kumulus, Skopje
Kulturen Zivot
August 26, 2008 at 10:06 am (Screen as site)
Tags: conference, Glocal20, new media
The Macedonian magazine of culture, art and social life “Kulturen Zivot” in its last August edition had published a section dedicated to blogging, communications and new media. All the published papers were presented at the Glocal 2.0. Conference. The paper of Elena Marcevska (“Blog as a Space for Alternative Culture Critique”) is part of this magazine issue.
Glocal Conference 2.0
August 1, 2008 at 8:04 am (Screen as site)
Tags: Glocal20
http://glocalconference.wordpress.com/
Blog as space for alternative cultural critique:
Creative collaborative/collective practices
Space is a resource, plain and simple. We all need it sometimes and in most contexts it is contested who and for what it will be used. In contemporary art and cultural production it is generally one element needed to facilitate community development and building (space for gathering). It can also be a site of production and distribution of cultural work and products (space for making/showing/sharing). Read the rest of this entry »
Performing the World 2008 Conference
August 1, 2008 at 7:21 am (Performance work)
Elena Marcevska will Present at International Performance Conference in New York City http://www.performingtheworld.org/
Elena Marcevska will be doing a lecture at Performing the World 2008, an international conference on performance and social development, being held in New York City, October 2-5. She will be delivering a paper entitled “Performing motherhood while working on the streets and intersection” . Read the rest of this entry »
“Gestation – a collaborative Performance Art Wokshop”
August 1, 2008 at 7:07 am (Women artist)
“Gestation – a collaborative Performance Art Wokshop”, organized by the New York University in Skopje and subRosa, took place between 10th and 13th of June 2008, at the University campus in the suburb of Saraj. Topics of the workshop included issues of representing the female body in performance art and creating participatory projects within different cultural traditions. The workshop demonstrated how participants can create public awareness and input into social and cultural policy issues through participatory art actions. The public lecture, organized as collaboration between press to exit project space and the Department of communication and media, at the New York University Skopje include presentation of the workshop, the current work of subRosa as well as focus on the recent trends in tactical media arts.
subRosa is a collective of cultural producers committed to combining art, activism and politics to explore and critique the intersections of information and biotechnologies on women’s bodies, lives and work. subRosa has performed, exhibited, and lectured throughout the USA, the Netherlands, Germany, Mexico, Canada, and Singapore and has been commissioned as well as funded from the Creative Capital Foundation,
