Always Contextualise

Lecture/Workshop: Always Contextualise. Curatorial practices in the independent cultural scenes of post-Yugoslavia

Sun 02.03., 13h, with Marijana Cvetković, Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski & Ana Vujanović, in English

The dance and performance scenes of the post-Yugoslav region have regional specificities that developed within non-existent institutional and policy frameworks. Diverse tactics and strategies, curatorial and collaborative approaches have been developed with values such as mutual care, collective and collaborative processes, solidarity, trans-dependence, and joy, rather than promoting competition, contest, judgmentalism, or rivalry.

The first part of this session will be a presentation of our curatorial practices within this context. The second part will take the form of a workshop, revisiting the notion of "local context". The main question will be how socio-political and cultural contexts define the meaning and experience of performances and how they influence curatorial practices. The participants will be invited to propose one artwork they appreciate and then draft their hypothetical curatorial concept based on collected proposals from their work contexts. They will be encouraged to speculate and imagine a programme, taking into account real data and figures.