13th–16th June 2012
Curating Exchange,Press to exit project space, Skopje, Macedonia
International Curatorial Workshop
The workshop,open to aspiring curators in Macedonia and the region, is lead by Dorothee
Richter, Head of Postgraduate Program in Curating, Institute for Cultural Studies in Arts, Zurich University of the Arts. It is intended to help the participants gain insight into themetho-dological, theoretical and
organizational strategies via presentations, discussions, and development of individual and collaborative curatorial projects.
The symposium
program is open to the public as a forum envisioned to address questions of social, political and cultural identification of recent curatorial and research practices with guests from Macedonia, the Balkan region and beyond. The format of the symposium allows for four evening sessions in which two guests each evening present and discusses recent curatorial and theoretical research projects. Topics covered include changing ideas about art theories and current institutional practices, the status of the curator as a critical instigator and educator, the different perceptions about the socio-political role of the
curator, the identity of the curatorial practice as an academic discipline open to renovation, etc. Participants include: Suzana Milevska (Macedonia), Basak
Senova (Turkey), Antonia Majaca (Croatia), Marko Stamenkovic (Serbia), Sofija Grandakovska (Macedonia), Slavco Dimitrov (Macedonia), Dorothee Richter (Switzerland) and Yane Calovski (Macedonia) as moderator.
Curating Exchange is realized as part of the “Visiting Curatorial Initiative”(VCI) program, initiated in 2005, in order to stimulate and support researches andimplementation of new curatorial projects from young and emerging international
and local curators.