UTOPIAS / DYSTOPIAS: DOCUMENTS 20.04.2013
Tihomir JANCHOVSKI
Noli Turbare monumentum meum!
Public performance
Location: Skopje, city center
16.4.2013
The artist mimetically identifies with the sculpture of Philip II, holding a scroll of his own essays, which are a parody of Skopje 2014. The texts, which have previously been published on social networks, spurred controversial reactions by the public media who mistook them as pro-government support.
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Dijana BOGDANOVSKA
Asphyxiation
Intervention in public space (stickers)
Location: Tetovo
2013
Warning signs depicting danger of suffocating by illegal buildings, inappropriately positioned structures, insufficient capacities of institutions, vacant lots, etc. resembling real utopian environment in Macedonia. The stickers are to whoever wishes to spread the message.
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Oliver MUSOVIK
Antigone: Oh, Thebes, city of our ancestors, you ancient gods
Action in public space
Location: Ivan Kozarov str. Skopje
17/18.4.2013
Reading the tragedy Antigone, by Sophocles, while playing the social game Human Shield, in front of the unfinished buildings Antigone 1 & 2 (the FIKOM scandal) in Kisela Voda district, Cheshma, Skopje
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Sinisa LABROVIC
Demarcation
Performance
Location: St. Marks Square, Zagreb, Croatia
1.10.2010
St. Mark’s square is where the three main pillars of democratic governance in Croatia are located: the Government, the Constitutional Court and the Parliament. The church of St. Mark is also there. In the last 23 years, the Catholic Church is the fourth power in Croatia. During my performance, any type of group gathering and protesting was prohibited. In order to mark this territory, I went to the middle of the square, took out my penis and pissed in a circle.
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Gjorgje JOVANOVIK
Small Moves
Participatory action in public space
Location: Tirana, Albania
18.4.2013
A public action in the center of Tirana, along with several young artists, where by small actions and interventions, an attempt is made to articulate the collective opinions of recent social and political conditions.
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Slavica TOSHEVSKA
Robot
Interventions in public space (stickers)
Location: several locations in Skopje
2013
Hand made stickers applied in the urban environment, contributing to a bit more humor to these historically somber times.
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Jan JAKIMOVSKA
Miss Understanding
Intervention in public space (mixed media)
Location: Orce Nikolov str., Macedonia square, Skopje
2013
On the site where the newly planned monstrous monument of Mother Teresa, sponsored by Subrata Roy, should be erected, I have placed the figure of Mother Teresa. The representation of Mother Teresa as beauty pageant is my reaction to the overwhelming kitsch, banality and distortion of the memory in her honor (starting from the aforementioned memorial house dedicated to her) culminating in this 30-meter pseudo-surreal Bollywood monument. Miss Understanding talks about a big misunderstanding that rapidly and consistently is transforming this city into something else.
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Aleksandar SPASOVSKI
Unknown Hero
Performance (with toilet paper)
Location: railway station, Skopje
2013
The artist voluntarily applies a homemade mask/ portrait made from toilet paper, placing it on one of the columns of the railway station. The artist simulates the role of an imaginary sculptor commissioned to apply a segment portrait of a fictitious character – the “Unknown Hero”.
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Ines EFREMOVA
Panem et circenses
Installations in public space
Location: several locations in Skopje
2013
The installment of bread as sculpture reflects the government’s declarative standpoint to ‘feed’ the people’s national identity with new monuments and buildings. The bread also symbolizes the basic need for existence, which is becoming a serious challenge in Macedonia.
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Daniel GONC
E 101
Intervention in public space
Location: Bucharest, Romania
2007
The performance suggests a contamination between different periods of recent history, an ambiguous gesture that might cause panic or joy, an attempt to revive the tissue of the city stricken by necrosis, an advertising campaign for a missing product, a question of solidarity in cumbersome Romania since 2007.
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Harald SCHENKER/ Igor TOSHEVSKI
Monumentification
Interventions in public space (plastic plates)
Location: several locations in Skopje
2013
The work deals with renaming certain trivial objects and locations throughout the city, whose decontextualisation is an attempt for a symbolical proposal for different history and meaning.
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Vladimir JANCHEVSKI
Anagrammatic
Intervention in public space (text)
Location: several locations in Skopje
2013
Anagram permutations mounted on different locations.
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Mirna ARSOVSKA
Archeologia Nova
Intervention in public space (digital print)
Location: Square Macedonia
2013
A publicly posted poster, consisting of a collage of sketches, photographs, drawings and texts, dealing with the urbanite interventions within the city square after the devastating earthquake in Skopje, in 1963.
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Danilo MANDIK
Phonotopia
Temporary sound installation (spoon, fork, knife and paper)
Location: Dalston, London, United Kingdom
15.4.2013
Phonotopia is a place without a place. Phonotopia is a place shifted. Phonotopia is a resonant space, which resists previously given trajectories, functions, boundaries of urban space via re-initiating its spatial coordinates and presence. Phonotopia is time spaciousness itself. Phonotopia is a sound formation that does not recognize forms, casts, categorizations, or distinctions. Phonotopia is not a monologue, a dialogue, or multilogue. Phonotopia does not search for signs, representations or their meaning. Phonotopia is not a free space, yet it does not confine. Phonotopia does not determine means. Phonotopia is the resonant act of the simple, dispersed presence. Phonotopia is a point in space and time. Although documentation of it is possible, its description is inconceivable.
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Nikola UZUNOVSKI
Solar Clouds
Intervention in public space
Location: Institute for Technology, King Mongkut, Bangkok, Thailand
8-14.3.2013
From the experiences gained from the research and efforts to produce a flying object, which reflects the sunlight in the area above the North Arctic Circle, and in the context of contrasting meteorological circumstances, I have tried to find a solution to the problem of protection against strong solar radiation, by using their own energy.
Two prototypes were contrived, in the span of ten meters and height of about three and a half meters, which were composed of two layers of polyethylene film with a thickness of one tenth of a millimeter. For the upper shell, a black plastic that absorbs sunlight is used, converting it into heat, which heats the air inside the object, making it lighter than the outside air. With this process, kinds of artificial cloud are produced, which can be used for shading of certain areas thus controlling their microclimate.
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Filip JOVANOVSKI
For the Center District
Intervention in public space (text)
Location: several locations in the city center
2013
Photographing construction workers working on part of the buildings of the Skopje 2014 project, with text/ quotations of Karl Marx. The action represents an intervention in the concept for the capitalist planning of the center of Skopje.
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Mile NICHEVSKI
Trap for Aphrodite
Intervention on façade (text/ graffiti)
Location: several locations in Gevgelija and Skopje
2013
Sappho’s lyrics written using the Greek alphabet (excerpts from the poem Hymn to Aphrodite)
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Ivana DRAGSHIK
Public Art
Intervention in public space
Location: several locations in Skopje
2013
Interventions using paintings by Aleksandar Stankovski in several public spots throughout the city. The work reflects upon the legacy of contemporary art and new forms of (public) art promoted by the Skopje 2014 project and the commissioned artists as mediators and contributors of these ideas.
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Vladimir NEDELKOVSKI
This is Not Ordinary paper
Installation in tenant building
Location: Orce Nikolov str., Skopje
2013
30 photographs on the wall of the building hallway are placed exactly opposite the door of an apartment, next to which a bag full of garbage is sitting.