ЧИТАМЕ: ЛУЃЕТО КО КНИГИ, ЗГРАДИТЕ КО ЛУЃЕ
настан во рамки на долгорочниот проект „ЖИВИ БИБЛИОУЕКИ: архиви на граѓанска непослушност“ во Скопје
Куратори на проектот и настанот: Филип Јовановски, Ивана Васева
Соработничка: Бисера Бендевска
Дата: 27 – 29.11. 2014
WE READ: PEOPLE AS BOOKS, BUILDINGS AS PEOPLE
Event within the long-term project “LIVING LIBRARIES: Archives of civil disobedience” in Skopje
Project curators: Filip Jovanovski, Ivana Vaseva Associate: Bisera Bendevska
Date: 27-29.11. 2014 Location: GEM Club, Youth Cultural Center, Serious Interests Agency (SIA), CAC Mobile/Montage gallery, Skopje The event titled “We Read: People as Books, Buildings as People” is an attempt to conclude the long-term curatorial process titled “LIVING LIBRARIES: Archives of Civil Disobedience” launched in the country, aimed at creating space for sharing knowledge, opinions, analysis and debates, imposed as an imperative in the current divided vision of the world: narrowed by the neoliberals, and conservative as well.
PROGRAM WE READ PEOPLE AS BOOKS, BUILDINGS AS PEOPLE_event in LIVING_LIBRARIES
WE READ: PEOPLE AS BOOKS, BUILDINGS AS PEOPLE Event within the long-term project “LIVING LIBRARIES: Archives of civil disobedience” in Skopje Project curators: Filip Jovanovski, Ivana Vaseva Associate: Bisera Bendevska Date: 27-29.11. 2014 Location: GEM Club, Youth Cultural Center, Serious Interests Agency (SIA), CAC Mobile/Montage gallery, Skopje
The event titled “We Read: People as Books, Buildings as People” is an attempt to conclude the long-term curatorial process titled “LIVING LIBRARIES: Archives of Civil Disobedience” launched in the country, aimed at creating space for sharing knowledge, opinions, analysis and debates, imposed as an imperative in the current divided vision of the world: narrowed by the neoliberals, and conservative as well. In this phase, under this title, this event which has the goal to tackle the imperiled social values: the desire for knowledge, quality wide-range education, without the superficial instant information which is lost on daily basis, for a free articulation of thought. Thereof, there is a need for space with different opinions, nearly antagonist, which promotes opposed opinions (and not singularity) and entices contemplations out of the set forth frames, pushing to subversive deconstruction and reaction. This project is aimed at creating of a thinking site about the value and the importance of a former city, of an almost gone building, of a forgotten literature, of deluded cultural values and through their verification, at providing demystification of the rapid transformation of the collective present times. This event, through the personal and social recourse, is intended to evaluate the knowledge, the one that had been acquired on individual basis (1:1, I-book) and the social (me among others), i.e. the knowledge of the collective, the manifestation of knowledge for goals wider that one’s own square meter. Precisely in the form of the reading group, these two recourses meet. Therefore, it is the form the whole project “LIVING LIBRARIES: Archives of Civil Disobedience” is based on. Throughout 2014, the project has tried to offer space for analyses and debates on different issues in conditions of radical changes in the socio-political context as: re-reading the books, buildings, social contexts, return of the power of the written word, creation of a new document, living archive of certain historical and forgotten values. The event includes display exhibition of many projects represented in mini forms, from Macedonia, Croatia and Serbia, a discussion on the importance of the informal education and the new forms of self-education, and closes with a big event focused on the importance of the City Trade Center (GTC) in Skopje which is one of the most important examples of architecture under a direct threat, part of the contemporary modern cultural heritage. Filip Jovanovski Ivana Vaseva
LIVING LIBRARIES: Archives of Civil Disobedience is a long-term curatorial project that involves process of collecting and distributing of literature, through the process of donations, from individuals, NGO representatives and organizations, willing to act towards building an open and modern democratic society. At the same time the project is focused on the process of developing new educational forms, self-education and non-institutional, i.e. alternative education, through collecting literature about citizens’ activism through NGO, foundations and individual donations. Living Library represents an open archive, or collection of collective knowledge, created by the citizens themselves. Through the process of permanent construction and complementation of new content, the idea of what constitutes “knowledge” and how it manifests itself, in terms of radical changes in socio – political context, is revised. The project tends to generate new forms of citizen activism and function as an open platform that promotes the principle of direct democracy. Prompting the process of public visibility through individual choice of specific literature, constantly reshapes the content of the “living” library, create critical discourse and serves as evidence for the collective understanding of the current situation. One of its phases of the project realization involves constituting of alternative physical space, NI Cultural Center – Bitola, which will exist as a counterpoint to the official and dominant universities structures and will serve as a public space for debate and free dissemination of knowledge, through different forms of social and new media, reading groups, workshops and public actions. In the same time it will provide democratic access to “subversive ” literature which is not included in the official curriculum and universities libraries. Open call, for those who are willing to donate and share the book, considered as especially important in today’s socio – political context, is announced. http://zivibiblioteki.wordpress.com/ The event WE READ: PEOPLE AS BOOKS, BUILDINGS AS PEOPLE and the whole project LIVINIG LIBRARIES: Archives of Civil Disobedience has been supported by the Foundation Open Society – Macedonia (FOOM). The Center for Contemporary Arts, the Serious Interests Agency and the regional network Balkan Can Contemporary are partners of the event. Gratitude to Jovan Ivanovski and Slobodanka Stevceska for supporting the event.