Projects tagged "Skopje"

Autonomous Zones
Practitioner:
Student Plenum
Date:
Feb 11 2015
After winning the parliamentary elections of 2014 Gruevski was accused by the opposition of rigging the elections, which led the latter to boycott the sessions of the legislative. Mass protests followed with the government – though nominally pro-EU and pro-NATO – making innuendo about ‘foreign influence’ prompting similar concerns from Russia.
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The Future Republic of Macedonia of the Former Republic of Macedonia
Practitioner:
Citizens of The Future Republic of Macedonia of the Former Republic of Macedoninia
Date:
Mar 22 2014
The Future Republic of Macedonia of the Former Republic of Macedonia Devised, constructed and carried out all within 24 hours, the Future Republic of Macedonia of the Former Republic of Macedonia opened its borders for 2 hours on Saturday 22nd March, 2014.
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Bread For All
Practitioner:
Anonymous urban artists
Date:
Sep 14 2017
Civil activists set up a giant loaf of bread on the small square of a bus stop near the Cathedral Store in Center to remind passersbys that a large number of their fellow citizens live below the poverty threshold.
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And Where Do I Drive?
Practitioner:
Koce, Return to the Street
Date:
Nov 12 2015
Cyclist activists from the Koce, Return to the Street initiative set up sculptures symbolically showing the marginalization of cyclists in the city, the inadequate and dysfunctional infrastructure for this means of transport, but also to point out the large number of trampled bikers in Skopje.
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The Gate
Practitioner:
Igor Toshevski
Date:
Jan 1 2016
A site specific intervention аs part of the group exhibition Sculptural, organized and partly financed by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje. The text INVEST IN FUTURISM is a quotation of a gaffe uttered by the Macedonian PM on public TV stating his plans to incorporate contemporary art in their right wing populist programme and the infamous project Skopje 2014.
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LezFem's Diary
Practitioner:
LezFem
Date:
May 17 2014
The current cultural and political context in Macedonia marginalizes lesbians and women in general, and the dominant political party forces the traditional role of the woman, where she is a mother, a housewife, and of course, heterosexual. Furthermore, the major TV stations are flooded with Turkish soap operas, where traditional values are the leitmotif of the show.
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Support for birds in Skopje
Practitioner:
Anonymous urban artists
Date:
Apr 12 2017
Anonymous urban artists set up art installations, large nest eggs, at several locations in Skopje, wanting to alarm the growing number of trees in the city. In the nest read a message "You cut all the trees, where do we make nests? Birds".
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