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CULTURE
Lidija Georgieva
The author is a designer,
Associate Professor
DYNAMIC SEASON IN SKOPJE’S
CULTURAL SCENE
Forty first edition of the international theatre festival MOT, thirty fifth Skopje Jazz Festival,
first edition of the international film festival KINENOVA which emerges as a new and
fresh content, presentations of independent designers in different alternative spaces, opening
individual and group exhibitions – Skopje entered an active autumn agenda with a rich offer
of cultural events. I tried to focus on selection of the events in the field of art.
CRITICAL ART IN CONTEMPORARY MACEDONIA – PROMOTION OF A BOOK, MENADA
First text in English language about contemporary art in Macedonia
On September 9, the book CRITICAL ART IN CONTEM- has specialized in the field of contemporary art. He is
PORARY MACEDONIA was promoted in Macedonia. particularly interested in contemporary art of the re-
The author of this edition is John Blackwood, the pub- gion of the Western Balkan, so in the period from 2011
lisher is Mala Galerija by means of Carnegie Trust for to 2014 he lived in Skopje and in Sarajevo. He was cura-
the Universities of Scotland. tor of exhibitions in Cetinje, Skopje, London, Sarajevo,
John Blackwood is the curator, lecturer and writer, who Zagreb, and he has experience in sound, performance,
installations, video. He published 5
books and numerous texts on this
topic.
On 350 pages, this book is the first
text in English language about con-
temporary art in Macedonia. It relies
on several years of investigation and
observation and it contains essays
from the author, interviews with
representative selection of artists,
curators, activists and writers, pres-
ent and active in the Macedonian
scene. It is illustrated with more
than 100 photographs, the book was
available at the promotion, and then
for the audience from the English
speaking countries it well be offered
for sale on Amazon, which is a fact
of particular importance for promo-
tion of the Macedonian contempo-
rary art scene in a wider space.
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