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The beginning of the Confluent Margins
11.08.03. Struga, House of culture "Brothers
Miladinovci"
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Opening of the exhibition by Ljubomir Miloshevski
From the family
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Ljubomir Miloshevski exhibits in
Struga for the first time, despite the fact that his work
drastically differs (besides, by it's sharp social engagement) from
the usual local scene.
Miloshevski creates powerful figures of people in natural dimensions
from a cheap natural material - pig skins, a material with special
energy, "attraction" (special odor, tactile ness) and symbolic dirt,
because, according to the author the pain is not felt when it
happens to the other. |
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It is interesting to
stress that this was the first exhibition of Ljubomir Miloshevski in
his native town. The project "From the Family" is continuation and
further elaboration of his project "Mutations" (2002). In both
projects Miloshevski questions the humanity through the relation
man-animal, living-dead. He creates powerful figures of people in
natural dimensions from a cheap natural material - pig skins, a
material with special energy, "attraction" (special odor, tactile
ness) and symbolic dirt, because, according to the author the pain
is not felt when it happens to the other. The project "From the
Family" directs towards the connection of the life and death and the
engaged attitude by the author who is not isolated with the events
that touch him any more, in this case the global problems of the
mankind - the killing and the cloning, the alienation and the
severeness of the dominant man, through a very local habit - slaying
of the pigs in the manner of rural Macedonia. Around 200 visitors
attended the exhibition. It was staged in front of the Cultural
Center so many passers by also threw a look upon it. For the
exhibition "Kontrapunkt" prepared a special catalogue and CD with
data and visual presentation of the artist's working process. The
exhibition evoked a huge interest and what is the most important,
Ljubomir Milosheski was much better noticed and reported by the
media. |
debate
"Local-global, points of touching and
distancing" |
participants
there were: Zoja Buzalkovska (theatre director and member of
Helsinki Committee, from Skopje), Dimitrie Duracovski (member of NGO
"Rubljov" and actual manager of the Cultural Center in Struga),
Ljupco Pechijarevski (University professor at the Faculty of Economy
in Prilep and expert for Culture Policy and interethnic relations),
Marko Petrushevski (prose writer, theoretician of the popular
culture in Macedonia, from Skopje), Edita Ibraimi (postgraduate
student of Political Sciences in Skopje), Enis Salifoski (Law
Faculty student at the University of South East Europe in Tetovo,
from Kicevo), Robert Alagjozovski (NGO "Kontrapunkt", Skopje) and
Nikola Gelevski (NGO "Kontrapunkt", Skopje) as moderator
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During the
debate, the positions of Macedonia in regard to the coming local
processes of decentralization, democratization, integration and the
movements of the globalized world were actively, dynamically, on
moments even conflictual, but at the end constructively were
questioned and estimated.
The debate that was worked out with the local partner was aimed to
stimulate the thinking of the people from the local milieu about the
global world trends and the perspectives of the local Macedonian
context seen through those trends. During the debate, the positions
of Macedonia in regard to the coming local processes of
decentralization, democratization, integration and the movements of
the globalized world were actively, dynamically, on moments even
conflictual, but at the end constructively were questioned and
estimated. As official participants there were: Zoja Buzalkovska
(theatre director and member of Helsinki Committee, from Skopje),
Dimitrie Duracovski (member of NGO "Rubljov" and actual manager of
the Cultural Center in Struga), Ljupco Pechijarevski (University
professor at the Faculty of Economy in Prilep and expert for Culture
Policy and interethnic relations), Marko Petrushevski (prose writer,
theoretician of the popular culture in Macedonia, from Skopje),
Edita Ibraimi (postgraduate student of Political Sciences in
Skopje), Enis Salifoski (Law Faculty student at the University of
South East Europe in Tetovo, from Kicevo), Robert Alagjozovski (NGO
"Kontrapunkt", Skopje) and Nikola Gelevski (NGO "Kontrapunkt",
Skopje) as moderator. Semie Balanca (manager from the Cultural
Center from Debar) without explanation cancelled her participation
on the day of the event. There were about 80 visitors of the debate,
members of different ethnic communities. The intensity of their
participation was one of the most remarkable. On moment there were
redirections out of the theme, but it was accepted because the
people from Struga had the rare opportunity to talk openly, without
restraint, about their problems. One of the speakers said the most
interesting conclusion, that the civil sector could initiate more
events and could wake up the small towns from the inertion much more
than the representatives from the state institutions could. |
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