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Debate
Brother to brother, Culture for money (Capitalism, Culture, Balkans)
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On 24 April (Sunday) in 19.00 in the Cultural Center Tocka the debate “Brother to brother, Culture for money (Capitalism, Culture, Balkans)” will held. The participants are: Elizabeta Seleva (Theoretician of culture, Skopje), Aleksandar Stankovski (Painter and director, Skopje), Vladimir Arsenievic (writer and publisher, Belgrade), Aleksandar Zograf (cartoonist, Belgrade) and Nikola Gelevski (NGO Kontrapunkt). |
The debate will try to observe the situation in Macedonia, radically changed by
capitalism. The implications from that long and heavy “transitions” from a quasi
self-managing socialism to wild capitalism. In the conversation we are more
interested in the cultural implications as well as the changes in the field of
culture in Macedonia, in the region, even further, in regard to the changed
political circumstances in the whole world. Some important questions we would
like to answer are: Do the cultural products have to be commercial? Can Art be
self-sustainable? What is the relation among the state, NGO sector, cultural
institutions and artist? Is the only remaining strategy to deal in the frames of
the world of Simulation and Spectacle?
In the transitional societies (in large scale going through process of initial
accumulation of the capital) all the important differentiation happens around
the money. One of the basic tasks of a serious cultural policy is to protect the
most courageous, vanguard and most radical cultural practices from the hits by
the market since these practices most often have emancipatory role. In other
words, the artistic risk should be financially protected, while the artists who
do not take risk should be exposed on the market risk.
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