"Work in progress":) Eclectic "Social Sculpture" stories

Photo collages by Darko Aleksovski

Although subjective and random, the photos that were chosen for the collages are in fact a carefully observed images of the everyday life in Ohrid and motifs that everyone sees during the summer. There are some social aspects to the photos, in terms of capturing a group of people doing the same thing (swimming, walking etc). The others, the empty ones, are emphasizing the pure potential that can accumulate social interactions, or always ready to be visited, consumed and changed by people.

Darko Aleksovski is a visual artist from Veles, Macedonia. Graduated at the Paiting department at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje. His artistic interests so far include installations, video-art, performances and artistic interventions in social context. His works were shown in several group exhibitions and festivals in Macedonia, and video-art festivals in Europe. Darko Aleksovski participated in the second training in "The Use of Art Where it's Hard to Talk".

"Happy faces" portaits by Stevco Naumoski

Hello

I'm  Stevco Naumoski,

Born 23.04.1989, live, love and work by the lake in Ohrid, Macedonia.

Graduated designer from European University of Republic Macedonia in spring 2011, specialized in graphic design and visual communications.

I often use photography as medium for visualization of personal views, ideas, emotions and love to create photo portrait-stories and combine photography with other mediums as own poetry&prose, music and films.

In the last 2-3 years I almost exclusively work in analog photography using 3 old cameras and often expired film (I sent my first analog camera to a close friend to shoot with for a while, though :) ). This kind of photography made me see more and photograph less, getting more quality and less quantity.

Working on the social sculpture workshop was amazing experience. I got the idea to photograph every person on the workshop, holding or wearing its own designed clothes and wanted to add more accent to the happiness and satisfaction of those people's faces after finishing the workshop, and I choosed black&white film to distract the attention off those colorful clothes.

See my personal projects here: www.behance.net/snaumoski 

Also, together with Eli Ainoska and Biljana Angeleska we run The Center for cultural flow "ARTerija" in Ohrid (more info:http://www.facebook.com/pages/ARTerija/127024337356847 ) 

Training in Ohrid

The second training in "The Use of Art Where it's Hard to Talk" took place at the Riviera hotel in Ohrid, the 8-10th of July. Konstfrämjandet Association co-operated with partner Media Artes, FYROM Macedonia. 

Training in Ohrid. Photo: Nake Batev

"Clothes workshop"

The participants brought personal clothes and told stories and memories connected with them. The clothes were later transformed into new forms, objects and dresses during the workshop. "Clothes workshop" is a part of the training program as a practical preparation. 

"Clothes workshop"in Kosovo, July 2011 Photo: Helena Byström

Training in Kosovo

During the 4-6th of July KRCT (Kosova Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims) arranged the first training in “The Use of Art Where it’s Hard to Talk”, together with Konstfrämjandet Association. The Swedish project manager Charlotte Åberg and the artists Lott Alfreds, Helena Byström and Pontus Lindvall introduced theories of Social sculpture at the Faculty of Arts in Pristina, Kosovo.

Training at the Faculty of Arts, Pristina Photo: Pontus Lindvall

"The Use of Art Where it's Hard to Talk"

A project selected under the IPA call 'Support to Partnership Actions between Cultural Organisations' 129799 of the European Union, DG Enlargement


Lead organization: Refraction Association-Albania
Partners: Konstframjandet Association- Sweden, Media Artes-FYROM Macedonia, Kosovo Rehabilitation Centre of Trauma-Kosovo

The overall objective of the action is to enforce the civil society cultural organizations working with vulnerable people using art in Albania, The FYROM of Macedonia, Kosovo and Sweden through new partnerships, increased capacity building, transfer of good practices and knowledge. One of the estimated results is to raise knowledge about art practice in an extended field, based on experiences from the SKISS* project in Sweden and research of the concept Social sculpture.  


*Konstfrämjandet Association started to develop SKISS (contemporary artists in the contemporary society) aimed at involving contemporary artists in contemporary society. SKISS is a collaborative initiative working to promote art, capacity building and health for individuals, organizations and society at large. 


http://sites.google.com/site/ipa129799/257649-1
http:// www.skiss.se

Presentation of the project at the Ministry of Culture in Tirana, March 2011. Photo:Rivelina Boshnjaku