"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