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Established in 2001, Kontrapunkt is an organization whose main focus is socio-critical activism and the relationship between art, theoretical philosophy and politics. Kontrapunkt encourages artists and independent groups to organize themselves and generate projects, thus contributing to the development of an independent cultural scene in Skopje.
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PROJECTS
CRIC- Festival for critical culture (2016 - 2018)CRIC- the acronym for critique, reaction, idea, confrontation (also a simultaneous Macedonian noun meaning “scream”), aims to oppose the “culture of silence”, promoting critical dialogue, new forms of presentation and application of knowledge, of contemporary memory and political history, thus opening up new possibilities for perpetual societal transformations.
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Freiraum - Skopje
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Aesthetic Education Expanded (2012 - 2017)Starting from the Enlightenment concept of Aesthetic Education, it explores forms of initiation into the experience and practice of art that maintain its autonomy, while exploring its emancipatory dimensions without falling into the dichotomy of commercialism or social service. Its an aesthetic education that understands art and culture at a productive distance from and in dialogue to the remaining spheres of the society.
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School for critical thinking, writing and debating (2015-2016)Forum for development of Critical Thought and Debate is a project that addresses the contemporary independent critical thinking scene in the country, researching and offering an alternative to the hierarchical models of debating and polemics in politics, philosophy, culture, citizenship activism by influencing the entire public sphere.
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MEDIA ARCHIVE
"Witchcraft and solidarity"
"Economic violence - unaware of it, though we face it every day"
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"The politics of choice as politics of violence"
"Violence After History"
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"Stratigos Tito - Karate: enjambement poetics, or „mixing memory and desire“
"Love and the artist"
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CULTURAL CENTER TOCKA (2002 - 2010)
Kontrapunkt is actively working in the non-profit cultural field since 2001 and so far was running the Cultural Center Tocka (2002-2010) that was the focal point for creating a critical discourse. The main idea was to make a strong network of NGO’s and individuals from different parts of Macedonia and from the region, which will have a point of meeting and acting in Skopje. It had done so by inviting notable guests from the ex-Yugoslav region, as well as artists and theorists from the wider, international scene. After loosing the space and it's funding in 2010, Kontrapunkt focused on educational and emancipatory projects, usually shaped in the form of schools, seminars and fewer public events and lectures. In 2016, Kontrapunkt started CRIC - Festival for critical thinking, now taking place each year in November. Living in a highly polarized and politicized region, combined with the total devastation of dialogue in the public sphere, the aim of CRIC is to once a year to create a space for intensified critical dialogue and learning in the Macedonian society.
Throughout the years, Kontrapunkt has also been host to numerous artists and lecturers among which: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Gerald Raunig, Marina Grzinik, Alexander Garcia Düttmann, Chto Delat, Suzana Milevska, Boris Buden, Zelimir Zilnik, Renata Salecl, Svetlana Slapshak, Michelle Teran, Tomislav Medak & Marcell Mars, etc. |
GALLERYIn collaboration with the publishing house Templum, from 2001 to 2010 Kontrapunkt has co- published numerous books in the filed of contemporary theory in culture, arts and humanities, by translating works of: Julia Kristeva, Zigmunt Bauman, Terry Eagleton, Jean-François Lyotard, Slavoj Zizek, Jacques Derrida, etc. |
