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Art Organization - the case of Skopje, December 2018.

As part of a long-term international research project that analyzes artistic (self) organization and relations within art groups in the post-Yugoslav region, kuda.org visited Skopje. We spoke with Nebojsa Vilik, a theorist, writer, art historian, lecturer at the University of Skopje at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts and the Faculty of Fine Arts, and the first director of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art Skopje.

We talked with Nebojsa about the phenomena of organizing through the examples of two art groups: the group DANAS (DENES) and the group ZERO and about the influence of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art on the development of the contemporary art scene in Macedonia.

The introduction to the research of group work, joint authorship, working conditions, was conducted during 2017 through interviewing participants and protagonists of the contemporary art scene from Yugoslavia.

The Art Organization is part of a wider project Vectors of Collective Imagination in which kuda.org collaborates with partners: Multimedia Institute mi2 and Kulturtreger-Booksa, Zagreb (HR); Glänta, Gothenburg (SE); Counterpoint, Skopje (MK) and Berliner Gazette, Berlin (DE).

The project is co-financed by the European Union's Creative Europe program, the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia, and the City Administration for Culture of the City of Novi Sad, with the structural support of the Foundation for Artistic Initiatives.