8 episodes
Prishtina is Everywhere – Manifesta 14. Prishtina. Manifesta 14
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“Prishtina is Everywhere” is part of the participatory online radio program “Radio Otherwise”, which is launched within the framework of Manifesta 14 in Prishtina, the capital of Kosova.
In this podcast you will meet authors, artists, publicists and curators from around the region, who will each create one single episode of the show. They all will investigate people’s changing relationship with public space in cities around Europe through the lens of such topics as transition, migration, water, capital, love, ecology and speculation.
Manifesta itself is a recurring event, that changes location every two years. In 2022 the fourteenth edition it takes place in Prishtina, Kosova with the title: “it matters what worlds world worlds: how to tell stories otherwise”.
In general, the European Nomadic Biennial rethinks the relation between culture and civic society. Its artistic programme takes up the challenge of exploring collective storytelling. This year, Manifesta 14 aims to support the citizens of Kosovo in their ambition to reclaim public space and to rewrite the future of their capital – as an open-minded metropolis in the Balkans and in Europe.
Check out Radio Otherwise here: https://manifesta14.org/radio-otherwise/radio-otherwise/
Read more on Manifesta 14 on our website: https://manifesta14.org/
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Signals from Another World
For this episode, Ardit Hoxha, artist and writer based in Auckland, New Zealand, created a radio play that recounts the enclosure of the commons with adaptations of Albanian folktales. Voiced by Lily Worrall, Nurhan Qehaja and Ardit Hoxha. The music is by Tetris.
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From Kosovo to Berkeley
This episode focuses on the poetry series ’Kosovo Fugue in Seven Parts’ written between April 7 and April 29 1999 by American poet, activist, educator and architect June Jordan. In these poems Jordan weaves together the events of the war in Kosovo, her personal moments in Brooklyn and the protests of the Third World Liberation Front Students at U.C. Berkeley in California. For this episode Arnisa Zeqo invited artist Selma Selman for a reading of the poems and a small discussion.
Visit Arnisa Zeqo on Dutch Art Institute: https://dutchartinstitute.eu/page/7761/arnisa-zeqo
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Building Human Relations Through Art: Belgrade art collective Škart
In this episode independent curator Seda Yıldız and Škart talk about how art practice and poetry of the everyday life can be used as tools to reach out to others, building human relations. Belgrade based art collective Škart has been operating within and around existing hierarchies of the art world and everyday life since 1990
Visit Sedy Yildiz’s Website: https://yildizseda.com/
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Silly walk through the capital of kitsch
This episode accompanies philosopher-architect Jordan Shishovski around the city of Skopje and through the project Skopje 2014. Shishovski reflects on the relations of political ideology, corruption and manipulation through transformations of the city and the public space.
Visit Gjorgje Jovanovik’s Homepage: https://www.gjorgjejovanovik.com/ -
The Carpet
As an alternative idea as a meeting place in the art world, Vesselina Sarieva and and Luchezar Boyadjiev (Luçezar Bojadijeviç) bring to light the poetic possibilities of the carpet as a space of equality that invites all. “The Carpet” is a curatorial concept for “meeting place” in opposition to the traditional art institution or art settlement – gallery, museum, exhibition, fair and others. “The Carpet” is an experiment and a poetic proposal for the future of the art world. It is seeing as a universal place to be equal, to meet artists, curators, visitors, collectors, to provide and receive education, to exchange and build relationships, to give future for art and ideas.
Visit Vesselina Sarieva’s Website: http://vesselinasarieva.com/
Visit Luchezar Boyadjev on Open Art Files: https://openartfiles.bg/en/people/1323-luchezar-boyadjiev -
Gender Discrimination in Street Naming
“Gender Discrimination in Street Naming” by Saranda Saikaj, is an episode that explores the issues of exclusion of women in the urban landscape in Kosovo despite the fact that their contributions to the Kosovar society are endless. Saranda Sadikaj or Ms. Indefinite – is a feminist artist who advocates for women’s rights through video performance. This episode coincides with one of her most recent projects #fourartsforactivism which will be available as a video performance on the topic on Ms. Indefinites Instagram page:
Visit Ms. Indefinite’s Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CgrG6hDoorp/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading&hl=de