WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? On the non-aligned decolonial constellation

Participants:

Faculty of things that can't be learned

24/11—
12/12/2022
National Opera and Ballet, Skopje

blvd. Goce Delchev 4, 1000 Skopje, North Macedonia

Artists and participants: Dan Acostioaei, NAM Archival Materials, Đorđe Balmazović, Džuverović, Emilia Epštajn and Ana Knežević, Museum of African Art, Belgrade, Jovan Ivanovski, Ana Ivanovska Deskova, Vladimir Deskov, Siniša Ilić, “Cartography of SFR Yugoslavia’s International Collaborations in Culture with Developing Countries” (Teja Merhar), KURS, The Non-Aligned Art Collection Laboratory (Marina Čelebić, Anita Ćulafić, Nada Baković, Natalija Vujošević), Podgorica, Borko Lazeski, Museo de la Solidridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Darinka Pop Mitić, Dubravka Sekulić, Ivana Sidjimovska, Hyun Suk Seo, World Gallery of Cartoons, Skopje, Mila Turajlić

Participants in Public Program: Daniela Berger Prado; Nick Aikens; Grace Samboh; Ljubica Spaskovska; Lina Džuverović; The Non-Aligned Art Collection Laboratory (Marina Čelebić, Anita Ćulafić, Nada Baković, Natalija Vujošević); Đorđe Balmazović; Siniša Ilić; Jovan Ivanovski, Ana Ivanovska Deskova, Vladimir Deskov; Emilia Epštajn, Ana Knežević; KURS; Darinka Pop Mitić; Ivana Sidjimovska; World Gallery of Cartoons, Skopje; Bojana Piškur; Ivana Vaseva.
Curators: Bojana Piškur and Ivana Vaseva
Production: Denis Saraginovski, Nenad Tonkin, Filip Jovanovski, Ivancho Velkov, Marjan Gjorgjiev, Antonio Gjorgjiev, Boris Vasileski, Ivana Samandova
PR: Martina Petreska
Accessibility coordinator: Jana Brsakoska

Тhe exhibition “WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON: On the non-aligned decolonial constellation” broadly talks about the presence of anticolonial ideas and actions in non-aligned Yugoslavia in the very processes of decolonization, and how that legacy and knowledge of (anti)colonialism and anticolonial solidarity is neglected or even erased from today’s memory. Furthermore, through the included artworks and public program, it wishes to create a vibrant and imaginative space for speculation of what would the new anticolonial and anti-imperialist non-aligned be, politically and artistically, and how would that lay out a different prospect for the future. It is also a space for joint effort in reinventing transnational solidarity in the current line of political events through rediscovering NAM’s paradigm of solidarity.

Main organizer: FRU

Place: National Opera and Ballet, Skopje and SCS Center – Jadro

Organizers: Faculty of things that can’t be learned – FRU, Skopje as part of 17. AKTO festival for contemporary arts

Partners: Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Centre for Contemporary Art of Montenegro, Podgorica.