CALENDAR
UPCOMING
WE DON'T WANT TO BE STARS (BUT PARTS OF CONSTELLATIONS)
A symposium organized by Suns and Stars in collaboration with GROND
SEPTEMBER 20 - 22, 2024
Location: GROND, H.J.E. Wenckebachweg 46, Amsterdam
With contributions of: Alaa Abu Asad, Anastasija Pandilovska, Doe Maar Niet, Eléonore de Montesquiou, Elke Uitentuis, Fani Konstantinidou, Femke Ravensbergen, Ivana Vaseva, Lianne van Roekel, Margit Säde, Marjoca de Greef, Mohamed Alnoor Hedjaab, Natalia Papaeva, Stefano Harney, Sojung Jun, Viktorija Ilioska, and We Sell Reality.
The three-day symposium ‘We don’t want to be stars (but parts of constellations)’ developed by Suns and Stars revolves around the question: How do we create a meeting place for practicing and honing the art of mutually dependent coexistence? The symposium is, so to say, a cooperative gathering in which the common is not defined in terms of identity, but as the work of connection and the alliance between (local) communities, human and nonhuman, that act, build, and create in common. As such, the symposium can be understood as an ongoing experiment in which we engage in a kind of improvised study by “talking and walking around with other people, working, dancing, suffering” 1 and passing time together. All while eating collectively prepared meals. The idea of shared giving-and-receiving offers an opportunity to explore a form of communal being in which we can become elusive builders of an unconditional meeting place.
For several years now, Suns and Stars have been exploring, together with artists, how art practices can function as social spaces where other potentialities can be conceived and shaped. The curatorial and artistic research trajects regarding 'the act of translation' and 'the concept of borderland' by our curatorial duo Marjoca de Greef and Anastasija Pandilovska are not meant to be curatorial frames for 'We don’t want to be stars', but points of departure from which other artistic projects can sprout or join in. For the symposium we have invited artists and others who are not necessarily working with translation or borders, but who have relational practices. Artists, researchers, curators, and writers who develop their work in collaboration rather than in an autonomous space, thus inviting other people into their artistic practices.
We found an inspirational partner in GROND because the collective is building a meeting place in such a way that the members of GROND are truly living ‘the art of mutually dependent coexistence’.
Based at ‘Het Nieuwe Bajesdorp’, the GROND collective has just finalized a fabulous space for artistic encounters and experiments; an open space to bolster collectivity, sustainability, cross-pollination and process-based practices, manifesting in a makers’ space, black box, kitchen, canteen, and two gardens. The communities of Bajesdorp and GROND are demonstrating that working and living as a collective is a way to learn how to embrace the process, to give and to take, to be flexible, to share authorship, to be creative in an organic way, to deal with conflicting interests, to be generous, and to let go. Together, they aspire to plunge into a state of learning in pursuance of a practice of solidarity. As such, GROND is a role model and a trailblazer developing new recipes for living and working together to fight alienation, which is increasingly dominant in our society. GROND is not only giving space to the symposium; members of the GROND community are part of the program as well with workshops, cooking and live performances.
PRINTABLE PROGRAM BOOKLET AMSTERDAM
WE DON'T WANT TO BE STARS (BUT PARTS OF CONSTELLATIONS)
A symposium organized by Suns and Stars in collaboration with GROND
SEPTEMBER 20 - 22, 2024
Location: GROND, H.J.E. Wenckebachweg 46, Amsterdam
With contributions of: Alaa Abu Asad, Anastasija Pandilovska, Doe Maar Niet, Eléonore de Montesquiou, Elke Uitentuis, Fani Konstantinidou, Femke Ravensbergen, Ivana Vaseva, Lianne van Roekel, Margit Säde, Marjoca de Greef, Mohamed Alnoor Hedjaab, Natalia Papaeva, Stefano Harney, Sojung Jun, Viktorija Ilioska, and We Sell Reality.
The three-day symposium ‘We don’t want to be stars (but parts of constellations)’ developed by Suns and Stars revolves around the question: How do we create a meeting place for practicing and honing the art of mutually dependent coexistence? The symposium is, so to say, a cooperative gathering in which the common is not defined in terms of identity, but as the work of connection and the alliance between (local) communities, human and nonhuman, that act, build, and create in common. As such, the symposium can be understood as an ongoing experiment in which we engage in a kind of improvised study by “talking and walking around with other people, working, dancing, suffering” 1 and passing time together. All while eating collectively prepared meals. The idea of shared giving-and-receiving offers an opportunity to explore a form of communal being in which we can become elusive builders of an unconditional meeting place.
For several years now, Suns and Stars have been exploring, together with artists, how art practices can function as social spaces where other potentialities can be conceived and shaped. The curatorial and artistic research trajects regarding 'the act of translation' and 'the concept of borderland' by our curatorial duo Marjoca de Greef and Anastasija Pandilovska are not meant to be curatorial frames for 'We don’t want to be stars', but points of departure from which other artistic projects can sprout or join in. For the symposium we have invited artists and others who are not necessarily working with translation or borders, but who have relational practices. Artists, researchers, curators, and writers who develop their work in collaboration rather than in an autonomous space, thus inviting other people into their artistic practices.
We found an inspirational partner in GROND because the collective is building a meeting place in such a way that the members of GROND are truly living ‘the art of mutually dependent coexistence’.
Based at ‘Het Nieuwe Bajesdorp’, the GROND collective has just finalized a fabulous space for artistic encounters and experiments; an open space to bolster collectivity, sustainability, cross-pollination and process-based practices, manifesting in a makers’ space, black box, kitchen, canteen, and two gardens. The communities of Bajesdorp and GROND are demonstrating that working and living as a collective is a way to learn how to embrace the process, to give and to take, to be flexible, to share authorship, to be creative in an organic way, to deal with conflicting interests, to be generous, and to let go. Together, they aspire to plunge into a state of learning in pursuance of a practice of solidarity. As such, GROND is a role model and a trailblazer developing new recipes for living and working together to fight alienation, which is increasingly dominant in our society. GROND is not only giving space to the symposium; members of the GROND community are part of the program as well with workshops, cooking and live performances.
PRINTABLE PROGRAM BOOKLET AMSTERDAM
1. Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (Wivenhoe: Minor Compositions, 2013), 110.
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ARCHIVE
THE HOUSE THAT IS FALLING APART
International exhibition and symposium organized by Faculty of things that can't be learned (FR~U), Skopje
EXHIBITION – THE HOUSE THAT IS FALLING APART
Opening night: Thursday, 27th June, 2024 at 20:00
June 27th - July 30th, 2024
Artists: Winnie Herbstein (Glasgow/Amsterdam), Filip Jovanovski (Skopje), Anu Vahtra (Tallinn)
Curator: Ivana Vaseva (Skopje)
Location: Museum of the Republic of North Macedonia, Skopje
SYMPOSIUM – THE HOUSE THAT IS FALLING APART
June 28th and 29th 2024
Symposium contributors: Ola Hassanain (Khartoum/Amsterdam), Ingel Vaikla (Tallinn/Brussels), Felix Melia (London), Marjoca de Greef (Amsterdam), Anastasija Pandilovska (Skopje/Amsterdam), Brigit Arop (Tallinn), Winnie Herbstein (Glasgow/Amsterdam), Filip Jovanovski (Skopje), Anu Vahtra (Tallinn)
PROGRAM SYMPOSIUM
Friday, 28th of June 2024
20:00 Lecture by Ola Hassanain (Khartoum/Amsterdam) followed by a discussion with Marjoca de Greef & Anastasija Pandilovska (Amsterdam) and Ivana Vaseva (Skopje)
21:00 Film screening: Ingel Vankla - Papagalo, what’s the Time? (2022) 7’
Moi aussi, je regarde (2024) 23’
Felix Melia - Money for Nothing (2021) 35’
Short conversation with the artists Ingel Vaikla and Felix Melia
Saturday, 29th of June 2024
19:00 until 21:30 THE CITY IS PUBLIC - Public Rehearsal, a collective performative bike tour of the city of Skopje with several guides as part of the Laboratory for Performative Space Research THE CITY AS A STAGE. With contributions of Winnie Herbstein, Filip Jovanovski, and Anu Vahtra.
21:30 until 23:30 THE CITY IS PUBLIC - HNU performance research studio for food, science and art and DJ Indog on the plateau in front of the Museum of the Republic of North Macedonia
PRINTABLE PROGRAM BOOKLET SKOPJE
Concept and organization: Faculty of things that can’t be learned - FR~U
Curator: Ivana Vaseva
Production team: Filip Jovanovski, Ivana Samandova, Dimitar Milev
Production assistants and collaborators on the THE CITY IS A PUBLIC platform: Eka Dobrivojevska, Marija Arizankovska
Financial manager: Blagica Petrova
PR: Monika Stojanovska
Design booklet and poster: Anastasija Pandilovska
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04.06.2024 Partner meeting, discuss the FR~U Program in Skopje and the Suns and Stars program in Amsterdam
12.03.2024 Partner meeting, discuss the FR~U Program in Skopje,and the Suns and Stars Residencies in Amsterdam, EKKM program in Tallinn
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RESIDENCY SUNS AND STARS IN AMSTERDAM
January 22nd - February 12th, 2024
Invited artists: Viktorija Ilioska (MK/DE), Eléonore de Montesquiou (EST/DE/FR), Elke Uitentuis (NL)
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16.01.2024 Partner meeting – discuss EKKM budget, residencies, and social media
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RESIDENCY FR~U IN SKOPJE,
December 1st - January 31st, 2024
Invited artists: Winnie Herbstein (NL/GB), Filip Jovanovski (MK), Anu Vahtra (EE)
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14.10.2023 Partner meeting - discuss the residencies FR~U and Suns and Stars, PR, updates website
19.09.2023 Partner meeting - discuss residencies, PR, updates
11.07.2023 Partner meeting - discuss the program of FR~U
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LAUNCH WEDONTWANTTOBESTARS.EU
May 31st, 2023
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09.05.2023 Partner meeting - discuss last details website
11.04.2023 Partner meeting - discuss artists proposals
07.03.2023 Partner meeting - discuss content website
26.01.2023 Kick-off meeting
Curator: Ivana Vaseva
Production team: Filip Jovanovski, Ivana Samandova, Dimitar Milev
Production assistants and collaborators on the THE CITY IS A PUBLIC platform: Eka Dobrivojevska, Marija Arizankovska
Financial manager: Blagica Petrova
PR: Monika Stojanovska
Design booklet and poster: Anastasija Pandilovska
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04.06.2024 Partner meeting, discuss the FR~U Program in Skopje and the Suns and Stars program in Amsterdam
12.03.2024 Partner meeting, discuss the FR~U Program in Skopje,and the Suns and Stars Residencies in Amsterdam, EKKM program in Tallinn
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RESIDENCY SUNS AND STARS IN AMSTERDAM
January 22nd - February 12th, 2024
Invited artists: Viktorija Ilioska (MK/DE), Eléonore de Montesquiou (EST/DE/FR), Elke Uitentuis (NL)
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16.01.2024 Partner meeting – discuss EKKM budget, residencies, and social media
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RESIDENCY FR~U IN SKOPJE,
December 1st - January 31st, 2024
Invited artists: Winnie Herbstein (NL/GB), Filip Jovanovski (MK), Anu Vahtra (EE)
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14.10.2023 Partner meeting - discuss the residencies FR~U and Suns and Stars, PR, updates website
19.09.2023 Partner meeting - discuss residencies, PR, updates
11.07.2023 Partner meeting - discuss the program of FR~U
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LAUNCH WEDONTWANTTOBESTARS.EU
May 31st, 2023
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09.05.2023 Partner meeting - discuss last details website
11.04.2023 Partner meeting - discuss artists proposals
07.03.2023 Partner meeting - discuss content website
26.01.2023 Kick-off meeting
