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Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiative in Arts and Culture

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Industry	Arts
Occupation	Culture
Location	Skopje, Macedonia, North Macedonia
Introduction	The centre was founded in 2003 in Macedonia, Skopje as a non-profit organization playing the role of a platform for education, reflection, production, discussions and research in arts and culture. It is a small organization, but is a very active participant in the building and development of the democratic socio-cultural space in Macedonia and ex-Yugoslavia region. Through its activities, Lokomotiva aims to widen the access of citizens to arts and cultural events and projects and to influence the development and support of the contemporary, dynamic art and culture as incentive in the development of the democratic society. Lokomotiva developed and implemented diverse culture and art projects, in different media and formats, such as films, performances, education, capacity building and training programmes, debates, discussions, exhibitions, researchers, advocacy activities as well we other. Lokomotiva understands culture as extended field, co-related with society, and art as experimental communication and post-discipline field that extends the forms of expression, production and dissemination.
Interests	Vision Lokomotiva is a centre that acts as a platform for development of contemporary arts and culture in order to achieve progressive socio-cultural change in the community. Mission Lokomotiva is civil society organization that develops and creates working conditions for development, research, production and presentation of the work of professionals in the field of contemporary arts and culture. Lokomotiva achieves this by generating new models of collaboration, advocacy in creation of developmental cultural policies on local, regional and international level, discursive, residency modes, as well as development of needed capacities in the community.
Favorite Movies	About the Project /Curating in Context/ The 2019-2021 Erasmus+ project co-organized between two NGOs (Tanzfabrik Berlin and Lokomotiva Skopje), and two Higher Education Institutions (Stockholm University of the Arts and University of Zagreb) was developed to respond to the challenges of the growing influence of the concepts of curating and curatorial in the contemporary art field, beyond the sphere of visual arts. The project focuses on creating knowledge and opportunities for students, practitioners, curators, scholars and cultural workers to critically reflect and address different socio-political and economic contexts, and develop curatorial methods to rethink the practices of performing arts in relation to activism, social movements and self-organization. In a period of two years, the project comprises a series of meetings, public events and various resources that thematize collaborative learning approaches through curating between politics and policies, as well as valorisation of art with the greater goal of manifesting the impact of the cultural and civil sectors on society.
Favorite Books	This school/platform aims to critically reflect and address different socio-political and economic contexts, and develop curatorial methods to rethink the practices of performing arts in relation to activism, social movements and self- organization, in a dialogue with contemporary critical theories and trans-disciplinary studies. In addition, the school aims: to reflect and open a dialogue in the subjects related to the given topics of the school; to open a discussion and explore non-hegemonic forms of collective practices and self-organization in the field of cultural production; to bring the performing arts in a dialogue with the curatorial as a non-restricted field, or a field that is not exclusively related to visual arts; and to establish a platform of dialogue between cultural and art workers, curators, critical theorists and activists.