Summer School as School 2022 Conference 2
August 20, 2022, 20:00
Venue: Boxing Club
August 20, 2022, 20:00
Venue: Boxing Club
Summer School as School 2022 Conference 2: Public Hearing on Remembering What, For Whom and Why Manifesta with Suzana Milevska, Miljana Dunđerin, Daniel Cosentino, Course 4 Placeness: led by Florina Jerliu and participants Ardijana Binakaj, Andia Kolshi, Doruntina Sylejmani, Drenusha Dalipi, Endrit Jashanica, Endrit Mecini, Olta Hasanaj, moderated by Albert Heta.
The conference departs from observing definitions and roles of the public hearing in various levels of governance in states and societies maintained by and functioning under a declared open government. According to the Kosovo parliamentary practice, the public hearing can be defined as a mechanism for collecting information used by the parliamentary commissions to review the policies and for the oversight of the government. In addition, the format provides opportunities for parliamentary commissions to hear experts that are silenced, broaden the list of questions and raise questions.
Summer School as School 2022 Conference 2 aims to provide public space for voices, observations, discussions and readings of the context, processes and testimonies on Manifesta biennial and ongoing Manifesta 14 operations in Prishtina, hailed today by a few in the international press as the story already concluded.
Biographies:
Suzana Milevska, Ph.D., is a curator and theorist of art and visual culture, based in Skopje, North Macedonia. Her theoretical research projects employ postcolonial and feminist institutional critique of representational regimes of hegemonic power in arts and visual culture. She is interested in the deconstruction and decolonization of contentious cultural heritages in art institutions, collections, and public spaces. Her curatorial projects focus on collaborative and participatory art practices, feminist projects by women artists looking at visual microhistories in state and family photographic archives, and community-based projects in solidarity with marginalized and disenfranchised communities. In 2021-22 Milevska participated the Fellowship Program for Art and Theory at the Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen in Innsbruck and developed her research project Ethical and Aesthetical Protocols of Apology that was exhibited at the Neue Galerie – Innsbruck under the title Apologoscapes – Not yet an exhibition. In 2019, Milevska curated the exhibition Contentious Objects/Ashamed Subjects at the Polytechnic University Milan as Principal Investigator of TRACES – Transmitting of Contentious Cultural Heritages with the Arts – From Intervention to Co-production (EU Programme Horizon 2020, 2016-2019). From 2013 to 2015, she was Endowed Professor of Central and South Eastern European Art Histories, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Milevska was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar (Library of Congress, Washington D.C.). She holds a PhD in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths College London. In 2012, she won the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory.
Milevska’s publications include Gender Difference in the Balkans (VDM Verlag, 2010) and the readers The Renaming Machine: The Book (P.A.R.A.SI.T.E. Institute, 2010), On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency (SternbergPress, 2016), and Inside Out – Critical Discourses concerning Institutions (co-edited with Alenka Gregorič, 2016).
Miljana Dunđerin, fine artist and director of the private Cultural Center "Aquarius".
After completing her studies in psychology, Dunđerin entered the Faculty of Arts in Kosovska Mitrovica. She has 13 solo exhibitions and over 50 group exhibitions in the country and abroad (Italy, France, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia). Her paintings have been included in many selections of contemporary creativity of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija. She is a participant in several art colonies in the country and abroad. Dunđerin has published works in many publications and in international thematic anthologies in the field of psychology and art. She was awarded for her artistic creativity.
She is the founder and artistic director of the private Cultural Center "Aquarius", which has been operating in Kosovska Mitrovica since 2015. Founder and director of the creative school of painting "Mali Atelier". She is the editor of the art program "North city jazz & blues" of the international festival. Collaborator and organizer of many cultural events in the region. She lives and works in Kosovska Mitrovica.
Daniel Cosentino is a Multimedia Artist and educator specialized in photographic processes and discourses. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy (Minor in Music Theory/Classical Guitar) from Rutgers University, NJ (1998) and a Master of Fine Arts in Imaging Arts/Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology - RIT (2009). In the period 2008 - 2010, he served as an Adjunct Professor at RIT College of Art & Design and at the University of Rochester School of Arts and Sciences. From September 2010 to 2020 he was based in Prishtina as an Assistant Professor at RIT Kosovo (formerly American University in Kosovo - A.U.K) via the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Global Programs. He is currently based in New Jersey as an Assistant Professor and Coordinator for the Visual and Performing Arts at the Sussex County Community College. Cosentino's major grants include: "Community Design Prishtina - American Embassy in Prishtina, Kosovo (2015); AMICAL - "International Workshop: Engage Students in Creative Multimedia Production", in collaboration with The American University in Cairo (2014); and RIT Provost's Grant for Innovation and Learning - "Multi-Campus Environmental Research and Media Collaboration," (2012). His works have recently been shown at the Revision/Respond, New Jersey Arts Annual at the Newark Museum of Art; New Photography II, Academy Art Museum (2020); Realism: Encountering the Real, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2020); Gender in the Balance: National Juried Exhibition, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY (2019); and 66th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY (2019).
Florina Jerliu is a professor in the University of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina”. She teaches courses of art and architectural history, theory and heritage in the Faculty of Architecture, and Aesthetics of Space in the Faculty of Fine Arts.
Jerliu received a degree of Diploma Engineer of Architecture from the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Prishtina (1996), a Masters in Arts from the Faculty of Arts, University of Prishtina (2003), and a PhD in architecture and urbanism from the University of Sarajevo (2014). She is the co-founder and chair of the foundation for architecture and urbanism Archis Interventions Prishtina (part of the Archis Network together with Archis Interventions Amsterdam and Archis Interventions Berlin); co-founder and member of the Board of the think-tank Kosovo Stability Initiative; member of ICOMOS (as of 2017), member of the State Council for Recognition (of foreign diploma and qualifications, as of 2020), member of the Board of the Kosovo Archaeological Institute. In 2015-18 she acted as member of the Board of the Kosovo Institute for the Protection of Monuments; in 2003-2008 she held the position of the President of the Kosovo Association of Architects. Jerliu is active in the field of cultural heritage in Kosovo through participation as member in various commissions and juries as appointed by the Kosovo Ministries (MYSC, MASHT). Jerliu is the author of the text of the National Strategy for Cultural Heritage of Kosovo 2017-2027 adopted by the Government of Kosovo, and author/designer of the first national archaeological park in Kosovo: Archaeological Park Ulpiana. She is author of books: Preservation of Built Heritage (2016) and Cultural Heritage of Kosovo: Concepts and Contexts of Protection (2017); and author and co-author of a number of scientific papers published in international and local journals.
Jerliu was part of the working group for the establishment of the Permanent Exhibition of the National Museum of Kosovo, and a co-author of exhibition’s interior design (inaugurated in February 2018). She is a laureate of the Annual Prize for Scientific Contribution in the field of Cultural Heritage "Zef Mirdita" (2018) awarded by Kosovo Ministry of Culture.
Albert Heta is a doctoral researcher, artist, designer, and art manager. His work, including “It’s time to go visiting: No visa required” (2003), a public intervention on British Airways billboards in Pristina, "Embassy of the Republic of Kosova, Cetinje, Serbia and Montenegro (2004), and the
“Kosovar Pavilion Venice Biennial 2005” distributed through e-flux, never fail to provoke debate in relation to the social, cultural, and political mechanisms of power.
He is the founding director of Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Pristina and Summer School as School.
The conference departs from observing definitions and roles of the public hearing in various levels of governance in states and societies maintained by and functioning under a declared open government. According to the Kosovo parliamentary practice, the public hearing can be defined as a mechanism for collecting information used by the parliamentary commissions to review the policies and for the oversight of the government. In addition, the format provides opportunities for parliamentary commissions to hear experts that are silenced, broaden the list of questions and raise questions.
Summer School as School 2022 Conference 2 aims to provide public space for voices, observations, discussions and readings of the context, processes and testimonies on Manifesta biennial and ongoing Manifesta 14 operations in Prishtina, hailed today by a few in the international press as the story already concluded.
Biographies:
Suzana Milevska, Ph.D., is a curator and theorist of art and visual culture, based in Skopje, North Macedonia. Her theoretical research projects employ postcolonial and feminist institutional critique of representational regimes of hegemonic power in arts and visual culture. She is interested in the deconstruction and decolonization of contentious cultural heritages in art institutions, collections, and public spaces. Her curatorial projects focus on collaborative and participatory art practices, feminist projects by women artists looking at visual microhistories in state and family photographic archives, and community-based projects in solidarity with marginalized and disenfranchised communities. In 2021-22 Milevska participated the Fellowship Program for Art and Theory at the Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen in Innsbruck and developed her research project Ethical and Aesthetical Protocols of Apology that was exhibited at the Neue Galerie – Innsbruck under the title Apologoscapes – Not yet an exhibition. In 2019, Milevska curated the exhibition Contentious Objects/Ashamed Subjects at the Polytechnic University Milan as Principal Investigator of TRACES – Transmitting of Contentious Cultural Heritages with the Arts – From Intervention to Co-production (EU Programme Horizon 2020, 2016-2019). From 2013 to 2015, she was Endowed Professor of Central and South Eastern European Art Histories, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Milevska was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar (Library of Congress, Washington D.C.). She holds a PhD in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths College London. In 2012, she won the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory.
Milevska’s publications include Gender Difference in the Balkans (VDM Verlag, 2010) and the readers The Renaming Machine: The Book (P.A.R.A.SI.T.E. Institute, 2010), On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency (SternbergPress, 2016), and Inside Out – Critical Discourses concerning Institutions (co-edited with Alenka Gregorič, 2016).
Miljana Dunđerin, fine artist and director of the private Cultural Center "Aquarius".
After completing her studies in psychology, Dunđerin entered the Faculty of Arts in Kosovska Mitrovica. She has 13 solo exhibitions and over 50 group exhibitions in the country and abroad (Italy, France, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia). Her paintings have been included in many selections of contemporary creativity of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija. She is a participant in several art colonies in the country and abroad. Dunđerin has published works in many publications and in international thematic anthologies in the field of psychology and art. She was awarded for her artistic creativity.
She is the founder and artistic director of the private Cultural Center "Aquarius", which has been operating in Kosovska Mitrovica since 2015. Founder and director of the creative school of painting "Mali Atelier". She is the editor of the art program "North city jazz & blues" of the international festival. Collaborator and organizer of many cultural events in the region. She lives and works in Kosovska Mitrovica.
Daniel Cosentino is a Multimedia Artist and educator specialized in photographic processes and discourses. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy (Minor in Music Theory/Classical Guitar) from Rutgers University, NJ (1998) and a Master of Fine Arts in Imaging Arts/Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology - RIT (2009). In the period 2008 - 2010, he served as an Adjunct Professor at RIT College of Art & Design and at the University of Rochester School of Arts and Sciences. From September 2010 to 2020 he was based in Prishtina as an Assistant Professor at RIT Kosovo (formerly American University in Kosovo - A.U.K) via the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Global Programs. He is currently based in New Jersey as an Assistant Professor and Coordinator for the Visual and Performing Arts at the Sussex County Community College. Cosentino's major grants include: "Community Design Prishtina - American Embassy in Prishtina, Kosovo (2015); AMICAL - "International Workshop: Engage Students in Creative Multimedia Production", in collaboration with The American University in Cairo (2014); and RIT Provost's Grant for Innovation and Learning - "Multi-Campus Environmental Research and Media Collaboration," (2012). His works have recently been shown at the Revision/Respond, New Jersey Arts Annual at the Newark Museum of Art; New Photography II, Academy Art Museum (2020); Realism: Encountering the Real, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2020); Gender in the Balance: National Juried Exhibition, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY (2019); and 66th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY (2019).
Florina Jerliu is a professor in the University of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina”. She teaches courses of art and architectural history, theory and heritage in the Faculty of Architecture, and Aesthetics of Space in the Faculty of Fine Arts.
Jerliu received a degree of Diploma Engineer of Architecture from the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Prishtina (1996), a Masters in Arts from the Faculty of Arts, University of Prishtina (2003), and a PhD in architecture and urbanism from the University of Sarajevo (2014). She is the co-founder and chair of the foundation for architecture and urbanism Archis Interventions Prishtina (part of the Archis Network together with Archis Interventions Amsterdam and Archis Interventions Berlin); co-founder and member of the Board of the think-tank Kosovo Stability Initiative; member of ICOMOS (as of 2017), member of the State Council for Recognition (of foreign diploma and qualifications, as of 2020), member of the Board of the Kosovo Archaeological Institute. In 2015-18 she acted as member of the Board of the Kosovo Institute for the Protection of Monuments; in 2003-2008 she held the position of the President of the Kosovo Association of Architects. Jerliu is active in the field of cultural heritage in Kosovo through participation as member in various commissions and juries as appointed by the Kosovo Ministries (MYSC, MASHT). Jerliu is the author of the text of the National Strategy for Cultural Heritage of Kosovo 2017-2027 adopted by the Government of Kosovo, and author/designer of the first national archaeological park in Kosovo: Archaeological Park Ulpiana. She is author of books: Preservation of Built Heritage (2016) and Cultural Heritage of Kosovo: Concepts and Contexts of Protection (2017); and author and co-author of a number of scientific papers published in international and local journals.
Jerliu was part of the working group for the establishment of the Permanent Exhibition of the National Museum of Kosovo, and a co-author of exhibition’s interior design (inaugurated in February 2018). She is a laureate of the Annual Prize for Scientific Contribution in the field of Cultural Heritage "Zef Mirdita" (2018) awarded by Kosovo Ministry of Culture.
Albert Heta is a doctoral researcher, artist, designer, and art manager. His work, including “It’s time to go visiting: No visa required” (2003), a public intervention on British Airways billboards in Pristina, "Embassy of the Republic of Kosova, Cetinje, Serbia and Montenegro (2004), and the
“Kosovar Pavilion Venice Biennial 2005” distributed through e-flux, never fail to provoke debate in relation to the social, cultural, and political mechanisms of power.
He is the founding director of Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Pristina and Summer School as School.