Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina
Open Call
Cultivating Connections: Empowering Youth through Intercultural Learning on Power-Sharing, Art and Memory and Cultural Conflict in Public Sphere
Master classes with Ana Dević, Bekim Baliqi and Nebojša Milikić
Prishtina, 15 – 19 October 2024, from 18:00 to 21:00
Online, 15 October – 1 December 2024, from 18:00 to 21:00
The deadline for registration is 30 September 2024.
Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina and Rex Cultural Centre, Belgrade are pleased to announce the call for participation in the master classes with Ana Dević, Bekim Baliqi and Nebojša Milikić as part of the project Cultivating Connections: Empowering Youth through Intercultural Learning on Power-Sharing, Art and Memory and Cultural Conflict in Public Sphere.
Cultivating Connections: Empowering Youth through Intercultural Learning on Power-Sharing, Art and Memory and Cultural Conflict in Public Sphere is designed to develop inclusive interdisciplinary educational program by offering expert-based master classes on topics which are not currently mainstream in formal education across the WB6 countries. Further, the program will focus on recreating a space for youth from WB6 countries to engage in a co-learning environment.
The program is designed for 45 participants from the WB6 countries and abroad and offers a scholarship program for young people from the WB6 region.
The master classes of the program include a syllabus course developed by leading experts and academics.
Master Class 1: Art and Memory in Practices of Commemorations after Mass Atrocities by Dr Ana Dević, 15 – 19 October 2024. Master Class 1 requires in-person participation.
Master Class 1 investigates how such memories can be re-integrated into social life through commemorative practices, zooming in on several sites of extreme war atrocity in post-Yugoslav spaces and focusing on artistic and performative memory activism.
Dr Ana Dević is a historical-political sociologist, currently a senior researcher at Aix-Marseille University where she is conducting research on alternative and artistic commemorations of collective violence in comparative perspectives. Ana obtained her PhD from the University of California at San Diego, and is an adjunct associate professor at the University of Bologna.
Master Class 2: Power-sharing as a Peace-Building Approach in Divided Societies, by Prof Bekim Baliqi, 15 – 19 October 2024. Master Class 2 requires in-person participation.
Power-sharing, or consociationalism or democracy, is an increasingly popular approach for solving conflicts and promoting ethnic diversity in post-war and divided societies. The power-sharing model investigates a democratic framework that accommodates non-majority communities by emphasizing consensus and inclusion among different groups. It has been widely implemented in various multi-ethnic and post-conflict states, such as Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, and Kosovo.
Bekim Baliqi is a professor at the University of Prishtina. Professor Baliqi obtained his PhD at the University of Vienna; his expertise includes peace-building and good governance.
Master Class 3: Populism At the Periphery and Cultural Constituencies/Counterstances by Nebojša Milikić, 15 October - 1 December 2024. Master Class 3 is an online master class developed over three months in the program.
The master class will discuss and explore the actuality of the European capitalist periphery's political-economic and cultural sphere, focusing on the modalities, manifestations, theorization and criticisms of various global and local "populist" phenomena. Through analyses of everyday usage and a routinized understanding of the term, participants will search for cultural-political responses both to the (pre)conditions of populist discourses and to hegemonic concepts in diagnosing and representing the phenomenon. The practical goal of the master class is to discuss, translate, and adapt the proposal of the Law on Culture at The Capitalist Periphery into as many peripheral languages as possible (including Eastern Euro-English).
Nebojša Milikić is a cultural worker and producer living and working in Belgrade, Serbia. Milikic has been engaged in organizational, artistic, and curatorial practice in visual and relational arts and independent research on transitional societies' cultural and political problems.
To register and participate in the program's master classes, interested participants must send the following documents in English by email: 1. CV, 2. letter of motivation, 3. scholarship application, sent to the official email address application@stacion.org
The program offers scholarships that will cover tuition fees, travel and visa costs for six selected WB6 participants.
Cultivating Connections: Empowering Youth through Intercultural Learning on Power-Sharing, Art and Memory and Cultural Conflict in Public Sphere is a project by Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina in partnership with Rex Cultural Centre, Belgrade, supported by RYCO/ Regional Youth Cooperation Office.