Conference Capital & Gender

At the conference Capital & Gender there will be 30 participants: theoreticians, curators, art critics and artists from different Balkan countries (Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania, FR Yugoslavia, Slovenia, Estonia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina) invited to cover the four different topics connected with the main theme of the project: the problem of the reflection of the capital on the sexual difference in the countries that are experiencing the shift from state to market economy. The two-day conference will take place at the space of the Open Graphic Art Studio at the Museum of the City of Skopje with Suzana Milevska as a moderator.


TOPICS

24 January

Morning session

first topic: "Capital, Information and Difference"
The problem of the proliferation of money and information is influencing the concept of sexual differentiation in the countries where the social issues of equality and difference in the past fifty years were structured differently than in the Western countries.
second topic: "Real Art/Virtual Money"
The question of art that is socially and politically engaged becomes a very delicate issue in the context where the art market does not exist and the financial problems shape the art concepts directly.

Afternoon session:

Workshop at the Contemporary Art Center - curator: Melentie Pandilovski

 

25 January

Morning session

third topic: "Pay- per View Art"
The question of sex and pornography in arts differs from time to time, from one culture to another. Within this session the different aspects and attitudes toward these problems are going to be discussed in the framework of different laws and cultural corporeal stereotypes in East and West.

 

26 January

Morning session

fourth topic: Gender & Management
Presentations of cultural managers and comparing different experiences in conditions of transformation of the attitude toward culture in transitional societies
afternoon session - "Who is Afraid of a Big Bad Capital" - panel discussion with all participants comparing the fears and desires of the new coming society.