This public program, comprising a talk and a workshop on poetry and art, is inspired by the notion of togetherness and co-creation that Škart collective always prioritized in their socially engaged practice. Over two days, we will focus on sharing the operational collaborative-creative methods of Škart collective (Belgrade).
Tuesday, 26 November 2024, 17:00–20:00, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova
Workshop: WATER WRIGHTING
Ebru (paper marbling) + poetry workshop
With Škart, Selma Yazıcı and Birsen Arslan (Kulturno društvo Anatolia), Seda Yıldız (independent curator and artistic researcher with Škart), and Adela Železnik (curator MG+MSUM).
How to write on water?
What to write?
And why?
This workshop on the special Ebru technique, facilitated by Selma Yazıcı and Birsen Arslan, will show us how to do paper marbling. This skill of “water writing”, combined with a poetry workshop and based on previous Škart's socially engaged art experiences, will teach those who attend how to create monotype prints with a unique, unpredictable form. We will finish the workshop with a collective table offering food and drinks.
To attend the workshop, please register at recepcija.msum@mg-lj.si. The number of participants is limited.
Wednesday, 27 November 2024, 18:00, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova
NOT ONLY ABOUT THE BOOK
Talk and presentation of the book Building Human Relations Through Art: Škart collective (Belgrade) from 1990 to present
Participating: Seda Yıldız, Škart, Zdenka Badovinac, and guests
The book Building Human Relations Through Art: Škart collective (Belgrade) from 1990 to present (Onomatopee, 2022), edited and co-authored by the independent curator and artistic researcher Seda Yıldız, traces Škart’s three decades of socially engaged art practice through conversations with members of the collective, and a collection of poems, images, drawings and texts by Zdenka Badovinac, Branislav Dimitrijević and Milica Pekić.
Škart has been operating within and around existing hierarchies of the art world and everyday life, working in collaboration with marginalized groups, NGOs, and anti-war movements. Škart’s understanding of artworks is fluid and relationship-based. No matter the medium – poetry, embroidery, graphic design, radio broadcast, or organizing a choir – its artistic explorations are characterized by self-organization, rooted in creating an open, accessible infrastructure for being together. Over the years the group has co-founded several other collectives and initiatives: the Horkeškart and Proba choirs, the children’s choirs Deca sa meseca and AprilZMAJun, the Defiant Pensioners poetry group, and the NONpractical Women embroidery group. Since 2010, the collective has been experimenting with site-specific workshops, animated poetry, comics, documentaries, illustrations, and films.
