Partners

A network of grassroots organisations that support a community of multidisciplinary practitioners, artists and researchers working and traveling across Europe and the Balkans.

Some call us Balkans includes a series of activities resulting in the co-creation of a mobile forum traveling across the Balkans, opening spaces of encounter and imagination that transgress borders and nationalisms.

 

ICSE&Co. is a non-profit organization linked to the Political Sciences Department of the University of Florence. Since 2010 we have worked in three main sectors, sustainable development focused in the Mediterranean area through lifelong learning tools, young people in relation to intercultural issues, and institutional social project development.
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ZK/U is a residency and platform for creative and urban experimentation. Through its glocal program, ZK/U explores and critiques existing knowledge and practices in urban agglomerations as a springboard to individual and community self-empowerment. ZK/U fosters the expansion of resilient and inclusionary networks that can rise to the challenges of city life in the 21st century.
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The Biennale of Western Balkans (BoWB) promotes intangible and natural heritage through art, technology, and open knowledge, with the vision to inspire people experiencing tradition anew. Our mission is to present interdisciplinary art and research that engage traditional knowledge in transformative, collective, and educative ways.
SocioPatch – Platform for civic engagement through artistic and cultural practices (est. 2017) is a group of artists working in Skopje and the Balkan region, whose primary goal is to address topics of social relevance, in particular ones dealing with social engagement, art-based research and cultural management.
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UNSA Geto was founded in 1999 as an association of artists who revolted against the post war repression in their society, gathering musicians and artists until 2009 when they noticed that activists were joining them. We began working on being a bridge between art and activism, using art as a method for democratizing society.
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The “Tačka komunikacije” (Communication Point) association was founded in 2011 by a group of cultural management professionals and cultural theorists. Our activities focus primarily on themes of cultural heritage and cultural tourism. By making use of new media tools we continue to work on collecting, archiving, presenting and promoting the heritage of local communities.
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Termokiss is a community-run center in Pristina with the mission of urban and civil exchange, reflection and change-making. After revitalizing an abandoned and forgotten building, “Termokiss” social center is open to a range of activities, which can be linked only by being non-for-profit and educational. The space works to promote the ideas of mutual aid and cooperation.
TULLA Cultural Center’s activities are based on the institution’s mission to combine social activism with art and culture as an efficient form of creating higher social cohesion by providing marginalized groups with access to the arts, culture and new technologies. The structure is implemented through an annual program of exhibitions, live music performances, festivals, theatre shows and conferences.
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The Ground Tour promotes traveling as a critical practice in order to create spaces of encounter that transgress the borders of nationalism. We are a transdisciplinary collective from different parts of Europe with the desire to connect those who want to reflect and react upon the current conditions of global mobility, and propel new collaborations with them through artistic strategies and applied research methods.
Some Call Us Balkans, Organisations map, illustration by Enrico Tomassini, CC BY-SA 4.0

Some call us Balkans includes a series of activities resulting in the co-creation of a mobile forum traveling across the Balkans, opening spaces of encounter and imagination that transgress borders and nationalisms.

 

People

Some call us Balkans includes a series of activities resulting in the co-creation of a mobile forum traveling across the Balkans, opening spaces of encounter and imagination that transgress borders and nationalisms.

 

Aferdite Shani, ICSE&Co.
Viola Gaba, ICSE&Co.
Miodrag Kuč, ZK/U
Dennis Lindenau, ZK/U
Mariana Ziku, Biennale of Western Balkans
Elli Leventaki, Biennale of Western Baskans
Katerina Zachou, Biennale of Western Balkans
Klelija Zivkovic, Sociopatch
Klementina Ristovska, Sociopatch
Hana Milenkovska, Sociopatch
Vesna Malesevic, Unsa Geto
Lidija Drakulic, Unsa Geto
Virdzinija Djekovic, Tačka komunikacije
Andrija Stojanović, Tačka komunikacije
Alban Nimani, Tulla Cultural Center
Dafina Beqiri, Tulla Cultural Center
Miranda Mehmeti, Termokiss
Enrico Tomassini, The Ground Tour
Milly Reid, The Ground Tour
Some Call Us Balkans, Epirus, Zagori 2022, photograph by Tamara de la Fuente, CC BY-SA 4.0
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