Skopje, North Macedonia
The narrator hits the road with a vague goal of arriving at myths of the contemporary Balkans by driving along with truck drivers’ experience of their Balkanness as relayed in their own gripping stories.
Locality
The roads linking the Balkans and the West
Keywords
beauty, labour, encounter, balkaning, communitization
Mode of travelling
By truck
Researchers
Dragan Teodosiev, Hana Milenkovska, Klelija Zivkovic, Klementina Ristovska, Simeon Angelovski
Partner
SocioPatch
Tirana, Albania
The project tries to trace ancient traditions and systems of knowledge in order to bring forth the memory of a different understanding of the land, toponyms, ownership, and property.
Locality
Mountainous regions of Kelmend
Keywords
seasons, rocks, humor, long walks, survival
Mode of travelling
Tracing environmentally damaging behaviors and locations
Researchers
Bora Baboçi in collaboration with Stella Karafili
Partner
Tulla Cultural Center
Ioannina, Greece
Passing Lines discusses the perception of community, coexistence, and borders, inspired by the passing of Albanian groups of refugees through the Greek mountain borders and their chance encounters with Greek mountaineers.
Locality
Mountainous passages
Keywords
assembly, coexistence, community, mountain pass, moving lines
Mode of travelling
Crossing borders
Researcher
Rika Krithara
Partner
Biennale of Western Balkans
Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
I am on the bank of the Una River, in the National Park while cutting old c.d.s that I use in my artwork. I've been doing something like this for about 15 years, figuring out how to make waste a medium for artistic expression.
Locality
Landfills and rivers
Keywords
environment, waste, (un)consciousness, art, transformation
Mode of travelling
Tracing environmentally damaging behaviors
Researcher
Djurdjica Bjelosevic
Partner
UNSA Geto
Pristina, Kosovo
The pigeon’s whirl around each other in the sky, Pllumaxhit (Pigeon fanciers) look all up - spine straight. Some with a hand on their forehead to avoid the sunset’s sun.
Locality
Villages, Fields: the Sky
Keywords
pigeons, travelling, mobility, pigeon keepers
Mode of travelling
Flying: Going where we are not accustomed to go
Researcher
Shpat Shkodra
Partner
Termokiss
Belgrade, Serbia
Taming the Wild addresses the widespread extra-legal building practice, a spatial phenomenon widely spread across Belgrade and the Balkans. It occurs in the grey zone of planning and construction, somewhere between legal and illegal, formal and informal, and everywhere across the region.
Locality
Urban
Keywords
Extra-legal, urban planning, layers, state-driven, perspectives
Mode of travelling
Urban exploration
Researcher
Ljubica Slavković
Partner
Tačka komunikacije