Publication | Persistent Traces from Heritage to Come | as part of European project Collective Domain of Cultural Memory (CDCM) |  Published by Suns and Stars, Amsterdam, Netherlands | 20 May, 2020

Printed before completing the project Collective Domain of Cultural Memory (CDCM) the book “Persistent Traces from Heritage to Come” is not a conclusion. Instead, it is a trajectory, a dendritic trail through the artistic practices and methods that were involved in the process of its becoming.

"Persistent Traces from Heritage to Come" presents the unsettled ideas and explorations of the founders and curators of Press to Exit Project Space: Yane Calovski, Loose Associations: Natasa Bodrozic, and Suns & Stars: Marjoca de Greef and Anastasija Pandilovska, which arose in the process of the becoming of the CDCM project.

Activities | Yane Calovski and Hristina Ivanoska | Online Symposium In the pause of a gesture there might be an echo organised by Suns & Stars, Amsterdam |  European project Collective Domain of Cultural Memory (CDCM) | 1-3 May, 2020

The three-day symposium which was due to take place from May 1 to May 3, 2020, would have examined artistic affiliations with heritage in a European context through a lively exchange of all kinds of understandings, perceptions, and experiences. The main feature of our symposium was to be interconnection and cooperation: “to allow for various practices from the cultural domain to touch each other and to move from their own fields of interests.”

Artist in Residence | Hristina Ivanoska  | The spread of a crack is halted by a hole | organised by Suns and Stars as part of European project Collective Domain of Cultural Memory (CDCM) |  Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1 – 15 March, 2020

A model for an exhibition in process

In his book Seeing Dark Things, Roy Sorensen asserts that we see in the dark, we see about as much as we do in plain daylight. The spaces of research entered by Sarah van Lamsweerde, Luiza Margan and Hristina Ivanoska are dark spaces and therefore sanctuaries for objects hiding for light. These vulnerable objects can easily arouse protective feelings, however, their fear of light does not preclude robust potentialities.

The spread of a crack is halted by a hole is part of the artistic processes developed in the social, cultural and physical space of the Oude Kerk by Hristina Ivanoska and Luiza Margan, and of the IWO boekendepot by Sarah van Lamsweerde.

External activity |  Personal Object | Yane Calovski’s exhibition  | Kohta, Helsinki, Finland |  12. 03. 2020 –10. 05. 2020 

Čalovski’s exhibition at Kohta – his first in Finland – contains selected drawings from the last 20 years (displayed on wall-mounted plywood panels as part of the work Closet, 2020) and a new version of the work after which the whole venture is named. Personal Object (2017–18) is a sculptural installation comprising synthetic rubber, metal hooks and cosmetics that belonged to his late mother, Biljana Čalovska. She showed scholarly and artistic promise but discontinued her studies in 1972, dedicating herself to becoming the trusted collaborator of her prominent husband, the late poet and radio journalist Todor Čalovski, and to raising and home-schooling their two children. (Her life choices were not uncommon in 1970s Yugoslavia, although they didn‘t quite conform to the socialist norm of women in the workplace.)