Captured State: New Art from Macedonia. [Exhibition]
- Submitting institution
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Robert Gordon University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Blackwood_2
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Edinburgh
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
- October
- Year of first exhibition
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Captured State was commissioned by Summerhall, Edinburgh, in the summer of 2016, with a budget of £10,000 made available to realise the exhibition and
associated publication.
Captured State brought together six artists from the Republic of Macedonia, as it was then, to exhibit in Scotland for the first time. Contemporary art from Macedonia had not enjoyed a high profile since the late 1970s when former director of the museum of Contemporary Art Sonia Abadzieva curated an exhibition in Bradford.
In this exhibition, the artists chosen, through their work in installation, video, and performance, addressed some of the key questions concerning artists across Europe at the present time, and also those that have a provocative relevance in Scottish culture and politics. It built upon Jon Blackwood’s research in the country in the last decade, and also stood in the tradition of Richard Demarco’s investigations of contemporary art in former Yugoslavia during 1972-76.
The artists were invited following the lengthy process of research that went into Blackwood’s 2016 book Critical Art in Contemporary Macedonia. The exhibition
featured video, installation and a specially commissioned performance by Ephemerki.
In addressing concerns of the role of the artist, the ownership of public space and the power of a public commons, and in investigating issues of biography, domesticity and contemporary philosophy, these were artists addressing themes of a European significance.
A full colour catalogue featuring essays by Jon Blackwood, curator, and Bojan Ivanov, director, mala galerija, Skopje, accompanied the exhibition.
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- Non-English
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