”The Use of Art
Where it's Hard to Talk”
Lead organization:
Refraction Association-Albania
Partners: Konstframjandet Association- Sweden,
Media Artes -FYROM Macedonia, Kosovo Rehabilitation Centre of Trauma-Kosovo
.
Art and culture is seen mostly in targeted countries as a privileged access and a presentation of high thoughts and feelings of artists that have nothing to do with the reality or the society itself, which isolated and devaluated this field. The action will aim to enforce the civil society cultural organizations working with vulnerable people in Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo and Sweden through new partnerships, increased capacity building, transfer of practices and knowledge. Groups that will be targeted are civil society cultural organizations, artists, art students and social sciences students, psycho-social experts in partner countries. Final beneficiaries are young people involved in criminality or violence, young people living in exclusion, dependency, gender inequalities and post-conflict situations.
The “Clothes workshop”, was a part in the project “The Use of Art Where it’s Hard to Talk” by me and artists Lott Alfreds, Helena Byström and Pontus Lindvall. The training activities also consisted of art-theories, presentations, mapping of stakeholders and evaluation of the training program.
Art and culture is seen mostly in targeted countries as a privileged access and a presentation of high thoughts and feelings of artists that have nothing to do with the reality or the society itself, which isolated and devaluated this field. The action will aim to enforce the civil society cultural organizations working with vulnerable people in Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo and Sweden through new partnerships, increased capacity building, transfer of practices and knowledge. Groups that will be targeted are civil society cultural organizations, artists, art students and social sciences students, psycho-social experts in partner countries. Final beneficiaries are young people involved in criminality or violence, young people living in exclusion, dependency, gender inequalities and post-conflict situations.
The “Clothes workshop”, was a part in the project “The Use of Art Where it’s Hard to Talk” by me and artists Lott Alfreds, Helena Byström and Pontus Lindvall. The training activities also consisted of art-theories, presentations, mapping of stakeholders and evaluation of the training program.
“Clothes have in all times been a sign for
class, gender and group belonging. They are a part of ones identity and show
the persona of the individual. Old clothing still remains as a part of a
memory, and it might still tell a story of the past. By working with clothes we
hope to receive different stories and memories connected with the objects. The
workshop is an example of how we can use art in order to make people talk more
freely and reach unpredictable results.”
Workshop in Durres, Albania October 2011. Foto: Helena Byström
Workshop in Ohrid, FYROM Macedonia July 2011. Foto: Nake Batev
Workshop in Pristina, Kosovo July 2011. Foto: Helena Byström
