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Projects current year
Small actions are realized in the different countries of the Swiss Cultural Programme in the Western Balkans (SCP). They are in the responsibility of the SCP local offices and decided upon by local boards consisting of 4 cultural experts and a representative of the local Swiss Cooperation Office (SDC). Short summaries of the projects selected for a small actions grant are listed below:
Small actions Skopje
	Rite-The Lament, musical-ballet performance Multidisciplinary This is a 15 min performance with three participants: singer and two ballet dancers.	Applicant(s) Helene Angelovska, Skopje	Time and place Skopje from: July 2009 till: August 2009	Grant CHF 3,843.00 production costs and fees
	The Lament is an expression of a deep sadness, sorrow, pain, for the lost of a beloved. The participants of the Lament are traditionally female persons; Phaedra, Medea, Ariadne, Dido, these are the mythical heroines of the Lament. Some of the greatest composers found the deepest expression of their art especially in the musical form “Lament”. The two female characters in the performance would function like an ego and an alter-ego, embodying the woman as the mother and the lover, while the male ballet-dancer would embody the man as the defunct husband, the forbidden lover, the cruel stranger who, to thank the girl who helped him, has left her to die in despair on a desert island. It will take place in a small, intimate and empty space, as a “pendant” of the closed space of naked grief and despair. Participants in the performance are: Helene Angelovska - voice, Alexandra Kocovska – ballet dancer, Daniel Agelkovic – ballet dancer, and Gordana Dean Pop-Hristova - choreographer.
	The Ship, a wordless comic strip album Visual Arts The Ship is a comic strip album created on the text by writer Tomislav Osmanli and performed by the comic strip artist Aleksandar Sotirovski.	Applicant(s) Tomislav Osmanli, Skopje	Time and place Skopje from: October 2008 till: September 2009	Grant CHF 5,000.00 part of the production costs and part of the fees
	This comic album is a phantasmagorical negative utopia. The story is taking place in a big centre mall named “The Ship” which slovenly was transformed from a paradise of the customers to their nightmare. The project deals with an innovative idea where the whole story will be presented only through the imaginative, visual language of the comic strip without a textual narration.
	Underground – photographic research project Visual Arts Underground is a photographic research project focused on the activities and the culture of the so-called “garage bands” in Skopje www.ivanblazhev.com	Applicant(s) Ivan Blazev, Skopje	Time and place Skopje from: March 2009 till: September 2009	Grant CHF 1,850.00 production and organizational costs, and the fee
	This is a segment that is rarely presented in the media, but is quite alive and vibrant aspect of the city’s underground social and cultural scene. Although many of the bands will never “make it” on the music scene, it is an interesting social phenomena, serving as a creative energy outlet for many youths in their late teens and early twenties. At the end of the research phase a selection of the collected materials will be exhibited as a documentary photo essay with combination of sound and music.
	On the public table, wall, floor: artistic and curatorial collaborative investigations Visual Arts The project engages a group of young and emerging generation of cultural thinkers and workers interested in contemporary art and curatorial practices. www.cdathouse.org.mk	Applicant(s) Emilija Cockova Centre for drama arts (CDA) T-HOUSE, Skopje	Time and place Skopje (also travel to: Tetovo, Veles, Kumanovo) from: March 2009 till: August 2009	Grant CHF 5,000.00 part of the production costs and part of the fees for the project coordinator and the participants
	Cultural Centre CK envisions this project especially in this moment when there is a decline in the visibility of exhibitions and lack of interest in attendance of contemporary art exhibitions and events. For that purpose in a period of 6 months Cultural Centre CK will offer its premises and human capacities for production and presentations. The investigation will focus on the different potentialities articulating socially, politically, and culturally relevant issues though art, theory, and curatorial practice. The project will then focus on ways to present their findings in a form of exhibitions, newspaper, presentations, public actions, radio programme, etc. The invited participants are: Vladimir Jancevski (art historian, theorist and writer), Dita Starova (artist), Velimir Zernovski (artist and curator), Mira Gakina (art historian and art critic), Tihomir Topuzovski (artist and philosopher), Ivan Ivanovski (artist), Slavco Dimitrov (theorist, activist and feminist), Vardan Tozija (filmmaker).
	Cultural Contrasts Visual Arts Workshop and exhibition on photography in the Municipality of Tearce (rural area in the western part of Macedonia).	Applicant(s) Metin Muaremi Centre for Education and Development, Tearce-Tetovo	Time and place Tearce, Macedonia from: March 2009 till: September 2009	Grant CHF 2,422.00 part of the production and organizational costs and part of the fees
	Photography is the best way to present idea(s) accepted by a larger group of people and the easiest way to communicate with the different communities. The main aim of the project is to present several photography exhibitions in the Tearce region by non-professional photographs. The exhibitions will be a result of a training programme led by professional photographer with a group of 40 young people between 18 and 30, who will be selected through announced open call. The exhibitions should present the different contrasts (cultural, ethnic, social) that exist in the region, and through them the organiser would like to emphasize certain social and cultural issues.
	Theatre outside Theatre Theatre This will be a so-called “silent” performance in a public space that will be directed by young theatre director, Dean Damjanovski.	Applicant(s) Organized: Civic Association for Culture and the Arts "No Name Theatre"; Host: Food-bar "Sopotsko", Skopje	Time and place Skopje from: February 2009 till: October 2009	Grant CHF 4,335.00 director's fee and the fees for the 10 performers
	According to the research of the anthropologist Victor Turner, every community, whether it is a group, sect, tribe or a whole society, develops its own “social dramas”. The performance plays an important role in creating the social relations in the community, as well as in constructing/deconstructing of the symbolical relationships between the community members. The intention of the director with this project is to explore the next phase of the development of the social drama, which returns it again to the community. In the terminology of performance studies, it is called “restoring the past”. The result of this process will be a “silent” performance, performed in a public place. Why silent – because it stands on the verge between the theatre (performativity) and the human social behaviour. The task of the performers will be to conduct small actions that will create a certain “breach” in the structure of the place and divide the members in two groups – participants and observers. The actions of the performers will be slightly uncommon, but not so much that they can be easily described as a “performance”, but rather as an “eccentric” behaviour in a nice kind of way.