Zoran Poposki, Portrait of the Artist as a Cultural Worker, 2010, single channel video, stereo, documentation of performance art, DVD, 24:00 minutes.
Straight from artist Zoran Poposki's living room, and co-produced by curator Goranco Gjorgievski, comes the performance in urban public space in Skopje entitled Portrait of the Artist as a Cultural Worker. In this performative tryptich (composed of the performances "Thesis", "Sweet Movie", and "Working Class Hero"), Poposki reflects on his artistic practice, thus far focused almost exclusively on public space as a place for representation and discursive action.
Collections:
Videotage Media Art Collection, Hong Kong.
Screenings:
Both Sides Now III: Final Frontiers, Minsheng Art Museum Beijing and Ray Art Centre Shanghai, China (curated by Isaac Leung/Videotage and Jamie Wyld/videoclub).
5th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Woolloomooloo/Moonshiner, Taipei, Taiwan (as part of Both Sides Now III: Final Frontiers).
Osmosis Audiovisual Media Festival 2016, Taipei and Kaohsiung, Taiwan (as part of Both Sides Now III: Final Frontiers).
Both Sides Now III: Final Frontiers, SongEun ArtSpace, Seoul, South Korea (curated by Isaac Leung/Videotage and Jamie Wyld/videoclub).
Both Sides Now III: Final Frontiers, British Council Hong Kong, Oi! (Oil Street Art Space) and Boom Art Gallery, Hong Kong (curated by Isaac Leung/Videotage and Jamie Wyld/videoclub).
Both Sides Now III: Final Frontiers, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Exeter Phoenix and Phoenix Cinem, Fabrica Brighton and Art Centre Leicester, UK (curated by Isaac Leung and Jamie Wyld).
Net/Rrjet 6, 2014, Art Gallery, Faculty of Art, University of Prishtina, Kosovo.
NOT Festival 2012, Dansehallerne, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Not so Distant Memory, 2011, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington DE, USA (curated by Bosko Boskovic).
CYBERFEST 11 International Cyber Art Festival, 2011, Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Center, St. Petersburg, Russia (curated by Bosko Boskovic).
9 Art Stays Festival of Contemporary Art 2011, Ptuj, Slovenia (curated by Jernej Fabrici and Marika Vicari).
Brief Histories, 2011, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (curated by Fawz Cabra and Isak Berbic).
Curatorial Workshop: Goranco Gjorgievski, 2010, City Art Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Spaces In-between, 2010, ConcentArt, Berlin, Germany.
Publications:
Todorova, Poposki. "Public memory in post-conflict Skopje: Civic art as resistance to narratives of ethnicity and disintegration." Cities of Memory: Post-Conflict Performance, Art and Visual Culture, edited by Marc Phelan and Des O’Rawe, 2016, Poposki Zoran, Todorova Marija. “Public Memory and Civic Art.” In Cities of Memory: Post-Conflict Performance, Art and Visual Culture, edited by Marc Phelan and Des O’Rawe, London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016.
Poposki, Zoran. "The Right to the City: Reclaiming the Urban Landscape by Art and Activism." Nyhedsvisen: Public Interfaces, Vol. I., no. 1, edited by Christian Ulrik Andersen, Geoff Cox and Jacob Lund, March 2011, Poposki, Zoran. “The Right to the City: Reclaiming the Urban Landscape by Art and Activism”, in Nyhedsvisen: Public Interfaces, Vol. I., no. 1, edited by Christian Ulrik Andersen, Geoff Cox and Jacob Lund, 6-7. Aarhus: Digital Aesthetics Research Center and Center for Digital Urban Living, Aarhus University, March 2011. ISBN: 87-91810-18-3 / EAN 9788791810183.
"Portrait of the Artist as a Cultural Worker." Submit Magazine, 2011, Poposki, Zoran. “Portrait of the Artist as a Cultural Worker”, Submit Magazine, IV, Spring 2011, 12-13.
Poposki, Zoran. "Spaces of Democracy: Art, Politics, and Artivism in the Post-Socialist City." Studia Politica: Art and Politics in (Post)communism, 2011, Poposki, Zoran. “Spaces of Democracy: Art, Politics, and Artivism in the Post-Socialist City”, in Studia Politica: Art and Politics in (Post)communism, Vol. XI., no. 4, edited by Caterina Preda, 713-723. Bucharest: Department of Political Science, Institute for Political Research, University of Bucharest, 2011. ISSN: 1582-4551 / EAN 9771582120004.
Vilic, Nebojsa. "Bojan Ivanov, Zoran Poposki, Mira Gacina and Zaneta Vangeli." From Consideration to Commitment: art in critical confrontation to society: Belgrade, Ljubljana, Skopje, Zagreb 1990-2010, edited by Jasna Jaksic et al., 2011, Vilic, Nebojsa, Bojan Ivanov, Zoran Poposki, Mira Gacina and Zaneta Vangeli. “Bojan Ivanov, Zoran Poposki, Mira Gacina and Zaneta Vangeli”, in From Consideration to Commitment: art in critical confrontation to society: Belgrade, Ljubljana, Skopje, Zagreb 1990-2010, edited by Jasna Jaksic et al., 566-608, Beograd: Seecult.org, Skopje: Forum Skopje, Ljubljana: Center for Contemporary Arts SCCA, Zagreb: Kurziv - Platform for Matters of Culture, Media and Society, 2011. ISBN: 978-86-914525-0-6.
Vilic, Nebojsa. "Razgovori so Bojan Ivanov, Zoran Poposki, Mira Gakina i Zaneta Vangeli." Kriticka umetnost, 2011, Vilic, Nebojsa, Bojan Ivanov, Zoran Poposki, Mira Gacina and Zaneta Vangeli. "Razgovori so Bojan Ivanov, Zoran Poposki, Mira Gakina i Zaneta Vangeli," in Vilic, Nebojsa. Kriticka umetnost. Skopje: 359, 2010, p.37-101. ISBN: 9989-912-16-5.