evsCloughjordan - Sara Fakin

Sara Fakin opravlja evropsko prostovoljno službo na Irskem. Vsa njena doživetja lahko spremljate na:

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"And what about April?"

"The day of change"/Dan za spremembe 2014!

In some organisations in Maribor: Saturday 5th April 2014, it was the day of changement.
We went with a colleague and a cameraman to interview those organisations: What are you doing today? What means the changement for you?
We went in a retirement home, people have planted trees in the garden. After, we visited a space where people cleaned to have a best environnememt and we also went in the building to eat a pan-cake :).
About Pekarna Magdalenske mreže, there was also a lot of activities: clean the garden in common with Gustaf to install some furniture outside. Then, we did some seeds balls to throw them in the city. It was cool to discover other part, quarter of Maribor. There was also, seams workshops with clothes recycled, to do bags, news clothes,...
Also, children had workshops for them: making workshops of puppets and toys coming from the goods. It was really a good day, to allow changements and creation of people.

"And what about April?"

In french we said : Avril, ne te découvre pas d'un fill. That could be translated by Stay fully clothed in April. Indeed, in Slovenia, April rhymes with air flow, winter rain and momentary gleams.
We passed our month to work on the exhibition of Laure Ličer at the Galery K18, we also started to work more seriously to work on our EVS project and we travel when we had free time. This month the gallery K18 received the work of an slovenian artist, Laure Ličer, she works on illustrations. The artist paintings are between painting and illustration. The artist presents a world full of imaginary pictures and magical which hide sometimes the harsh reality : the violence of the life and her cruelty. The accumulation of drawing and colour, makes her work hypnotic. Her work arouses as the same time the world of a child who would grown too fast. By using this bright colour, her paintings are also decorative and plastic art work. We work on the establishment of her works in the gallery and we try to make the best possible her works appreciable. We met the artist one day before the opening and she started working on the establishment immediately.
We started to work this month on our own EVS project. We just work on it more seriously, because until now it was just some ideas who needed to be put in form.
We decided to work together and to organize a collective exhibition in the gallery K18. We talked a lot about the subject/thema and about the maniere we would like to work : in collelctif, times for workshop where we could share our experiences around discussions. In one side we have Jade's works, the artist who desire to exhibit her works. And in other side, Clementine the coordinator and curator of the project. She leads the exhibition.
What it taken a lot of time it was the redaction of the call for artist because we didn't know yet for who we will send it. And for us it was the first time that we did this.
Collaborative work is also new for us. We learn to listen each others and we also learn to make compromises. But at the end we work well together and our differences move the project forward. The Open call written, we just need to send it. We are currently in contact with slovenians artists and other eves who want to participate at the exhibition.

EVS avantura Vol. 2-Urška Ženko!

Pomlad in v Gradcu vse drugače.  Mojo strašno arogantno bivšo organizacijo, za katero se je izkazalo, da je zame prijavila lažni projekt, ki ga sploh ne bojo izvajali, sem zamenjala za prijeten in zelo dinamičen Rotor – center za sodobno umetnost. Delam na številnih različnih projektih, ki vključujejo in povezujejo sodobno umetnost s poudarkom na politični in družbeni angažiranosti. Tedne začenjamo z dolgimi pogovori o vsem, kar se dogaja ob kavi in dišečem pecivu, ki gradijo domače in odprto delovno vzdušje. Moji glavni področji trenutno sta priprava na selitev razstave 'Black Sea Calling', ki je rezultat 18 umetnikov v rezidencah v Plovdiv v Bolgariji, kamor potujemo julija, če nam prej seveda uspe pridobiti dovolj sredstev. Drugi projekt pa je 'Nice Places' in vključuje različne mladinske centre na Štajerskem, kjer umetniki in umetnice skupaj z mladimi ustvarjajo na področju, ki zanima mlade in doprinese h kvaliteti njihovega lokalnega prostora ali mladinskega centra, hkrati pa jih seznani z umetniškimi praksami skozi konkretne izkušnje. V juniju odpiramo novo razstavo v naši galeriji, za katero trenutno izbiramo umetnike in njihova dela, vsak mesec pripravimo srečanje s predstavitvami nekaterih graških in rezidenčnih umetnikov, imenovano VorOrt, ta vikend sodelujemo pri programu Dnevi galerij v Gradcu s številnimi dogodki in pri številnih drugih kulturnih dogodkih v Gradcu, ki jim res ni ne konca ne kraja. Za pridobivanje izkušenj v kulturnem polju ne bi mogla biti na boljšem mestu.

 

Nice Places: Sound Truck v Stralleggu z umetnico Marlene Hausegger

Za potrebe mojega socialnega življenja sem si po številnih letih neobstoja v svetu Facebooka morala ustvariti svoj profil. Obstajajo namreč skupine, kjer ljudje (seveda tujci) objavljajo kam grejo pohajkovati ali planinariti, kdaj gredo ven, kje se srečajo v parku in podobno. Nekakšna matica družabnega življenja priseljencev tukaj so Portugalci in Španci, ker so verjetno edini dovolj odprti, da vključijo medse še vse ostale izgubljene ribe v Avstrijskem morju.

Zaradi skrajno mačehovskega odnosa, ki ga ima avstrijska nacionalna agencija do svojih prostovoljcev, bom šele v začetku julija izvedela ali sploh lahko vložimo prošnjo, če lahko ostanem do konca leta, kot je prej trajal moj projekt, ali pa le do konca avgusta, ker ima do takrat ima Rotor prosto mesto zame. Ampak glede na to, kako počasi meljejo ti mlini, nam bo verjetno zmanjkalo časa, še preden bojo sploh odprli kuverto. Ne glede na to, kaj za prostovoljca pomeni projekt – selitev v novo življenje, je namreč za koordinacijske pisarne in nacionalne agencije to le še en papir in ne pokažejo niti trohice razumevanja za to, da me 1. septembra doma pač ne bo čakalo stanovanje s pokrito najemnino in polnim hladilnikom in bi odgovor, do kdaj sem lahko tu, rabila že včeraj.

Evropski mladinski projekti? Še ena veja vseobsegujoče neoliberalistične drže, ki jo vsi z denarjem in močjo lahko gojijo do tistih, ki ne premorejo ne enega, ne drugega.

The EVS Girls!

February

The EVS Girls :

Here I am in Slovenia for my European Voluntary Service. I come from the suburb of Paris and i had finished my studies of Plastic Arts. It means that i am a created person who needs experience in art work.

That is why i choose to come to Maribor in Pekarna Magdalenske mreže Maribor association for my European Voluntary Service. Because they have a gallery of art called K18 where they receive international artists.

Pekarna Magdalenske mreže Maribor propose also others missions for volonteers. That is my state of mind when i leave Paris and my family.


Jade, the artist.

I'm also in Slovenia for an European Voluntary Service experience. I'm a french girl ( from Nantes) who like art, culture and cinema. I studied curatoring, to organize exhibitions in art center, museum.

After more reflexions I decided to come to Slovenia to discover a new culture and new country. At Pekarna Magdalenske mreže Maribor to propose my own events and participate at cultural projects as what I studied in France and to have a new experience in a foreign country.

Clem, the curator.

March

Life, etc...

Two months ago, we arrived in Slovenia at Maribor at Pekarna Magdalenske mreže Mariborfor our European Voluntary Service. We taked time to discover Maribor city and all the possibilities to work in INFOPEKA. The team explained us all the workshops and we were invited to discuss with the others volunteers about their projects. We learned to work with the group of Pekarna Dobis Das and started to know the children. We took photos also for Stopinje Mesta during the walk of the churchs. We assisted at our first Pekarna Potopisti during the meeting about Palestina and thanks it was in English !!

We started this week to work at the gallery K18 with a young slovenian artist. We have helped her to install her work and we participated at the openning. And now we stay every two days to make the permanence of the gallery.

We have many ideas for our own projects and we would like to do an exhibition together at K18. But we have to discuss and make clear our ideas. The best would be that we could invite slovenian artists wich could expose with Jade under a same topic, theme.

During one week, we went outside Maribor for 4 days in Bled for the EVS training. We met new people of different nationalities. Thanks to this training we are able to discover news cities: Bled and also Radovlicja.  These are very beautiful and typical. People were so nice with us, because one day, we had to realize a project with local Slovenian and we discussed with them about their customs and we shared humanity. This training encouraged us to develop our exhibiton project with other EVS volunteers, and to work with them.

To be continued... 

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