PAC Multimedia Projects - Art and Community

The project is based on Street animation as a tool for social inclusion for young people, active citizenship and participation in society. Attractive animation methods are friendly and effective approach to the youth. In South East Europe this kind of work is practically unknown, so the objective is for participants to use and multiply skills and knowledge in their countries beside using and implementing methods in their daily work and activities.

Young people and youth leaders or youth workers will learn together. The circle of four youth exchanges in four different cities in South East Europe will give to young people from the region opportunities to erase the prejudices, stereotypes and xenophobic emotions to each other and by doing together, building the bridges.

Every exchange, in the form of training, especially for the youth workers, will be impressive event in every town. Big and active group of youngsters from the different countries in the region will be the best promotion of the youth activity on local level for the whole local community and at the same time also encouragement and example how people from different countries can work together.

1st phase: Operation Front, Bitola, Republic of Macedonia, 19-27/07/06, implemented by PAC Multimedia

How do we approach new places, cultures and people? Are we rootless? How do we connect? Meet? How can place become our own home? And can we then tag it to ourselves? To say: I belong here and this is my voice?
In TAG your place! –workshop, participants explore a new place in the city of Bitola. They meet people in these places, study the history and stories related to a location. By doing this, they can learn to see people and locations from different point of view and maybe learn something new about them. The question is how can we take over our own environment?
The participants tag the place by exploring it with their own point of view using still or video cameras. They compose a piece of art which can be a web site or site specific work. All the groups leave a tag, a symbol to the location they’ve been working in. The symbol represents their voice and opinion. The idea of the power of networking and using Internet as a medium is presented in the workshop.

Participants research, design, and produce interventionist performance projects that address critical social, political, or personal issues or situations in diverse sites of “real” life. Projects could be produced and distributed in diverse locations in and around Bitola, internationally, or by virtual media. Participants are encouraged to work in teams on all aspects of production while learning how to organize site-specific and multidisciplinary projects that can include elements of surprise, improvisation, and audience participation. All forms of appropriate (tactical) media are encouraged, including performance, street actions, sound, text, installation, tableaux vivant, video, graphics.

This workshop combines the practices of video production and sculpture in an interdisciplinary studio. Participants work collaboratively and independently on a mutual project. Sculpture is used for construction of video spaces, while concepts of video installation are presented as models for spatial intervention and the sculptural uses of video. Installation art exists in acknowledgement of the worlds, both geographic and historical, in which it resides and to which it refers. This workshop offers a focused exploration of the social quality of this discipline. All works will be sited in different venues around Bitola, to encourage substantial development.

The concept of sound as a material with basic structural properties that may be manipulated is introduced in this workshop. Participants explore methods of composition, using various sound materials in assigned projects. How sound propagates from materials and shapes is explored. Students build instruments initially from readily available materials of the instructor’s choosing (mainly from recycled materials). The form final project take is chosen by students and may include performing instruments, sound sculptures, simple acoustic devices, etc.

2nd phase: Creativity Encourages Active Participation, Ptuj, Slovenia, 26/08-03/09/06, implemented by Drustvo za muselno rekreacijo Povod

3rd phase: YETIS: Altercity. Youth Experiment in Theatrical Interaction on Street, Novi Sad, Serbia, 30/06-07/07/07, implemented by Loesje

4th phase: Creativity Encourages Active articipation, Varazdin, Croatia, 12-20/08/07, implemented by Gajba