Future Analog: Materiality, Memory, and Archiving

Future Analog: Materiality, Memory, and Archiving

19.12.2024, godz. 18:00

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Yane Calovski’s artist talk delves into the role of artistic research, conceptuality, and materialization in shaping visual and discursive practices. Through the ongoing projects Schöning Revisited: Extensions, Chroma, Inflections (2022–ongoing) and Undisciplined Construction of an Archive: Skopje’s Unfinished Utopia (2008–ongoing), the lecture examines how memory and materiality influence archives as dynamic entities. Calovski’s work is visual, research-based, and interdisciplinary, questioning and linking existing, inconclusive modernist narratives to stimulate new critical imaginations. In this talk, Calovski explores how narratives, as evocations, can reactivate criticality and provoke new ways of understanding. Viewing his works as proposals, he reflects on his nonlinear methodology, which involves assembling found materials from various archives to question how history is practised, produced, and consumed. Through sculpting, drawing, and writing, Calovski processes information to create open-ended works that balance personal and political dimensions. He discusses how his creative decisions—shaped by site-specificity, materiality, and conceptual flexibility—result in works that respond to complex realities while remaining emotionally resonant and contextually grounded.

Yane Calovski „Floor/Ghost”, 2024; installation; courtesy the artist and Zilberman Gallery.