DokuTalks

Public Space as Cultural Resistance

Across the world, public spaces are shrinking: commercialized, policed, or politically controlled. Yet they remain vital to strengthen civil society. This DokuTalk explores how communities in Kosova and in the region reclaim public space to resist oppression, preserve memory, and create new futures

Moderated by filmmaker and DokuTalks co-curator Dea Gjinovci, the conversation brings together important voices and practitioners to discussw public space as both a site of memory and a form of cultural resistance.

Veton Nurkollari from DokuFest will reflect on how the festival transformed Prizren itself into a public stage, showing how film became a civic tool to revive cultural life and reclaim common space.

Valentina Bonizzi will share how her participatory art projects turn overlooked spaces into forums of dialogue and belonging.

Rozafa Maliqi will draw on her experiences with public spaces in Prishtina to look at how engaging in challenging conversations and embracing accountability practices in these spaces can lead to change that is driven by the community itself.

Luka Knežević Strika will speak about building collective infrastructures like Magacin in Belgrade, where artists create and collaborate outside market logic.

Venue: Shkolla e Muzikës 'Lorenc Antoni'
Date: Sunday, 3 August
Time: 17:00 hrs