AKTO
is a regional festival for contemporary arts which includes visual arts, performing arts, music and theory of culture. The main objective of Akto Festival is to open the cultural frameworks of a modern society through "recomposing" and redefining them in a new context.The program of the festival is based on two concepts.
THE FIRST CONCEPT is space/location.
Locations have been transformed in terms of their previous meanings. The basic idea of the festival is art pieces to come out of the standard location (galleries, museums, theatres) used for presenting art, and their setting up in new location.
Re-moving of the pieces into new location transforms the piece itself (according to the parameter space).
THE SECOND CONCEPT is the topic of the festival.
The topic of Akto_6 festival is (Never) Work.
After the first 5-year cycle of the Akto festival starting as of this year's edition of the festival we decided to have topics directly connected to the social context we live in. The topic should be used as a tool to communicate with the context, to provoke, annoy and ask.
It was directly inspired by the Guy Debord's graphite from the 1950's in Paris: Ne travaillez jamais/ NEVER WORK! We intervened into the topic WORK (NEVER) as we would like to estimate the attitude towards work in the current context, things have changed, the attitude towards labour, its material and intellectual value.
More concretely, in the context of Bitola the idea of work makes a lot of sense, not to work is a lifestyle, not working has been transferred from generation to generation in the family which is a very important aspect for the authors dealing in this context.