Duration: 01.10.2008-05.10.2008
Location: Skopje
Participants: 50
Visitors: Visitors Skopje City Park
Number of Events: 6

The project took place in the Skopje City Park from October 1st until October 5th 2008. Every day from 12:00 - 17:00 o'clock except for Saturday (October 4th) Jeanne van Heeswijk had a talk that was broadcasted live on the radio station Channel 103. Public Faculty No. 1 was specially commissioned public project in the framework of the Visiting Curatorial Initiative programme of press to exit project space. This work questions the function of public space in a contemporary city and the notion of the increasing regulations and limitations that imply a disabled form of social interaction.

Public Faculty No. 1 will took place on the recognizable Shkolka (Shell) Stage in the Skopje City Park. During the designated hours, lessons, discussions and workshops where staged. All the activities where open to the public and help to define the local notions of publicness, its presence or non-presence in local, regional and wider European context, and its identity as a site for action and conflict. Shkolka (Shell) Stage functioned as a white board where each day a new specific theme was discussed and lectured about.

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