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Cooltzine

  • Oli Gots-Wooding
  • Amy Jackson
  • Roxane Gotz

A one-day simultaneous exhibition + creative conference across several countries Cooltsalon currently operates on three levels: as an exposure platform, a creative network, and an arts and cross-disciplinary events curator. Over the years, Cooltsalon’s mission has grown into giving exposure to individual voices hidden behind the collective city life. These opportunities were presented in various ways – find out more here: https://cooltsalon.com/projects/ THE ‘COOLTZINE’ IDEA Cooltsalon doesn’t own a space, but it produces site-specific projects with many wonderful collectives across the globe. In May 2018 Cooltsalon established a ‘glocal’ ideas exchange model: a one-day simultaneous exhibition, where several cities showcased the same works to different audiences. The works came from submissions to a collaboratively created zine (“Cooltzine”). Each participating city (via a hosting venue) then received the same exhibition assets for presentation and the same zines for distribution, while contributors, hosts and attendees had the opportunity to tune into a live video stream, exploring each other’s venues. We decided to set it up as an annual event, and the second edition in May 2019 expanded to incorporate live video panel discussions between participating cities, supported by Cisco technologies, thus shifting the focus from the co-created zine to the shared experience. Sneak a peek: https://youtu.be/iGQnh2XfBson Some of the venues & participants so far: Leyden Gallery (London), Stour Space (London), be’kech anti-café (Berlin), Kvaka 22 (Belgrade), Papergirl Galerija Hub (Belgrade), Cush.Bar (Sofia), MOVE.BG (Sofia), Russell Martin, Artquest (London), Nia Pushkarova, Water Tower Art Fest/Residency (Sofia), Iva Čukić, urban planner & co-founder of the Ministarstvo prostora (Collective Ministry of Space) NGO, of Street Gallery (Belgrade), etc. When talking about ‘Cooltzine’, we refer to both the one-day event, taking place simultaneously across several cities and time zones, and the collaborative zine, associated with the event.

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