Land-print project II, Small Lake, Pelister National Park, el. 2180m. Macedonia

Site-specific performance

lithograph on silk chiffon

Guides to the lake: Blagoja Lazarevski and Mile DImitrovski

Courtesy of the artist

Published by: Makedonska kniga, Skopje

Author of the catalogue text “Walking along the edge of Invisibility”: Dr Suzana Milevska

Soros Center for Contemporary Arts- Skopje, Macedonia

The Land Print Projects include the site-specific works: Small Lake, Pelister (1994), I and the eye (1996) and Salt (2018). All three projects took place at the glacial lake Small lake, Pelister, Republic of Macedonia (altitude of 2,180m). The term land print has been coined to represent the connection between the artist’s printmaking and site-specific land work. It addresses the theme of topology of the sublime through the use of video work, photographs and objects. The Land Print Projects are ephemeral in nature, including interventions with various objects and materials in and around the lake. The interconnectedness of objects sourced from different cultural and historic sites and times, in relation to the self and the lake, represents the core idea of the Land-print Projects.

Land-Print Project I, Small Lake, Pelister National Park (el. 2180m.) Macedonia

Site specific performance including a mirror, 4 glass ball object, 3 circular zinc plates and the bottle with blue pigment. "The first phase, observing of her own image in the mirror, in which simultaneously, peers out the reflection of the lake, is necessary for the identification of the limits of her own body. Like in the “mirror stage”, well known from the psychoanalytical discourse (Lacan, Kristeva) in which the subject identifies oneself only through the fragmentation of “self’ and “other”, (the own reflection in the mirror), Capovska locates her own identity out of the boundaries of her own body-in her own reflection but, at the same time, in the reflection of the lake on the same surface of the mirror” (Milevska 1994).

Object: mirror

Author of the project and video: Violeta Capovska

Published by: Museum of the City Of Skopje, Macedonia

Curator of the project and author of the lecture; The Small Lake: Topography of the Exemplification of the Sublime: Dr Suzana Milevska

Photography and video camera: Robert Jankuloski

Guides to the lake: Zlatko Sterjov and Simeon Girovski

Sponsor: Soros Center for Contemporary Arts- Skopje, Macedonia

Land-Print Project I, Small Lake, Pelister National Park el. 2280m. Macedonia

Site-specific performance

Object: bottle with blue pigment

Published by: Museum of the City of Skopje, Macedonia

Sponsor: Soros Center for Contemporary Arts- Skopje, Macedonia

The first project Land Print Project (1994) is concerened with the theme of location of identity and the ecological integrity of the lake. It draws on the cultural theory of identity, self and nature.

Land - Print Project II, Pelister National Park

desert sand, snow

site-specific performance

Courtesy of the artist

Land-print project II, Small Lake, Pelister National Park, el. 2280m. Macedonia

Site-specific performance

Object: glass

Author of the catalogue text “Walking along the edge of Invisibility”: Dr Suzana Milevska

Published by: Makedonska kniga, Skopje

Sponsor: Soros Center for Contemporary Arts- Skopje, Macedonia

Guides to the lake: Blagoja Lazarevski and Mile DImitrovski

The second project I and the eye (1996), continues to engage with the aesthetics of the sublime, exploring the philosophical consequences of the metaphorical and rational concepts of the nature. The project explores the interplay of different meanings (signifiers) between the objects, the lake and the self. The second project considers the scientific and rational view of the lake.

Land Print Project II, Small Lake, Pelister National Park el. 2280m. Macedonia

Site-specific performance

Object: the magnifying glass

Author of the catalogue text “Walking along the edge of Invisibility”: Dr Suzana Milevska

Published by: Makedonska kniga, Skopje

Sponsor: Soros Center for Contemporary Arts- Skopje, Macedonia

Guides to the lake: Blagoja Lazarevski and Mile DImitrovski

Land Print Project III, 2018

salt

site-specific performance

Mixing salt 3 continues Čapovska’s ongoing investigation into location of identity and ecological integrity of the Small lake, Pelister National Park, Macedonia (elevation 2,180m).

Land Print Project III, SALT

paper, site-specific performance

Small Lake, Pelister National Park, Macedonia (elevation 2,180m)

Videography and Photography: Istok Chapovski

Salt, video still 2019

Digital video, sound, colour, duration: 04:31 min

Videography: Istok Chapovski

Music: Gorazd Čapovski

Small Lake, Pelister National Park, Macedonia

(el 2180 m)

The idea of encircling the lake with the line of salt introduces the question of conservation and fragile wish to protect the lake.

The salt is combined from Macedonia and Australia. Australian salt is harvested from a 5-million-year old natural salt lake, situated in the remote regions of Western Australia- ‘Lake Crystal’.

The Macedonian salt is a fine cooking salt, bought at the market in Skopje. It originates from Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The encircling of the lake lasts 20 min but is not fully completed. In the last few metres the artist decides to return to the starting point.

Land Print Project III

Site-specific performance

Small Lake, Pelister National Park, Macedonia (elevation 2,180m)

Photography and Videography: Istok Chapovski

Salt is chosen for its immunity towards decay, as well as its reflectiveness. The central idea to the project is placing salt’s immutability in an unpredictable environment of the lake.