Aplikoni për “Libri si Vepër Arti”

StoryLab ju fton të aplikoni për këtë seri 6-javore punëtorish dhe ligjëratash që përqëndrohen në krijimin e librave të artit dhe zinave/revistëzave. Me përfundimin e këtij programi në nivel universitar, pjesëmarrësit do të kenë përfunduar të paktën një zinë apo libër arti për tu botuar në bashkëpunim me StoryLab.

Pavarësisht avancimeve teknologjike, libri mbetet një nga mediumet akoma të patejkaluara për përçimin e informacionit. Kështuqë, punëtoritë do fokusohen në eksplorimin e origjinës së librave të artit dhe evolimin e tyre përgjatë viteve. Gjithashtu, do të përfshihen tema tjera si e ardhmja e librit, kombinimin e mediave analoge me ato digjitale, përdorimi i fotografisë dhe ilustrimeve, eksperimente të ndryshme me forma hibride tekst-imazh, botimi nën buxhet dhe mjete të kufizuara, botimi si përpjekje shoqërore e komunitare, etj.

Secili pjesëmarrës do të konceptualizojë, përpunojë, dhe përfundojë një punim të gatshëm për botim, që mund të ketë formën e një libër arti, zinës, katalogut, apo çfarëdo eksperimenti tjetër në botim. Teknikat krijuese do të shkojnë përtej shtypit e punimeve digjitale dhe mund të përfshijnë edhe vepra të artit konceptual.

Koha dhe vendi

Programi 6-javor do të përfshijë punëtori, ligjërata, diskutime në grup, sesione pune, vizita studimore, etj.

Programi do të mbahet fizikisht në Prishtinë, tek hapësira e StoryLab. Për lehtësi të pjesëmarrësve tanë ndërkombëtarë, do të ofrojmë gjithashtu mundësinë për t’i ndjekur punëtoritë online.

Programi pritet të fillojë në fund të shtatorit 2025 dhe të përfundojë në fillim të nentorit 2025.

Formati

Punëtoria do të drejtohet nga Artrit Bytyçi, M.F.A. në Shkrim Kreativ nga The New School në New York City, i cili do të përdorë përvojën e tij të punës në industrinë e librave të artit në New York. Programi, gjithashtu, është i ndërtuar dhe zgjeruar mbi si përvojën e klasës për libra arti dhe zina që Artrit Bytyçi përgjatë 7 viteve e ka zhvilluar për dhe ligjëruar në mjedis universitar në Kosovë.

Programi do të ketë ligjërues mysafirë me përvojë në krijimin dhe botimin e librave të artit e zinave, proçeset redaktuese, fotografi, dizajn, art konceptual, etj.

Programi përmbanë gjithsejt 12 sesione, me rreth 8-10 pjesëmarrës, dhe do të mbahet dy herë në javë.

Aplikimi

Ky program është falas për pjesëmarrësit.

Ju lutemi sigurohuni që të aplikoni përpara afatit: 5 shtator 2025.

Klikoni këtu për të plotësuar Aplikimin.

Nëse keni ndonjë pyetje, ju lutemi na shkruani në info@storylab.al.

Ky program u mundësua me mbështetjen e Ministrisë së Kulturës, Rinisë dhe Sportit të Republikës së Kosovës.

Apply to Book as an Artwork

StoryLab invites you to apply for a 6-week series of workshops and lectures that focus on creating zines and artbooks. By the end of this university-level course, participants will have completed a zine or an artbook ready for publication with StoryLab.

Despite the latest technological advances, the physical book remains an unsurpassed content delivery method over many other media forms. Therefore, the program will focus on exploring the origin of artbooks and their evolution throughout the years. Other topics will include the future of the physical book as a medium, linking analogue with digital media, uses of photography and illustration, various experiments with hybrid text-image forms, publishing and printing with technological and budgetary constraints, as well as publishing as a societal and communal endeavor.

Each participant will conceptualize, develop and finalize a work for publication, which could be in a variety of genres/types such as artist books, zines, catalogues and artbooks, experiments in publication. The creation methods will include both analogue methods and/or digital tools, and the created works will go beyond printed publications and digital media formats and might even incude conceptual art pieces.   

Time and Place

This 6-week program will feature workshops, lectures, group discussions, work sessions, study visits etc.

The program will be held in person in Prishtina, at StoryLab space. For the convenience of our international participants, we will also provide an option to follow the workshops online.

The program is expected to start in late September 2025 and end in early-November 2025.

Format

Workshop sessions will be led by Artrit Bytyçi, M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the New School in New York City, who will utilize their experience gained while working in artbooks industry in NYC. The program also builds upon and expands on an artbook and zine course Artrit Bytyçi developed and taught for 7 years at one of the local universities in Kosovo.

The program will also feature guest lecturers who have experience in artbook and zine publication, the editorial process, photography, design, publication, conceptual art etc.

The program will span 12 sessions in total, with around 8-10 participants, and will be held twice a week.

Application:

This program is free for participants.

Please make sure you apply before our deadline: 5 September 2025.

Click here to fill in the Application.

If you have any questions, please write to us at info@storylab.al.

This program is made possible with the generous support of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Republic of Kosovo.

Walking the Gendered (in)Visibilities of Resistance in Prishtina Kosovo

Join us for a 5-day workshop in Prishtina to examine walkability as a lens and method for exploring memory, trauma, and gendered experiences in a post-conflict city.

Through embodied practices, we will uncover hidden narratives, alternative memories, and everyday experiences shaped by past violence, resistance and ongoing reconfigurations of who has the right to claim the city—and whose history and memory count—rendering various stories and footpaths (in)visible.

We invite students, researchers, practitioners, and activists from fields such as social sciences, humanities, architecture, urban studies, geography, and more to collaboratively experiment with interdisciplinary research methods and creative mapping.

The workshop offers a shared space to develop an inclusive, durable, and embodied research framework for an in-depth exploration of walkability through the intersections of gender, space, memory, history, agency and trauma, within the dynamic center of Prishtina.

For more information and the application visit this link.

KSci-Fi Video Klub

We are delighted to present Ksci-Fi Video Klub, a series of sci-fi movie screenings. We are starting off with Blade Runner (1982) directed by Ridley Scott.

Join us at StoryLab space on Saturday, 14th of June 2025 at 18:00.

Let’s join detective Deckard in this quintessential cyberpunk feature in his quest to find and exterminate a group of replicants, as we explore issues of artificial intelligence, identity, and what truly makes us human.

#movienight #film #cyberpunk #scifi #prishtina

Print Bazaar 2025

Moments from Sunday’s Print Bazaar 2025

Thank you to everyone who joined in on the fun.

StoryLab is so happy to be part of the neighborhood.

A special thank you to @42futur for organizing such an amazing event!

Can’t wait to see you all for the next edition! 😊

Soft Opening of StoryLab Space

A big thank you to all who came to the soft opening of StoryLab Space. We hope you had as wonderful a time as we did.

The space is now open so don’t hesitate to come grab a coffee and spend time in our cozy corner or maybe grab a book from our library collection.

Visit us soon and browse through our local books and zines and perhaps purchase something that catches your eye.

Make sure to check out our merch stand where upcoming and established fashion artists showcase and sell their works.

See you all soon, whether you use StoryLab as a coworking space, stop by to grab drinks with friends, or explore our curated selection of local and regional zines and artbooks.

Photo credits: Jetmir Idrizi. © All rights reserved. 2025.

Memory Jam Session 4

During Memory Jam’s session 4 with Mishka Henner, Antony Hall, and  Artrit Bytyçi, we continued workshopping participants’ artworks which included videos, sound art, images, illustrations, 3D models, text, etc.

After feedback from peers and mentors, we brainstormed novel and unconventional ways to represent and integrate digital art contributions into the printed zine. We narrowed down three main ideas.

We ultimately decided on the idea that involved the creation of a map-sized printed zine illustrated to look like chips and circuits on an electronic board with merged architecture of Manchester and Prishtina. We then discussed best ways to integrate it with Augmented Reality.

This project was made possible with support from the British Council.

Special thanks to Fondacioni 17 for lending us the space at Rezidenca17.

Memory Jam Session 3

During Memory Jam’s third session with  Antony Hall and Artrit Bytyçi participants worked on their ideas, concepts, and artworks.

Several works in progress were presented and received feedback from peers and mentors. More importantly, these works sparked new ideas, discussions, and possibilities through a process we like to call “crosspollination”.

We also followed up on our previously assigned networking activity. Young professionals from Kosovo and UK independently met with their peers virtually to work on joint assignments, collaborate on the upcoming zine project, and create connections for future collaborations. 

Antony presented a prototype of the digital exhibition and showcased how participants’ digital artworks could be overlayed into the real world through augmented reality (AR).

This project was made possible with support from the British Council.

Special thanks to Sekhment Institute for lending us the space at Sekhment Project Space.

Memory Jam Session 2

The second session of Memory Jam was led by Mishka Henner and Antony Hall.

Mishka presented a short history of artist books. We began by ridding our minds about what a book could be. From a book as sculpture, furniture, conceptual art, printed matter, digital data, and all the way to a commentary on how we consume culture.

These seminal works were used as references and a starting point for the creation of Memory Jam’s own publication which seeks to integrate the physical (printed zine) and the virtual (digital artworks).

After an activity where we brainstormed in smaller groups, we brought ideas that could be applied for our zine project to a larger discussion. We explored concepts of memory and how it relates to time, memory loss, disintegration, instability, disappearance, distortion, destruction, connection, interconnection, etc.

During Antony’s workshop we experimented with augmented reality and placement of 3D virtual objects (that we had previously scanned) into the real world.

This project was made possible with support from the British Council.

Special thanks to Fondacioni 17 for lending us the space at Rezidenca17.

Memory Jam Session 1

We kicked off our first session with lectures, presentations, activities, and workshops with Audrey Albert and Antony Hall. Two groups met IRL in Prishtina and Manchester simultaneously, and communicated virtually via online teleconference link.

Audrey presented a series of her works that linked physical objects to memory, especially how they relate to Chagossian and Mauritian cultures. They focused on the practice of storytelling through objects as well as exploring food memories as a different way of telling stories, especially among the diaspora, who often know home only in memories (and how cooking often becomes an act of resistance).

For the first session, each participant was asked to bring a physical object that is significant to them, and during the class exercise led by Audrey, they worked on a response about how it relates to memory.

Antony led a workshop in which the participants 3D scanned their object with various apps that used photogrammetry and/or LIDAR scanning.  

This project was made possible with support from the British Council.

Special thanks to Fondacioni 17 for lending us the space at Rezidenca17.