During our fifth session of “Book as an Artwork” workshop we welcomed Ferdi Limani with his lecture on “Storytelling through photography”.

We discussed how to communicate important social issues to the public through photography and how by mastering the frame we guide the eye of the audience.

We learned good practices in photography by exploring Ferdi’s beginner mistakes and evolution of his style towards simplicity, as well as the importance of learning from mistakes.

We explored the strength that comes from limitations (either in equipment or environment), how to take photos with respect for the people/subjects, as well as the importance of taking your time to take a picture.

Ferdi Limani is an independent photographer, who works with Getty Images. He studied journalism and with local and international media in news and documentary projects.

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

Ksci-Fi Video Klub comes back with a Halloween Special, with the screening of The Thing (1982) directed by John Carpenter.

Come by the StoryLab space on Friday, 31st of October 2025, at 18:00.

What better way to deal with chilling weather than with this seminal science fiction horror set in Antarctica. Feel the solitary chills at the back of your neck from vast snowy expanses and all the way to claustrophobic corridors of research stations.

#scifi #horrorfilm #Halloween

During our fourth session of “Book as an Artwork” workshop we welcomed Fatmir Mustafa Karllo with his lecture performance titled “Book of ideas”.

Karllo discussed how we complement each other as a group during the process of co-creation, as well as the role of instinct, improvisation, and spontaneity in the creative process.

Karllo also focused on the importance that the process of transformation plays in creating artworks, and made us think about impossible books: how to create an invisible book; what if we create a book that no one reads; a book that is present only at certain times; a book that is only one copy; a book that deletes itself.

During the workshop we collaborated with Karllo to create a book in the form of conceptual artwork.

Fatmir Mustafa Karllo graduated from the University of Prishtina, Faculty of Arts in the Department of Painting. From 2009 until 2018 he lived in Finland, where he also finished his master’s degree in the Department of Sculpture in the University of Arts “Kuvataideakatemia” in Helsinki.

In 2007 he won the award for “Artists of Tomorrow” from the National Gallery of Kosova.

His performances, installations and his visual works have been presented in different exhibitions, solo as well as group exhibitions in Prishtina, Helsinki, Brussels, Milano, Zagreb, Skopje, and New York.

He is the initiator of the project “On Top Residency” (2020) on a panoramic hill near the village of Butovc, where he built a “gallery without walls” with a view of Prishtina. He also founded the institute for Art and Culture Epifani in 2022. His personal exhibition “Strange Seed” was showed in the National Gallery of Kosovo in 2003.

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

During our third session of “Book as an Artwork” workshop we looked at several examples of artists’ books. We discussed technologies of mass production and how they affect artworks, especially when compared to classical art

We saw how some art movements used artbook making as a utopian project. We focused on the relationship between form and content, experimentation as a process, and saw some examples of how randomness and permutations were incorporated into different works.

We also saw examples of how new technologies were integrated into artbook projects starting with the early avant garde of the 1900s all the way to some current examples.

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

During our second session of “Book as an Artwork” workshop we discussed history of contemporary art and how it relates to artbooks and zines. The importance of concepts and ideas, social context, use of ready-made objects, intentionality, and transfromation in art were discussed, among others.

We discussed questions like: What is art; Who decides; what is its role in society; value of an artwork; how can we make art more accessible; etc.

In the second part we discussed zines, what makes them a unique art form, and some of the advantages of the medium.

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

During the first session of “Book as an Artwork” workshop we welcomed participants from Kosovo, Albania, Germany, and the United States.

As always, we are super happy to have such a diverse group that includes architects, artists, designers, university professors, writers, game designers, publishers, economists, journalists, multimedia artists, as well as established zines and book artists who constantly enrich our classes with their unique views and discussions.

As StoryLab we are very honored for the opportunity to learn from their diverse experiences and have a chance to cross pollinate ideas.

All of the participants shared their great ideas and concepts for their upcoming zines and artbooks, and artworks and books relevant to their projects were recommended.

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