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LITKON functions in a rather simple way: Each region/city/town has a
coordination/editor who is in charge of collecting, evaluating and sending
the texts to the LITKON website where they are published. Each coordination
can chooses the texts to be published in print in their region and can
organize the printing. Local coordinations also organize local Physical
Congresses (see below).
ACTIVITIES (web / publishing
/ congresses)
WEB:
Web editions
of LITKON's authors.
A info/message-board
and mailing list (litkon@egroups.com).
PUBLISHING:
Print editions
are organized locally. These publications are a result of virtual (on
the web) and real (at the Physical congresses) communication among all
people involved (in practice that means that this way editors and publishers
in the LITKON network can easily find interesting literary material
- and literary people - from other regions they can then present to
their local communities). What is more, books and other materials published
locally are then distributed among LITKON's coordinations and that way
presented in all regions covered by the LITKON network.
Apart from
local editions, all local coordinations participate in the publishing
of an anthology - a selection of texts by authors previousliy appearing
on LITKON's website.
CONGRESSES
LITKON's Physical Congresses: Physical congresses have several aims.
They are a place for coordinators to meet, get to know each other, plan
and deal with eventual organizational questions. The Congress has also
a promotional function: at each Congress literary performances by LITKON's
authors are organized, and the project and its aims are that way made
visible to the local community and media. At the Congresses LITKON's
publications of all local coordinations are also presented and distributed.
Congress photos & proceedings:
1st Physical Congress (Zagreb)
2nd PC (Sarajevo)
3rd PC (Vis)
5th PC (Vis)
6th PC (Pula)
AIMS
LITKON aims at establishing a permanent network for cultural (especially
literary) exchange in the Balkan region (esp. ex-Yugoslavia), with the
stress on younger cultural activists. This is achieved through the aforementioned
three segments - that way we can most efficiently achieve strong communication:
because we make literary texts from different regions/cities available
to everyone at our website; because we publish and distribute books
by authors from different regions/cities in places where they would
not be presented otherwise; and because we bring authors and coordinators
together at the Physical Congresses in different cities, and that way
directly intervene in the local cultural and social structures. Each
of these segments is in its own way of crucial importance for the achievement
of our overall aim - promotion of intercultural dialogue, cultural tolerance
and cooperation.
HISTORY OF THE CONSORTIUM
LITKON started in the summer of 2000 as a web-based project of the literary
magazine Libra Libera (the magazine is a part of the Autonomous culture
factory - ATTACK in Zagreb). During the past 6 months contacts were
made with A.C.Ambrosia and Alternativni institut (at the organization
level), and about 20 authors from different parts of ex-Yugoslavia were
published at the website. We are proud of the fact that this web cooperation
resulted in the First Physical congress that was held in Zagreb from
24-28th January 2001. All people working together for some time in the
virtual environment have met there for the first time (Igor Banjac from
Ambrosia [Sarajevo], Nedim Cisic, Marko Tomas, Mehmed Begic, Mili Krpo,
Lukasz Szopa from Alternativni institut [Mostar], Snezana Zabic from
Vukovar, Katarina Peovic, Boris Koroman, Sven Cvek from the Autonomous
culture factory [Zagreb]). LITKON was presented to the public at the
26. Salon mladih - we had a literary happening on January 26th where
all the authors read or otherwise presented their work (all of them
for the first time before the Zagreb public). Apart from this happening
(which was very well received), we had our first face-to-face meeting
during which plans and directions for our future actions were laid down
and basic organizational principles were agreed upon.
PARTNERS IN THE LITKON PROJECT
At present four organizations and several individuals take part in the
LITKON network: local coordinations are formed in Mostar (at Alternativni
institut), Sarajevo (A.C. Ambrosia), Skopje (literary journal BLESOK/SHINE),
Kotor (www.cg-ars.org), Kikinda (Severni bunker) and Zagreb (at the
Autonomous culture factory), and we have individual activists in Pula
(Bojan Zizovic, Radenko Vadanjel), Vukovar (Snezana Zabic), Ljubljana
(Ana Ristovic). We are trying to make LITKON function as locally as
possible: that means that local coordinations (or people in different
cities) have complete autonomy in the described general framework of
LITKON's mission. Local coordinations are free to publish books and
organize Congresses in the way they find most suitable for the local
situation. This is a way of decentralizing the project and making it
more efficient through specific realizations of common aims.
LITKON is supported by:
Croatian Ministry of Culture | www.min-kulture.hr
The Citizens' Pact for South-Eastern Europe | www.citizenspact.org
Open Society Institute Croatia | www.soros.hr
Pro Helvetia Beograd | www.prohelvetia.ch
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