The Large Glass No. 27/28, 2019

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje founded in 1964 and opened in 1970, based on the solidarity principle, it was designed as a type of architectural and cultural venue reflecting the socialist promise of a better society. Since its foundation in 1964, MoCA has realized more than one thousand exhibitions included paintings, photography, and sculptures. A significant part of the Museum activity includes also the video programs, performances, lectures, panel discussions, seminars and various other auxiliary actions. In addition, the extension of specific educational programs is intended to bring closer the art to as much as possible interested public.

The Large Glass, journal for contemporary art, culture and theory act as one of the essential mediums of MoCA for the presentation, analysis and discussion of a wide range of current challenges and topics in culture, art and theory. The journal expanded on the initial ambition of the Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) to radiate new ideas and maintain the highest ethical and professional standards, but also signified a new beginning of constant reassessment through criticism and analysis of contemporary art. This commitment to contemporary art and international trends in art and criticism is in line with the original ideals and establishment of the MoCA, as a modern museum fully engaged in dialogue with international authors and with a focus on the ever-changing challenges in the sphere of culture and art.

The new issue of The Large Glass No.27/28 is composed as a kind of collection of works of authors that range across a spectrum moving from humanist approaches to posthumanism (or anti-anthropocentrism), including a range of thematic discussions, artistic projects and essays discussing, contextualizing and criticizing various issues that bring together scholars of cultural studies, art history, politics, geography, philosophy and related disciplines together with artists, allowing for a broad range of insights into the topic both historically and in the contemporary context. The volume comprises three key sections linked directly or tangentially consist of a compilation of approaches and a synthesis of visual materials regarding posthuman corporaility, anxieties about the landscape and thematic ideas about the radical Political horizon.

These points are echoed in the work of many authors in their posthuman orientation, and this issue provides a preliminary framework for this combination of contributions to the posthumanities and primarily to explore their cultural and artistic implications. It shows that posthumanist debates are interrelated and thus require much more assembling, and in that sense the issue 27/28 of the Large Glass is an inherently interdisciplinary venture, which is why the volume of essays and artistic works includes contributions from a range of disciplines.

Director of the Muzeum of contemporary art - Skopje  Mira Gakjina
Editor-in-Chief of The Large Glass jounral - Tihomir Topuzovski