SLAVCHO DIMITROV

Slavcho Dimitrov, PhD in Contemporary Arts and Media from SINGIDUNUM University, Belgrade. He holds a Master’s degree in Gender Studies and Philosophy from the Euro-Balkan Institute in Skopje, and a Master’s degree in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies from Cambridge University. He has worked as a teaching assistant at the Department of Law and Political Sciences at FON University and the postgraduate Gender and Cultural Studies at the Euro-Balkan University. He is the founder of the international Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures, and Politics in Belgrade, and curator of Skopje Pride Weekend, a festival for queer arts, culture, and theory. Dimitrov has published dozens of papers in the field of cultural and gender studies, political philosophy, and queer theory in regional and international journals and books. He is a recipient of the AICA Macedonia – Ladislav Barishich Award, 2018, and the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory Grant, 2020.

Publications

Peer-reviewed publications

Authored and edited books

  • Dimitrov, Slavcho and Biljana Tanurovska, Kjulavkovski, eds. 2021. Curating in Context: Political and Performative Curatorial Imaginaries. Skopje: Lokomotiva.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho. 2014. Impossible Confessions: Subjectivity, Power and Ethics. Skopje: Galikul.
  • Lozanoska, Jana and Dimitrov, Slavcho, eds. 2009. Integrating Differences: Human Rights, Social Inclusion and Social Cohesion in the Balkans on its Road to the EU – Proceedings from a regional conference. Skopje: Euro-Balkan Institute.

Articles and book chapters

  • Dimitrov, Slavcho and Biljana Tanurova Kjulavkovski. 2025. Archive of Queer Performative Bodies in North Macedonia. In Jasmina Tumbas and Jonathan Blackwood, eds., Contemporary Art in the Post-Yugoslav Region: Case Studies in Hauntology. New York and London: Routledge.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho, Cvetkovik, Irena, and Manja Velichkovska. 2025. The Old-New: Anti-Gender Mobilizations in North Macedonia. In Roman Kuhar and Adriana Zaharijevic. Anti-Gender Mobilizations in the Post-Yugoslav Space. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho. 2024. Politicika subjektivizacija na zenite preku AFZ i ‘Makedonka’: Emancipacija, kontradikcii I afekti [Political Subjectivisation of Women through the Antifascist Front of Women and ‘Makedonka’: Emancipation, Contradictions and Affects]. In Kocevska, Jana ed. Arhivi na nevidlivite: MAKEDONKA – Organ na AFZ (1944-1952), istoriski iskustva I kulturna memorija [Archive of the Invisible Ones: MAKEDONKA – Organ of the Antifascist Front of Women (1944-1952), Historical Experiences, and Cultural Memory]. Skopje: CINIK.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho. 2024. Anal Bodies / Anal Politics. MASKA, 39(217/218).
  • Blagojević, Jelisaveta and Slavcho Dimitrov. 2023. The Queer Common/s: Politics of Friendship, Love, and Affects. Antropologija, 23(1), pp. 107–131.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho and Ana Blazheva. 2023. Affective Landscapes of Systemic Injustice among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People in North Macedonia. Zeszyty Łużyckie, 59(1), pp. 129–163.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho. 2022. Transgender Lives in North Macedonia: Citizenship, Violence, and Networks of Support. In Bojan Bilic, Iwo Nord and Aleksa Milanović, eds., Transgender in the Post-Yugoslav Space: Lives, Activisms and Culture. Bristol: Bristol University Press, pp. 23-39.
  • Dimitrov Slavcho and Biljana Tanurova Kjulavkovski. 2017. The Other Body: Mapping the Archives of Choreographic Practices in Macedonia (1970–1990). MASKA, 31(183/184), pp. 24-43.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho. 2017. Distitled: Queering Identity, Shame, and Community. In Jelisaveta Blagojević, ed., #Political. Belgrade: Faculty of Media and Communications Press, pp. 189–218.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho. 2015. The Heteronormative Distribution of the Sensible. In Christine Hassentab and Ramet P. Sabrina, eds., Gender (In)equality and Gender Politics in South-Eastern Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 231–255.
  • Cvetkovich, Irena and Slavcho Dimitrov. 2015. Heteronormative Agnotology: The Performative of Silence and Ignorance in Macedonian Media. In Tatjana Rosich and Koteska Jasna, eds., Representations of Gender Minorities in Media: Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro. Belgrade: Faculty of Media and Communications Press, pp. 93–130.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho. 2013. Gej i lezbejski klubovi u Beogradu: društveni prostori, identitet, otpor [Gay and lesbian Clubs in Belgrade: Social Spaces, Identity, and Resistance]. In Blagojević, Jelisaveta and Dimitrijević, Olga. Medzu nama[Between Us]. Belgrade: Hartefakt, pp. 210–230.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho. 2013. Iskustvo AIDS-a i homoseksualnosti u Srbiji: 1985–2012 [History of the Experience of AIDS and Homosexuality in Serbia: 1985–2012]. In Jelisaveta Blagojević and Olga Dimitrijević, eds., Medzu nama[Between Us]. Belgrade: Hartefakt, pp. 402–430.
  • Blagojevich, Jelisaveta and Slavcho Dimitrov. 2012. “Unthinkable: Bodies-in-Common, Queerness, and the Ethico-Political Fiction in the Present.” Antropologija 12(2), pp. 245-257.
  • Blagojevich, Jelisaveta and Slavcho Dimitrov. 2012. Preispitivanje heteronormativnosti: Ludak koji veruje da je heteroseksualac nije ništa ludzi od heteroseksualca koji veruje da je heteroseksualac. [Revisiting Heteronormativity: A madman who believes he is heterosexual is no more mad than a heterosexual who believes he is heterosexual]. In Duhacek, Dasha and Lončarević, Katarina, eds., Kultura, Rod, Građanski Status. Belgrade: Centre for Women’s Studies, pp. 27–44.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho. 2012. Sexualities in Transition. In Daskalova, K., Hornstein Tomić, C., Kaser, K. and Radunović, F., eds., Gendering Post-Socialist Transition: Studies of Changing Gender Perspectives. Vienna: Erste Foundation, pp. 151–182.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho (ed.). 2011. Special Issue: The Political, Affects and the Body: Identities – Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 8 / No. 1.
  • Dimitrov, Slavco. 2010. The Lived Revolution: Solidarity with the Body in Pain as the New Political Universal by Katerina Kolozova. Aspasia, International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History, 5(1), p. 232.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho. 2007/8. That Dark Object of Desire: Towards David Halperin’s What Do Gay Men Want. Identities – Journal for Politics, Culture and Gender, 6(2/3), pp. 345–366.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho. 2008/9. Sexuality and Gender in Macedonian Art: An Interview with prof. Nebojsa Vilic. Identities – Journal for Politics, Culture and Gender, 7(1/2), pp. 143–170.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho. 2006. Extasis- Coercion and Vulnerability. Identities – Journal for Politics, Culture and Gender, 5(2), pp. 95–116.

Other publications

 

  • Dimitrov, Slavcho. 2024. Towards the Sympoetics of Hristina Ivanoska: History, Imagination, and Corporeality. In Exhibition Catalogue for ‘Giants and Snowflakes”, Solo Exhibition by Hristina Ivanoska. Skopje: CINIK.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho, Ivić, Milica, Kantoci, Tea, Koruga, Igor, Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski, Biljana, Vevar, Rok, and Založnik, Jasmina (Collective authorship). 2024. Bodies of Dance: Aspects of Dance as Cultural, Political, and Art Work in Yugoslavia and After. Edited by Arhar, Nika and Založnik, Jasmina. Ljubljana: Nomad Dance Academy.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho, ed. 2023. Kvir Hronopolitiki: Istorija, Afekti, Utopii [Queer Chronopolitics: History, Affects, Utopias]. Skopje: Coalition MARGINS.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho and Ana Blazheva. 2022. Sekoјdnevniot i emozionalen ʐivot na nepravdata [The Everyday and Emotional Life of Injustice]. Skopje: Mreza za zastita od diskriminacija.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho, ed. 2021. Kvir zaedničkoto: Politiki na prijatelstvo, ljubov i afekti [The Queer Commons: Politics of Friendship, Love and Affects]. Skopje: Coalition MARGINS.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho. 2019. Ron Athey and Acéphale in Skopje. The Large Glass, No. 27/28, pp. 33-36.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho. 2018. Transrodovoto iskustvo: Identiteti, tela, nasilstvo i socijalizacija [The Transgender experience: Identities, Bodies, Violence and Socialization]. Skopje: Coalition MARGINS.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho. 2018. Nevozmožnata zaednica, nasilstvoto i depolitizacijata – Osvrt kon nepolitičniot režim na VMRO-DPMNE [Impossible Community, Violence and Depoliticisation: Towards the antipolitical regime of IMRO-DPMNE]. In Todorov, Petar. Narativite vo poluavtoritarni režimi: slučajot so Makedonija [Narratives in Semi-Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Macedonia]. Skopje: Centar za istražuvanje na nacionalizmot i kulturata – CINIK.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho. 2015. The Futurity of Faith. In Chalovski, Yane and Ivanoskia, Hristina (eds.). We Are All in This Alone: Pavilion of Republic of Macedonia, 56 Biennale di Venezia. Skopje: National Gallery of Macedonia, pp. 45-47.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho. 2015. Depression as Intimate, Cultural and Political Phenomenon: Interview with Ann Cvetkovich. VoxFeminae at https://voxfeminae.net/kultura/ann-cvetkovich-depresija-kao-intimni-kulturoloski-i-politicki-fenomen/
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho, ed. 2014. Umetnosta na neuspehot: Afektivni stranci [The Art of Failure: Affective Aliens]. Skopje: Koalicija SZPMZ.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho. 2014. To Become Again What We Never Were. In Dimitrov, Slavčo (ed.). Umetnosta na neuspehot: Afektivni stranci [The Art of Failure: Affective Aliens]. Skopje: Koalicija SZPMZ, pp. 273-298.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho. 2008. The Perverse Pleasure of Curating. In, Milevska, Suzana and Biljana Tanurovska, eds. Curatorial Translation. Skopje: Euro-Balkan Institute, pp. 32-41.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho. 2008. Paradoksi na avtonomijata: Kon etika na ranlivosta [Paradoxes of Autonomy: Towards the Ethics of Precariousness]. In Katerina Mojanchevska, ed., Niz Zhenska Perspektiva [Through a woman’s perspective]. Skopje: Multimedia, pp. 23–32.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho. 2007. Killing for Survival. In Sands Murray-Wassink, ed., Profeminist White Flowers-Sands 1974. Munchen: Stadtichen Kunsthalle, pp. 310–325.
  • Dimitrov, Slavcho. 2006. Dogville – Gradot bez graǵani, gradot bez luǵe [Dogville – City with No Citizens, City with No People]. Skopje: Mirage.

 

 

Scholarships and awards

 

  • Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory, 2020 | Igor Zaber Foundation awarded to exceptional achievements of curators, art historians, theorists, writers, and critics in the field of visual art and culture in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe,
  • Ladislav Barisic Award, 2019 | Research Grant by AICA Macedonia
  • Cambridge Oversees Trust, 2013–2014 |Open Society Foundations/Cambridge Scholarships

 

Membership

  • AICA North Macedonia
  • JADRO – Association of the Independent Cultural Scene in North Macedonia
  • European Postwar & Contemporary Art Forum
  • Regional Network GenPolSEE (Gender and Politics in South-eastern Europe)
  • National Network Against Homophobia and Transphobia