1.Description
The project is named Disseminated Margins and it will take place in several cities in Macedonia (Skopje, Bitola, Prilep, Gevgelija, Strumica, Ohrid, Kumanovo). Happenings will occur in period from 2000-2002.

Besides the organizational team that includes people who are working on the magazine "Margina", we have an intention (actually that is one of the main points) to involve other people from different profiles: philosophers, sociologists of culture and media, critics from different areas, artists, filmmakers and from the other cities that are included in the project - people whose point of view on current movements and happenings in culture and society differs from the one that belongs to "oficial", arbitration culture.

The main aim of the project is a certain diffusion of cultural contents from "Marginas's" point of view. Our target groups are people between 18 and 30 year old mainly from the provinces of Macedonia. The project's base is regular publishing of the magazine "Margina" (12 issues for 3 years), but with improved contents from the local scene.

The project will be realized throughout:

1. collaboration with Houses of Culture in mentioned cities and with associations and movements in local communities: Multimedia (Skopje), City Concil of Skopje ( contact person: Jovan Manasievski), The Economy University - Prilep (contact person: Ljupco Pecijarevski, sociologist), The Low university - Bitola, HOBS (harm-reduction foundation, Skopje; contact person: Nora Stojanovic), ZERO (alternative art group in which associate 10 artists: Stankovski, Tosevski, Vangeli etc.), Mirko&Slavko Partizan's Production - Skopje (studio for film and production; contact persons: Darko Mitrevski i Aleksandar Popovski), KOMA (graphics design, Skopje), Gender Studies - Skopje (contact person: Katerina Kolozova), The Philosophical Society - Skopje (contact person: Zarko Trajanovski).
2. informing and stimulating the cultural creations and happenings in the local community;
3. creating the alternative cultural networks (using the internet); organization of discussions, promotions, exhibitions, workshops on certain subjects connected with the contents of the certain issue of Margina (Globalization, Feminism, Cultural Politics, Oral History...).

As result of those activities we will print separate themes in Margina dedicated to the main points of those mutual experiences. Essays and comments that will be "born" from those activities will be supported with translations of essays from other languages by contemporary theoreticians of culture art and sociology on certain subject (by the way, in Macedonia contact with the contemporary worldwide theoretica l thought is on the very low level and we would like to stop that kind of intellectual isolation).

One of the goals of this project is developing the montly magazine for culture, art and theory.

2. Basis
The magazine "Margina" exists 7 years. Until now we have published 50 numbers. Considering its own concept and also considering its organizational, non-institutionalized structure, "Margina" differs from current magazines for culture and theory. "Margina" presents themes that nobody at all is treating: the relationship between local and central, the alternative instead the "fossilized" art, affirmation of differences and the point of view of minorities.

"Margina" is a magazine whit a unconventional concept and aim, especially for Macedonia, which contain the idea of decentralizing culture. It appears 4 times yearly, whit total scope of about 800 pages (every issue has about 200 pages). About 2/3 belongs to translations and 1/3 to Macedonian authors. We have a good colaboration wit simillar magazines from the region (Arkzin, Zarez - Croatia, Rec - Srbija etc.) an with the authors who are writing in those magazines. We tend to invite some of them to our panel discussion.

• Cultural studies
• Globalization
• Deconstruction
• Cultural Politics
• Mediums and politics
• Visions and ideas describing the new university
• Europe
• Contemporary Feminism
• Anarchism
• Situationist International
• Imaging the Balkans
• Fiction: Eden von Horvat , Georges Perec, Alessandro Baricco, William Gibson, Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon...

The Macedonian authors are mostly younger. The important thing is that they usually have their first appearance in "Margina". We are truing to develop the theoretical scene in Macedonia concerning important social questions and problems.
Very important part of "Margina's" contents are fine arts, graphics contributions and comics which are mainly from the contemporary world art scene, but also we have many contributions from the contemporary Macedonian authors.
The work in our magazine is non-profitable. So, people who are involved in its creation have to work for living in main stream magazines. That takes lot of energy and now we would really like to devote to Margina more seriously. In that way we think that we might influence and change weakness in Macedonia's contemporary cultural streams.

3. Objectives
Macedonia is ruled by terrifying cultural centralization and arbitration. Most of the cultural institutions, structured in previous socialistic society, have been failed and new are not created in the mean time. Especially cities in the provinces are in a very bed condition. They are literary cut of the cultural production from Skopje, which is, by the way, very poor. Our Magazine has the same problem: we don't have good distribution, we don't represent our authors out of the conventional content of the Magazine. So, in a situation in which we are now we are aware that we can't realized our main aim - the decentralization of the culture.

Cultural diffusion and certain demetropolissation - that is what we would like to achieve. We are trying to overcome the centralization, arbitration, and obsolete and unfair relations of power in culture. We are trying to establish the relations and connections between the protagonist of the art scene, to strengthen the ideas that are "Margina" would like to spread and to improve not just "Margina's" distribution but the distribution of other "alternative" contents.