Ismail Myrseli
nationality
KOSOVO
area
Music Industry, Booking
recidence
Prizren
institution
mica – music austria
time period
January 2025 – February 2025
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BIO
Ismail Myrseli is a cultural researcher, music educator and social activist. He holds a degree in archaeology from the Faculty of Anthropology at the University of Prishtina and works as a cultural worker, artist and music educator. His work covers art education, production, booking and promotion of bands in the region, as well as film and ethnomusicological research. His career in the arts began at Manifesta, where he worked on various mediation topics related to art and urban space. He also works as a booking manager for experimental and alternative acts from Western and Central Europe. In 2023, he joined the education department of the National Gallery of Kosovo, where he works as a project manager and mediator.
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Project
Ismail Myrseli will complete an internship at mica – music austria during his two-month residency at the MQ.
Myrseli would also like to present his ethnomusicological study of the music scene in Prishtina and Belgrade. This will be complemented by archival material, visual drawings, memoirs and interviews with participants, offering an in-depth retrospective look at relationships based on the first anti-fascist and socialist alternative music gatherings. The story is traced through personal narratives of the participants interviewed: five from Kosovo and five from Serbia.
