When and how it all started
10.01.2014
Short history of the project – artist’s initiative for the period 2006-2009 watertowerartfest.com/en/ Since 2006 NGO – IME (ime.sonance.net) has initiated art events around and in the abandoned and neglected for decays Water tower (currently not in use) in the area of Lozenetz – Sofia and also the train station Poduene 2007. The first year [...]
Still Standpoint gallery talk
10.01.2014
Still (2013) Presentation at the Museum of Socialist Art 22nd June 2013 I’m going to talk today in relation to my project Still. […] I want to talk to you about the work both in relation to the thinking that informs my practice, the architectural structure of Buzludja and socio-historical context to which this building [...]
Sites of Desire
10.01.2014
Considering derelict urban spaces as metaphor for escapism and reflection In his unfinished collection of writings on the city life of Paris the Arcades Project¹ (Passagenwerk, 1927 – 1940), Walter Benjamin asserted that the modern city is experienced in a passive state of distraction. This suggests a coping mechanism for everyday life: a perceived need [...]
Bulletin 2013
18.07.2013
Graphic design by Denitsa Toneva Post photo credit: Courtesy of the festival
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20.06.2013
When politics of the day is very weak, we lose our confidence in future, the French philosopher Alain Badiou says. At such moments art becomes very important as a means to trust the future, even if we cannot see it. Art creates fragments of space-time. A new world cannot be made from this, but a [...]
Artist-run initiatives
19.06.2013
There are probably more artists working now than at any time in history. If you add all the artists emerging from all the BA Fine Art, BA Art & Design, Art Academies, MFA and Ph.D programmes in art practice around the world, plus all those who are not formally trained, the global numbers are staggering. [...]
Sofia City Bar
17.06.2013
The first time I arrived in Sofia about three years ago, the young architects Maria Petkowa and Desislava Nencheva welcomed me at the airport. Mario (Hostel Lavele) drove us by his own car to the center of Sofia. Downtown the first thing I noticed was the really fresh air. From my own experience – I [...]
Mallorca translocal meeting
16.06.2013
To talk about WTAF, is to talk about art, to talk about water… finally to talk about feelings. Because water is the symbol of feelings, especially in the tarot cards. In WTAF I keep the emotion in the same memory box as the intellectual experience. All nice people, curios cities, the taste of the food, [...]
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The sanity of the day
18.09.2013
Artist: Mimmo Roselli “Silk Map” 55 Venice Biennale Pavilion Venezia Outside: First it connects sky to earth, then you look closely and the sane notion allows you to go even further by following the lines. One of them goes differently allowing you to move in a different way, with tradition, in integrity and posture. The [...]
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