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GRAVITY-FREE ART 2
8-17 July 2005
The second edition of the festival presents artistic
actions - performances, street theatre, music inventions,
dance for video, visual experiments – all searching their
own language freely breaking the rules of traditional means
of expression and genres.
The event is supported by the Swiss Cultural Programme in
Bulgaria. With the kind co-operation of MM TV and MEDIA Desk
– Bulgaria.
Action
of the Street Theatre Group
Ani, Atanas, Deyan, Gueorgui, Ivan, Kamen, Lili, Mariya, Sasho,
Toni, Tzvety, Valeri, Valya and Victor
The project is supported by the Art for Social Change programme
of The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate.
Street Theatre Group is a long-term project of group of artists
for working with young people from the streets.
Our street theatre is the adventure of the clown who is challenged
to feel and reflect, to be a certain mirror of the city’s
incidents and inhabitants. The clown is curious, always acts
on the instant, he is sincere, but manifestly overdone in
his reactions. The life in the streets is seen with his help
brighter, clearer, strained and aggressive. In fact, as it
is
Within the frames of Gravity-free Art, the street will settle
at The Red House.
Saborna
Street
exhibition by Dessislava Morozova
About Saborna Street project as a spatial event having occupied
the place between the hat and the shed.
The beginning is a paper body which has to be unfolded and
folded to a paper sculpture. There are drawings of umbrellas,
as well as texts, describing ordinary things and happenings
seen during walks with an umbrella. The book has been distributed
among 800 persons with the invitation to send back their own
drawings, photos, texts with which to participate in the Saborna
Street exhibition.
The exhibition, which is an important part from the project,
is in two parts.
The first part entitled “When does the umbrella become a line,
a ‘gutter’ along which water drains away?” is an installation
consisted of four linear elements organizing a concrete walking
line for a viewer in the first hall. In them, under glass
layers, drawings, photos and texts have been exposed – all
of them sent by the receivers of the Saborna Street book.
The second part entitled “How/When do umbrellas comprise a
shed?” is a bookbindery placed in the neighbouring hall. There
any viewer can make his/her own book with the drawings, texts
and photos sent as “answers” by the receivers of the Saborna
Street book.
Dessislava Morozova, artist. Exhibitions and socio-artistic
actions in collaboration with TAKA Company as well as one-person
exhibitions at the National Art Gallery, the Red House Centre
for Culture and Debate, XXL Gallery, Krag + Gallery, urban
back yards, urban marketplaces, tram No. 9 in Sofia and others.
Research and studies in the fields of space installation,
object and object-sound installation, socio-artistic action,
similar objects drawing.
Birds
and Moths
video art by Slavi Kokalov (2005, 40 min.)
Experimental videos with 40 min. entire length united under
the title “Birds and moths” – naturevives (as opposed to the
classical naturemortes)
1. Birds, mini DV, 2005, 10 min.
An exciting story about a flock of amiable ducks, caught by
the camcorder in moments of reflection and expectation of
the afternoon snack.
By the author of “Little Flies”. Distributed by S.V.T.S.
2. Moths, mini DV, 2005, 7 min.
I cannot tell anything more than the fact that in the summer
of 2004 I was gazing a lamp longer than permitted to a normal
and sedate person.
I had a company.
Thank you, Ludwig!
Slavi Kokalov’s answer to the question “What is this?” posed
to him during an interrogation that took place in 2005
3. Where Is My Train?, mini DV, 2004, 23 min.
Tokyo, December 14, 2002. The Shundjuko railway station. I
am trying to reach my platform and my train. The endless subterranean
tunnels are deserted. People start to come into view. They
become more and more numerous. I am in no hurry with anything.
I can take a walk. But I don’t know how much time I have.
I am a stranger at this place. Nobody is waiting for me. I
start to feel nervous. That makes me go faster. Where to?
A train is approaching. I got on it with the others. Who are
they? Is this their train? Do they feel nervous like me? Nervousness
already transformed into fear… Do they ask themselves the
question that I am still posing to myself: “Where is my train?”
Svetoslav Kokalov is an artist with more than 20-year experience
as a set designer. He designs dozens of spectacles mainly
of classical plays on the most prestigious Bulgarian stages.
In the recent years, he prioritizes his lecturer’s work at
the National Art Academy in Sofia. He directs traditional
stage projects as well as student performances integrating
live performance, kinetic vision and sound. He has been experimenting
with digital video art since 2002.
What-Ever-Advert
Laboratory
Boryana Pandova, Todor Karastoyanov
With the kind cooperation of MM TV
Like watching commercials on the TV, feel anxious if you
aren’t taken your everyday doze, or on the contrary; you can’t
bear their strong sounds-colors-thoughtlessness. Whatever
it is; the Laboratory will recompense you for your thorough-life
patience. Watch the advertisement as a reflection upon advertising
thoughts and ideas.
Boryana Pandova (b. 1979) studies Still Photography at National
Academy of Theatre and Film Arts. Before she studied Acting
at the New Bulgarian University. She works in video art, still
photography and visual performance. Takes part in interdisciplinary
projects.
Todor Karastoyanov (b. 1974) graduated from the National academy
of Theatre and Film Art – Sofia. Active musician (drums, electronics)
since 1989. Member of different not-existing-any-more or reshaped
bands: Lacrima Christie (R.I.P.), Animacionerite, Triteleta
(R.I.P.), Nasekomix (R.I.P.). Acts as himself under “tkrst”
– concerts and dj sets in Sofia, Vienna, Leipzig, Graz. Music
for theatre, short films, performances. “Whatever-advert Laboratory”
is the most recent project started together with Boryana Pandova.
Reviews on current theatre events in culture periodicals and
websites.
Subhuman
performance by Subhuman Theatre
authors Ana Vilenica and Venelin Shurelov
technical support Dimitar Dimitrov
Supported by the Swiss Cultural Programme in Bulgaria
“In the thought of the body, the body always pushes the thought
farther, always too far: away too far still to be a thought,
but never enough to be a body.” Jean-Luc Nancy
Subhuman theatre is searching for in-between spaces through
which meaningful sub-body could be seen. It was founded in
2004 by Ana Vilenica and Venelin Shurelov.
Venelin Shurelov (b. 1977) Bulgaria, B.A., Scenography, National
Art Academy; M.A., Multimedia Scenography, National Art Academy;
Ph.D.,“Actor as object, object as actor" (work-in-progress),
National Art Academy.
Ana Vilenica (b. 1978) Serbia and Monte Negro, B.A., Art history,
Belgrade University. Alternative education: since 1997 various
art, theatre and dance workshops.
www.subhumantheatre.com
ana_vilenica@yahoo.com
labarshur@yahoo.com
What
Is This Here?
photo exhibition by Yovo Panchev and Julia Kadiyska
The exhibition is part of Debuts on the Border project supported
by the Swiss Cultural Programme in Bulgaria.
The idea of the What Is This Here runs the risk to remain
in the background at the expense of the commentary value of
the project on its own boundary type or approach. The reproductions
are in a gradation one toward the other and in comparison
with their edited copies. The two directions for development
– of the photo image character and of its interaction with
the manipulated visual material - arouse text associations.
Following the attempt of modern art to be democratic and non-formal,
we apply the same themes in three different ways. We hope
that the viewer will find his/her corresponding object in
reading of objects and watching the text.
Julia Kadiyska (photos, graphic effects). Graduated in painting
from the Sofia Art School. Studied film animation at the new
Bulgarian University and at the same time she was working
for a German company. “I used to take photos as a hobby before.
However, amatory photography could not satisfy my wish for
work in that field. That is why, after I was offered a job
in a newspaper, now I take pictures both of the hottest daily
issues and as a hobby.”
Yovo Panchev (text, photos). Graduated in Cultural Studies
in Montreal. At present is occupied with creation of texts,
artistic psycho-social practices, assistant stage decoration
and “home-made” modern art for private consumption. “I observe
the text as an image and the image as a text.”
Hexagons
dance for video with Svetlin Velchev, Teodor Vodenicharov,
Katerina Petrova and Violeta Vitanova (2005, 45 min.)
The event is part of Debuts on the Border project supported
by the Swiss Cultural Programme in Bulgaria.
The video dance is a kind of a modern performance, which does
not possess the familiar contact with the audience but on
the other way, provokes different emotions and creates strong
impressions in the viewer using various effects and means.
The idea of Hexagons is to present observation of others as
an occupation, which is about to become a profession. The
concept, based on improvisation, entirely follows the principal
rules of the “reality” games.
The film was shot intentionally with a consumer video camcorder
because the quality predisposes the viewers to empathy towards
something, which is authentic here and now. And which creates
an impression of a captured moment, something that the film
itself is.
Svetlin Velchev (b. 1985) – National Dance School graduate.
Currently a member of Amfiodromo – a dance theatre, Cyprus.
Teodor Vodenicharov (b. 1984) - National Dance School graduate.
Currently works in the troupe of the Sofia National Opera
and Ballet.
Katerina Petrova (b. 1985) - National Dance School graduate.
Currently works in the troupe of the Sofia National Opera
and Ballet.
Violeta Vitanova (b. 1984) - National Dance School graduate.
Currently a member of the Marchepied Troupe, Lausanne.
Electrofon
concert of Bluba Lu for string quartet and radio receiver
Circulating on long waves with random scale aberrations: background
exposure of electroacoustic session of technological sounds,
string instruments and acrobatic improvisation right at 10
p.m.
Never the same – Bluba Lu, Dimitar Paskalev and Konstantin
Katzarski at the base, surrounded by Alexander Yanev, two
violas, a violin, a cello and a radioreceiver. This musical
project is from the series of performances in a search for
new sound and space dimensions, such as "MoogaMood",
"Behind The Curtain", "Re:Verb", "Earth07",
"Ambient Festival" and others.
Bluba Lu doesn’t mean anything and this fact frees a lot of
space for new messages…through sound, noise, rhythm, silence,
performance, and recording. The project was initiated by Dimitar
Paskalev and Konstantin Katzarski. In the recording sessions
and concerts a lot of musicians, fans and friends join. Bluba
Lu looks after its own figurative means in the field of ambient-urbanistic
sound, jazz and launge music. The idea of this concert emerged
a year ago during a recording session and it is inspired by
the search of the two musicians for more minimalistic and
acoustic live sound. Bluba Lu have three self published albums
and participation in the Earth 007 project compiled by LTJ
Bukem. For Bluba Lu music is…
Ethno-Rock
Poetry Performance
With the participation of Peter Chuhov – guitar and poetry,
Ivan Hristov – shepherd’s pipe and poetry, Emanuil A. Vidinski
– percussion, poetry and prose, Angela Rodel – vocals
In the framework of Literature Series project, with the support
of the Swiss Cultural Programme in Bulgaria.
The Ethno-Rock Poetry Performance consists of music compositions
in which the shepherd’s pipe and the voice construct on the
guitar reefs melodies characteristic for Bulgarian folklore.
Some of the compositions are combined with the reading of
short poetry and belletristic texts. Other texts sound unaccompanied
between the music compositions. The duration of the performance
is between 40-60 min. It has been performed numerous times
at various places and often there are new guest musicians,
poets and writers joining the main participants.
Petar Chouhov is author of seven books, more important of
which are “Pedro’s Mule” (1999, Egoist Magazine book of the
year), “Small Days” (2002, Ivan Nikolov National Poetry Award),
“Snowmen” (2003, Special Prize, Razvitie New Bulgarian Novel
Competition). Apart from that, he has awards for haiku poetry
and for short crime story. His works have been included in
many anthologies in Bulgaria and abroad. He won the Grand
Prize for SMS poetry in 2004. His most recent book – “Rather
Never” - was published the same year and a spectacle based
on it was realized by the @lma @lter Theatre Laboratory. He
won the Slaveykov Poetry Award in 2005. Chouhov is author
of music and lyrics, he was a member of the Subdiboula, Toutaksi
and Stenly rock bands. In the present he works on his new
music project which synthesizes rock and folklore.
Emanouil A. Vidinsky is a poet, belletrist, musician and critic.
Born at the Danube River side, he has special attitude towards
water. He has lived for years in Germany. Graduated in Slavic
Studies and Germanic Studies from the Kliment Ohridski Sofia
University where he has been working on his PhD in West European
Literature since 2004. His first published works came out
in 1998 and since 2002 he writes music reviews for Kultura
Newspaper. Since February 2005 he is an editor of Musaic –
the musical page of Literary Newspaper. His first book – Cartographies
of Escape (Stigmati Publishing House) was published in March
2005.
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