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GRAVITY-FREE ART
Mini-festival
March 23 – 28, 2004
Gravity-free Art is a mini-festival that brings together for several days a dozen of experimental works. Video installations, theatre and visual performances, still photography exhibitions, alternative video screenings on the boundary between fiction and documentary, dance experiments, “live” cinema, an ambient music festival will take place at various places in the city of Sofia. What unites these projects is their attempt to create new forms, the experimenting with the genres and the geography of the habitual cultural venues.
The map of the festival events outlines a vast territory from the city of Sofia: the Art Hostel, the Meeting Place Hall of the Sofia City Art Gallery, the ADS Gallery, the Close-up Discussion Club – Hambara, the new building of the Sfumato Theatre, the House of Cinema, an improvised exterior stage in Mladost 4 housing estate.
Several first time events will take place during the festival: the video installation Intuitive Evolution, the visual performance Martember, the still photography project Alice in Wonderland, the presentation of the dance projects Volk’s Mother II and Lili Handel and the open-air performance A Soldier. The project Night Ambient Festival is also within the frames of Gravity-free Art. It will feature the groups Bluba Lu, Nasekomiks, Ambient Anarchist, Navmemo, Elbi and BackPullver.
Some of the works have already had their incidental public presentation. They are not new but they had remained as comments or as memories in close professional circles and later were forgotten. Their presentation has left no after-effects. They have neither influence on art environment, nor followers. They were left by no interest or support by the state cultural institutions; they have not even had adequate media coverage.
The existence of such art in Bulgaria at present remains without support and context and that is why – without a future. This art occupies a space without any outlines – it is a gravity-free art.
One of the aims of the Red House Centre for Culture and Debate is, within a few days, to give this art a territory on which it can enter into dialogue with the audience and with itself. This is an attempt to create parallels, to exchange ideas and to seek for gravity powers – so necessary for every artistic process.
March 23, 6.00 p. m.
Flying People
photo exhibition by Boriana Pandova and Ivan Nikolov
Alice in Wonderland
photo exhibition by Boriana Pandova
ADS Gallery, 1 Stara Planina St.
March 23, 7.30 p. m.
Jonathan – The Seagull
after Richard Bach
post-modern Chinese opera by Kak-Tu-Si-Te group
ADS Gallery, 1 Stara Planina St.
March 24, 6.00 p. m.
Intuitive Evolution
multi-media installation by Evgeni Vasilev
Meeting Point Hall, Sofia City Art Gallery, 1 Gurko St.
March 24, 8.00 p. m.
Martember
visual performance by No Point Group
Vsi Svetii Hall, Central Military Club, 7 Tzar Osvoboditel Blvd.
March 25, 6.30 p. m.
The Garden of the Singing Ficuses (video archive)
Volk`s Mother I, II (videoart)
The Last Room (a digital photo series)
Lili Handel (video preview)
presented by the author Ivo Dimchev
Hambara Club, 22 Shesti Septemvri St.
March 26, 6.30 p. m.
My Father Who Acted Through Culinary and Other Periods
by Elizabeth Mazev
visual performance of the Slug Theatre, NBU
Hambara Club
March 26, 9.00 p. m.
Night Ambient Festival (from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m.)
silent movies and music with Bluba Lu, Elbi, Nasekomiks, Ambient Anarchist, Memo, BackPullver
House of Cinema, 37 Ekzarh Jossif St.
March 27, 6.00 p. m.
The Execution
after Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
a film by Nadejda Kosseva, Valentina Dobrincheva, Svetla Tsotsorkova, Maya Vitkova
Sfumato Theatre, 2 Dimitar Grekov St.
(the ex-public baths behind the Sofia Theatre)
March 27, 8.00 p. m.
The Radiant - Hollow - Outside
performance by Via Pontica group
Sfumato Theatre, 2 Dimitur Grekov St.
(the ex-public baths behind the Sofia Theatre)
March 28, 6.30 p. m.
A Soldier
after Boris Vian
performance by Yanko Velkov and Emil Stefanov
Mladost 4, between blocks 461 - 464
(bus No. 76 – the last stop but one and microbus line No. 6)
GRAVITY-FREE ART FRINGE
All fringe programme events take place at
the Art-Hostel “usually we spend our time in the garden” - 21a, Angel Kanchev St., Sofia
March 24, Wednesday, 2004, 10.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m
Tchamla Royal Theatre
workshop (1st day) – light & sound landscapes
for participation please call (02) 987 05 45
March 24, Wednesday, 2004, 9.00 p.m.
Gravity-free Fringe Opening Party
dj Pavlos (Greece) & visuals by Jorge Vidal (Spain)
March 25, Thursday, 2004, 10.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m.
Tchamla Royal Theatre
workshop (2nd day) – light & sound landscapes
for participation please call (02) 987 05 45
March 25, Thursday, 2004, 9.00 p.m.
Jonathan - The Seagull (after Richard Bach)
post-modern Chinese opera by Kak-Tu-Si-Te group
March 26, Friday, 2004, 8.00 p.m.
X-tendo
latest video works
March 26, Friday, 2004, 9.00 p.m.
Gravity-free Dance by Ivo Dimchev
video presentation
March 27, Saturday, 2004, 9.00 p.m.
Camera Electronica / Radio Cult
032 project
March 29, Monday, 2004, 6.30 p.m.
Have We Replaced Art îr Overestimated It?
discussion
Contacts:
Stanislav Stanev
21a, Angel Kanchev St.
Sofia 1000
Tel. (+ 359 2) 987 05 45
art-hostel@art-hostel.com
www.art-hostel.com
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