ART BOOK
Civil position
Boryana Rossa and Oleg Mavromatti
ICA Gallery, Sofia For Boryana Rossa and Oleg Mavromatti performance is an appeal for active engagement with reality. The works selected for their exhibition at the ICA Gallery, engage with collective and individual identities formed under capitalism within the contexts of local and global politics and development of technology. These are viewed through the prism of contemporary gender theory and practice. In their performances, Rossa and Mavromatti often go through actual physical pain to support their message. [...] |
After the flight
Curator: Iara Boubnova
ICA Gallery On April 12th 2011 the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first human flight in outer space. Yuri Gagarin visited Bulgaria on May 25th 1961 – that was the second country he visited after the flight in the course of his “world tour”. It is in Sofia during this trip that the famous photograph of Gagarin holding a white dove was taken. This photograph became the source image for the Pablo Picasso drawing/serigraph/lithograph [...] |
Concert - performance
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Antistatic
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Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance LIGNA present: The new man The New Man is a performance without actors and stage. There is nothing to see except for the activity of the visitors. They are listening to a radio play that not only deals with the four aesthetic positions mentioned above, but proposes gestures and movements according to the different blueprints of the new man. But the audience is not listening to the same things at the same time. It is split up into four groups. For fifteen minutes each group is listening to one of these positions, then their program is changing and their role is transferred to another group. In the [...]
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