http://www.arttoday.org News and events from the schedule of Art Today Association Plovdiv en Copyright (c) Arttoday.lab blum@arttoday.org blum@arttoday.org Tue, 23 Oct 2012 07:58:20 +0300 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 07:58:20 +0300 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sunday 20 Contemporary Art in Plovdiv, Bulgaria RSS Builder 60 http://www.arttoday.org http://www.arttoday.org/art-base/site/images/logo/at-logo.png 41 40 Arttoday logo http://www.arttoday.org Art Today Association Center for Contemporary Art - Plovdiv The Ancient Bath RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Tue, 23 Oct 2012 07:58:20 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#237 http://www.arttoday.org URBAN DREAMS 20.10 - 30.11.2012 URBAN DREAMS consists of two project modules: 1. Artistic interventions in public space Based on manifold perspectives of diverse artists URBAN DREAMS explores public and semi-public spaces. Through URBAN DREAMS art becomes a research strategy and the city changes into a laboratory. Arts, the city and everyday life confront each other. Reactions and interactions with the inhabitants will join the continuous process of research. Since the attained insights stem from urban spaces, presentation opportunities are to be found in precisely these spaces. Connections will be generated directly at the place of origin. Recipients turn simultaneously into objects of observation and observers of objects, into the investigated and the investigators. The act of (re-)search becomes an artistic performance itself. 2. The exhibition as an “archive” of dreams 26.10 - 26.11.2012 For this project the exhibition space of the Centre for Contemporary Art changes into an archive and reading room of (mainly Eastern) European artistic urban research saving dreams expressed in explicit, such as in implicit manners. Beside the results of the latest artistic urbanism in Plovdiv and in other partner cities of the HEICO network, this archive will also present international projects from the last twenty years by different forms of media, based on material provided by partner organisations and artists. Curator: Emil Mirazchiev Program: 20/21 October 2012, 11 am - 6 pm. HAMALOGIKA - Artistic interactive intervention in public space. Place: The Water Mirrors next to the City Park www.ekipnews.com/news/bulgaria/plovdiv 26 October 2012, 7 pm. Opening of the interactive exhibition, library/archive of the European artistic urban research. Place: Centre for Contemporary Art – Plovdiv, The Ancient Bath 28 October 2012, site-specific installation. Artist: Tilmann Meyer-Faje Place: In front of the Center for Contemporary Art - Plovdiv, The Ancient Bath. 27 October 6-8 pm. 29 October 1-6 pm. KISS - two channel video installation. Artist: Sevdalina Kochevska. Place: Roman Stadium http://youtu.be/MifJt4OCoGM 7 November 2012, 2-3 pm. FOOOOTBALLLL – Football game between 4 football teams, 4 football gates and 1 ball. Artist: Veronika Tsekova Place: Stadium Plovdiv http://youtu.be/zwhVvMSgwps 17 November, 6-9 pm. Space 0 Space – Storm - Artist: HR-Stamenov. Place: City Art Gallery, Plovdiv, Old Town. http://arttoday.org/site/space_0_space.html http://vimeo.com/53811989 22 – 29 November 5-6 pm. successively opening of SPACE FOR CULTURE. 22.11. – Museum of Film and Photography, above house of Hr. Danov in Old Town. 27.11. – Museum of Architecture, Museum of Contemporary Art - ул. Ivan Vazov str., Tobacco storages. http://youtu.be/_QNvpsC9Ji4 30.11. – 5 pm. Opening Center for New Media Art, house in Old Town above Monday market, 6 pm. Opening Center for Unlimited Art, Cinema Kosmos. Artist: Emil Mirazchiev. Place: different locations in Plovdiv - Tobacco storages, abandoned houses in Old Town, Cinema Kosmos. A project funded by: European Commission This project reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use, which may be made of the information contained therein. Project partners in Bulgaria: Goethe Institute Bulgaria, Municipality Plovdiv, Robert Bosch Foundation, Foundation Plovdiv 2019. Media partners: BNT Plovdiv, Katra FM, Darik Radio. Darik news. URBAN DREAMS is a series of public events organized by the Art Today Association, Plovdiv/Bulgaria in the frame of HEICO, in partnership with the Heinrich-Boell-Foundation Brandenburg/Germany, SPACES/Slovak Republic, the Art&Cultural Studies Laboratory/Armenia, GeoAIR Association/Georgia and the KSAK-Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau/Moldova. The event is part of the initiative "Plovdiv - Candidate for European Capital of Culture 2019» 26.10 - 26.11.2012 Working hours: 11:30 – 18:30. Closed on Monday RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Sun, 21 Oct 2012 22:24:05 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#236 http://www.arttoday.org Art Today Association Center for Contemporary Art - Plovdiv The Ancient Bath RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Tue, 11 Sep 2012 06:38:05 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#235 http://www.arttoday.org Facade Video Festival 2012, Plovdiv Art Today Association - Center for Contemporary Art - Plovdiv, The Ancient Bath is pleased to invite you to the third edition of the annual Facade Video Festival, which will take place from 12 until 16 September, 2012, at the Lapidarium and other selected locations in the Old Town of Plovdiv. Facade is one of the annual projects of Art Today Association - Center for Contemporary Art - Plovdiv. The festival organizers seek to promote and support the development of video art in Bulgaria as their aims are to explore the interaction between the urban environment, the city residents and the video as a medium. The festival was established in 2010 and traditionally within its conducting films are projected on the walls of the Old Town of Plovdiv. Despite its short history, the Festival has enjoyed great popularity among video artists worldwide. Out of the 270 applications, the international jury selected 84 video works by 67 artists from 22 countries. The festival will be inaugurated on 12th September at 20.00 at the Lapidarium next to the Balabanov House. The program will be accompanied by the audio-visual performance "Facet" by Petko Tanchev and Atanas Dinchev. The winner of the Facade Prize (one-month residency at the multimedia lab of the Art Today Association in 2013) will be selected by the jury: René Beekman (artist and curator, Netherlands / Bulgaria) Baptist Coelho (video artist, India, winner of the Facade Prize 2011) Sevdalina Kochevska (video artist, Bulgaria) Nadia Genova (artist, Bulgaria) Emil Mirazchiev (artist, director of the Facade Video Festival) The festival is organized with the support of the Municipality of Plovdiv, Goethe Institute Bulgaria, Plovdiv 2019 Foundation and media cooperation BNT, BNT Plovdiv, Katra FM, Darik Radio, Radio Plovdiv, Maritsa newspaper. The event is part of the initiative "Plovdiv - Candidate for European Capital of Culture 2019» The program, the catalogue and more information on: http://facade.arttoday.org/en/2012 RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:12:12 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#234 http://www.arttoday.org Art Today Association Center for Contemporary Art - Plovdiv The Ancient Bath The 18th edition of the Week of Contemporary Art - Plovdiv presents In Fifteen Minutes Everyone Will Be In The Future (An Opera) Center of Contemporary Art Plovdiv, The Ancient Bath, 08.09. –05.10. 2012 Opening: 07.09. 2012, 19.00 with a performance by Venelin Shurelov Discussion: The role of art for formulating social and political visions for the future with Galina Dimitrova-Dimova, Dessislava Dimova, Toril Johanessen, Venelin Shurelov and Boriana Ventzislavova 08.09.2012 at 11 a.m., The Ancient Bath, Plovdiv Curators: Galina Dimitrova-Dimova and Dessislava Dimova Artists: Pierre Bismuth and Aaron Schuster, Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkacova, Chto Delat, Lily Reynaud-Dewar, Natalya Dyu, Emre Huner, Toril Johanessen, Jesse Jones, Basim Magdy, Michelle Naismith, Venelin Shurelov, Ned Sublette (ASCAP), Lawrence Weiner (BMI)(ARS)and The Persuasions, Borjana Ventzislavova In the world post 89, and after the failure of modernist future oriented political and artistic projects, the future became the symbol of the past’s oppressive ideologies. Art could not herald the future anymore and could only speak from a position of critique of the present. Today we are witnessing political and social developments that urge us to formulate an idea of a different tomorrow again. Artists seek to reconstruct the relationship between art and future in new terms. Coming from a generation that lived on the threshold of the communist future we know that keeping a contact with tomorrow is not necessarily a huge programmatic task. In socialist pop culture, contacts with the future were made regularly in order to sustain the belief in its actuality. The Russian children TV series “Guests from the future” (1985) and the Hungarian animated series “The Mezga Family” (1968-1978) for example adapted the once avant-garde ideas to the reality of contemporary life and proposed encounters between present and future. How can art speak about the future today? Where does art today position itself between its historical roles of a distanced critique of society and an engaged actor on the political scene? In order to find a form that addresses simultaneously the banality of the image of the future we have inherited from our near past and the ideological burden of its promises, the exhibition takes inspiration from the flamboyancy and drama of the opera. Opera has the ambiguous status of historically developing forms both as popular art and an elitist genre. By staging mostly time based works which play with the appeal of the “total” art of opera and the pedagogic potential of theatre, we hope to explore the possibilities of the exhibition to create a Brechtian distancing effect, an interruption, a space where to get hold of the future. Last but not least, the Latin origin of the word “opera” meaning “work”, reminds us that establishing a connection with our future is a continuous collective labour to which we hope this exhibition contributes. The title of the exhibition is taken from the work of Pierre Bismuth and Aaron Schuster, “Famous” (2009). The exhibition is supported by the Municipality of Plovdiv, Goethe Institute Bulgaria, The Austrian Embassy, Sofia, Office for Contemporary Art, Norway, Credo Bonum Foundation, Sofia and Art Affairs and Documents Foundation, Sofia and Bäckerstraße 4 - plattform für junge kunst, Vienna. The event is part of the initiative "Plovdiv - candidate for European Capital of Culture 2019”. RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:11:54 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#233 http://www.arttoday.org Art Today Association Center for Contemporary Art - Plovdiv The Ancient Bath OPEN CALL FOR PROJECTS The Art Today Association kindly invites you to submit proposals artistic interventions in public spaces of Plovdiv. Three of the submissions will be produced by the Art Today as part of URBAN DREAMS in the framework of the international project HEICO – “Heritage, Identity and Communication in European Contemporary Art Practices” - http://www.atlantisprojects.eu/web/112.html - an activity of the ATLANTIS network - http://www.atlantisprojects.eu/ URBAN DREAMS will be presented in October 2012 in public spaces of the city and in a parallel exhibition and reading room in the Center for Contemporary Art – Plovdiv, “The Ancient Bath” – an archive of previous artistic practices in urban public spaces of Bulgaria, Germany, Slovakia, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Serbia, Macedonia and others. Parts of this archive will be added to the library of the Art Today for extended public use after the exhibition. Requirements: 1. the artist`s CV 2. concept: description of the idea and a budget for realization 3. visual materials The proposals are to be sent to office@arttoday.org in the following file formats: doc, pdf, jpg, mpeg2, quick time, mp3. Deadline: 20 June 2012 All artists and cultural institutions are invited to provide documentation material of their projects realized after the Fall of the Berlin Wall. URBAN DREAMS The city as a potential space Public urban spaces are sensually perceptible reservoirs of knowledge. Such collective and individual sensitivities - interwoven with desires, dreams and visions - form various possible subtexts of a city. We can regard the city as a walkable landscape of these subtexts. Old structures made of concrete, a poetically decorated balcony, the stroke of graffiti, the density of shops specialising in bridal fashion - all these phenomena are witnesses of preceding dreams. The dreams' realisations, either succeeded or failed, may inspire and teach us. Because dreams and desires are more than indispensible nourishments of human existence: We deduce our will from them - the impetus of our action and work. Hence dreams imply possibilities and consequences. URBAN DREAMS is an invitation to conceive the city not as a simple scenery of daily routine or the past but as a space full of options for utilisation, formation and perceptions - both as a potential physical and mental space. URBAN DREAMS is mainly focused on the artistic practice of South Eastern Europe. With this in mind, the project is a response to identity forming as a consequence of historical happenings. „For the small nations of the East history is of particular importance: They are constantly imagining and experiencing it, creating a ’victimized history’ of their own“ (Longinovic 2002). The burden of recent history will indeed influence URBAN DREAMS, likewise, history, thus also identities, can be interpreted anew. Hence the city becomes an astonishing find indicating the persistence of space for dreams and their implementation, which has always been active, despite the legacy of a common victim mentality. In this sense, URBAN DREAMS aims to contribute to a creativity of forming identities. URBAN DREAMS consists of two project moduls: 1. Artistic interventions in public space Based on manifold perspectives of diverse artists URBAN DREAMS explores public and semi-public spaces. Through URBAN DREAMS art becomes a research strategy and the city changes into a laboratory. Arts, the city and everyday life confront each other. Reactions and interactions with the inhabitants will join the continuous process of research. Since the attained insights stem from urban spaces, presentation opportunities are to be found in precisely these spaces. Connections will be generated directly at the place of origin. Recipients turn simultaneously into objects of observation and observers of objects, into the investigated and the investigators. The act of (re-)search becomes an artistic performance itself. At the same time it is not only about locating the dreams as such but about contextualising them within their realities. Artistic methods may provide us with a certain readability of urban dreams and their contexts. What we gain is visibility of the manner the citizens' dreams and desires are embodied in materialized manifestations and atmospheres, of the way they get projected into urban spaces, of how they get evoked, served or resisted. 2. The exhibition as an “archive” of dreams For this project the exhibition space of the Center for Contemporary Art changes into an archive and reading room of (mainly Eastern) European artistic urban research saving dreams expressed in explicit, such as in implicit manners. Beside the results of the latest artistic urbanism in Plovdiv and in other partner cities of the HEICO network, this archive will also present international projects from the last twenty years by different forms of media, based on material provided by partner organisations and artists. About the partners of the HEICO network: http://www.atlantisprojects.eu/web/112.html With the support of the program "Culture" of the European Commission, the Goethe Institute Bulgaria and Robert Bosch Foundation. RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Mon, 21 May 2012 19:22:10 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#232 http://www.arttoday.org Art Today Association Center for Contemporary Art - Plovdiv The Ancient Bath Open Studio and Artist Talk by Baptist Coelho (India) – current artist-in-residence at the Art Today Association and winner of the Facade Video Award 2011 2 May 2012 from 6 to 7 p.m. Corridor Gallery, Konstantin Stoilov Str. 36, Old Town Coelho will talk about his research developed for “You can’t afford to have emotions out there” - a project about the conflict between Indian and Pakistan on the Siachen Glacier and discuss his current video project in Bulgaria. In 2006, Baptist received his Masters of Arts from the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design (BIAD), UK. Solo Exhibitions have included Grand Palais, Bern (2009); Project 88, Mumbai (2009) and BIAD, Birmingham (2006). Two Person Exhibitions include Pump House Gallery, London (2012) and Visual Arts Gallery, Delhi (2009). His work has been exhibited at galleries and institutions worldwide. Coelho was awarded the “Facade Video Award” of the Art Today (2011), “Promising Artist Award” (2007) and “Johnson Prize Fund” (2006). The artist lives and works in Mumbai. RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Wed, 02 May 2012 17:22:38 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#231 http://www.arttoday.org Art Today Association Center for Contemporary Art - Plovdiv The Ancient Bath Open Call Facade Video Festival 2012 Artists from all over the world are invited to send their video art to Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The Art Today Association/Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, "The Ancient Bath" will host the 3rd edition of the Facade Video Festival between 12 and 16 September 2012. The Facade Video Festival connects people, art and urban environment by projecting videos onto the walls of houses in the historic city and around - still an unusual artistic practice in Plovdiv. Videos should be submitted before 31 May 2012. There are no restrictions concerning the theme. You can find out more about the Facade Video Festival and the Open Call on www.facade.arttoday.org/en/2012. RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:51:33 +0200 http://www.arttoday.org/#230 http://www.arttoday.org Art Today Association Center for Contemporary Art - Plovdiv The Ancient Bath Open Call (to artists from Plovdiv) ART POSITIVE 2012 – FESTIVAL FOR CONTEMPORARY ART For the ninth time in a row Art Today Association organizes the annual project Art Positive that - according to the association’s philosophy - supports the development and establishment of contemporary art in Bulgaria. Every year the organizers set a different topic to provoke the participants. This year the festival’s motto is MINI with all of the possible meanings and interpretations. There are no restrictions for the art techniques or genre, which allows the artists to participate with paintings, sculptures, audio-visual projects, performances, music, theater, dance, installations and happenings. For the first time Art Positive will also include activities in urban spaces. The festival gives an opportunity for expression to both established and young artists, who have just begun their artistic work in the field of contemporary art. In this way Art Today is able to promote young talents. The participants can submit their projects including a short biography and approximate budget until March 5, 2012. After the deadline the jury will evaluate the projects and choose the best ones which will be financed and finally shown during the festival. In addition to the exhibition in the Ancient Bath and the activities in urban spaces Art Today also organizes a secondary program, which will include workshops, presentations, lectures, discussions and projections. The complete program of the festival will be announced in March. Art Today's annual festival Art Positive is unique in its kind and sets the benchmark for any manifestation of artists from Plovdiv. It encourages the development of contemporary art in all its forms. The ninth edition of the festival has the ambiguous motto -MINI- The concept -MINI- is a starting point for artistic explorations and an endless field for interpretations and associations. It gives many possibilities for experiments with the topic, materials and techniques. -MINI- as minimalism, as a radical refusal and liberation from ornaments. Minimalism as a search for the fundament of art and as a focus on the creative energy on one single form, colour or sound. Minimalism as the end phase of the eternal cycle of art which destroys the already existing opulence and makes a new way for the modern. Or minimalism as a small claustrophobic space in which the artist desperately tries to fit an idea. The minimalistic movement in art originates from the 1960s in the USA and has proven itself as a unique provocation towards the audience which is left alone with its own imagination and has to reach the message of art without any help. But minimalism can also function as a border position in art which rebels against the already existing aesthetics. -MINI- has the potential to wake the memory of minimalism which is still alive due to artists like Robert Morris and Sol Lewitt. -MINI- is also a provocation towards the modern society. We all live in a situation of pre-apocalyptic fear of the collapse of globalization in a time when people are forced to live with the minimum. This minimum’s position on the scale of welfare is an unknown value which wakes new predictions and fears. But the minimum is a challenge towards the artist in a situation of reduction of the market and resources. -MINI- challenges the definitions of how art originates and which is the absolute minimum for the existence of an artwork. -MINI- is also a linguistic provocation which stimulates the associative thinking and gives infinite possibilities for interpretations in all areas of art. Terms of participation: 1. A short biography 2. Idea for a project – description and budget 3. Visual materials Please submit the required documents at office@arttoday.org in the following formats: doc., pdf., jpg., mpeg2., quick time, mp3. Deadline: 05.03.2012 RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:18:52 +0200 http://www.arttoday.org/#229 http://www.arttoday.org Art Today Association Center for Contemporary Art - Plovdiv The Ancient Bath The 17th Week of Contemporary Art The End and Beyond Art Today Association is pleased to present the project “The End and Beyond” within the framework of the 17th Week of Contemporary Art Curator: Vera Mlechevska Artists: Cyprien Gaillard, Janek Simon, Rada Boukova, Vikenti Komitski, Nasan Tur, Isabelle Krieg, Markus Selg, Boryana Rossa & Oleg Mavromatti feat. Ultrafuturo, Igor Bosnjak, Luiza Margan, Erik Sikora, Pavel Sterec, Lara Favaretto, Lubri, Nedko Solakov, Pravdolub Ivanov The future is over and now we stand on the ruins of projects for happy and prospering humankind. During the last decades a start countdown has been activated from ground zero and it set a new threshold between old and new in the intersexual relations, geopolitics and history, wishing to close chapters with antiquated rules. The artists who participate in the exhibition do not search for an apocalypse at all means, or at least – they do not find their audience after that. Most of them offer us a view from the end and beyond. Their artworks turn time into an endless loop, time, which bends into itself and carries different perspective to past events; it offers us to believe into new utopias or to dethrone the belief that the future is happy. Today we live beyond the end of the story, beyond the end of art... As we find ourselves in that very moment when the animation character has stepped over the edge of the precipice, and walked into the air and a second after he has realized that, he would fly down. The exhibition “The End and Beyond” will be opened on 9th September, 18:00 o’clock at Center for Contemporary Art – Plovdiv, the Ancient Bath and it will remain open until 9th October, 2011. Working hours: 11:00 – 18:00. Closed on Monday With the support of the Foundation of “America for Bulgaria”, Municipality of Plovdiv, Goethe Institute Bulgaria, Robert Bosch Foundation, Pro Helvetia, Czech Cultural Centre Sofia and of the media partners BNT Plovdiv, Katra FM and Radio Plovdiv. RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:12:19 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#226