Video archive - Introduction to Contemporary Art - Sofia 2017

INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY ART - Sofia 2017 
100 Years Art of Action

Autumn educational program
Organized by Open Arts Foundation and SARIEV Contemporary

The autumn series of lectures of the longest-running professionally led and free educational platform about art in Bulgaria, Introduction to Contemporary Art, addressed a little-discussed and increasingly up-to-date theme – performance art. In the course of four enthralling lectures in November and December, moderated by Vera Mlechevska and united under the theme “100 Years Art of Action. Live Art between the Staged and the Real”, we heard first-person talks from four experts with years оf experience and versatile contact with the art of performance. The guest lecturers Annie Vaseva (director), Snezhanka Mihaylova (philosopher and lecturer), Albena Mihaylova (one of the first performance artists in Bulgaria) and Isabela Maidment (curator at Tate Modern) shed light not only on the history and development of performance, but also discussed its place outside the stage, within contemporary art, as well as what provokes them to experiment with the form, and how and why this kind of art can be collected.

Isabella Maidment’s visit was specially by invitation from Open Arts Foundation and was the first curatorial visit with a public lecture by a member of Tate Modern in Bulgaria.

Here you can watch the lectures:

Lecture by Isabella Maidment. Going Live: Presenting and Collecting Art at Tate Modern 
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[in English]

Lecture by Albena Mihaylova. In Act
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[in Bulgarian]

Lecture by Snezhanka Mihaylova. Inner Scene. Notes on the Relationship between Performance and Book
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[in Bulgarian]

Lecture by Ani Vaseva. The Paradox of Performance
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[in Bulgarian]