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ICELAND BANYA MATTINE
with ideas factory and gullkistan
28 april, 11:30 – 13:30
conversation and screening
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NEW CATALOGUE "NEW ECOLOGIES"
presentation
at Swimming Pool
19 september
The 'New Ecologies' catalogue is an archive of the project, but also its continuation. It contains texts and materials by the participants, and includes essays conversations that were part of the public program, a.o. Dimiter Kenarov, Kosmotechnika (Konstantin Georgiev and Alexander Popov), Andrea Popyordanova and Francesca Castagnetti, Association "For the Earth" and others.
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Ecologies of Prehod
Nicolás Kisic Aguirre, Katarina Burin, Sam Ghantous, Elitza Koeva, Manar Moursi
Swimming Pool
01 august - 24 september 2024
Ecologies of Prehod engages with sites of ruination in Bulgaria through sculpture, installation, sound, and moving-image work.
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A useless guide to Vartopo and its weeds
A publication by Andrea Popyordanova and Francesca Castagnetti
“A useless guide to Vartopo and its weeds” is an invitation to get out and meet a place through your own senses and impressions.
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Public Program | New Ecologies
Lectures, talks and presentation of a publication
Lectures, talks and presentation of a publication
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Part 3 | New Ecologies
Billy Mateeva, Elena Nazarova, Maria Nalbantova
4 July – 10 August 2023
The third and final exhibition of the project “New Ecologies” presents works by Billy Mateeva, Elena Nazarova and Maria Nalbantova, which pay attention to the way we use nature, whether in a ritual or political context. Often instrumentalized, the nature is at the centre of utopian political ideas, used in the “innocent” rituals of diplomacy, or is inextricably linked to beliefs in which the culture–nature dichotomy does not exist.
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Part 2 | New Ecologies
Martin Atanasov, Marina Genova, Cédric Van Parys
23 May – 29 June 2023
The second part of “New Ecologies” presents installations by Martin Atanasov, Marina Genova and Cédric Van Parys, each of which opens up a different perspective on ecology as a hybrid environment and questions the nature-culture dichotomy we have inherited from modernity. The works of the three artists address the interactions, entanglements, engagements, and experiences in what surrounds us – including what is inside us as an inseparable part of – and question what kind of world we actually want to live in.
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Part 1 | New Ecologies
Nevena Ekimova and Public Program
25 April – 18 May 2023
The first of three exhibitions that will take place within New Ecologies will open with Nevena Ekimova's installation The First Ten Lifetimes or So Usually Suck. The work emerged in response to the project's main concepts and was made especially for the space of Swimming Pool.
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New Ecologies
Billy Mateeva, Elena Nazarova, Marina Genova, Maria Nalbantova, Martin Atanasov, Nevena Ekimova, Cédric Van Parys
25 April – 10 August 2023
А project about a different approach to the concept of "environment". And while we traditionally associate it with nature and biodiversity conservation, it has meanwhile received an important development to include anthropogenic ("man-made") factors.