Filmvorführung
Sofia Art Week im Goethe-Institut

Partnerverstanstaltung

Di, 28.09.2021
20:00 Uhr – 22:00 Goethe-Institut Sofia

Sofia Art Week 2021: FUTURE ORACLES

Vorführung von Kunstfilmen von:
Amy Pickles, Michaela Lakova & Bérénice Staiger; Daniela Takeva; Elisabeth Pieper; Irina Stoyanova; Joseph Marzolla; Marta Orlando & Clémentine Roy; Natalia Jordanova; Nicholas McArthur; Peter Pondev & Marlene Wehner; Puck Verkade.

Live stream performance von Iva Berkovic.
 

Mehr Informationen über das Programm (Englisch):

Iva Berkovic: “Occulta” (2021), Divinatory Performance. Live fortune telling in a trance like state, without any use of divinatory tools.
While maintaining a flow of words, in a semi trance state and with a microphone and minimal audio effects, the artist, as a fortune teller, will approach the audience and tell them their destinies/narratives/fortune. Based upon the Balkan Roma style of fortune telling, where the fortune tellers simply go around and tell people their fortune without any use of tarot, coffee cups or beans, the performance aims to connect people on a more intimate level creating an atmosphere of kinship and togetherness.
Iva Berkovic (1991) is a Serbian born multimedia artist and a designer, based in the Hague, the Netherlands. Focusing on subjects of Ontology, Psychology, Telepathy and Neurotheology, her practice varies from design to autonomous art and performance.
 
Amy Pickles, Michaela Lakova & Bérénice Staiger: “Honingraat” (Honeycomb) (2021), Digital and analogue film (super8), 7:00
“The human-bee relationship is one built on time, patience, and revisiting.” — Aladin Borioli and Ellen Lapper.
Filmed in a shared artist-studio in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, “Honingraat” follows the artist and beekeeper Bérénice Staiger, whose art and apiarist practices intertwine systems of care and attention. The camera oscillates between the movements of Bérénice – observing, inspecting, maintaining, harvesting, almost as self-reflection; these gestures also mimicking the actions of the bees in the hive.
Michaela Lakova is a visual artist from Bulgaria, currently based between Sofia and Rotterdam. Bérénice Staiger is a German visual artist, beekeeper, and yoga teacher for children, based in Rotterdam. Amy Pickles is an English visual artist, educator, and facilitator, based in Rotterdam.
 
Daniela Takeva & Nikolina Nedialkova: “I Put a Spell on You” (2020), Video performance and web series in 4 episodes. On view: episode 1 & 4, 2x7:00
“I Put a Spell on You” is a video performance and web series in 4 episodes (of which 2 episodes will be screened). In the four episodes, the recovery of feminine power is being negotiated in the identity of a witch and a feminist artist. The performative-speculative approach honors the witch as a feminist icon – something that refers specifically to Bulgarian mysticism. 
Daniela Takeva and Nikolina Nedialkova are two media artists from Bulgaria, whose individual work occasionally breaks out through collaborative projects. So far, they have realized two works together, that have focused on cultural visual tropes and traditions, as well as narratives at the border between science and fiction.
 
Elisabeth Pieper: “<irreparable_rift>” (2021), video, 9:04
Text: Spirit_Poxy. Video footage: ROV-001, sea cucumber or holothurian; ROV-002, species of anemone and Enypniastes Eximia; ROV-004, unclear species of octopus on pipeline; ROV-005, camera detects a seal. Audio: Distorted Kailasha by Eliane Radigue, Mountain Echoes by Mary Jane Leach and self-produced sounds. 
“<irreparable_rift>” is the end and the beginning. Deep-sea, non-consciousness, more-than-human infrastructures, hidden past, ruinous landscapes. In this speculative aquatic milieu, planetary consciousness meets possible futures. Questioning the human body as one entity. Spirit_Poxy embodies flesh, technology, proto material. A time and space traveling agency.
Elisa Pieper is a researcher, bookseller, radio-maker, and visual artist. She co-founded “hoops”, a garden of fantastic plants, a community and a magazine for medicinal plants and mushrooms. She is based in Berlin. 
 
Irina Stoyanova: “SUBconscious Forest” (2021), Art Dance Video, 4:00
Several creatures are separated personalities/ emotions/ elements in myself: depression and euphoria, anger and calm. Only creativity and art can unite all emotions together for authenticity. In the future, a person will have multiple bodies / avatars with one mind and live different experiences simultaneously.
Ira Stoyanova [Irr%ktopuz] is an interdisciplinary experimental artist from Kazakhstan, who lives in Sofia. She works with performance, visual arts, and dance, including hip-hop, contemporary dance and improvisation, around topics such as imagination and surrealism.

Marta Orlando & Clémentine Roy: “Brave New World” (2021), HD-video, approx. 3:00
The video is documenting an actual ritual to read and chase away the bad eye. At the same time fictional and absurd action, a person is sitting outdoors reading the news from a blank newspaper.
Marta Orlando is an interdisciplinary artist from Italy, based in Berlin. Her practice ranges from painting to writing, drawing, installation, and video. Through her work she builds shapes and situations that reflect upon contemporary culture.
Clémentine Roy is a visual artist and filmmaker from France, based in Berlin. Her research field is in between visual anthropology and contemporary landscape.
 
Natalia Jordanova: “Visits to Other Possible Worlds” (2021), film, 17:37 Full HD, stereo.
“Visits to Other Possible Worlds” is a visual essay that puts in perspective the artefacts created in support of religion, technology, and humans themselves. Within an intimate monologue, it studies the correlation between those different realms and their value as a system of beliefs.
Natalia Jordanova is a visual artist from Bulgaria, based in The Netherlands. As part of an ever-developing quest for possible worlds, Natalia’s artistic practice is a subjective synthesis and material proposition of what defines the present moment, and what it is to be human today.
 
Nicholas McArthur: “Don’t Burry My Heart Here” (2021), 7:00
Two-part performance-film.
What if all the things we throw away could speak? What would they say? In this current work, the artist proposes a way to listen to the voices of the trash, reframing the wasteland as a site of magic and enchantment. The film features a lone character who leads the viewer on a journey through the rubbish strewn wastelands of a city. Using a strange, homemade device, he can tune into the voices of the trash.
Nicholas McArthur is an artist based in Bulgaria and the UK. He employs a stylistic approach reminiscent of the kind of do-it-yourself, homespun videos you find on YouTube. His character is an unchecked outsider, who speaks directly to the camera – the viewer – who is asked to believe in what is being presented to them as an authentic artefact, as something made by the character you see on the screen.
 
Joseph Marzolla: “HETEROTOPIA. Walk in Progress, part 1” (2021), Video, 5:21
This video-work presents the philosophical and spiritual wanderings of a nomadic artist, who decided to ‘walk his life’ in order to find his true self.
Joseph Marzolla is a multidisciplinary artist who has made his life a long walk. His practice evolves between real words and digital words, drawing inspiration from everyday life. He works and lives in Paris.
 
Peter Pondev & Marlene Wehner: “Nova Substrata” (2021), video, 30:00
“Nova Substrata” is an experimental documentary/ short film about Petar Pondev, a Pirate in Berlin. The film gives an insight into his personal perspective from the waterside. Thoughts about future, every day struggles, introspection, innovative ways of living and communication and the water community of Berlin.  
Marlene Wehner is a photographer and audiovisual designer based in Berlin, who feels at home in a variety of media. Currently she is exploring the medium film, experimenting with art direction, and looking to find intersections for her multidimensional approach.
Peter Pondev graduated as an actor at National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts and played several years for the production of Alessandur Morfof at the National Theatre of Sofia, Bulgaria. He now works on several projects including music, film, and video work, and on directing his acting skills.
 
Puck Verkade: “Cursed” (2020) HD-video, 5:00
In “Cursed” an inner demon shapeshifts its way through the endless trapdoors of a haunted mind. The subliminal dimensions revealed in the video are hard to pinpoint and portray the human mind as an inconsistent place. Its unreliable narrator, a disembodied mouth with a seductive appearance, guides and misleads the viewer and alludes to issues of mental health and denial.
Puck Verkade lives and works between The Hague (NL) and Berlin. In her video installations and storyboard drawings she uses playfulness, childlike wonder, dark humor, and self-mockery to make what is uncomfortable more tangible to process.
 
 
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