contempo.lab 2

25- 28.11. 2011 | Varna / Bulgaria

contempo.lab2 is an education platform for art management for young artists and culture activists. It is a part of contempo weekend- international festival for artists under 35 held in spring in Varna.
The main organizer of contempo.lab2 is Raya Georgieva Foundation with friendy support of Art Department of Regional Library, Sea Blue Association for culture management, National High School for Arts, Varna,Graffit Gallery, Art Office (Sofia), Look music café,Harmony gallery, Bulart Gallery, Videoholica, Plotki,Yo HO Hostel etc.

In the program of contempo.lab2 are lectures, discussions, artistic meetings and presentations focused into hidden tools for successful artistic carriers.

The lectors are artists, graphic designers, media and PR experts, gallerists and experts in the field of sponsorship and cllecting. The topics of contempo.lab2 are about artistic career, working with media and collectors, gallery practice and collecting, advertisement in support of big names, sponsorship and festivals.

Speakers: Albena Baeva-multimedia artist, Dimitar Traychev- graphic designer and culture activist, Nina Lokmadzhieva - journalist and PR expert, Dora Doncheva -curator, Elitsa Mateeva -performer ,culture activist, Rene Beekman / BG, NE/ - artist,curator;Hans Knoll / AU/ - gallerist, collector and curator..

for more information: http://contempolab.blogspot.com/

CONTEMPO 4 - Weekend of Modern Art

The fourth edition of the Weekend of Modern Art CONTEMPO took place during15th-17th April 2011 in the city of Varna.
This event is based on the creative conception of the young painter Raya Georgieva who suddenly passed away in 2009.
The project CONTEMPO is organized by the foundation “Raya Georgieva” with the kind support of the partners Association for International Cultural Management “Sea Blue”, non formal youth group “Amorpha”, National Radio Varna, Art Gallery Bulart and the active participation of the journalists Boriana Todorova and Elena Vladova. The general curator of the event “CONTEMPO” is Mrs. Dora Doncheva.

The event of Contempo has made a start with the Day of Astraunotics on 12th April 2011 in the area of the Sea Garden of Varna and in the virtual space of the social network Facebook. This action is called UFO-action by the organizers, partners and participants with the mail goal to mobilization, awareness-raising and dissemination of the event amongst the amateurs of modern art. The action is dedicated to the heroic efforts of the young artists to create valuable art in today’s unfavorable social environment.

The weekend of modern art “CONTEMPO 4” has promoted the projects of 30 authors in 11 private art galleries, cultural institutions and alternative places. Most of the art forms consisted of performances, installations, photography, painting, objects, and word. All of them composed the modern youth art dialogue. There were famous artists amongst the participants: Dimitar Yaranov, Vikenti Komitski, Iv Russeva, Nia Pushkarova (Sofia); Peter Minchev, Dimitar Traychev, Nedko Nedkov, Mimi Rumenova, Efrosina Peneva (Varna), as well as young artists such as Sanya Kovacheva, Mazzurski, Tea Denolyubova (Varna), Victoria Georgieva, Nikolay Bojinov (Veliko Tarnovo) and others.
Within the project of CONTEMPO 4 it was presented the art catalogue of Raya Georgieva – patron of the foundation “Raya Georgieva”. This catalogue has been edited with the support of the Municipality of Varna in the frame of the Funding Programme for art projects.

CONTEMPO is a non commercial platform aimed at the encouragement, awareness-raising and promotion of the art of young arts under age of 35. The objective of the event is to create a compressed and dynamic version of the art aspirations and tendencies of the young art generation and to encourage its creative processes through ensuring free scene of expression of art provocations.

CONTEMPO has the tradition to revive traditional art spots as well as to exploit alternative places such as inner courtyards, hotel locations, public spaces and music clubs. The project promotes new culture and new aesthetics which are close to the interests and perceptions of young people, nowadays.

The former 3 editions of the project CONTEMPO have been visited by app. 10 000 persons.
More information: www.contempo2011.blogspot.com

 

Theatre Jam Session “Now AL-Bum”

Association for International Cultural Management “Sea Blue”
presents: Theatre Jam Session “Now AL-Bum”
First Performance 8th November
Venue: Art Gallery Markoni Varna, 22 “Ohrid” Str.

Script based on : Eugeny Grishkovets (Monodrame “Saychas”) And Elitsa Mateeva (Travel notes “Скажите, пожалуйстя, сколько стоит Путин?”)

We welcome all of you with some nice russian bread rings!
P.S. The Project is part of the credo-programme of author team of the jam session “Every artist – cultural capital of the world!”

Thanks to this project Elitsa Mateeva expresses moral support to the cause of the artists at Varna Dramatic Theatre and Opera.
This is why the Theatre Jam Session is free to all habitants of Varna.

“Now AL-Bum” is an attempt to remind the purity and the fleetness of living.
“Now-“ is a performance based on 8 fragments, in which My Ego shares with You the little quotidian miracles. What is one day without your town, without summer, without a stab of cigarette, without the coffee, without those little hardships of life that make sometimes the invisible hair of your feet to bristle up with anger, without the breathless buzz of the engine of your old car, without the hotness of the grilled potatoes prepared by an old grand-ma, without the first love, without the tear that make you turn into a living human?
The artist, author and dramatist Eugeny Grishkovets is part of the intellectual movement OXYGEN (amongst the founders of OXYGEN and the artist Ivan Viripaev known to the local public from the theatre plays of Galin Stoev and Yavor Gardev). Eugeny Grishkovets has never been known to the Bulgarian audience. This is why, “AL-BUM” enjoys the opportunity to promote one modern Russian author, director, writer and music interpreter.

It is curious the idea of creating a theatre jam session – the monodramatic beginning is developed in the form of a radio-interview in an environment similar to the radio studio.
DJ ДЕДЬ МОРОЗ determines the topics in the radio studio “Satellite 703”- the broadcast is entitled “AL-BUM”. Through the forms of music and dance based on the principles of minimalism, the audience along with the participants travel across an improvised world of memories, associations and recover the flavour of the past when children were fragile as Cheburashka and today’s ex-children are already dangerous growns-up in style Mrs. Shapokliak.
Grishkovets’s original text combines the positivism and romantism without sounding too much sentimental and melodramatic. The specific team’s intention is to present Grishkovets’s dramaturgy in a accessible, funny and suggestive way. It supposes the communicative character of the whole interpretation. The Jam-Session is aimed at the young generation, but the authors will be pleased to communicate with any generation that appreciates the achievements of Russian culture.

The participants in the theatre Jam Session are as follows:
DJ Дедь Мороз- Dobromir Todorov (sound-director and author of the broadcast “45 revolutions” – Radio Varna) Guest in the radio studio - Elochka Mateevna – actress and director of “SEGA ALBUM”

 

Project “Let’s Save Vynila”

The project “Let’s Save Vynila” , Donation campaign of the Association “Sea Blue”: “New Sound of the old records”

Start : 12th July 2010

Venues: Art Gallery “Art Marconi” (Varna, 22, Ohrid Str.),
Art Club for Children “Cricket”
( Varna, 33 A, Angel Kanchev Str.)

On Monday, 12th July, start of the donation campaing of Varna Association “Sea Blue” which consists of gathering old records and it will be an ongoing project throughout summer. Look up in your archives and you may find records by chance you’ll never use again , don’t throw them away but get involved in the donation campaign. The ambassadors of this campaing are the basketball player Emil Boyadzhiisky who supports our idea to revive the tradition “listening to old records” and his little son Nikola as well. Everyone who wants to donate records could do it in 2 places : Art Club for children “Cricket” where there will selected records for children – tales, poems, songs, and the rest of the records in the new Art Gallery “Art Marcony”.

All gathered records will be employed in the future initiatives of the Association “Sea Blue” which are part of the project “Let’s Save Vynila”. The very first successful part of the project are the organized music parties “Gramophony” which took place 6 times in the Blues Borthers Bar, Varna. Many fans and collectioners supported the idea of listening to old records and the parties “Gramophony” became a good occasion to exchange records and interesting information about.

 

Multimedia Project
“I am/want to be” - Episode II

Multimedia Project “I am/want to be” - Episode II

On 9th September 2009, the Association for International Cultural Management “Sea Blue”- Varna decided to show up in the local community of Varna thanks to one modest, intriguing and alternative to the space solutions exhibition “Garage Project”.

The exhibition was set up in one Moto Garage. Through the collation of sounds, video and photographies we introduced 5 young artists that create art in different fields: Stefka Georgieva- painter, Elena Vladova – writer, Nikolay Yordanov – musician-composer, Elitsa Mateeva – screenplay writer and theatre director, Georgi Enchev- Goosh – choreographer of street dances.

It’s time to continue with Episode 2.

On 17th September, Friday, at 19.00 o’clock the GARAGE will open to present the new exhibition including 5 young artists:

Yassen Kazandzhiev – art manager whose main working tool is his mobile. He loves traveling to recharge his creative batteries.

Aleksander Nikolov- cinema director whose passion are short movies ( tendency to make them longer). He nourishes special respect about the speech-therapists thanks to whom he makes cinema today.

Svilen Georgiev – painter and teacher at the National Art High School “D. Hristov” – Varna - he is fond of graving art, doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke and doesn’t listen to chalga.

Vassil Tonovski – poet, journalist. He tries to paint, to create photographies, likes philosophy and makes wonderful translation of German poetry of 16th centurty. Expect very first poems book.

A-Moral – punk-hardcore band. All their songs are entirely in Bulgarian. Their titles are diverse : “Kicks for all fools”, “Lord Mayor Idiot”, “Walnut Rod”, “We’ve been stolen”.

The authors of the project are 3 members of the Association “Sea Blue” – the photographer Radostina Valchanova, the journalist at Radio Varna – Svetlana Valkova and the music editor at Radio Varna – Dimitar Dimitrov.

The idea of “I am/want to be” consists of promoting modern art through modern forms of art as well as its authors.

The combination of modern forms of art expression and the alternative urban environment is the primer feature of all projects of the association.

 

“Gramophony”

Let’s save Vynila!

“Gramophony” in Varna, later up in other cities!

We got started with a new attractive project under the code title “Let’s save Vynila”.

The very first action of the Association in the name of Vynila consist of a series of music parties entitled “Gramophony”.

All of these parties took place every Thursday (but not always) at 20.00 in Blues Brothers Bar, 19, Tsaribrod Str.

The first gathering happened on 8th April.

The music conception and interpretation are due to Dobromir Todorov – Soulmate, anchor man of the broadcast “45 revolutions in a minute” at Radio VArna.

The first party evolved as a “funk” but then we kept up with some rock, jazz, disco, Bulgarian music and some other music genres we like. Everyone was able to bring its favourite records and to make the others listen to them. There were quizzes connected with music and old records and some of the participants were even awarded. Our main goal is to revive the tradition of listening to old records that is so crucial to construct a deep connection with music – communication with the material copy and the cover of the record. There is no other better alternative to these two elements composing the old record. The vynila record is the only music support which allows the mechanic extraction of the sound (it is the similar process with the acoustic instruments). Each digital production ( audio cd, mp3 and so on) is a simulation of a mechanically produced sound but it is not genuine. This is why the vynila cd produces the recorded sound in the most genuine way. As for the cover – it contains precious information about the interpreters, the musicians, the titles of the songs and other related information. It looks like a big format art production which is incomparable the cd cover and it completely lacks for the mp3 productions. The collectioners and the fans of vynila were able to exchange information and to exchange records during the “Gramophony” parties.

On 17th July we are starting a new initiative, targeted to little children “ Gramophony for children”. Parties for children full of lots of games and surprises and of course, old records, this is a common initiative of the Association “Sea Blue” and the Art Children Club “Cricket”.

We invite you to come to us and to listen together to the records!

The project “Let’s save vynila” and “Gramophony’” have already a blog. We will enjoy anyone that would like to contribute to the blog with creative opinions, recommendations and ideas. Let’s save vynila together.

www.save-the-vinyl.blogspot.com

 

Contempo 2 – Weekend of modern art

“Open space action of con.tempo weekend partners.

“Praise the victory of the space-man”

Thanks to this symbolic action we are starting the second edition of the Weekend of modern art con.tempo 12th april – the international day of space-men , this is day was chosen by the organizers because of the analogy with the obstacles, dangers and the heroic actions and ceaseless fervence to conquer new spaces in the outer space of human imagination. In spite of the ironic character of the action – the space-rocket blast in the sky – this artistic act aims at promotion and provocation of modern art. It aims at provoking society’s awareness of artists’ life and work who, in the context of today’s financial crisis and lack of responsible attitude of the Government, keep up working without compromises and deploying their talents raising Bulgarian art at international level. Are these artists marginalized or heroes of today? Are they victim of our epoch or they are situated in the priorities of the national culture policy guidelines? Questions that find answers in the practices of art and particularly in the activities of the young generation of artists.

The Second edition of Con.tempo –Weekend of modern art took place
on 23,24,25th April.

This initiative is implemented thanks to Raya Georgieva – young painter from Varna who suddenly passed away a year ago. Con.tempo is organized by the foundation “Raya Georgieva” in cooperation with the Association for International Cultural Management “ Sea blue”, Gallery “Bullart” and the journalists Boryana Todorova and Antonia Yovcheva. During 3 days 27 art projects were presented with their authors from Bulgaria, Italy, Poland and Ireland, in 16 private art galleries, culture institutes and other alternative spots. Painting, sound installations, videoart, photography, comics, subjects, digital collages, street art and music performances were presented to the local community of Varna and raised its awareness of the new art generation’s passions and the most recent tendencies in art. First public performance was given to Aleksandar Nikolov’s documentary “Contradictio in adiecto”. The film is shot while the first edition of Con.tempo in October last year. The art marathon is possible thanks to the friendship and support of the participants and the culture institutions of Varna. This kind of event is organized for the second time in Varna. The objective of this event is to give a bigger picture of today tendencies and works of young art generation as well as to provoke the community of Varna with art works of high quality. According to the status of the project priority is given to projects of young artists up to 35 years old.

Curator of Con.tempo is Dora Doncheva.

Authors : Alessandro Arno (Italy)-Allessandro Pavone (Italy)- Aleksandar Nikolov- Antonia Velcheva Koleva – Veliko Marinchevski – Vesso Zlatkov-Georgi Yamaliev – Denitsa Chakalova – Evgeni Veskov – Igor Imhoff (Italy)- La Migra trio – Magdalena Drobchik (Poland) – Marc O’ liary (Ireland)- Marco Filippotsi (Italy) – Milen Krastev (Bulgaria-Germany) – Natasha Kyupova- Neno Belchev- Petko Todorov-Penka Mincheva- Raya Georgieva (1978 -2009)- Radostina Valchanova-Svilen Dimitrov-Simeon Stoilov- Stefka Georgieva-Tatyana Festi (Italy) – Teodor Baev – Far&Mouse.

 

Contempo – Weekend of modern art

Curator: Dora Doncheva

Organisers: Association “Sea Blue”, Foundation “Raya Georgieva”, Gallery “Bullart” and journalist Boryana Todorova. The partner consortium organized a Weekend of Modern Art in Varna on 23,24,25 October. The event was entitled “Con.tempo”. The Art marathon is implemented thanks to the friendship and strong support of the participants and the cultural institutions. This kind of event is organized for the first time in Varna and aims at providing a synthesis of the tendencies of modern art and the works of young arts addressing an intellectual provocation to the community of Varna through the introduction of art products of high quality.

The marathon is deployed in 14 art galleries, museums, national institutions, clubs and alternative art spots where there will be presented video art, installations, performances, objects, digital prints, paintings, collages, multimedia and concerts. These are the works of 22 young artists from Bulgaria, Italy and Canada. The programme also included a lecture of the American art expet Rebecka Lane as well as a informal discussion about the cultural phenomena in Varna (methods and approaches to mutual assistance).

According to the status of this project priority is given to projects of artists under 35 years old.

Honoured sponsors of the event are Foundation “Raya Georgieva” and music café Look.

Media partners are Radio Varna, Newspaper “Narodno deloP and specialized online portal for literature and human sciences “Liternet”.

www.contempo-weekend2009.blogspot.com/

 

Multimedia Project “I am/want to be”

This is our first independent project. We want to identify ourselves in society through this project and to promote our understanding of modern art as well as our ideas of exhibiting it in an alternative environment.

Our exhibition consisted of sound , video and photography. Five different young artists to be introduced: the painter Stefka Georgieva, the writer Elena Vladova, the musician-composer Nikolay Yordanov, the theatre director and screenwriter Elitsa Mateeva, the choreograph Georgi Enchev – Goosh whose main environment is the street dance.

All this will happen in one Motor garage in the heart of Varna during 2 evenings – on 9th and 10th September 2009. Authors of the project are 3 members of the Association “Sea Blue” – the photographer Radostina Valchanova, Svetlana Valkova – journalist at Radio Varna, Dimitar Dimitrov – music editor at Radio Varna.

The idea of “I am /want to be” is to promote modern art through the most recent artistic forms and its creators. The collation of modern artistic forms and alternative urban environment will be the most fundamental feature of the projects of the Association “Sea Blue”.

The title of the project suggests that the artists- participants and the members of “Sea Blue” are already confirmed and achieved professionals in their art sectors but cooperating together they want to give a new face of modern art here and now.