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Org.of Sofia Art Week/runningÆther Studios/
Curating at @kochibiennale
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Thank you @bobokovahristina and @darik.bg for the invitation to talk about SAW SOFIA ART WEEK 9 Post Contemporary Survival Strategies You can hear the full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/live/Qu3cwOBx0gA?si=1K9F6mtzNzIwIVfk Opening 24 Oct - 1 Nov 2026 @dozagallery @nivo.events @figura.artspace @rooom_spaceofideas @aether_sofia @bobbina_cs
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This is my new homemade bread that you can buy from me in the price for bread in Gaza that currently costs varies significantly depending on whether it is subsidized or bought on the black market, with a pack of bread ranging from 70 to 90 shekels (approximately $19 to $24 USD). All collected money will go to @untoldpalestine
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Presenting artists SAW SOFIA ART WEEK 9 Olga Volodina @artvolodina Olga Volodina is a conceptual photographer and performance artist working with social and political themes: censorship, propaganda, gender stereotypes, human rights, the place of human beings in the world of technology. Born in Uzbekistan and raised in Russia, she spent 13 years in Thailand and now lives in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her work has been presented in 23 countries across Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas. For the festival she will present an installation and a performance called: THIRSTY AI How much water does a machine drink? Every question asked to ChatGPT, every image generated by a neural network costs clean drinking water taken from non-renewable sources. Corporations train their models while half of humanity lives with water shortages. More than two billion people have no access to clean drinking water, and every day a thousand children die because of it. In the performance THIRSTY AI, Olga Volodina makes this invisible consumption tangible. The performance is part of the project The Impact of Technological Progress on Humanity in the Future. The project raises questions that have no answers yet: who benefits from robotics and artificial intelligence, whether this is a path to human development or its degradation, whether humanity needs machines that think, create and work instead of it. Photographs, stop-motion films, installations and performances speak of the price of progress: unemployment, the depletion of the planet’s resources, and a human being ever less capable of creating with their own hands.
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Introducing artists SAW 9 Pablo Alvez Artinprocess @pabloalvezartinprocess Pablo is a performance artist (UK/PT/BE) who started performing after he met Steven Cohen. He completed a PhD in poverty economics in 2012, but his artisic explorations led him to complete a 2nd PhD recently, this time around on performance art and ethics. He realises ethics is not enough, and that the divide between performance art and real-world politics is a farce, so now his aim is to create impure performance art which is not only meaningful, but also purposeful, bodily, touching and hopefully experimental, too. He does not know if he will succeed. For SAW he brings a new creation, “The Full Monty”, the first installment of his ACTIVE UNAGGRESSIVE cycle. It mixes cabaret with pamplet distribution and participatory lecture: songs will be sung, papers will be shared and questions will be asked. Warning: might contain traces of nuts 🌰.
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Before inviting you WÆ would like to share crucially, SAW SOFIA ART WEEK 9 operates on a zero-budget model, emerging as a direct response to European institutions redirecting cultural funding toward militarization. SOFT OPENING : 24 OCT - 17-19h. @trotoar_atelier 20:00- late @nivo.events HARD OPENING : 26 OCT - 18h @dozagallery POST CONTEMPORARY SURVIVAL STRATEGIES In broken timeframe, the future has already arrived — unevenly, violently, absurdly, and yet somehow predicted. It comes in different shapes and forms-through our screens, or algorithms, background deamons, pricy wars, horrific news, a missing windows of a contreate wall, a games of thrones, and trolls, human sacrifies for sake of other’s safety, through heat rising from the pavement, or plastic in our bloodstream analysed as new data. El Niño the oracle synched in collapse, political extremism from each side of the globe, technological acceleration, and yet needing cheap labour, loneliness, fear of other, Onlyfans celebrity accounts-for your fans only! Exhaustion, displacement, but nowhere to run, migration labeled -crime against humanity! A sharade, grotesque, backdrop of a motion picture of a bunch of people dancing till they die… But lets rewind and come back here NOW. The festival is aiming to make a distingtion between what is real and what is performed. Lets call this condition post contemporary. As the human condition has been depicted and ceased, not because the contemporary has ended, but because it has become impossible to contain. Too many realities happening at once, the more crises overlap. Do we have the deal right, or is our brain supposed to authomatically expand? The smell of burned petol reminds me of the future, any yet I lost my smell during COVID-19. In GOD WE TRUST- remained most popular psalm of the holly currency in book keeping… Sofia Art Week 9 invites you to this terr(OR)itorry through witnessing — performance as experiment, intevention, encounter, rehearsal, resistance, ritual, failure, invitation, care and possibility. Our bubble becomes our desire to test drive how we might exist differently. No answers, No solutions, No predictions, but strategies
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If that wasn’t a TALENT SHOW, I dont know what is! Thanks to all incredible artists who took part and shared the best of their qualities! Big thanks to the super pro hosts from @nivo.events , to @kv.art.al for their overwhelming program, our special guests @iva_todorova_ and each one of you who gave your time !!! @elittna @elipencheva_ @maria.makedonska apertures @folkgroup Yoan @masha @irroktopuz @danielneuman @geshevaa @m_lakova @aether_sofia
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“I think” we shouldn’t skip the “dubito” before the “ergo sum”… We are all fairies anyway 🧚 Playing acoustic at @nivo.events this evening(19/09)! See you at @kv.art.al
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In the midst of world depression, I’m grateful to be standing, and happy to invite you to my performance intervention OLD BUT GOLD during the opening reception of a new art space in Sofia @rooom_spaceofideas . Friday 18 September 2026 at 8pm. @kv.art.al festival, on the premises of the formal chocolate factory. Old But Gold is a poetic puzzle disguised as a performance. Offering plates filled with fragments of words—instead of food, pieces of language, memories, questions, and meanings. Nothing is complete. Through a poetry battle, the audience becomes part of a construction , rearrangement and discoveries. Each new order creates a different meaning, a different story, a brand new truth. In the evening you will also hear poetry by the author herself Virginia Zaharieva And soundscapes by @alem_bay and @akivanderley @aether_sofia
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Last days OPEN CALL SAW SOFIA ART WEEK 9 Post Contemporary Survival Strategies Send your proposal to @aether_sofia Email: aetherartsofia@gmail.com In partnership with @dozagallery
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Dear everyone! For the upcoming edition of the most vibrant urban festival in Sofia @kv.art.al 17-19 Sept 2026 Æther Sofia @aether_sofia is calling out to all the talents outs there!!! 🎭 KVARTAL FESTIVAL IS LOOKING FOR TALENT! Do you sing? Dance? Tell jokes? Write poetry? Play an instrument? Have a weird, peculiar , unexpected idea or skill you’ve been dying to share? We want YOU on our open stage! Æther is inviting all kinds of talents to perform in a beautiful space in the middle of town, a club with many charms✨ This is not a competition. There are no winners or losers — because we believe everyone is a talent. We’re looking for short acts of all kinds: 🎵 Music & singing 💃 Dance 🎤 Stand-up & comedy 📖 Poetry & spoken word 🎭 Performance & conceptual acts 🎸 Instrumental performances 🤹 Something completely different? If you have a talent, an idea, or simply something you want to share — we want to see it! Come take the stage, surprise us, surprise yourself, and be part of the creative energy of KvArtal Festival. ❤️ Think you’ve got something? Step up! Send your technical rider and shirt description of your act to Voindevoin@gmail.com Or directly here in instagram @aether_sofia 📍 Sofia 🎪 Open Stage ✨ All talents welcome
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2 weeks before the deadline of submitting ideas for the 9th edition of SAW SOFIA ART WEEK With working title •Post Contemporary Survival Strategies• here are some subtopics and questions to explode and dig deeper for the ones that the call speaks… Send proposals to @aether_sofia In partnership with @dozagallery
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SAW SOFIA ART WEEK 9 Open Call @aether_sofia in partnership with @dozagallery , are thrilled to bring to you the call for the upcoming edition of SAW: POST CONTEMPORARY SURVIVAL STRATEGIES Art Proposals for Performative Responses Against the backdrop of broadcasted genocides, endless wars mistaken for spectacles, full on climate change unfolding, microplastics embedded in our bodies, AI takeover, far- right politics, and dehumanisation in so many levels, we find ourselves at the end stand of the post- contemporary age. How do we survive in a world where crises overlap, realities fragment, and attention has become a contested resource? What gestures, rituals, tactics, and fictions help us navigate the post-contemporary condition? Sofia Art Week 9 invites artists, performers, choreographers, writers, musicians, and interdisciplinary practitioners to submit proposals for performative works that respond to the theme Post Contemporary Survival Strategies. We seek projects that understand performance as a living methodology—a way of testing, rehearsing, resisting, adapting, caring, imagining, and surviving. Proposals may take the form of live performance, participatory actions, interventions, lectures, rituals, sound works, embodied practices, or hybrid formats that challenge conventional exhibition models. Possible points of departure include: * Survival as artistic practice * Collective resilience and mutual aid * Ecological adaptation * Digital and algorithmic existence * Bodies under pressure * Care as resistance * Speculative futures * Rituals for uncertain times * Systems of collapse and regeneration * Humor, absurdity, and poetic acts of endurance We encourage experimental, process-based, and site-responsive proposals that engage critically and imaginatively with contemporary realities. This open call welcomes emerging and established practitioners working across disciplines. Survival is not only endurance. It is invention. Deadline 1 September 2026 Please submit your proposal to : aetherartsofia@gmail.com WÆ are looking forward to come together again…
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