The 8th of Mart Group

:: CHANGING OF PLACES ::

general view

idea

participants

exhibition

diaries

conference

MEETING PLACES

Introduction

Sabina Baumann and Christina Della Giustina are participating in the project “Changing of places” organized by the artists group "8-mi Mart", Bulgaria.
For this project they have been working for ten days in Plovdiv and Sofia, producing a video installation. Their encounter with the cultural conditions in Bulgaria, as well as extended conversations with the members of the inviting and organizing group of women artists, has shown the need not only for an exhibition of works realized by all participating artists. But also to call into presence a basic and open discussion in Sofia regarding the issues of gender, globalization, and new technologies, issues, which doubtlessly are addressed by the project.
They extended their contribution and organized in addition to their video presentation a public forum for direct communication, called "Meeting Places”.

MEETING PLACES

Gender, Globalization, And New Technologies In Contemporary Artistic Practices

Artist Forum, Lectures, Panel Discussion

ATA center for contemporary art, Sofia, November 10, 2001

The public forum consists of three platforms providing divers settings for a free communication among the artists, a mutual and informative exchange, and an open discussion on the issues of gender, globalization, and new technology in contemporary artistic practices - artist-forum:

The two-hours artist-forum is set up for verbal and performative contributions on the own artistic practices by all in the project “Changing of Places’ participating artists. It provides the possibility for information, contact, conversation, and unconstrained exchange about the issues addressed.- lectures:

Four lectures by art-critics, theoreticians, and curators on the topics of gender, globalization, and new technologies inform about recent artistic and curatorial practices concerning contemporary methods, discourses, and strategies of understanding, addressing, and dealing with the complexity of issues involved in the topic.

The speakers were: Annette Schindler, Basel, CH; Ursula Biemann, Zurich, CH;
Nebojsha Vilic - Skopie, Macedonia; Maria Vassileva, Sofia, Bulgaria.
All lectures introduced and discussed the topic according to their recent curatorial and artistic practices. They provided exemplary views on the discussion of gender, globalization, and new technologies by introducing their experience and contemporary strategies of dealing with the issue.

- panel-discussion:

The panel-discussion includes the participating artists, the speakers and critics, and the public. Moderator of the discussion: Luchezar Boyadjiev, Sofia.