Public discussion with the team behind the Bulgarian Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale
How was the installation The Neighbours created? A collective discussion on 7 May at the University of Regensburg
The official Bulgarian entry to this year’s Venice Art Biennale is notable for many reasons. The multimedia installation The Neighbours explores suppressed and faded memories of survivors of communist repression in Bulgaria. The work has received significant international media coverage and acclaim. This dark side of Bulgarian postwar history is hardly discussed in the country, which makes this artistic intervention all the more important. Particularly interesting is the way The Neighbours came to be created, as it is the result of over twenty years of research. It is the collective outcome of a team featuring not only artists but also historians and a clinical psychologist.
Members of the collective will speak at 18:00 on Tuesday, 7 May in lecture theatre H26 (Vielberth-Building) at the University of Regensburg about the creative process behind The Neigbours. Their work involved numerous interviews with survivors of state violence. The installation recreates some of the homes of survivors, the setting for the interviews. A central question guiding the team was how we remember, carry and forget trauma. They ask whether art can provide a way to make the survivors’ experiences more widely known.
This discussion is chaired by Vera Beyer, professor of Historical Visual Studies at the University of Regensburg. The discussion, The Making of the Neighbours: The artist studio as a transitory archive or how to visualise silenced histories?, takes place in English. The event is free and open to all.
The talk is organized by the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in the Modern World, where Lilia Topouzova, a member of The Neighbours team, is a visiting researcher. It takes place in collaboration with Center for Commemorative Culture (ZE), the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) and the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies at UR.
Wissenschaftlicher Ansprechpartner:
Dr. Paul Vickers
Manager of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America
Tel.: +49 941 943 5964
E-Mail: campus@europeamerica.de
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https://www.europeamerica.de/news-and-events/detail/artist-talk-7-may-the-making-of-the-neighbours.html
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