Bora Petkova and HR-Stamenov

Bora Petkova and HR-Stamenov visual narratives and suppositions

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Artist and Institution

Working with institutions and institutional spaces is a challenge and theme in Risk Capital (Bora Petkova, 2012) and Variable Physical Status (HRStamenov, 2011). At both approaches to the topic, the authors stage the play putting themselves in a seemingly official, almost protocol relations with the institutions for the visual authenticity of which, the original environments and settings take a major role. A closer reading of the works however, reveal a different reality behind the scenario in which this confidence is the result from the artistic tools management and is practically unenforceable in the actual relationship between the artist and the institution.

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Bora Petkova Risk Capital 2012 HD Video, PAL, 16:9, 00:03:29, with original audio View: UniCredit Studio, UniCredit Bulbank Sofia. Bulgaria Produced by UniCredit Studio, Sofia https://vimeo.com/45009287

The nature of work of an Artist and a Bank is defiantly different at first glance.

The regulation of this relation is to find the right language of communication and its documentation by which the artistic ideas and tools and the corporate bank culture to collaborate creating new values. The work consists of two original safes, two pairs of original keys and a video. The safes (dating from 1906-10) are both requisite part of the work and operative safes, locked after years being out of standard for use. The keys to safes - a set of a bank and a client’s key, are set in frames, there visualizing the concept of shared ownership - the ownership of the bank on the bank assets and my ownership on the work. The video documents a standard bank procedure - the visit of a tenant to the personal safe.

HR-Stamenov Variable Physical Status 2011 HD Video, PAL, 16:9, 00:01:51, without audio View: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Bulgaria Produced by Art Project Depot, Sofia https://vimeo.com/45191467

Humans adopt space-time autonomy!

One of them was a young but successful Bulgarian politician, who was too worried and a little nervous about himself and his “variable” status of existence and so he disappeared. In fact the person was engulfed by a sudden strong Light. From this moment that bio element was captured into a kind of a transport corridor or the “Zero Space” (a dimension parallel to the current time-space line) i.e. the dimension which the object enters when shifted through remote transport from point (A) to point (B). After its disappearance the element adopts space time autonomy and the capability to appear and reappear at different places but to never return to its normal stable physical status.

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Risk Capital

original stills from video

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Variable Physical Status

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Light, Space and Matter

The dynamic relationship between light, space and matter, and especially their origin, expression and perception are the themes of Light Spot (Bora Petkova, Biella (Italy) and Antakya (Turkey), 2010), Black hole VS light hole (HR-Stamenov, 2010) and Interference Between Light and Matter (HR-Stamenov, 2009-2010). The quasi-scientific theories and visual experiments of HR-Stamenov, are highlighted with a minimalist behavior and even laboratory hermetism in relation to space exposure. Monitoring of scientific hypotheses and theorized phenomena, is he main impression of the works. In addition, the work of Bora Petkova on human perception of objects and relationships in the visible man-made world, treats the reality of existence as a metaphysical matter, where the visual and semantic transformations determined and studied, obtaine the value of an artwork.

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Bora Petkova Light Spot 2010 Installation view: Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella. Italy Light Spot began as site specific work in process regarding my space perceptions and in general the correlation between the personal positioning and a given environment.

I am interested in the individual transformations of the “common habitat”. While assembling an unique space and object setting one constructs his/her own ambient. Working in a common space I found that the interior is rich with “in between” places and spaces. Often these locations positioned between the large surfaces and big space volumes and thus hidden from the general view, reveal to be micro detailed. My intervention on these found “in between” common and individual places, aims to disconnect them from their subjective to the general space status. Using light and text as tools I turn them into autonomous light points. This extracts them from the surrouding space and focuses the attention on their unpopular, yet familiar side strangely arranged by the light.

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My idea is that the personal presence and influence, loads the environment and the objects with Meta matter existence of a monument. The gazing and over focusing at parts of the interior, unfolds the irrational status of the objects beyond their name, practical purpose and physical use. Based on found situations my light and text interventions with different scale of focus, connect the individual working areas and the vast, anonymous indoor “ambient landscapes”.

Black hole VS light hole 2010 Installation view: Spinola Banna per Arte Foundation Turin, Italy Light Hole is the opposite of Black Hole.

The Light Hole phenomenon could appear suddenly on the ground level or in the Earth atmosphere.

Light Holes can be seen at every part of the day for the observation of which a special equipment is not needed. The main quality of the Light Holes is that they can “swallow” objects from the reality by opening a Space-Time tunnel. The object captured by a Light Hole can disappear from its current location “A” and can appear again at unknown and unpredicted location “B”. During this transition the object falls into the Quantum Multiverse. Subsequently, obtaining the quality for Space-Time Autonomy, the object enters a Temporary Status of its existence which allows the uncontrolled motion continuum of its appearances.

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Interference Between Light and Matter 2009 Site specific light installation Photo print on duraclear, low consumption lamps, chalk and sugar crystals.

Not specified dimensions Installation view: Green House, LaVersiliana Foundation Pietrasanta, Italy Produced by: Vehicle Projects. Forte dei Marmi

Light Spot 2010 Site specific light installation 11 spot lights, light bulbs 20 Watt each, extension plugs, cables, 2 wooden frames with text in Turkish and English Not specified dimensions Installation view: 2nd International Antakya Biennial, Kurshunlu Han, Antakya. Turkey

In order to develop the theory of the quantum teleportation, the idea of this work is presented through the indirect use of the electrical current of the lamps. The amount of matter increases proportionally to the progressive passage of light.

Light Spot is site specific investigation on the architecture of human presence, space occupation and abandonment, on site micro archeology, excavation in memory, flow and accumulation of time. Depending on the circumstances I am using the media of photography, sound, found objects and situations, light, text etc. At Light Spot realized in Antakya (ancient Antioch), Turkey I conducted micro excavations in a room at a 16th century building. After a careful cleaning of the randomly and by negligence discarded debris and litter, under the abuse accumulated with time, I found the traces of peoples life and work. I pointed these places by installing light spots, there leading the visitor through a hidden and forgotten story of their past and present.

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Bora Petkova Light Spot 2010 Installation view: Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella. Italy A second aspect of the work is the interpretation of the working process itself. Intervening on parts of the space with more common use, I tried to reveal a different notion for reality, transformed to extraordinary one, due to the personal resonance affecting the status quo. As a third part of the project, I tried to make a narrative connecting the individual working areas and the larger scale indoor “ambient landscapes�.

The physical and mental change of distance and focus on these situations, resulted in change of perception. In a way, this attempt to reconsider the objective-subjective axis was telescopically extendable, allowing me to develop the notion of the visible realm as an endless one.

Placing myself in the role of a rope-player, looking forward or backward, there was no start or finish base, but the start and finish it was always me. So I had to be even more my self, making every focused step on the rope...or there is no rope?

HR-Stamenov Interference Between Light and Matter #2 /different increase stages of matter in relation with the light 2010 Installation views: Spinola Banna per Arte Foundation Turin, Italy Bora Petkova and HR-Stamenov visual narratives and suppositions Š

Light, Man and Meaning

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Bora Petkova Light Spot in Sanremo 2010 Portable desk lamp, light bulb 20 Watt, found situations, audio and photo documentation Not specified dimensionsDifferent privet and public properties in Pigna di Sanremo. Italy How to define the notion of light in all the aspects it assumes?

In the beginning of my work in La Pigna, San Remo I noticed that the historical landmark plates are written also in Braille. I thought that being able to see is not enough to go beyond the “postcard” perception of a place. I came to the point to understand, that what is related to the idea of light is not just the ability of seeing the visible world, it is not the source of light itself and it is not the reflected light also...Maybe different kind of senses, approach and knowledge is needed to start to see.

HR-Stamenov The Nightmare of Prometheus (a neo-romantic artwork) 2011 Stroboscopic lamps, light mixer, audio speakers, microphones, audio mixer, mirrors, lighting controller, wands, computers, audio players, infra red sensors.

Light and sound experimental performance in collaboration with maestro Alzek Misheff Views: Palazzo Thea, Acqui Terme, Italy http://vimeo.com/27114755 An orchestra director with two sticks controlls a raging storm inside a baroque building. Rising his right hand he would call for thunder, while his left hand would control the lightning.

This performance is realized through the use of high tech equipment, such as the altering of electro-magnetic waves and interactive infra-red sensors.

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Another aspect of the issue of nature of Light is the relation Ligh and Man seen in the works Light Spot (Bora Petkova, San Remo (Italy), 2010) and The Nightmare of Prometheus (a neo-romantic artwork), (HR-Stamenov, 2011). With references to ancient Greek mythology, romanticism and modern scientific achievements in the manipulation of natural forces, HR-Stamenov puts an experiment in which the man is playing a dominant on the nature role. In collaboration with maestro Alzek Misheff, from an authentic Italian Baroque building (the maestro’s residence), an orchestrated storm is induced. In this experiment the natural phenomenon and in particular its manifestation through light and sound is seen as a creation of human will and thought. On the other hand, the work Light Spot of Bora Petkova, interprets the light as a tool of man towards the achievement of divine and earthly knowledge.

Light in this work should not be considered being directly controlled as in The Nightmare of Prometheus of HR-Stamenov, but still it is inserted in the role of a medium and allotted by rational, narrative and symbolic functions.

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HR-Stamenov The Nightmare of Prometheus (a neo-romantic artwork) 2011

Bora Petkova Light Spot in Sanremo 2010

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Natural processes and displacements

Displacement as a natural or social process, routine of everyday life, change at the focus of perception, migration or a hypothesis for travel between realities. What happens in the starting and final point before, during and after the shift, what are the factors of a shift, how the object changes during the shift?

The links between architecture, geometry and natural processes and the testing of their visual and semantic perception, motivated by the impressive spatial presence is the basis on which the works To Full Evaporation (Bora Petkova, 2008-2010) and the Space 0 Space (HR-Stamenov , 2011-2012) are built. Through the synchronization of audio and lighting equipment, HR-Stamenov is directing storms in confined spaces. The work is considered for interior or exterior perception regarding to the building in which it is installed. Visible on the facade or inside into a separate room, however the storm always remains inaccessible to the viewer. Thus, HR-Stamenov achieves a certain dominance over nature and “taming� of the element, while at the same time preserving the mystery circumstances surrounding its occurrence. In To Full Evaporation, Bora Petkova is monitoring the processes of transformation of matter and consciousness. The stage design involved with the work underlies the relationship between aggregate states and their changing with time visual language, visible and invisible and hence conscious and unconscious dimensions and processes, and the factors for transition in the perceptions of the viewer.

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Bora Petkova To Full Evaporation 2008 42 units 3/ 90/ 90 cm each: steel 2mm, flat black polymer finishing, water Installation views: Rayko Alexiev Gallery, Sofia. Bulgaria

To Full Evaporation is exploring the “self making” of an art work. The role of time and space organization here is related to static and dynamic levels of visual, physical and mental perception and categorization. The process of evaporation is adapted for visual identification, through the tools of physics, geometry and architecture. The change of the physical state of the matter, caused by certain conditions, is seen as an invisible dimension of the work, e.g. how the physical process of transformation is identified as a changing with time space dimension, completing the other linear two.

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The installation To Full Evaporation is presented in 42 steel black units filled with water which evaporates completely during the period of the exhibition. During the evaporation, the chemical compounds of the water remain as a colored in white residue on the bottom of the elements. These deposits are delicate, yet visible lines unique for each unit, drawing repeatedly the outlines of the shrinking water areas.

Bora Petkova To Full Evaporation 2008 Installation view: Rayko Alexiev Gallery, Sofia. Bulgaria (details)

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Displacement may be the way one to define the quasi-scientific experiment carried out by HR-Stamenov. In the specific spaces assets of the European architectural tradition he has elected to use for his project, the artist has installed an incredibly simple mechanism that re-creates the perceptual conditions of a storm. One thinks of how theatre has always sought to re-stage reality through the combination of simple elements such as light and sound. The meteorological conditions usually reinforce the dramatic aspect of a narrative, which in that case is just reduced to a fragment. The rest of the drama will have to be imagined by the spectator.

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HR-Stamenov / Space 0 Space /storm inside buildings/ outdoor and indoor experiments http://vimeo.com/37409105 http://vimeo.com/44989422 HR-Stamenov Space 0 Space 2011-2012 Stroboscopic lamps, light mixer, audio speakers, audio mixer, courtains, fans and mirrors.

Variable dimensions Installation views: - Palazzetto Tito, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation Venice, Italy - Likovni salon gallery, Center for Contemporary Arts Celje, Slovenia Bora Petkova and HR-Stamenov visual narratives and suppositions Š

Routine daily displacements

The autonomy of an object can be barred due to unclaimed ownership or to be the result of an accident. The autonomy of man can be just a personal choice. Stop being a tourist. Start a revolution. Start feeling at home. (Bora Petkova, 2011) and The Ghost Metro Trains (HR-Stamenov, 2009-2012) ask questions about determining the membership and belongingness to a particular place, the circumstances of our relationship of commitment and the factors which may misbalance or terminate it.

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Bora Petkova “Stop being a tourist. Start a revolution. Start feeling at home.”

2011-2012 Series of small interventions, observations and deductions in collaboration with: History Museum-Plovdiv and Department for Contemporary History, Lichtenberg Studios, Stasi Museum, Goethe-institut and the city of Berlin Part from Bora Petkova / HR-Stamenov Time Geometry

HR-Stamenov “The Phenomenon of W24°58’59,43” N42°07’55,29” 2009 Dvd player, 3 screens 290x200 each , 3 HD media projectors , audio speakers.

Installation view: Kistlerhofstrasse.70 / Haus 60 //3.Stock 81379 München.

Platform3 Räume für zeitgenössische Kunst Supported by: Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart. Germany

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The Ghost Metro Trains..

2009-2012

A whole cycle of works is dedicated to teleportation, the old but as yet unfulfilled dream of generations of scientists, writers and sci-fi characters. The artist is using the word “teleportation” while explaining the mysterious disappearance of a train in Bulgaria some years ago with some kind of a light hole (W24° 58’59,43” N42°07’55,29”. The unexplored qualities of this phenomenon are making it a multi-exit space/time portal that is the reason why this train is making appearances at differentplaces and in different times. Not without irony for the condition of the people’s minds of today that have been heavily brainwashed by the speculative mass media, HR-Stamenov is in fact “staging the conditions of possibility” for the phenomenon of this train’s appearance to be observed. He is choosing a moment and a situation to invite his audience to untraditional locations around Florence, Milan and Munich in order that they become eyewitnesses for the seemingly unexplainable occurrence (unlike going to an art exhibition with its predefined rituals).

Iara Boubnova AFTERWORD HR-Stamenov -PRESENCE / Exhibitoon catalogue 2011 Published by Studio Tommaseo per Trieste Contemporanea, Italy

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Stop being a tourist. Start a revolution. Start feeling at home.

Photo, video and text documentation from the process Different locations in Berlin, Germany

Stop being a tourist. Start a revolution. Start feeling at home., traces the relationship between seemingly distanced in space and time situations, objects and actions. I constructed a narrative and statement for the notion of Home, combining an inscription from a billboard (1), series of found photographs of ikebana (2), attempts for urban levitation (3) and their documentation with video, photographs and text. Gravity and its absence, belonging, social and space arrangement, tolerance and tension together with the silent adjustment of the individual are some of the issues related to this work.

1. „Stop being a tourist. Start a revolution. Start feeling at home.” Inscription from a billboard of 9flats.com, found in Berlin, Germany.

2. Ikebana (生け花 “living flowers”) is the Japanese art of flower arrangement, also known as kadō (花道 the “way of flowers”).”Ikebana” is from the Japanese ikeru (生ける “to place, to arrange, life, birth”) and hana (花 “flower”). Possible translations include “giving life to flowers” and “arranging flowers”.

3. Levitation (from the Latin levis-light) is the process by which an object is suspended against gravity, in a stable position without any solid physical contact. Levitation is also a “magic” trick in which a person or object being lifted into space, without foreign or whatever interference. Most often it is done mechanically, using special lightning, etc.

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Bora Petkova Stop being a tourist. Start a revolution. Start feeling at home., 2011 Still from HD.16:9.Color.00:03:48h video documentation from the process Different locations in Berlin, Germany http://vimeo.com/32963573

HR-Stamenov Ghost Train in Milan, 2009 DvD players, audio speakers, media projector, screens Installation views: Via Pepe 14 Milano. Produced by Isola Art Center Milano, Italy http://www.undo.net/it/videopool/1243518721

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Bora Petkova Stop being a tourist. Start a revolution. Start feeling at home.

2011 Photo credits HR-Stamenov

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HR-Stamenov Ticket Inspector Ghost Train in Savona, 2012 View: Corso Italia 157r.

Produced by Dietro le Quinte - Savona, italy http://vimeo.com/43464707 http://vimeo.com/38026092

HR-Stamenov The Ghost Train in Celje, 2012 Installation view:Trg celjskih knezov 9 Produced by: 13 vsop prost 2012 and Center for Contemporary Arts Celje, Slovenia http://vimeo.com/44625096

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Multiverse displacements

The assumption that human presence has a constant resonance in space and time and interfere with other presences is based behind the works Somewhere Else (Bora Petkova, 2009) and PRESENCE (HR-Stamenov, 2011). Realized in galleries, both installations hypothesize space and time as a single multilayered structure saturated with networks of passages in which tangible presences of other times and locations circulate and interact.

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Somewhere Else Somewhere Else deals with dislocation, impossibility of isolation and the constant interaction between simultaneous realities. I transferred the respiratory functions of the individual to the architecture through the conceptualized use of air duct systems. Each closed space is connected to an external environment through its circulating ventilation system. At Somewhere Else air ducts are mounted in the gallery space, in order to simulate an operating ventilation system. Inside the ducts are installed MP3 players and PC sound speakers, so that the steel bodies of the air ducts amplify the sound adding an echo effect. I am using the media of sound to transmit external for the gallery space yet recognizable sound experiences and to provoke the idea for unexpected close presence, penetrating through the solid walls. With this I am implying the existence of alternative space-time passages through the architecture of the building or channels connecting the “here and now” from the gallery with “ some when / somewhere else”.

Bora Petkova Somewhere Else

HR-Stamenov PRESENCE “PRESENCE” is an ambient interactive installation where visitors interfere with the gallery electrical system. When someone approaches the installation space, the house lights decrease and increase in intensity according to the movements of the onlookers.

A shadow of someone behind the gallery’s side door keeps moving, shakes, attempts to enter, but is left outside for the whole time.

There’s an audio track with the sound of someone silently standing alone.

Three different levels of presence between the space itself and the visitors are thus experienced.

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Bora Petkova Somewhere Else 2009 Zinc plated steel air ducts, PC speakers-5 pears, MP3 players-5 pieces Not specified dimensions Partial view: Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia. Bulgaria

HR-Stamenov PRESENCE 2011 DVD player, 2 projectors, infrared sensor,100-watt bulb, light controller.

Not specified dimensions Partial view: Studio Tommaseo per Trieste Contemporanea,Trieste, Italy http://vimeo.com/34294701

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PRESENCE Different stages of interaction between the visitors and the gallery light

Somewhere Else Partial view

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Speaking of migration, dislocation and belongingness, the theme of identity follows logically in the works Ambiguous Activities (HR-Stamenov, 2011) and Next Move (Bora Petkova, 2009-2010). As the train from The Ghost Metro Trains (HR-Stamenov, 2009-2012) appears spontaneously at different places, the same way an unidentified ghost or spirit appears and disappears in Ambiguous Activities. Drawing the map of their appearances, disturbing the routine of passers with their unstable and erratic presence, both contacting and isolated, the ghost train and the phantom are in constant motion, even when we see them not. In Stop being a tourist. Start a revolution. Start feeling at home. (2011), Bora Petkova is looking for visualization of the concept of Home, apparently calmly balancing on elements of the urban environment, mimicking a state of levitation.

In Next Move the traceability of uniqueness of the individual gesture, melts in the accumulation and repetition of the same action. Remains only the sole contemplation of the large-scale picture of the movement.

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Ambiguous Activities / Appearance 03 2011 View: Schule an der Victoriastadt, Berlin, Germany http://vimeo.com/32705409

Ambiguous Activities / Appearance 04 2012 View: History Museum-Plovdiv, Bulgaria http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7bLppyqBEM

Bora Petkova Next Move 2010 400 sheets of paper A4 with white self adhesive labels, 105.0 / 25.0 mm each Installation view: Indefinite Destinations, DEPO, Istanbul. Turkey Next Move is an interactive installation, where the repeating of one action by different people, results in an expanding, not directed, expressive, yet delicate pattern. I am interested in the construction of a monumental non figurative picture referring to the images and models of historical mass migrations. The phenomenon of genes migration, migration due to climate changes, conquest of new lands and resources, political and economical reasons, the rights for free movement and work, is visualized through the different models of individual movement and gestures. The installation is a result of cooperation, where people fit with similarities, indicate their strong identity or are absorbed by the expanding presence of other individualities. For the installation are used only white labels to highlight the dramatic assimilation of the single gesture.

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HR-Stamenov Ambiguous Activities / Appearance 01 / 2011 / View: Museum LICHTENBERG im Stadthaus, Berlin, Germany http://vimeo.com/37849648

Bora Petkova Next Move 2009 200 sheets of paper A4 with white self adhesive labels, 70.0 / 35.0 mm each Installation view: BAZA Award for Contemporary Bulgarian Art, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia. Bulgaria Bora Petkova and HR-Stamenov visual narratives and suppositions Š

Transit Through the Physical World Collaboration project of HR–Stamenov and Bora Petkova 2010 Light and sound installation at public space Port of Varna. Bulgaria

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The project Transit Through the Physical World is realized in a cargo container

Transit Through the Physical World Port of Varna Stills from documentary video https://vimeo.com/45789686 Bora Petkova and HR-Stamenov visual narratives and suppositions Š

The use of the container as a space of the event, aims to compare the traditional and experimental ways to travel and transport and to provoke the perceptions and concentration limits of sound into a shape.

The idea for interactivity between multiple realities is presented through a sequence of overlapping sound tracks each one preceded from a flash light. This visualization roots in personal experiences and some mutations of the psycho-physical reality into transcendental one.

The audio-visual result consists of series of light flashes, which evoke appearance and accumulation of sound, presenting the different audibly recognizable sources.

The process goes ahead with a series of flash lights evoking the amassing multitude of sound tracks - the alternatives of the current spacetime location.

The juxtaposition between the form and size of the container and the amassing sound signal volume, determines the course of the work.

Through the last phase, the sound turns into noise, due to the multilayered construction of tracks.

Bora Petkova and HR-Stamenov Transit Through the Physical World Stills from documentary video

https://vimeo.com/45789686

Reaching a certain point of accumulation in the current space-time location which is dramatically confronting to the fixed shape and size of the container, the sound is being dislocated, preceded from one last light flash - the factor responsible for its appearance.

The operation reflects on the expanded concept for diversity and simultaneity of physical existences and the connection between matter, form, energy and momentum.

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Temporary City Monuments

Thinking about sculpture in urban environment, most often the associations bring us to the decorative designs that arrange public spaces and on the other hand the monuments. There are permanent and temporary monuments. The works Delicate contact / Standing on my own feet (Bora Petkova, 2008) and 1:125 (HR-Stamenov, 2009) are temporary sculpture in urban environment. Their development in the direction of dynamic transformations between form and environment and even the physical autonomy of the sculpture in urban environments, have been hypothesized and realized respectively in the works Beyond the borders (Bora Petkova, 2008, In collaboration with architectural studio CONVEYER), Flying Urban Decorations (HR -Stamenov, 2012) and Autonomous Sanctity (HR-Stamenov, 2012, From the series: Independent Monuments).

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Delicate contact / Standing on my own feet 2008 250x300x400, aluminum 10 mm.

Installation view: HOFER PODIUM, Hof, Germany

1:125 2009 120x96x80 black colored wood box , 2x1000w par projectors, ribbon.

Installation view: Piazza Poggi Florence, Italy

The object recalls the shape of an airplane, lightly touching the ground.

1:125 is dedicated to the life activity of the Dutch islamist Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje. The work is probably the first terro-artistic intervention in Florence.

The main intention was to evoke the sense of freedom creating a simple, logic and readable form. The most ambitious part of the project, the orientation of the form at the particular square, needed respect and understanding while working in public spaces.

Installed at the city center, the artwork is a reproduction of Kaaba in Mecca in a scale of 1:125 with addition of a powerfull and blinding light coming from inside.

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Bora Petkova Beyond the borders 2008 In collaboration with architectural studio CONVEYER

HR-Stamenov The idea for this performance, starts with my intention to present the HOFER PODIUM, Bulgarian Object 2008, on Bulgarian scene. The goal is the decentralization of the Art events, enlarging the perimeter of places with interesting history, status and perspective for development and to rise some interest towards their potential as alternative Art spaces.The current situation of the Bulgarian sculpture in public space, led me to the idea that the presentation of the object as an echo of the realization in Hof, Germany doesn’t make a critical comment on the subject. The choice of location for the performance fell on an ex-factory, now functioning as an office building. “Beyond the borders”, exercises the temporary situations, the power of impact with the current creative act - capturing the moment, the facts and stages from a long process for both place and object are parts from this unique situation. The point of this event is not the cloning of an all ready existing object, but the development of process based connections between the situation, the object and the action.

Flying Urban Decorations 2012-ongoing From the series: Independent Monuments

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Bora Petkova Beyond the borders 2008 250x300x300 ,XPS, nylon, sand, gas and gasoline controlled burning process Views: Liliana Dimitrova Factory (yard), Sofia, Bulgaria The stage of transformation for the old factory, corresponds with the temporary status of the sculpture object. The event happens on a playground where the traces of the past and the all ready showing signs of reconstruction and renovation of the location exist simultaneously. The audience witnesses the ongoing changes for both, sight and object. The act of transformation and its interpretation gives the event it’s conceptual frame. It is applied to the object and the site - the burning of the object is interpreted as deconstruction and the renovation of the building as recreation.

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HR-Stamenov Autonomous Sanctity 2012-ongoing From the series: Independent Monuments

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