The autumn series of lectures of Introduction to Contemporary Art, address a little-discussed and increasingly up-to-date theme – performance art. In the course of four enthralling lectures in November and December, moderated by Vera Mlechevska and united under the theme “100 Years Art of Action. Live Art between the Staged and the Real”, we hear first-person talks from four experts with years оf experience and versatile contact with the art of performance. The guest lecturers Annie Vaseva (director), Snezhanka Mihaylova (philosopher and lecturer), Albena Mihaylova (one of the first performance artists in Bulgaria) and Isabela Maidment (curator at Tate Modern) shed light not only on the history and development of performance, but also discuss its place outside the stage, within contemporary art, as well as what provokes them to experiment with the form, and how and why kind of art can be collected.
