THE OTHER DREAM
BG · EN
Photography: Teodora Todorova
VISUAL PERFORMANCE
2023
Toplocentrala Regional Centre for Contemporary Arts, Hall 1, Sofia
After Vladimir Poleganov’s novel The Other Dream. Concept: the Sapromat collective (Boris Dalchev and Michaela Dobreva) and Kosmotehnika (Konstantin Georgiev and Alexander Popov).
Тази вечер в небето имаше нещо необяснимо. Нещо не ми позволяваше да завърша картината, да видя цялостен образ. Все едно пред очите ми е увеличена докрай снимка, от която липсва една малка част. Едва видима — пиксел или дори по-малък от пиксела елемент, ако има такова нещо, разбира се.
Владимир Полеганов, Другият сън
Quoted in the Bulgarian original.
Our thoughts and memories are scattered across countless devices and platforms. Our digital traces can be followed through social networks, security cameras and endless collections of data. Our senses and our memory keep improving thanks to relentless technological progress. But what happens to the human mind once it has been dismembered, scattered and reassembled? That question is the occasion for the meeting of the collectives Sapromat and Kosmotehnika.
The performance has an open structure — no beginning and no end. Visitors are free to enter and leave the hall at their own will and pace, at any time between 5 and 10 pm.
Premiere: 12 and 13 July 2023. Final performances: 24 and 25 January 2024.
Sketches
Illustrations: Viktoriya Staykova
Poster — graphic design: Viktoriya Staykova
Video
Press
The Other Dream: Anatomy of the Human Mind
GoGuide.bg, 11 July 2023 (in Bulgarian)
The Other Dream — visual performance
Toplocentrala RCCA, programme, July 2023 (in Bulgarian)
Awakening the technological consciousness in The Other Dream
Bulgarian National Radio, Hristo Botev programme, Nashiyat den, 18 January 2024 (in Bulgarian)
The Other Dream, with an open beginning and end
VIZH! magazine, Highlights, 1 July 2023 (in Bulgarian)
Episode 39: The Other Dream, with Konstantin Georgiev
Termodinamika podcast, 8 July 2023 (in Bulgarian)
Vladimir Poleganov’s The Other Dream becomes a visual performance
Bulgarian National Radio, Hristo Botev programme, Artefir, Tanya Dimova, 12 July 2023 (in Bulgarian)
Sapromat and Kosmotehnika — the project on the Gwaertler Foundation site
Gwaertler Stiftung
“…impressive, immersive (as far as you let yourself go), about the impossibility of holding yourself together, because even what has been duly remembered and documented is in a language you (no longer) understand or never mastered. Among the shifting layers of consciousness, the footholds you find are temporary, insufficient. And the part does not carry the whole within it…”
Todora Radeva, on Facebook (in Bulgarian)
Credits
concept Sapromat — Boris Dalchev and Michaela Dobreva; Kosmotehnika — Konstantin Georgiev and Alexander Popov
with the voice and image of Mariy Rosen
composer Angel Simitchiev (Mytrip)
director of photography Ventsislav Todorov
graphic design Viktoriya Staykova
photography Teodora Todorova
assistants Nevena Georgieva, Anton Dimitrachkov, Ivan Petrosyan, Mihail Atanasov, Aleksandra Popova
Further information
Beyond Vladimir Poleganov’s novel, the performance also draws on a public discussion with the literary theorists Kameliya Spasova and Nikolay Genov and the jurist and philosopher Stoyan Stavru. Part of that discussion was published as a volume gathering material from the collaboration between Sapromat and Kosmotehnika.
The project is co-produced with Toplocentrala Regional Centre for Contemporary Arts and supported by the Sofia Municipality Culture programme and The Gwärtler Foundation.
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