tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14134180283036660652024-03-05T02:12:18.765-05:00Absinthe MindedDwayne D. Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05838017756012967091noreply@blogger.comBlogger519125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413418028303666065.post-69308975306262077602014-06-09T10:20:00.000-04:002014-06-09T10:20:46.378-04:00Absinthe moves to Ann Arbor!The Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan is pleased to announce it will assume editorial leadership of <i>Absinthe</i>, a literary magazine founded in Farmington Hills (MI) in 2003. Over the past ten years, <i>Absinthe</i> has promoted international literature and art and showcased contemporary work from a variety of European countries. Under the keen eye of its founding editor Dwayne D. Hayes, the magazine has come to be recognized as a leading publication for translated literature and has played a crucial part in introducing important contemporary voices from Europe to American readers. <br /><br />The relocation of <i>Absinthe</i> to the Department of Comparative Literature will allow the journal to benefit from the expertise of one of the strongest comparative programs in the nation, and provide a sustainable publishing model to continue <i>Absinthe</i>’s commitment to promoting foreign literature in the United States. At the University of Michigan, <i>Absinthe</i> will provide a space of encounter between new voices in foreign literature, experienced translators, as well as translators in training. <br /><br />Starting in summer 2014, <i>Absinthe</i> will serve as a platform from which to expand the Department of Comparative Literature’s ongoing engagement with translation activities across the Michigan campus and beyond. The magazine will offer graduate students the opportunity to gain professional experience in editing literary translations and identifying important new trends in contemporary world literature. It will also provide opportunities for collaboration with colleagues across departments, both within and beyond the University of Michigan, on topics for special issues. <br /><br />In the fall of 2014, The Department of Comparative Literature will resume <i>Absinthe</i>’s biannual print publication as well as create an entire new online presence for the magazine. Two doctoral students in Comparative Literature will serve as co-editors for the first two transitional issues. Their task will consist of maintaining the legacy of <i>Absinthe</i> as established by Hayes, while broadening the magazine’s current focus on European literature to include texts that reflect the very wide range of geographical interests, talents and affinities present in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. <br /><br />The first issue in <i>Absinthe</i>’s new incarnation (Fall 2014) will focus on the topic, “Precarious Europe: Writing in Uncertain Times.” Edited by Etienne Charriere, this issue will engage the current stage of crisis across the European continent. In order to understand how literature is written in times of acute precariousness, we look forward to publishing contemporary translated texts from a variety of spaces in Europe –with a special focus on the margins of the continent– that all reflect the ongoing climate of economic and political instability, as well as the profound identity crisis that has affected the entire continent in varied ways. <br /><br />The topic of the next issue (Spring 2015) will be “Pen and Brush: Europe and China in Dialogue.” Edited by Emily Goedde, it will focus on literary and artistic conversations between Europe and Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, and other Chinese communities across Asia. In drawing from European writers (be they of Chinese origin or not), as well as from writers from the Sinophone world who live in or write about Europe, this issue will present a rich body of literary and artistic work that negotiates and illuminates contemporary cosmopolitanisms. It will also offer an opportunity to introduce new examples from exilic and migrant literature.<br /><br />Future issues of <i>Absinthe</i> will be edited by graduate students and faculty in the Department of Comparative Literature and related departments and disciplines. Proposals regarding future issues will be announced in 2015. Please direct all inquiries and submissions to Etienne Charriere and Emily Goedde at absinthe.complit@umich.edu Dwayne D. Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05838017756012967091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413418028303666065.post-46114129471890986132014-05-11T15:04:00.003-04:002014-05-11T15:04:43.273-04:00PEN America #17: Now on Newsstands<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Issue #17 of PEN America, devoted to the recent annual <a href="http://worldvoices.pen.org/">World Voices Festival</a> (now in its 10th year!) features several of last year's PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant winners, including my translation of Jean Ferry's "On the Frontiers of Plaster," also available <a data-mce-href="http://www.pen.org/fiction/frontiers-plaster-few-notes-sleep" href="http://www.pen.org/fiction/frontiers-plaster-few-notes-sleep">online</a> at the PEN site. The piece was first published (in a slightly different form) in issue #3 of the magazine formerly known as <a data-mce-href="http://tweedsmag.org/the-coffin-factory-issue-three/" href="http://tweedsmag.org/the-coffin-factory-issue-three/"><em>The Coffin Factory</em></a>, now Tweed's.</div>
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Interestingly enough, Paul Bowles also translated the piece, and named his volume of translations after it: <a data-mce-href="http://www.cadmuseditions.com/She%20Woke%20Me.html" href="http://www.cadmuseditions.com/She%20Woke%20Me.html"><em>She Woke Me Up, So I Killed Her</em></a>. This retitle is taken from the unattributed epigraph to Ferry's piece, and differs from my own translation in its interpretation of that famous French conundrum, the imperfect tense. Bowles' volume of translations from Spanish and French is interesting for the liberties it takes as well as its eclectic selection, which includes work by Borges, surrealists Giorgio di Chirico and René Magritte, poet Francis Ponge, Ramón Sender, and another personal favorite of mine, baroque fantasist André Pieyre de Mandiargues. Maybe someday a famous translator will be able to publish an equally eclectic and idiosyncratic volume of Selected Translations. </div>
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So last week, <a href="http://www.comic-con.org/awards/will-eisner-comic-industry-award-nominees-2014">nominees were announced for this year’s Eisner Awards</a>, the highest comics industry honor in the U.S. It’s nice to see
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<li><i>A Bag of Marbles</i>, by Joseph Joffo, Kris, and Vincent
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<li><i>Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life</i>, by Ulli
Lust (Fantagraphics)</li>
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<li><i>The Castle</i>, by Franz Kafka, adapted by David Zane
Mairowitz and Jaromír 99 (SelfMadeHero)</li>
<li><i>The Strange Tale of Panorama Island</i>, by Edogawa Rampo,
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<li><i>The (True!) History of Art</i>, by Sylvain Coissard and
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It’s especially heartening to see nominees are sprinkled throughout
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translated material, which are nevertheless full of excellent books:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<li><i>Adventures of a Japanese Businessman</i>, by Jose Domingo
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<li><i>Goddam This War! </i>by Jacques Tardi and Jean-Pierre Verney
(Fantagraphics)</li>
<li><i>Incidents in the Night</i>, Book One, by David B.
(Uncivilized Books)</li>
<li><i>Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life</i>, by Ulli
Lust (Fantagraphics)</li>
<li><i>When David Lost His Voice</i>, by Judith Vanistendael
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<li><i>The Heart of Thomas</i>, by Moto Hagio (Fantagraphics)</li>
<li><i>The Mysterious Underground Men</i>, by Osamu Tezuka
(PictureBox)</li>
<li><i>Showa: A History of Japan, 1926–1939</i>, by Shigeru Mizuki
(Drawn & Quarterly)</li>
<li><i>Summit of the Gods</i>, vol. 4, by Yemmakura Baku and Jiro
Taniguchi (Fanfare/Ponent Mon)</li>
<li><i>Utsubora: The Story of a Novelist</i>, by Asumiko Nakamura
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Asia has long had its own separate category, which this
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As is often the case, the international influence was
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<li><i>Benjamin Bear in Bright Ideas</i>, by Philippe Coudray (TOON
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<li><i>The Big Wet Balloon</i>, by Liniers (TOON Books)</li>
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<li><i>Jane, the Fox, and Me</i>, by Fanny Britt and Isabelle
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<li><i>The Property</i>,
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The sheer number of different publishers now doing international material is to be applauded. Among the countries represented are France, Czechoslovakia,
Israel, Japan, Spain. Two relative newcomers to the comics scene did very well with double
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<li>Austria, with Ulli Lust’s debut memoir of roadtripping
Europe in her punk youth, <i>Today Is the
Last Day of the Rest of Your Life</i>, translated by the late Kim Thompson from
Fantagraphics. I got to see Lust when her graphic memoir debuted in France at Angouleme in 2011, and <a href="http://www.edwardgauvin.com/blog/?p=865">wrote about seeing her speak</a>. It was well-received there, an official selection of the festival.</li>
<li>Flanders (Flemish Belgium), with Judith Vanistendael’s <i>When David Lost His Voice</i> from UK indie
SelfMadeHero, which did awesome this year overall with 7 nominations in 5
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These nominations reflect the hard work of translators
like Jessica Cohen, Nora Mahony, Brian & Sarah Evenson, Zack Davisson, Matt
Thorn, Ryan Holmberg, Leigh Stein, yours truly, and a few more whose names I
was unable to find out. This should not be the case. Translator’s names should
listed, if not on the cover, then at least on the title page. They deserve proper acknowledgment via listings in reviews
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Readers are encouraged to check out these quality books! Anyone can vote for the Eisners by simply registering, and <a href="http://www.eisnervote.com/">voting is now open</a>. As always, winners will be announced during a ceremony in July at San Diego Comic-Con.</div>
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<br />Dwayne D. Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05838017756012967091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413418028303666065.post-72370250938804226622013-11-06T19:09:00.002-05:002013-11-08T12:31:45.940-05:00QUEENS INTERNATIONAL 2013 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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With
the sixth iteration of Queens International, the Queens Museum’s
signature biennial evolves into yet another phase. Taiwan-based Meiya
Cheng, the first non-New York-based curator to participate, joins the
Museum’s Hitomi Iwasaki on an exhibition emphasizing site-specificity as
a collaborative practice between the curators and artists and their
surroundings.<span style="font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span> As
one of the inaugural exhibitions in the Museum’s expanded space, Queens
International 2013 echoes the institution’s own hyperawareness of its
new environs.<span style="font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></div>
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Reaching out to active producers both in and out of the visual arts,
Queens International 2013 is composed of a number of event- and
performance-based projects, including many off-site programs charged
with idiosyncratic and unexpected insights and approaches. 38 artists
and collaboratives stretch ideas and practices of cooperative creativity
in surprising directions and degrees, between and among artists, Museum
staff (beyond the curatorial team), outside organizations and other
specialists. The results transgress the boundaries of disciplines
beyond visual art practices – cinema, community engagement, music,
open-forum discussion, guided touring, architecture, theatre, literature
and food – mashing, matching and revitalizing all for wider
accessibility and larger communication. </div>
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From community-based experimental art-sharing programs to specialized
investigations into obscure local vernaculars, to seemingly conventional
photographs and sculptural objects and performances that challenge the
new Museum spaces, Queens International 2013 teems with ambitious
artistries that challenge boundaries of media, methods, and concepts in
current creative productions and museum practices alike. With a guided
fishing trip in search of the invasive snakehead, a Queens/Brooklyn
border walk, a pickling workshop, a Bulgarian women’s a capella choir, a
do-it-yourself/together movie soundtrack performance, <span style="font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>an
participatory DJ performance, group drone-building
workshop, paintings exhibited by way of video and live sound
performance, an intercontinental duet concert via Skype, and a
deconstructed theatrical play taking place simultaneously in multiple
locations throughout the Museum spaces, the exhibition both energizes
and escapes from the Museum’s new 105,000 sq. ft. home. </div>
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Parameters are further blurred, crossed, and reconsidered by Cheng’s
fresh perspective on the borough of Queens today. Together with Iwasaki,
Cheng has intensely surveyed the local artistic environment, and
infused Queens International 2013 with artistic and socio-cultural
parallels and counterpoints from her native Taiwan to examine how these
distant places – Queens and Taiwan – define themselves and are defined
by each other. <span style="font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>To
further explore this dynamic, for the first time, Queens International
includes non-Queens-based artists, in this case a cohort of nine artists
from Taiwan’s contemporary art scene.<span style="font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span> This
group investigates the possibility of a community as the collective
imagination of “a place” beyond geographical boundaries, societal and
cultural divisions, and global conflicts over labor and capital. Video
pieces address the intertwined themes of border control, cultural
identity, and the ambiguity of language and translation, all issues
germane to ongoing discourse in both contemporary Queens and Taiwan,
while additional commissioned performances and site-related projects
find the artists interpreting the historical and social context of the
Museum and the borough as a whole. </div>
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Queens International 2013 participants include: </div>
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<b>Nobutaka
Aozaki; Art & The Commons: (David Andersson and Antonio Serna);
Kevin Beasley; Jane Benson; Lynley Bernstein; Alberto Borea; Chang
Chien-Chi; Michelle Marie Charles; Chen Chieh-jen; Chou Yu-Cheng;
Deville Cohen; Bulgarian Collaborative: Joro Boro, Milena Deleva,
Daniela Kostova/Mario Mohan, Vlada Tomova, Tushevs Aerials (Georgi and
Nina Tushev), Meglena Zapreva; Jeff Feld; Flux Factory (Douglas Paulson
and Christina Vassallo); Richard Garet; Wojciech Gilewicz; Joseph
Heathcott; Hsu Chia-Wei; Zeynab Izadyar; Anna K.E.; Theatre 167/ Ari
Laura Kreith; </b><b>Siobhan Landry; Cheon Pyo Lee; Liu Ho-Jang; Luo<span style="font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>Jr-shin;
Alex White Mazzarella; Florian Meisenberg; Ander Mikalson; Nitin Mukul;
Arthur Ou; Queens World Film Festival (Don and Katha Cato); Aida Šehovi<span style="font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal 'Times New Roman';">ć</span>; Matthew Volz (and Juan Wauters with Carmelle Safdie); Fujui Wang; Kristof Wickman; Jun Yang; Yu Cheng-Ta, and Bryan Zanisnik. </b></div>
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Queens International 2013 is organized by guest curator Meiya Cheng and
Hitomi Iwasaki, the Queens Museum’s Director of Exhibitions. </div>
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Queens
International 2013 is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Taipei
Cultural Center of TECO in New York, La Guardia Corporation,
Contemporary Art Foundation, Target, and Holosonic Research Labs, Inc.<span style="font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span> Additional
funding provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor
Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. </div>
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The
Queens Museum is a local international art space in Flushing Meadows
Corona Park with contemporary art, events and educational programs
reflecting the diversity of Queens and New York City. The Museum
presents the work of emerging and established artists, changing
exhibitions that speak to contemporary urban issues, and projects that
focus on the rich history of its site. In November 2013, the Museum
opened its new space, a 105,000 square foot venue with a soaring sky lit
atrium, suite of day lit galleries and improved flexible event space.<span style="font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span> Some
highlights of the Queens Museum after its reopening include the
Panorama of the City of New York, the 9,335 square foot scale model of
the five boroughs, a reinstallation of the Neustadt Collection of
Tiffany Glass, a new visible storage facility for the Museum’s
collection of artifacts from the 1939 and 1964 New York World’s Fairs,
and a new studio wing with nine artists studios. It also features a new
exhibition in partnership with the NYC Department of Environmental
Protection centered on the 1939 World’s Fair WPA model of the watershed
and contemporary conservation efforts and the first show in the Shelley
and Donald Rubin Exhibition Series, Citizens of the World: Cuba in
Queens. The Museum seeks to exact positive change in surrounding
communities through engagement initiatives ranging from the multilingual
outreach and educational opportunities for adult immigrants, to the
residency program, Corona Studio, which embeds artists in the local
community. The Museum also conducts educational outreach tailored toward
schoolchildren, teens, families, seniors as well as those individuals
with physical and mental disabilities. </div>
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The Queens Museum is located on property owned in full by the City of
New York, and its operation is made possible in part by public funds
provided though the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. The
Museum’s hours are: <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1498994161" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Wednesday</span></span> – <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1498994162" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Sunday: noon - 6 pm</span></span>.
Admission to the Museum is by suggested donation: $8 for adults, $4 for
seniors, students and children, and free for members and children under
5. For general visitor information, please visit the Museum’s website
or call <a href="tel:718.592.9700" target="_blank" value="+17185929700">718.592.9700</a>. </div>
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Media Contacts: </div>
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Justin Conner/ FITZ & CO/ <a href="tel:%2B1-212-627-1455%20x233" target="_blank" value="+12126271455">+1-212-627-1455 x233</a>/ <a href="mailto:Justin@fitzandco.com" target="_blank">Justin@fitzandco.com</a> </div>
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David Strauss/ Queens Museum/ <a href="tel:%2B1-718-592-9700%20x145" target="_blank" value="+17185929700">+1-718-592-9700 x145</a>/ <a href="mailto:dstrauss@queensmuseum.org" target="_blank">dstrauss@queensmuseum.<wbr></wbr>org</a> </div>
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Jasminahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007288318266091636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413418028303666065.post-60758872262613441572013-11-06T07:30:00.000-05:002013-11-07T12:01:20.278-05:00Smuggle Tactics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Nina Tushev) and Meglena Zapreva talk about their project <a href="https://www.facebook.com/smuggletactics?ref=br_tf"><i>Smuggle Tactics</i></a> at </b><a href="http://absinthenew.blogspot.com/2013/11/queens-international-2013.html">QUEENS INTERNATIONAL 2013 </a></h3>
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How it all started was that I received this open call from the Queens
Museum of Art. Nina and Joro knew about it, I didn’t, but when it came
to me, I thought I should call up Daniela because she might have some
ideas and I’d love to write some programming for them but I didn’t know
how to do it since I wasn’t sure what artists will be in it. So I called
up Daniela and then we went on a tour in the museum. They have this new
wing there which wasn’t open, it was under construction. The curator,
Hitomi Iwasaki, was there. She explained what she was looking for and
Daniela said right away, “That’s perfect for us.” Then Daniela invited everyone else. We were
looking for a multidisciplinary, interesting project, so it’s not going
to be just an installation, but it will involve a lot of participation
from everyone who is visiting the museum.</span></div>
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I think this was the initial idea of the curator as well, because when
we went on the tour, they said something like, “Unleash your
imagination, go wild,” and also, in the call it was explained that it’s
not just about artistic projects, but they wanted to involve people from
different walks of life, including musicians, literati, educators,
architects, so we decided it was a perfect case for this kind of an
interdisciplinary project. I think it all started with the concept of
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Because Nina and Joro’s project is so much about different perspectives
of looking at things, we thought it would be great and then your
project about the inside-out house…</span></div>
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Again, a little bit of context, Queens Museum is one of the few museums
dedicated to social practice and they really try to get the community involved
not only within the museum but to connect it with everything that
surrounds it, so the idea of doing something that is expanding on the
construction side and creating a relationship between us, like a model
of cooperation, and actually the collective came together because of
this project, it’s not something we had done before. </span></div>
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Also, at one of the presentations, Nina, Joro and Meglena were there,
when we were presenting the project in public, Mario came as well, (for
the record, he is not Bulgarian) and he presented his project. We talked
after that and found out that our projects had a lot in common, and
decided that we wanted to work together. </span></div>
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Yes, he is the “smuggled” Bulgarian. But actually when we started
working on the project and writing it up, Daniela sent me her
description of whatever she was going to do, then Nina and Joro sent me
their description, and so did Vlada, and I think at the very end
Joro-Boro’s came in, so once I started reading it, I thought, “Smuggled
music?! That’s just perfect! I can definitely wrap the whole thing
around smuggling.” Then Daniela and I worked on the language so it would
all fit together, and all the different projects and ideas started
coming to a cohesive one. It’s not just about the events and happenings –
there is also material, sort of documentation, that will remain in the
museum from almost everything we are doing. </span></div>
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We chose the name “Smuggled Tactics” because tactics is something
people employ to exploit weaknesses in the system, and in the beginning
we were talking about perspectives, but we felt that tactics is much
more manipulative in a way, also – much more functional, a little bit
militaristic, also it has something to do with games, for example
playing strategy games, so all of this shows our approach, and I think
all the projects involved are going to use that, for instance building
Nina and Joro’s drones definitely involves tactics. So tactics is the
overarching project and it will take place in the flip house which is
Dani’s project. Maybe we should also mention that actually, after the
opening reception, the show will continue for about a month and the
highlight of the show will be this flip house.</span></div>
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About the house… I’ve worked with Joro-Boro before, on another house,
the first one, which we made for an exhibition in Syracuse. It was a
great project, so this time, based on what we saw with Meglena and on
our conversations, I thought it would be great to capitalize on the
reconstruction side, because what we saw there was a museum in flux –
everything was open and under construction, there were a lot of
materials, the empty space had a lot of potential. So I decided to use
the materials found there and build sort of a house which would be an
addition to the museum, an appendix, an expansion of it, if you want,
and also to think about how to move this extra space out of the museum,
how to connect the community, and then Mario came into play, he came up
with an idea about how to move it and how to design the whole thing
based on what we found there. The function of its space is to
incorporate all the other projects. </span></div>
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Originally we didn’t think that all the projects would be housed in the
flip house but because the curator told us she was insistent on
everything being cohesive and together, I think that only Nina and
Joro’s projection is outside of it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Daniela</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I honestly think it’s important for the curator to be part of the project to elevate the process above the result. </span></div>
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The main issue was to distribute all the artists and determine the
space they get, so each wall is pretty much a different part of the
exhibit, and also another part was figuring out a way to make it mobile,
it’s such a big house that the space the museum has wouldn’t allow us
to move the house out in the neighborhood, so we created these mobile
shelves as a way for the book exchange to happen and also the
temporality of the house – it’s made to look as if it’s able to be
transported, even though we’re not transporting the whole house.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Daniela</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> But you could, if you wanted to.</span></div>
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working with the idea of shanty houses, like the ones in the favelas –
if you go there, you can see that people live in these houses, so I
think you can live anywhere and I think the idea of this house revolves
around the idea of resources available to the immigrant community –
people who go to a place and create a living space based on what they
find.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Daniela</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> There were also a lot of institutional limitations because we are not out in the street building something…</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Milena Deleva</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (<a href="http://www.queensmuseum.org/11405/contribute-your-book-to-qi-2013-artist-milena-delevas-project-smuggled-gobbledygook">Smuggled Gobbledygook</a>):</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
About the <a href="http://www.queensmuseum.org/11405/contribute-your-book-to-qi-2013-artist-milena-delevas-project-smuggled-gobbledygook">Book Exchange project</a> – there are two parts – the book
exchange and a literary flashmob – the idea has to do with the
homogeneous reading culture in America, Queens is one of the boroughs
where more than 130 languages are spoken, so I’m going to reach out to
these communities and hopefully we will get between five and ten
languages – ten will be enough to create a Babylonian Tower, but the
thing is that all these languages spoken here will be allowed and
English will be kind of an adopted language – it will be allowed only in
translation, for example from Turkish, Spanish, Bulgarian, Korean and
so on. In a way this is a revenge on the mono reading culture, a tactic.
I really like the idea of tactics because it gives us a lot of freedom,
for example, we came up with the idea that we can do a flashmob on one
of the subway lines here, for instance connecting Radiator which is our
headquarters, to the museums: we’ll get on the train, do a flashmob on
the subway, then we can video record it, upload it on the Internet, and
it will always remain as a language noise which makes sense for the
project. So it’s very simple – to challenge this mono-reading culture. </span></div>
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You are turning it inside-out – the exterior moves to the inside, for
example our video makes more sense inside the walls, but it’s taking
place outside.</span></div>
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Our project has two parts – the first one is a video installation
displaying aerial footage recorded over the past year and a half on the
walls in the house, and the other part – we will basically teach people
how to build drones. </span></div>
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The video installation is a TV which is going to be placed on a
pedestal inside the house, against the back wall, so you can see it
through the door and if it's open, you can also see it. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Daniela</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> There isn't going to be a roof because there is a second floor so you can see it from above.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Joro</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Also,
if someone asks us why drones, it's because they’re something new, also
something interesting I heard the other day – my friend mentioned the
term </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">drone art</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, and I said, oh yes, I know, drawn art, but he explained that it is art which fulfills the needs of the curator. </span></div>
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And we're also going to have another piece which is a screening on a
big screen (Queens Museum has a theater), so hopefully we'll get to do a
screening there. The video is a compilation of different footage we've
recorded around the world. The screening we're going to do in the house
will show Queens and New York City. </span></div>
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The World Fair was there, back in the 60's, and it was about what the
future was going to look like, so we felt that it's really appropriate
that we chose that same location.</span></div>
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was the name of the pavilion. Tony Stark is also a connection. Also, I
work for the UN and its first seat, its first location, was actually
there. One other thing about the project is that <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.370738013058548.1073741828.263332843799066&type=1">we actually fly the drones with virtual reality goggles</a>, which is great, I love that part of
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There were many reincarnations and ideas of my part of the project, but
the kernel event is the fact that you can’t import any live plants or
seeds from outside the US which always bugs me, so the idea was that
there is always something that you find in another country or somewhere
where you grew up in the case of immigrants which is really impossible
to find here in the US, and for me these are round fleshy peppers (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">камби</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">).
I thought, well, I can never find this particular kind of pepper here,
these were some of the ideas going through my mind when I was thinking
about smuggling, and I thought that if I had to smuggle something into
the US, it would definitely be fruit and vegetables. So basically what
we are going to do on one of the walls is I am going to take one of the
stills from Tushev’s film which is going to be shown inside the house
and we are going to use that still to make up these fake custom forms
which the people will fill out and instead of actually describing what
they’re trying to smuggle, they are going to draw it. In a way, the idea
was that if you actually could bring all these plants into the country
and plant them in the park outside, this is going to be what it would
look like. So it’s a project about what Corona Park would look like if
it was a big community garden, and that’s why it’s called </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/414537592001504/"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imaginary International Community Garden</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.
I’ve had many conversations with people who say for example, oh, if
only I could find these kinds of spices because in India we have fresh
leaves of whatever plant, so I want them to draw it so we can have a
documentation of their memories.</span></div>
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Anyway, I’m doing a party. I was invited to do a party because Daniela
and I have worked before, actually that’s how we first met – she came to
Mehanata and decided to make a documentary about it, and the rest is
history. We’ve been doing parties ever since. This time however, since
it needed to be expanded into a project, and there were already so many
people on board, there was no need to do a whole new art project, so it
was much easier to just organize the infrastructure of the party – what
goes into preparing it on my side. Because usually people think that
when you’re a DJ, you just show up and make great money for just one
hour, but it really takes some time, we have to collect the music, go
through it, prepare it, organize it, etc., so my project is basically
that, but, instead of doing it in my bedroom, this time I’ll be doing it
at the Museum. Basically, the audience coming to the House that day,
since everyone has a phone these days, and most people have music on it,
so I will offer them a charging station in exchange for them giving me
one piece of their music. It needs to be local, not necessarily from
their place of birth, but it has to be local-specific, for example if
it’s from Chicago, it has to be juke, it can’t be a pop song that can be
found anywhere. Ideally, by the end of the day I will have a bunch of
files that I can just process, organize and do a 1-hour mix. During the
mix I’ll be mixing them up because import-export is never a pure signal,
there is always some kind of noise getting in the way, so I’ll take
advantage of the fact that we’re going to be in a Museum and there are
going to be weird moments when it’s going to be just noisy. </span></div>
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cellphone is a very personal thing, so if the people don’t want to give
me access to it, I’ll have a backup – I’ll buy a bunch of CD’s from
local vendors around Queens, with different types of music, which I’ve
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It is ethnic basically, I’ll actually go to a street in Queens with a
lot of Indian stores. I know there is a whole scene of people in Europe
and the US doing that, it’s called </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">global bass</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. There are a lot of DJ’s specializing in that – they take local music genres and make them popular, famous and international. </span></div>
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That’s still the concept – it’s the smuggling part. Basically, American
culture has been exported around the world as a mom-culture, so if you
go to Bulgaria, pop music sounds like American pop set in Bulgaria, so
the idea is to take other types of music and play them in a sanctioned
place like the Queens Museum. This way, if you have a Romanian listening
to manelle, they can be like, oh, or maybe uh. If you hear Radka
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Jasminahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007288318266091636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413418028303666065.post-61338384643196302622013-11-04T08:00:00.000-05:002013-11-06T18:58:33.009-05:00Victory Against Time: Demonstrative Urgency of Performance in the State of Resistance <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"I don't have many new works to show you, since we were having a
revolution and were out on the streets," explains an Egyptian artist
friend of mine,
Ahmed El Shaer, when we finally meet in his studio at Art Omi
International Artists Residency. As I watch him play his video game, <i>Nekh</i>,
I think about
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I picture them leaving their studios—with would-be
spectators
following them, streaming out of exhibition halls like workers leaving a
factory—until everyone assembles in the square in a mass action that
swells
up and subsides. Then it repeats in a different square, in another
country, splashing unexpectedly onto the screens of political analysts
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"No more art!" declared Henry Flynt in 1963, in a proto-conceptualist
Fluxus lecture at Walter De Maria's loft in New York, standing slightly
stooped
under the authoritarian gaze of Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. Did
Flynt include his art and his revolutionary (or even reformist) artist
pals in this
rebuttal? The search for an exit continues, and it has been recently
demarcated by Suhail Malik in his Artists Space lectures "On the
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Jasminahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007288318266091636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413418028303666065.post-25773543598181641782013-10-25T13:23:00.000-04:002013-11-08T12:54:14.482-05:00Absinthe #19, Our Spotlight on Turkey is Available Now<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhWsNjbYfV8VviYX2qHzI3pBsOLRP8zeG6Oja6VtPo5rlvUZ19l2yyYaCgqcjkQWOYAtsptKgywxM8fp9FUopim1PfFGmg-w4Ic-RWryAixfUD2d5QZQotcntyV2rpdjyZOLbIEgEId1o/s1600/Final_Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Absinthe 19 cover" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhWsNjbYfV8VviYX2qHzI3pBsOLRP8zeG6Oja6VtPo5rlvUZ19l2yyYaCgqcjkQWOYAtsptKgywxM8fp9FUopim1PfFGmg-w4Ic-RWryAixfUD2d5QZQotcntyV2rpdjyZOLbIEgEId1o/s320/Final_Cover.jpg" title="" width="210" /></a>Absinthe 19 is a special issue focused on the literature and art of Turkey and features great poetry and prose by Ece Temelkuran, Gülten Akın, Gökçenur Ç., Seyhan Erozçelık, Sami Baydar, Güven Turan, Oğuz Atay, Bilge Karasu, Murathan Mungan, Mine Söğüt, Şebnem İşigüzel, Mehmet Yashin, Ahmet Büke, and Mustafa Ziyalan. In addition to our book, film, and music recommendations, the issue includes cover art and a portfolio by artist Gözde İlkin.<br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>Zlatko Anguelov</strong>, born 1946 in Varna, Bulgaria, is a Bulgarian-American writer, a Canadian and American citizen who lived for 21 years in North America, and recently moved to Southampton, United Kingdom. Although his non-fiction, medical, journalistic, and critical writings are in English, he writes fiction in Bulgarian and follows Bulgarian literature regardless of the place he lives in or the language (English or French) he speaks on a daily basis. Ten years after the publication of his memoir “Communism and the Remorse of an Innocent Victimizer” (Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX 2002), a collection of five novellas, titled “Erotic Memories” appeared in the Bulgarian language (Ciela, Sofia 2012).</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Currently, Zlatko is a staff writer with the International Writing Program in Iowa City, IA; he writes biographies of the writers who have studied or taught at the world-famous programs in creative writing at the University of Iowa for a website called Iowa Writing University. These profiles are also featured in the iApp <em>Iowa City</em>, <em>UNESCO City of Literature</em>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>J.T.:</strong> In <em>The Symposium</em> Plato states through his character Aristophanes that, “[l]ove is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole,” and also that when one finds a true lover, “the pair is lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy, and one will not be out of the other’s sight … even for a moment.” And yet in your book you often talk about the idea that “there can’t be an absolute balance.” You also describe the “strange, juicy mix of admiration and disgust” that sometimes arises between two people in a passionate relationship, so allow me to begin thus: do you believe that harmony between a man and a woman is ever possible?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Now, it seems to me that you want to frame our conversation about the complexities of love in a philosophical perspective, and I feel I want to resist that. For two reasons. One is that we are discussing novellas about love, that is, an artistic representation of love relationships, which are inevitably laden with unpredictability and thus, escape formal logic; they follow the “ill”-logic of the soul. They cannot be generalized – and there is nothing more prone to generalization than philosophy. And two, philosophy can never help people love each other, or even more so, love each other in a kind of prescribed way. Then, why bother to search for the ideal? The Greek philosophers were idealists, and they, as well as thousands of thinkers between them and the 21st century, have attempted to present love as a special, elevated form of spirituality that takes people out of the mundane triviality of their daily lives.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">I’m not interested in that. I’m interested in love that is tangible, and experienced spontaneously on a daily basis: as part of our dreams, careers, fulfillment, failures, aspirations, procreation, rises and falls, etc. Love is out there for grab. And everyone makes of it whatever he or she is capable of. It is this capacity to love that defines our souls, and makes us distinctive individuals. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">In this context, how can we talk about harmony? Instead, it is a struggle to overcome our selfishness. We are fundamentally egotistic creatures. Love, as I have experienced it and understood it, is a way to satisfy our egos. The paradox is that it comes at a price: love makes us dependent on our beloved (to a degree of enslavement). And if a person can realize that the only way out of this dependence is actually to turn the egoistic love into altruistic, and at the same time succeeds to persuade his or her partner to do the same, we may hope that a harmony can be established. But it will be but a temporary harmony, as we all change throughout our lives, and the changes are more often than not unpredictable. Here, we meet another paradox: in the majority of cases, we fail to use our will and autonomy to change in the direction that would keep us in harmony with our partner in love. We usually fall prey to our ego.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">This view on love reflects human imperfection, which rarely allows humans to achieve the ideal love. Yet, it helps me think of love as a great instrument of personal improvement. If your heart is really hot and shaken by someone, and you desperately want to keep them longer near you, you begin to willfully make changes (people call them compromises, but they are good, positive compromises) that are in sync with the changes of your beloved. Think how rare this can happen between two people: either of them to change for the sake of the other.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">To sum up, illusion of harmony and temporary harmony is not so bad, after all. We shouldn’t aspire for the impossible perfect state that our mind can conceive of but never really achieve.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>J.T.:</strong> Would you say, then, that the zeal for harmony and perfection that has been handed down to us by the ancient Greek thinkers has a vertical trajectory, with the absolute being the final destination, while your characters inhabit a world that is rather spread out horizontally and thus, is inclusive, because it does not dismiss any possible manifestation of love? By the same token, I find the idea you just expressed – “I’m interested in love that is tangible, and experienced spontaneously on a daily basis: as part of our dreams, careers, fulfillment, failures, aspirations, procreation, rises and falls, etc. … It is this capacity to love that defines our souls, and makes us distinctive individuals.” – to be indicative of both the emotional and cognitive canvas of <em>Erotic Memories</em>. Is that so? </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>Z.A.:</strong> Yes, it is. The division into vertical and horizontal trajectories of love is an artificial construct. We are endowed with the capacity to love – humans, not God – and everyone of us makes out of this capacity whatever he or she can. We people cannot surpass ourselves.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>J.T.:</strong> So, you believe that we can find love or love can find us anywhere, anytime. It surely equips us with hope that the pangs of separation won’t last forever, since sooner or later a new love will come our way. But on the other hand, doesn’t this exclude the possibility of the one and only great love that can last forever? Do you think there are, so to speak, “greater” and “smaller” loves in one’s life?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>Z.A.:</strong> Of course, there are. Today’s world is a very dynamic and complex one, and our encounters with other people have increased dramatically. Our world also is a very pragmatic one. If in our youth we may have dreamt of the “one and only great love,” of which we have read in the books, reality knocked us down to our senses very soon. However, there are also many excellent books that speak of love in real life. For example, my wife and I like to remember André Maurois’s novel <em>Les Climats</em> published in 1928, which I read as a young man and she read as an adolescent girl. Turns out that this novel about the intricacies of marital love and infidelity has significantly shaped her and my ideas of marital love for good.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The ideal love is not interesting. It is defined in an abstract way, without taking into account human nature. We always love a concrete person. The evolution of this love is what sits at the core of our emotional well being. The standard of “ideal” is set by everyone for themselves. Any intimate relationship is a world in itself and there can’t exist universal standards. In this sense, everyone is actually able to experience the ideal love as defined by them. We usually hear about failed love relationships, because of the pain they cause and because we like sharing our pains. There are many happy love relationships of which we don’t hear, but they exist out there, in silence and quiet happiness. Call them ideal, call them great love, if you wish, this won’t change their life nor will it serve as an example of the ultimate achievement. Who needs such examples?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>J.T.:</strong> Orson Welles famously said that “[o]nly through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.” By the same token, in “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love,” Raymond Carver’s short story you allude to in one of your stories, Mel exclaims, “All this, all of this love we’re talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory.” If the authenticity and reliability of even the real occurrence, the actual relationship, can be questioned and called an “illusion,” let alone the mere memory of it, then what is the value of memories to you, especially seeing that they appear to be the gravitational force of your narrative around which all plots revolve?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>Z.A.:</strong> The emphasis in Welles’ quote should be on “for the moment.” He obviously felt the same temporality of the love harmony I mentioned above. Now, I wouldn’t say that Mel’s account of love as bound to only turn into a memory – and perhaps even into something we are bound to forget – is “by the same token.” It is of quite a different order, and I wouldn’t use it as enforcement of the illusion idea. In the context of the two couples’ conversation over a bottle of gin in Carver’s story, this is just a passing remark typical of such conversations, which expresses Mel’s nebulous regret, anybody’s vague regret, that love cannot last forever. It is a typical common metaphor of the human condition, and a subconscious acknowledgment that the ideal is indeed unachieveable. He regretted the concrete love he was talking about. Love as a thrill, an infatuation, love before the experience of its long-lasting consequences. Moreover, love as a memory is the opposite of illusion. Usually, our memory cleans up the bad and ambiguous feelings that always accompany love while it lasts, and actually, helps us believe in the illusion that love is something beautiful and different from everyday life. Caveat: when it hasn’t ended in full disaster or outright personal war.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">And you may go back to the story “Crush” and reread the passage about Carver’s<em>WWTAWWTAL</em> to realize that I’ve used it with a different meaning in mind. And that meaning can be summarized in the claim that love is so beautiful and overwhelming in its various manifestations that it can justify even violence, killing, and suicide. The entire confession of the narrator in my story is, if you think about it, an attempt to justify his feelings for Adelia, that is, to justify his emotional ambiguity. Why is he ambiguous, though, and why is his ambiguity the most natural occurrence in a man who lives life instead of imagining it or philosophizing about it? It is because he lives in a harmonious relationship with his wife. But he lives in the aftermath of love.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Let me explain what I mean by that and how it relates to my using memory as a literary device. It is no wonder that you, and all readers for that matter, have focused on the crush Yovo experiences for Adelia, considering that this is the love story I’m interested in. As a matter of fact, the true love story, and the love story that made me write “Crush,” is the love between Yovo and his wife Elena. It is in the background, but it is key to understanding the soul-searching Yovo undergoes – <em>using his memory</em> – in his desire to sort out his relationship with Elena whom, he is fully aware, he has hurt. It is no accident that Yovo tells the story of his crush in the form of a confession for Elena. Inadvertently, the readers focus on the “fresh” love, the hot love, because this is what we think love is; and love after 10 or 20 or even 30 years of relationship is not regarded as love anymore. It is regarded as cohabitation. It is, really, the aftermath of <em>that</em> Love.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">It is this aftermath that preoccupies me as a writer. It is in these long years after the flames of love have died out that harmony may or may not replace them, in the cases they haven’t turned into ashes. Telling the story from the memory of a person who lives in the aftermath, that is, lives with all the consequences of his love behavior – the ups and downs, the euphoria and the defeats, the elegy as well as the violence, the longing and the separation, the successes and failures, the pains s/he has caused – is in my mind the most convincing way to make a story about love at once gripping and believable. The omniscient writer can describe the thrills of the new love, but a person who has kept this new love in his memory while continuing to experience its aftermath for many years, can analyze it in 3-D and convey a fuller understanding of its meaning for the two lovers who remained together for life. That is how literature can play an educational role with regard to people’s emotions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>J.T.:</strong> In one of your characters’ own words, “[t]here is something cruel in the infantilism of the men here: they are like children who love torturing animals, but without the innocence,” and also, “Lust is a weakness of men, not a means of exercising power.” What do you think prevents men from properly assessing their abilities and opportunities; what is this “infantilism” like, what causes it and keeps them from reaching emotional maturity?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>Z.A.:</strong> I’m not a child psychologist to speak of the causes. I’m registering the results, and how these results matter for human relationships. Throughout life, my opinion of men evolved from admiration toward contempt. Rare are the men who meet my today’s standards of manliness, dignity, and friendship. In contrast, women have gained in my eyes throughout my life in so many important aspects of human behavior and achievements. In my relations with people, I judge every person individually and you should not take the above claims as a unjustified, unjust generalization. There are good men, great men as well as disgusting women, and vice versa. But I – and for that matter anybody – cannot and should not ignore the fact that in any country, even the most advanced in terms of democracy and civilized culture, violence against women is prevalent. This statistical violence is the sum of the individual men’s violence. Isn’t the French politician DSK enough of an example of what I’m talking about?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Again, and in relation to your previous questions as well, a writer observes the world and picks from it characters that reflect his persuasions about what is truthful about the human condition in the times he or she lives in. Those writers who have been insightful enough and responsible enough to see the truth that reflects trends in the human condition are what we like to call great writers. But a living writer simply tries his or her best in this respect. I’m aware that the knowledge that their physical superiority has deluded men to think that they are superior to women in all aspects of life is not at all new. But today this situation is not taken for granted any longer, and it has acquired a lot more subtle characteristics than, say, a century ago. In the culture that I call mine, the Christian culture that made out for democracy, the human condition is changing toward equalizing women with men in terms of social roles. But men do no like this trend. Every man carries inside him a little despot, some keep it invisible, others brandish it proudly. Those who fail to dominate, descend into depression and self-deprecation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">All of the above has its manifestations in love. Love is the freest expression of men’s and women’s flaws, and therefore, escapes any attempt to be framed. At the same time, it is the magnifying glass writers can use to see and reveal to their readers the unruly nature of the human condition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>J.T.:</strong> In your stories, a contrast between American men and the Bulgarian immigrant can often be noticed. And it seems as though it’s not simply a matter of “cultural differences” but rather of the very psychological makeup of the two groups. The immigrant in “Erotic Memories” comes from a culture of “pleasure, relaxation, openness of the senses,” and is taken aback when he sees how American women are self-sufficient and therefore capable of showing interest in men not simply to demonstrate power, but because they feel free to choose a man according to his personality. In your opinion, how does kef, the “Balkan state of dreamy contemplation,” differ from the social culture that can be experienced in the United States? Was it hard for you personally to adjust to the beat of this society? Did you, as one of your characters says, “struggle like adult child to adapt to this continent?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>Z.A.:</strong> Let’s not confuse genuine cultural differences that require immigrants to adapt quickly if they want to not simply survive but prosper, with the psychology of love. The latter is universal, regardless of the forms it takes in different cultures. And yes, I felt like a child in the beginning, because I came with the confidence that I know the world and the instruments I needed to function in it, but was shocked by the realization that vis-a-vis the local culture, I’m like an ignorant child who has to learn new things from scratch. I was an established professional who was deluded to believe that the world was based on commonalities, not on differences. But that is easily overcomeable if you pay attention and approach your host society with an open mind.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">That is by far not what my stories are about, however. They are about a much deeper aspect of our life histories, which is best demonstrated on an emotional rather than intellectual level. My characters come to the place where they dream to begin from scratch in an emotional sense, with a heavy emotional baggage; they are divorced, or have unsolved relationships with their kids, or have suffered the death of their love partners, or even have erased from memory past dramas, in which they played the main character. They hope to experience love on a clean slate. And soon they realize that they cannot flee their past; it is deep inside them and it affects adversely the happiness they may have achieved in America. This makes so organic the employment of memory as the main method of narration.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The parallels some of my characters make with their American peers are only the necessary background. They are made in passing, without the intention of becoming a cultural conflict, they are more of a characterization of the newcomer than a comment on the psychology of American men. It would be arrogant if an immigrant writer’s goal were to portray the host culture. My credo is that one can only know in-depth one’s native culture – and writers shouldn’t dare write about a culture in which they didn’t grow up. No transplanted writer has ever ventured in such territories, even Conrad and Nabokov who are considered American writers by most have not created characters that are genuinely American – Humbert, for example, is a typology of the lecherous male but it is immaterial that he is American by birth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">I belong to a new and growing group of people who hang in-between two cultures: we cannot fully unhook ourselves from our native bouillon and at the same time we are unable to merge organically into our host culture’s fabric. This is the culture I best know, I associate with, and I want to explore in my writing. In this interface culture, kef coexists with America’s focus on work and humorless experience of the existence. We speak an interlanguage. And we mix great cocktails from our past love affairs stirred into the hard booze of our drive for new, achievable happiness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>J.T.:</strong> Besides the group of inter-culture or trans-culture people, however, I think you belong to another „new and growing group“, namely, the one of ever expanding tolerance for sexual freedom. How did you personally learn to appreciate cultural and sexual diversity in order to be able to create such open-minded and unprejudiced characters, especially since socialist Bulgaria wasn’t exactly an example of a country underscoring the importance of tolerance and understanding … ?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>Z.A.:</strong> Why should sexual freedom be anyhow different from freedom, period? We make our choices in all domains of our lives, and sex is one important such domain. I can pinpoint only one choice of mine that put me on the path to tolerance. In August of 1992, I came to Canada determined to destroy all bridges back to my native land. Now, this choice seems silly, a bit too radical, but at the time I was so disillusioned with Bulgaria – and I was proven right, actually, in my disillusionment – that this looked the obvious decision to me. The unanticipated effect of this decision was that I harnessed all my energy into integrating myself in the host society. And this happened on all levels: language, customs, finding friends, dealing with diversity, understanding the social fabric. It prompted me to enroll in graduate studies in Sociology where I was able to understand the cultural and social debates that drive North America, its class structures, its political system. But I must admit, it is not just a matter of intellectual prowess. I was freedom-hungry.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>J.T.:</strong> <em>Erotic Memories</em> gets ahead of the majority of Bulgarian literature in that it talks freely about homosexual love and the attraction between people of significantly different ages. But in its liberal treatment of these topics it also outstrips a major segment of the American culture as well, its conservative, puritanical streak. A mere week ago, the notorious DOMA was struck down by the Supreme Court, and barely a day after that the Senate passed a sweeping Immigration Reform Bill. Even though you just said that one ought not to make a diagnosis regarding a culture he or she wasn’t born in, I’d still like to ask you what you think about these two recent social reforms. What do you think they suggest about Americans’ values and their stand on democracy, and also – why do you think they stir so many communal and political tensions in a country that’s been seen as the paragon of democracy and liberalism?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>Z.A.:</strong> Both they are about equality: equalizing people and stripping the privileges from those who feel that they are more equal among equals. But they are of a different nature. As an immigrant, I want all newcomers to this country to be integrated in her fabric as soon as possible. It makes the country stronger. As a human being, I want the society to institutionalize all instances where the social behavior is a result of free choice – and homosexuality is a free choice that, most importantly, does not do harm to anybody. Therefore, I welcome the DOMA decision. However, neither an immigration reform nor an all-encompassing definition of marriage can change the anti-immigrant sentiment or the homophobia, both deeply entrenched and perpetuated generation after generation in the less educated, religious, and thus rabidly reactionary segment of the American population. And here is one reason why America is so great a country. This big segment of racists and homophobes cohabits with another big segment, which consists of tolerant, liberal, and progressively thinking and acting individuals. There is tension, ideological clashes that are called cultural wars, political clashes between the different branches of government, the balance shifts from one side to the other and vice versa, and yet, people from both sides can be who they are because they are free and their freedom is guaranteed under the Constitution and by the institutional system of checks and balances. Democracy is messy, as President Obama likes to say, but it allows even the most reactionary people to freely express their views. It also allowed the progressive ideas of equality to gain ground, first for the African Americans, then, for women, then, for ethnic minorities, and now for gays and lesbians. In other words, there is a commonality for all Americans – individual freedom and the pursuit of happiness – which permits differences to cohabit without disrupting the social order.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>J.T.:</strong> “I am entranced by the power of love and believe that in all cases, regardless of who might be wounded and offended, it necessarily forces us to admire it,” says a character in one of your stories. But as responsible adults, your characters are also concerned about the occurrence of “accidental amour” and the disastrous impact such affairs may have on the sanctity of the family. Is following one’s heart always justified and permissible?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>Z.A.:</strong> This is a big question! The answer depends mainly on the value system an individual shares. Now, it can also be read as if you have perceived me as a rugged moralist. Which I’m definitely not. I neither profess the “sanctity of the family” nor condemn “accidental amour.” But in full honesty, your question hits at the heart of my philosophy about how we experience – consume, if you will – our love relationships.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">There is a world-renowned novel written in the 21st century that portrays a kind of ideal love: “The Museum of Innocence” by Orhan Pamuk. It has all characteristics of the great classic novel: its plot is made up in a way that no one would think it could happen in real life yet the whole story its utterly believable. It is an epic story that sounds like a comment on the ideal love. It is indeed the story of an ideal love: an adoration of a woman by a man by the name Kemal that has all the features of a psychotic obsession, but an adoration so beautiful and so deeply humane, such a metaphor of Love that it turns into an apotheosis of something at once ethereal and eternal, unachievable yet admirable. It is literature as a museum of a man’s devotion to a woman. Please note, the woman, Füsün, does not experience reciprocal love for Kemal, and that is the only way Kemal’s love can appear as ideal: he falls in the trap of his infatuation with the idea that he can achieve love even when it is not requited. Love itself becomes an object of adoration.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">While Kemal’s love slowly but inescapably turns into platonic idolization of the furtive Füsün, in real life sex interferes with love. Nowadays, I would dare even say that sex is the strongest competitor to love. In the past, it has been performed secretively as people’s morals were much more puritanical. Prostitution has always been regarded as the necessary relief for men’s sexual proclivities. The church was the hypocritical guardian of love. Well, it still is. But look how freer people are in their sexual behavior today, and there have been a constant and always louder outcry against church’s hypocrisy, and prostitution is no longer an issue, and sex is publicly declared as a tool of fun and psychological well-being. All this is in line with the liberal values that characterize advanced societies. I am liberal in my guts, and that makes me a liberal, socially and politically. As an expression of human freedom, I find it a great progress.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">But here is the problem. This sexual progress has come at a time when people are still unprepared for the responsibilities it demands for. I’m talking about the responsibilities we have for each other’s well being. Giving the other or receiving from the other pleasure is great. But pleasure is not a goal in itself. And in a great number of cases, it comes at a huge cost: a child born out of love or out of a family environment or to a mother who has no means to rear it, infidelity that leads to the destruction of a couple – at an un-estimable emotional cost, children brought up in the so-called dysfunctional families, STDs, drug addiction, you name it. And all this because we are always ready or even encouraged to indulge, no matter what, in our sexual impulses that are divorced from love. In this sense, sex is more often than not a destroyer of love.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">My characters live with the morally ambiguous consequences of their sexual irresponsibility. It is as simple as that. Yet, I’m fascinated by the complexities each such case in the aftermath of love presents, complexities that reveal the human condition in its major and least studied aspects. The short answer to your question is: yes, following one’s heart is always justified and permissible on condition that one is prepared to live with the dire consequences of a heart gotten cold.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>J.T.:</strong> “Love of a child is not tied to possession – it is entirely about giving, self-denial.” It follows then that there are various kinds of love. Would you care to give us your account of them? Is the idea of ownership the defining criterion for this division?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>Z.A.:</strong> I hope you don’t expect me to give you a list of loves. The defining criterion is, I believe, whom you care for: mother, child, partner, country, nature. It is not ownership. You know that there are lovable people and loving people as well as lovely and loveless people. In the English language there is a semantic distinction between <em>I’m in love with</em>, which one says about a woman or man, and <em>I love</em>: my child, my country or a landscape, the ocean, walking, you name it. <em>Falling in love</em> is a process of acquiring a novel feeling toward a person or an object, whereas <em>one loves</em> (without falling in) things by default. In the Bulgarian language, this distinction is achieved with two different verbs: любя and обичам.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Barring the sexual taboo, parental love and romantic love have many a common characteristic. In the quote above, I have underlined a key difference to stress that romantic love is egoistic – you want to possess the person you love, to keep her for yourself alone – unlike parental love, which is altruistic.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">It’s quite telling that you ask me about ownership, as we inadvertently associate love with possession. It may perhaps help your search for ideal love if you thought of it as the ability of some individuals to free their love from ownership: giving in love instead of taking.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>J.T.:</strong> “But none of us knows everything about anyone” – this idea voiced in one of your stories seems to me to be one of the focal points of the book. The past in the stories is almost as deep a well of uncertainty as the future – the consequences of faded or forgotten memories materialize in the present and bring about life-changing realizations. It often turns out that we don’t know everything about our own lives, let alone about those of the people around us. Is this lack of complete knowledge necessarily a bad thing and do you really think it can never be overcome?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>Z.A.:</strong> I couldn’t add a bit to your amazingly excellent reading of the books’ underlying concept. Bad or good, it doesn’t matter, it is what it is, a property of our memory and, hence, of our consciousness and self-perception. It is our utter <em>subjectivity</em>. And love is subjective. Isn’t that the beauty of it? We don’t want to destroy that beauty. Everything personal is subjective because of how we remember. We can only search for objectivity in knowledge and claims that do not relate to the personal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>J.T.:</strong> You describe Bulgarians, especially, Bulgarian intellectuals living in the time after the democratic changes as “children with their noses bent out of shape at the villainy of democracy;” you even point out in one place that “the talented left [Bulgaria] with a feeling that they have been driven away;” and you talk about “being unappreciated by your own people;” and all of this is “some kind of freeness about this [immigrant] man that made him akin to the solitude of the ocean” that the male Bulgarian transplant emits to his American peers in your stories. Would you mind telling us a bit more about that feeling of un-appreciation, about which you rightfully observe that “there isn’t a single word to describe it yet?” Do you think it is still there now, 23+ years into Bulgarian democracy? How does the “freeness” come about? I almost think that the feeling of neglect by our country strengthens our will and gives us a kind of a competitive edge by making us more resilient and self-sufficient than the citizens of countries with well-developed democratic policies and social nets…</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>Z.A.:</strong> There is a very long answer to this question that no one has thus far dared to tackle. The short answer is yes! Bulgaria is an amorphous society due to historical reasons. Nothing has changed for the past 23+ years after the fall of communism. The principle of survival was and remains “save yourself without caring for the others.” While you are there, no one cares for you, hence, no one appreciates you for what you are or are doing. When you get out of it, you take with yourself this survivalist kit and you appear to your new peers as tougher and rougher and bolder and assertive, even aggressive, because, in addition, you have mobilized yourself to make it in an unknown and allegedly hostile social environment. It is the combination of nurtured toughness and purposeful mobilization that endows you with a freeness, of which you actually aren’t aware. So, the “competitive edge” is there. And it’s there for almost about any immigrant due to the goal to remake themselves. We all come here angry at our native countries. The majority of those who fail blame the host country, and get even angrier. I’ve chosen to write about those who succeed, as only in success you can look back at where you come from without anger, and use your memory to make sense of what you have experienced along the road, and who you can become in your new life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>J.T.:</strong> In the last story of the book, the protagonist, Vladimir, tries to define destiny. He describes it as an “[i]nvisible force [that] was making me act against my nature.” This observation struck me as particularly interesting, since I’ve always thought of Bulgarian culture as, so to speak, more esoteric than the pragmatic American positivism. Free will appears to be a major part of American society, but in Bulgaria we seem to put a lot of weight on notions like luck, destiny, the zodiac, and other sorts of predetermination that Americans wouldn’t always be able to understand. What do you think of these differences?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>Z.A.:</strong> Vladimir’s nature is rational. And he suddenly finds himself in a situation that is so bizarre that he begins doubting his rationality. A rational person always tries to make sense of things that appear illogical or without clear causality. I want to avoid any generalization with respect to rational vs. irrational people or societies. We are always a mixture of the two, or a community is a mixture of people who are rational and those who tend to believe in invisible forces. Bulgaria is in a social limbo and it is only very natural that the majority of people would tend to put their faith in the so-called esoteric explanations of he world. America has prospered because of its rational approach to the social order and its trust in people’s rational behavior, and it would be surprising if people here were guided by mysticism. But the majority of Americans are religious, and those people claim beyond any reasonable doubt that their faith in Jesus drives everything in their lives. They even think that their Constitution was God-driven. So, how do you reconcile this religiosity with the pragmatic appearance of the Americans? To give you a most striking example, it is a mystification to me how the current Director of the National Institutes of Health, definitely a scientific establishment, the great geneticist Francis Collins, is a deeply religious person. Well, America is diverse and so big that it can tolerate irrationality but still thrive on the scientific fundament of its social organization and technological progress. It looks rational yet is able to obscure its esoteric side. Similarly, every rational individual has an obscure side where doubts about the rational nature of the world reside. These doubts are fueled by phenomena that haven’t yet found their scientific explanation. Isn’t love one such obscure, that is, uncontrollable, side of everyone of us?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>J.T.:</strong> In this same story Annie talks about Vladimir’s “most intimate means of experiencing utter happiness no matter where he found himself in the world” – his ritual of dipping a cookie in his coffee, which he brought with him from his native country; a ritual that, to a certain extent, embodies his identity. In his book <em>The Things They Carried</em>, Tim O’Brien talks in a similar fashion about the material and immaterial things the members of an American platoon in Vietnam brought with them from home. What do you still carry with you from Bulgaria? And on a more personal note – how closely related to your personal experiences are the events in “Erotic Memories?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>Z.A.:</strong> In spite of your attempt to differentiate the two questions, they both, actually, refer to very personal, private circumstances. Bulgaria is a very private matter for me, and in an effort to overcome my reluctance to talk about it, I have to confess that I carry her with the full awareness that her backwardness is in striking, painful contrast with my own forwardness. To anybody, I appear as a person of the 21 century, computer-savvy, cosmopolitan, well-traveled, forward-thinking. I do not carry any particular objects – amulets, if you wish – to remind me of Bulgaria, except for the family heirlooms that have no cash value but are precious to me and my children to whom I’ll bequeath them after my death. But I carry every bit of my native country in the depths of my soul where very few people are allowed to enter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Your second question has been asked to writers since literature exists, I guess. But I found two reasons to nevertheless answer it despite my resistance. Number one is the delicate form, in which you put it, taking for granted that there is a relation and you are simply interested in the degree of it. Number two is my awareness that all novellas are narrated from a first person as if the author were non-existent, and this creates an intimacy that no reader takes for made-up. The novellas were conceived, in fact, as a fictionalized documentary.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The short and unequivocal answer to the question “did this or part of it happen in your own life?” is no. A resounding no! But I swear that every writer will tell you that their fictional works are quite closely related to their personal experiences. How close, no one can measure. But we write about things that we have learned about from personal experiences, both in terms of plot and psychological conflicts. There is no other way, except if you wrote sci-fi or fantasy books – but that’s another story. Good writing comes out of good knowledge about your subject. I will never write about war, for example, as I have never experienced war. Good writing is also the result of the writer’s curiosity about the subject matter. I have always been curious about human relationships – that curiosity made me knowledgbale to the extent that I know I need to know much more. I’m not curious about word games and playing with style, therefore, I wil never write an experimental, plot-less story for the sake of showing my ability to achieve a perfect style.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">However, in wrapping up, I want to commend you and thank you for your ingenious questions that situated “Erotic Memories” in the no-land space between two cultures, thus demonstrating that you believed it came out of my personal experiences. The interface culture an immigrant lives in is, indeed, this book’s natural context.</span></span></div>
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CULTURE • 7 SEPTEMBER 2013 - 6 JANUARY 2014<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">First seen in London at the British Museum, the Royal
Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid and several major American museums, <i>Dynasty and
Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria</i> tells the story of the legendary city of
Ife (pronounced ee-feh) through its refined and beautiful sculptures.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> The
exhibition features more than 100 extraordinary bronze, terra-cotta, and stone
sculptures, ranging in date from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries. Many of
these have never been on display outside of Nigeria and have been drawn almost
entirely from the collections of the National Commission for Museums and
Monuments, Nigeria.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">From the 12th to the 15th centuries, Ife flourished as a
powerful, cosmopolitan and wealthy city-state in West Africa, in what is now
modern Nigeria. It was an influential centre of trade connected to extensive
local and long-distance trade networks which enabled the region to prosper.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Jasminahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007288318266091636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413418028303666065.post-4983284128733700612013-08-24T08:00:00.000-04:002013-08-24T08:00:07.728-04:00Exhibition shows face of Europe's youth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><i>From <a href="http://www.dw.de/exhibition-shows-face-of-europes-youth/a-17038903">Deutsche Welle</a></i></span></span><br />
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What does Europe's youth look like? What do Europe's young people want?
What are they afraid of? In Berlin, a photo exhibition shows 100
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He could be a referee: black knee socks, black shorts and a sports
jacket, a strong young man with dark hair and round face. He looks like
he's about to walk, appearing relaxed yet slightly skeptical.</span></span><br />
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His name is Daniel. He was born in 1989, but definitely looks older.
"High school student," reads the photo caption. And that's all we learn
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Photographer Edgar Zippel keeps the viewer guessing as to which country
his 100 subjects, aged 18 to 24, come from: Moldova, Poland, Iceland,
Great Britain, Portugal, Italy, or Germany.</span></span><br />
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Jasminahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007288318266091636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413418028303666065.post-20552152129738042922013-08-23T17:13:00.000-04:002013-08-23T17:14:08.330-04:00The best of European art scene 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><i>From <a href="http://artefuse.com/the-best-of-european-art-scene-2013-2/">Arte Fuse</a></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;">If you want to plan a cultural evening in one of Europe’s cities,
there are a lot of options at your disposal. All you need to do is to
decide which city you want to visit, choose the best event and buy a
plane ticket.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"> Have a look at the list of cultural events in Europe that
you can attend this year. The list includes the bets opera performances,
music festivals, theatre and cinema.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><b>Marseille, France</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;">Eden Théâtre is one of the oldest cinema theatres in Europe. The
Lumiere brothers opened this cinema in 1889, but it was closed a century
later. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;">However, this historic cinema is about to be reopened in October
and the opening ceremony will attract a lot of Hollywood stars and
movie directors.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"> This theatre represents a historic milestone in cinema
art. If you cannot imagine your life without cinematography, then you
should try visiting this cinema theatre.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><a href="http://artefuse.com/the-best-of-european-art-scene-2013-2/"><i>Continue Reading</i></a></span></span></div>
Jasminahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007288318266091636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413418028303666065.post-5463537298025524432013-08-03T08:00:00.000-04:002013-08-03T11:32:32.064-04:00Support for the translation of European literature – Selection results out now!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">This year the Culture Programme helps finance the translation of 493 books from one European language into another.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Altogether 400 applications were submitted by European publishers asking translation support for a total of 1678 books. Of these, 91 very high quality applications from 24 countries were selected for funding with an average grant of 30.500 €. Bulgaria proved the most successful applicant country this year with 10 selected applications, followed by Spain and Hungary, each with 8.</span></span></div>
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Jasminahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007288318266091636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413418028303666065.post-15016830607858038732013-08-02T08:00:00.000-04:002013-08-03T11:29:13.259-04:00European Literature Night 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> "Now in its fifth year, and held simultaneously in capital cities across the continent, European Literature Night takes you on an enthralling reading journey across vivid cultural landscapes. The British Library hosts eight exceptional writers, from groundbreaking new talent to leading names. Joining BBC journalist and presenter Rosie Goldsmith for readings and conversation with Norbert Gstrein (Austria), Miha Mazzini (Slovenia), Erwin Mortier (Belgium/Flanders), Ece Temelkuran (Turkey), Jordi Punti (Spain/Catalonia) Jáchym Topol (Czech Republic) Birgit Vanderbeke (Germany) and Frank Westerman (Netherlands)." </span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></span></span></span><br />
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Jasminahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007288318266091636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413418028303666065.post-81560275337282792872013-07-21T08:00:00.000-04:002013-07-21T08:00:08.690-04:00Highlands and Islands Short Story Association<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">We hold an Annual Short Story Competition with a <strong>First Prize of £400</strong>, Second & Third Prizes of £50, and several Highly Commended places, all of whose stories will be placed on the website.</span></span><br />
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Jasminahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007288318266091636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413418028303666065.post-44125513105543877592013-07-14T08:00:00.000-04:002013-07-14T11:52:17.434-04:00Russian Literature Not Lost in Translation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">By John Freedman</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">From </span><b><a href="http://www.themoscowtimes.com/blogs/432775/post/russian-literature-not-lost-in-translation/483098.html">The Moscow TImes</a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Franklin D. Reeve's translations of Russian drama were published in various collections in the 1960s.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">This week I am thinking about translation. More specifically I am thinking about those translators who were there for me — and several generations of people like me — when I became interested in Russian literature last century.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The topic arose in my mind because I learned a few days ago that Franklin D. Reeve had died at the age of 84. He died June 28, but the news didn't spread until an obituary appeared in the New York Times on July 7.</span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://www.themoscowtimes.com//article/russian-literature-not-lost-in-translation/483098.html#ixzz2Z2Gru2Gd">http://www.themoscowtimes.com//article/russian-literature-not-lost-in-translation/483098.html#ixzz2Z2Gru2Gd</a><br /><i>The Moscow Times </i></span></span></div>
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Jasminahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007288318266091636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413418028303666065.post-3103758878714833722013-07-11T08:00:00.000-04:002013-07-11T22:42:44.479-04:00Rada: We are not one-dimensional and neither is art<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">Hello, Rada! What have you been up to lately? I know your new single, “Anonymous in New York” came out just a few days ago, could you tell us more about this project?</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">Yes. My new song is the latest and biggest step in a music journey I started a little over a year ago. I’ve been calling this journey an experiment all along because I had no idea what would become of it or where it would take me. I just wanted to make music. I didn’t know any musicians and on top of it, I am not a trained musician. So, I felt like I was reaching for something that’s impossible, but the ideas and desire were in me, and I decided to follow them. This song is where I am today in my experiment which I’ve called “Subject To Change.”</span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.ynikati.com/rada.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">Listen to “Anonymous in New York”</span></a></em></li>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">Bulgarian author Zachary Karabashliev, among others, praised the song, what do you think created this stellar reception?</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">Zachary is somebody I admire for his artistic achievements, and he is one of the first people who heard the song. When he wrote me with his reaction, I was very happy. I can’t speak for him and say what it is that touched him in the song. Maybe it’s the music, maybe it’s the lyrics, maybe it’s the voice; but something spoke to him, and he responded, and I am thankful for that.<span id="more-22874" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">What inspired you to write the song? I would describe it as a deep-penetrating ballad in which both the lyrics and the melody tell the story of the unique New York experience. What has this experience been like for you so far?</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">Penetrating? I like that, I would have never thought of it. The experience has been wild because the city is wild. You can read about it in my <a href="http://www.ynikati.com/radas-lab.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“lab”</a> in more detail.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">In my world and in the song, New York is a living, breathing “thing.” It’s more than just a city. New York is a “man,” and I am married to him. I am excited by the other men he introduces me to! And one of them, a really remarkable artist, wanted to know all my personal business right after we had met. Which irritated the crap out of me. And this was the initial impulse to begin writing this song more than a year ago. But since then, it has changed tremendously, and the story I’m telling is a love one; a love for one man unfolding in New York.</span></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">Is there going to be a video for the song?</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">I just met with someone last night who has an idea for one and wants to work together, so we’ll see. I would like to have one, but I’ll also need a way to fund it. So, I have some figuring out to do as I’m working independently, and it can get tough. I need all the help I can get.</span></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">Tell us about your other music projects…</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">They are exciting, ambitious and in progress. I can’t really say too much at the moment as it’s all still very experimental. I feel very good about the creative collaborations I’ve had so far, and I hope they’ll expand and continue to reach new levels.</span></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">You are a truly versatile artist – what else inspires you besides music, and what is <a href="http://www.ynikati.com/radas-lab.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Rada’s Lab”</a>?</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">Life and people. That’s what really inspires me to write a story, sing a song, take a photograph. Sometimes it’s a sad story, a funny photograph, a silly song. It just depends on the moment, and how it impacts me. I want to create something from that moment. Something that will stay. It starts with an internal impulse, then I start dreaming about it in my so-called “lab.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">Which happens to be my bedroom; a quiet and calm place where my dreams begin or perhaps come out. When I take my creations outside of that the whole world becomes my “lab.” Of course these days I have to have one online too, so Rada’s Lab as you know it is just that: an online glimpse of my world of endless experiments. I know it can sound strange, but everyone has a “lab” even if they haven’t realized it or called it that.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><img alt="Rada" height="400" src="http://www.public-republic.net/wp-content/uploads/4.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="Rada" width="266" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Photo: Dobrin Marchev</em></span></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">What are “Subject to Change” and “Social Idea Exchange”?</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">I spoke about the first earlier. “Social Idea Exchange” is a series of live informal gatherings around town I’m hosting. I just feel like it’s so important to meet people face to face and offline. Even in today’s world where almost everyone lives online, the power of a personal connection is unbeatable. No question about it. I’ve met some incredible people at these meet-ups, and this is where I’ve met my best collaborators so far. The gatherings are quite relaxed and open to people of all backgrounds not just artists. In the end everything is connected, and we need to learn from each other. It’s all about the idea exchange and helping each other grow our ideas.</span></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">What kind of imagery can we see in “Momenti Photography”?</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">A limited selection of primarily portraiture photography because that’s what I love the most.</span></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">When did you first start developing an interest in photography and what does your path in it look like?</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">I didn’t know I had an interest in photography until I took a class in college with a very strict teacher, Fernando LaRosa. It was perhaps a year or two after I had come to the U.S., so it was a very lonely time for me in an unknown and foreign world. Photography became something special to me. Much more than painting for example which just doesn’t captivate me in the same way as a process.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">I loved the time spent in the dark room developing film and making prints… But most importantly, I loved that I had found a way to express myself during a time that emotionally was quite difficult. After my classes with Fernando I continued to develop on my own, and I pick up the camera mostly when I need to. It’s one of my best friends.</span></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">Will we be able to see another solo exhibition like “People and Mannequins” soon?</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">That would be a dream come true but right now music has totally taken over me. I have a vision of my photographs making it as an aspect in a big concert one day but when and if this will happen remains to be seen. I am wishing for it, it’s a part of the experiment.</span></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">You are both a photographer and a model. How does posing for the camera differ from clicking the shutter?</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">I’ve never thought of myself as a model, but in the rare occasions when I work with another photographer, this is what I am to him or her. Whether I am in front of or behind the camera, I have one goal: to create or capture an honest moment. That can make me feel vulnerable and exposed more so when I am in front of the camera.</span></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">You are also an actress. Have you been working on any theatre projects lately?</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">No, but I think of my songs as theater in a way; they are my short musical stories.</span></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">Since you are involved in so many and different ways of artistic expression, I’d like to ask you – do you think we can still talk about clear lines between the various arts or should the performer of today try to embrace as many of them as possible?</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">Every performer has their own individual philosophy and outlook. I feel enriched by art forms of various kinds, and I learn from all of them. I think that they spill over in my work, so there are no lines for me and everything will blend together even more.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">I’ve heard people say that my photographs are theatrical, that my lyrics are theatrical or cinematic, that I sound like different people on different recordings, and I am sure it’s all true. It just comes out that way because of my influences. I have a lot in me I can show; we all do. We are not one-dimensional and neither is art, and I am interested in exploring multiple dimensions.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><img alt="Rada" height="400" src="http://www.public-republic.net/wp-content/uploads/2.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="Rada" width="266" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Photo: Dobrin Marchev</em></span></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">What does your summer schedule look like?</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">I am working on my next song and once I record the vocal I am going on vacation and totally unplugging from the electronic and online world. Back to nature. We need to listen to it – the Earth’s and our own internal universe.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-size: x-small; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.ynikati.com/rada.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rada’s Website</a></span></div>
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This interview first appeared on <a href="http://www.public-republic.net/rada-we-are-not-one-dimensional-and-neither-is-art.php/#more-22874">Public Republic</a>.</div>
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Jasminahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007288318266091636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413418028303666065.post-68669871428391185612013-07-02T08:30:00.000-04:002013-07-02T08:30:00.301-04:00Frieze London 2013: Projects Announced<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></figure><figure class="hero"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></figure><figure class="hero"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></figure><figure class="hero"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></figure><figure class="hero"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></figure><figure class="hero"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;">From <a href="http://friezelondon.com/visitors/">Frieze London</a></span></span> </figure><figure class="hero"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><img alt="" height="201" src="http://friezelondon.com/uploads/heros/visitor.jpg" width="400" /></span></span></figure><figure class="hero"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"> </span></span></figure><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Frieze Projects is a programme of artists’ commissions realised
annually at Frieze London. This year Frieze Projects has a new curator,
Nicola Lees, who has devised a programme that focuses on interactions
between play, governance, sovereignty and how these exchanges can be
brought to light through participatory contemporary art practices.</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This year Frieze Projects includes seven specially commissioned
projects as well as the Emdash Award, which each year enables an
emerging artist working outside the UK to present a new work at Frieze
London. Commissioned by Frieze Foundation, Frieze Projects is supported
by the Emdash Foundation.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The artists commissioned to make site-specific work for Frieze Projects 2013 are: <strong>Andreas Angelidakis</strong>, <strong>Gerry Bibby</strong>, <strong>Rivane Neuenschwander</strong>, <strong>Ken Okiishi</strong>, <strong>Angelo Plessas</strong>, <strong>Lili Reynaud-Dewar</strong> and <strong>Josef Strau</strong>. The 2013 Emdash Award recipient is <strong>Pilvi Takala</strong>.</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In 2013 one of the commissioned projects will be an architectural
structure by Andreas Angelidakis. Constructed within the fair,
Angelidakis’ bespoke design will provide a platform for the other six
projects and will be divided into two sections: a front stage space and a
back stage space. Each artist will install their work in an area back
stage, which will remain accessible for the duration of the fair. Five
of the commissioned artists will use the front stage space in turn: each
day a different artist will present a participatory performance, which
will keep the space constantly active throughout the open hours of the
fair.</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Nicola Lees said: ‘I am excited by the direction of this year’s
Projects. Our approach has been to engage the public with a very playful
and performative programme. We have been able to achieve an ambitious
series of commissions thanks to longstanding as well as new national and
international partnerships.’</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Andrea Dibelius, founder of the Emdash Foundation said: ‘The Emdash
Foundation is proud to continue to support Frieze Projects for the third
year. It is the aim of the foundation to foster creative alliances and
provide a site for reflection and new and dynamic practices to emerge.
The participatory platform provided by this year’s Frieze Projects is
the perfect place for this.’</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Frieze Projects presents newly commissioned artworks by
international artists. Offered as an opportunity to work in a unique
context, the artists commissioned by Frieze Foundation use Frieze London
as a site to realise ambitious ideas in an exceptional environment.</span></span></span><br />
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Frieze London takes place from the 17–20 October 2013. In 2013, Frieze
London is sponsored by Deutsche Bank for the tenth consecutive year.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Visit Frieze London in October and take part in the contemporary art event of the year.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In addition to being able to see and buy art by over 1,000 of the
world’s leading artists, visitors can experience Frieze Projects, the
fair’s unique and critically acclaimed programme of artist commissions
and Frieze Talks, a prestigious programme of debates, panel discussions
and keynote lectures.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Frieze London is designed by architects Carmody Groarke and housed
in a bespoke structure in Regent’s Park. Located in the heart of London,
it is within easy walking distance of the city’s West End.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Admissions</span></span></span></h4>
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In order to ensure the best experience for all visitors, tickets are limited. Advance booking is strongly recommended.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Visit both Frieze London and Frieze Masters on the same day and benefit from our special combined ticket. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Additional Information</span></span></span></h4>
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">We ask that all medium to large bags as well as coats be left at the
cloakroom inside the fair. This also includes large photographic
equipment unless pre-arranged with the Press Office.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Please bear in mind that the fair is also an event for galleries to
conduct business. Please be aware of any behaviour that may disturb
galleries or other visitors.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Visitors may not touch any works of art, consume food or beverages in the corridors, or run in any spaces.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Groups (+10) must not exceed 20 visitors and students under 18 years old must be accompanied by a teacher at all times.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">To request additional print material such as flyers and programmes: <a href="mailto:info@frieze.com">info@frieze.com</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Access</span></span></span></h4>
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Frieze London is fully accessible to people with reduced mobility. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Wheelchair users’ companions visit free of charge. </span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">To book, please call 0871 230 3452 (UK) (calls cost 10p/min from a
BT landline plus standard network charges), +44 (0)115 993 4484 (<span class="caps">INT</span>). </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">For more information on visiting the park please visit <a href="http://www.directenquiries.com/information/Regent%27s%20Park/730887/summary/information.aspx">Direct Enquiries.</a></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Guide dogs welcome.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;"><a href="http://friezelondon.com/visitors/"><i>Read more</i></a> </span></span></span><br />
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Jasminahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007288318266091636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413418028303666065.post-65752103477939518192013-06-24T08:00:00.000-04:002013-06-24T08:00:06.944-04:00Heimo Zobernig<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><b>From <a href="http://artnews.org/kunsthausgraz/?exi=38613&HEIMO_ZOBERNIG_at_Kunsthaus_Graz_7_Jun_1_Sep_2013">Artnews.org </a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-color: black;">07 June - 01 September 2013</span></span></h4>
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Exhibition view at Kunsthaus Graz 2013<br />
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Exhibition view at Kunsthaus Graz 2013<br />
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Jasminahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007288318266091636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413418028303666065.post-62973125960283808342013-06-23T08:00:00.000-04:002013-06-23T16:16:38.423-04:00Vision Quest: Exploring the Venice Biennale<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><b>From <a href="http://www.artnews.com/2013/06/18/exploring-the-venice-biennale/">ARTnews</a></b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-color: black;">By <span class="author-meta-name"><a href="http://www.artnews.com/author/robin_cembalest/" rel="author" title="Posts by Robin Cembalest">Robin Cembalest</a></span> Posted <span class="date-meta"><b>06/18/13</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><em>A channel-changing exhibition about imagination headlines a convergence of art from 88 countries</em></span></span></h3>
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-color: black;">At the start of “<a href="http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/exhibition/55iae/" target="_blank">The Encyclopedic Palace</a>,” <a href="http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/director/" target="_blank">Massimiliano Gioni</a>’s
fantastic voyage into the creative recesses of the human mind, the
curator provides two guiding spirits—better put, spirit guides—for the
journey ahead. Both are early-20th-century European intellectuals who
built their careers on dreams.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><a href="http://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/c2Bm-AEi3uH5Z5OFAAif0AXv6ekFAUKc4pL7GlvpO8lNwv-adXkHFQhL0Y10Dmgtmg1HAmFUQRqaAWkp3Fdfwe53lJz2gE_y1YpwIt6BMrLMKmcqn1NVu2gBZntuDYP0gs1qIqJZDKfhuvBDk3OSUSF26gw5hnpZ1sJPmIBz_0ELTuiU37DgLnqPIeMtjUTCda9eeC2SHeydXTfjeUSUC4PSodNLX6W9_J3YEgCb4.jpeg"><img alt="Carl Jung, page from The Red Book, 1914-30, paper, ink, tempera, gold paint, red leather binding. Encyclopedic Palace. COURTESY THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORK OF C.G. JUNG. " class=" wp-image-29336 " height="270" src="http://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/c2Bm-AEi3uH5Z5OFAAif0AXv6ekFAUKc4pL7GlvpO8lNwv-adXkHFQhL0Y10Dmgtmg1HAmFUQRqaAWkp3Fdfwe53lJz2gE_y1YpwIt6BMrLMKmcqn1NVu2gBZntuDYP0gs1qIqJZDKfhuvBDk3OSUSF26gw5hnpZ1sJPmIBz_0ELTuiU37DgLnqPIeMtjUTCda9eeC2SHeydXTfjeUSUC4PSodNLX6W9_J3YEgCb4-229x300.jpeg" width="206" /></a></span></span><div class="wp-caption-text">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-color: black;">Carl Jung, page from <em>The Red Book</em>, 1914-30, paper, ink, tempera, gold paint, red leather binding. Encyclopedic Palace. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><small>COURTESY THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORK OF C.G. JUNG.</small></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-color: black;">This mesmerizing main exhibition of the 55th <a href="http://www.labiennale.org/en/biennale/index.html" target="_blank">Venice Biennale</a> begins in the <a href="http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/venues/giardini.html" target="_blank">Giardini’s</a> Central Pavilion with Carl Jung, the Swiss psychotherapist, making his first appearance in an international art show. His <a href="http://www.rmanyc.org/events/load/308" target="_blank">cosmological illuminations</a>,
created between 1914 and ’30, record visions Jung achieved through what
he called “active imagination”—a process that helped inspire his
concept of the collective unconscious.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><a href="http://www.artnews.com/2013/06/18/exploring-the-venice-biennale/"><i><b>Continue Reading </b></i></a></span></span></div>
Jasminahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007288318266091636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413418028303666065.post-52455570998415949582013-06-17T08:00:00.000-04:002013-06-19T10:21:03.546-04:00Lauren Kearney: I prefer writing – nothing outshines it<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh6twv4Tbdg6ifSQexmjeDegmGP8jmjgy0CT_W4WN8UMXxsdIwS19S939Q6EinQxuxiyjuTOdDP0rMi1hwcQxRc2eThXcIU0cGLILRUx_V6d7mIvolJhIO3MQa9Nse_mx0_uo3YsjGr-w/s1600/pic+1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh6twv4Tbdg6ifSQexmjeDegmGP8jmjgy0CT_W4WN8UMXxsdIwS19S939Q6EinQxuxiyjuTOdDP0rMi1hwcQxRc2eThXcIU0cGLILRUx_V6d7mIvolJhIO3MQa9Nse_mx0_uo3YsjGr-w/s320/pic+1.JPG" width="262" /></a><em>I was born in Leicestershire in England and I moved to Bulgaria when I was thirteen-years-old. I lived in a rural village in the Gabrovo district for the first four years but currently I am living in Burgas and enjoying every moment of it. </em></div>
<em>As for work, I write for a Boston-based magazine known as <strong>Teen Voices</strong> and also <strong>Public Republic</strong>. My dream for the future is to become a full-time writer in Bulgaria.</em> <br />
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<em>Lauren Kearney</em></div>
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<strong>First, thank you for allowing me to interview you for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Absinthe-Minded</i>. Could you tell us about
yourself?<o:p></o:p></strong></div>
I grew up in England. Then, when I was thirteen, I moved to
Bulgaria with my dad, mum and sister and we lived in a rural Bulgarian village
for four years. And now I’m still living in Bulgaria, but in a large city
here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the meantime, I work as a
writer and I’m also immersing myself into various wildlife conservation
projects. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<strong>What brought you to Bulgaria and do you plan on staying
there?<o:p></o:p></strong></div>
It’s a long story. Moving to another country has always been
on the cards for us. My parents have always been eager for a new life in a new
country. They love travelling and so do I, so coming to Bulgaria and living
here permanently wasn’t scary for me. It was an adventure and still is. I
really don’t know whether we’ll stay here permanently or not – I’m kind of torn
between both. But for now, I’m enjoying life in Bulgaria.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><strong>The biggest challenge
you had to face since you moved to Bulgaria? Was it hard to adapt?</strong></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Everything has been a
challenge in its own way. From integrating with the locals, to dealing with periods
of six week water shortages, it has all been challenging. But I have learned so
much. I am much more resilient now. I think it took the locals a while to get
used to us, but in the end, after we shown our willingness to fit in, they
respected us. To begin with, everything was pretty intense, but I wouldn’t say
it was that hard to adapt. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><strong>What was the most
shocking difference between Bulgaria and the UK to you?<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Probably the pace of
life. When I return to England, the first thing that hits me is how rapid
everything is. Nothing is slow or laidback at all. In Bulgaria, life is much
more relaxed. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<strong>What are some of your upcoming endeavors you have planned?</strong></div>
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At the moment I’m working as a freelance journalist and
sometime in the near future I will be getting involved with an animal rescue
organisation. At the same time, I’m immersing myself into wildlife conservation
projects; signing petitions, writing letters to people of authority and
donating whenever possible. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<strong>Would you consider working as a translator?</strong></div>
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I don’t think so. I can speak Bulgarian, but I’m not fluent
at all. If I were, I’m still unsure I’d work in this profession. I prefer
writing – nothing outshines it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<strong>Do you feel that the fact English is your mother tongue
could open doors for you in a country like Bulgaria?</strong></div>
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Possibly. I mean, living here has already opened doors for
me, and that’s just from the general experience. I’m not sure whether, as a
writer, it would open doors for me. I don’t know, to be perfectly frank. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<strong>How would you describe the level of English of the average
Bulgarian?</strong></div>
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I would say it’s quite high. Considering a huge percentage
of Bulgarian’s only learn English at school, it’s amazing that some can speak
it so fluently. I learned French at school and I can barely string a sentence
together in French. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<strong>What other projects/causes do you support?</strong></div>
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I’m heavily involved with various wildlife and animal
welfare organisations. I support the WWF, PETA, and the Born Free Foundation. It
all started a year ago, when I saw an advert on the television about endangered
mountain gorillas. It was the World Wildlife Foundation pleading for donations.
And in that instant, I was compelled to act. So after donating, I started
researching these issues and I just could not believe what I was reading. The
statistics of endangered animals were unreal. From then I’ve continued to
support these causes and I want to raise awareness for this major concern. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<strong>What are your thoughts on Bulgarian literature? Do you
follow the work of any specific contemporary authors?</strong></div>
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I haven’t actually read much Bulgarian literature, so
unfortunately I can’t really hold an opinion on it. I’ve read a couple of short
stories, which were good, but apart from that, I’ve not read much. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<strong>What do you think Bulgarian literature needs to expand its
global outreach?</strong> <o:p></o:p></div>
Good marketing. The talent is there, you just need it to be
in the right hands. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<strong>You’ve written for a variety of international literary
magazines, what are your main topics of interest?</strong></div>
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When I was fifteen, a few of my book reviews were published
in print. I’ve also written a bit of feminist prose which has been published. Now
I tend to focus on more serious topics. Global issues are my favourite subjects.
I want to create awareness. I know from personal experience that awareness was
what compelled me to act. When you are aware of a situation, it’s hard to turn
your back on it and do nothing. When you educate yourself on what’s happening
in your world, it’s impossible to ignore it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><strong>Are you interested in
creative writing?</strong></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yes. I am a writer. I
love writing. For me, I prefer prose over poetry. I’ve written poetry but I’m
more of a story writer. There’s something so liberating about writing – that’s
why I’m devoted to it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><strong>Who are your
favourite writers?</strong></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have many favourite
writers – and such a variety too: Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir, James
Patterson, Stephen King, Jane Austen, Doris Lessing, Vladimir Nabokov, Fyodor
Dostoevsky, Kate Chopin etc. The list goes on...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><strong>What are your plans
for the summer?</strong></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To write more stories.
And as I mentioned before, I’m hoping to become involved with an animal
foundation, so that should be great. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong>Thank you again for the interview!<o:p></o:p></strong></div>
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Jasminahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007288318266091636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413418028303666065.post-70450351370150324462013-06-10T08:00:00.000-04:002013-06-11T11:55:08.464-04:00T-Guardian. La biennale 2013.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 13.5pt;">Here’s a new
definition for “art on the move.” The “</span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 13.5pt;"><a href="http://designapplause.com/tags/t-guardian/" target="_blank" title="Posts tagged with t-guardian"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">T-Guardian</span></a>” sculpture,
designed by artists <a href="http://designapplause.com/tags/christoph-luckeneder/" target="_blank" title="Posts tagged with Christoph Luckeneder"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Christoph Luckeneder</span></a> and <a href="http://designapplause.com/tags/manfred-kielnhofer/" target="_blank" title="Posts tagged with Manfred Kielnhofer"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Manfred Kielnhofer</span></a>,
currently on a global tour of the world’s museums and exhibition spaces, has
made its way to <a href="http://designapplause.com/tags/venice/" target="_blank" title="Posts tagged with venice"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Venice</span></a> for
La Biennale—and it’s showing up in a new spot around the city each day.
Luckeneder and Kielnhofer, both from Austria, have collaborated together
before, most recently in a show at Gallery Liebau in Burghaun, Germany.</span></div>
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The T-Guardian piece, which depicts a cloaked red figure seated atop a metal
cross covered in “spikes,” combines familiar forms from both artist’s body of
works. Kielnhofer is known for his various depictions of the “Timeguard”
figures, shrouded figures that recall themes from fantasy, mythology and the
gothic. Luckeneder is known for his series of “light cactuses”—wire sculptures
that play with various colors of light. Here, the two forms are juxtaposed,
creating a new iconic, striking piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The only question is—where will it show
up next?<span> </span><strong>[</strong><span> </span><strong><a href="http://licht-christoph.at/" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-weight: normal; padding: 0cm;">Christoph Luckeneder</span></a></strong><span> </span><strong>]
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Jasminahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007288318266091636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413418028303666065.post-41047181259985893762013-06-09T08:00:00.000-04:002013-06-09T15:36:31.744-04:00Rome Literature Festival<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">From <a href="http://rome.wantedineurope.com/news/2002342/rome-literature-festival.html">rome.wantedineurope.com</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Rome Literature Festival</span></span></h1>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">11 June-3 July. Rome book enthusiasts breathed a sigh of relief at the long-waited announcement that the yearly Rome Literature Festival has received the necessary approval and funding. Therefore the 12th edition of the festival, consisting in ten evening events, takes place once again in the magnificent setting provided by the Basilica di Massenzio in the Roman Forum. The very popular initiative celebrates the written word with a host of international authors who are invited to write a text inspired by a chosen theme, as well as read an excerpt selected from a published work translated into Italian. </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This year’s theme has still to be announced, as well the calendar and the names of the participants. Invariably many Anglophone writers are amongst those invited to take part, and the festival offers a unique occasion to listen to them reading from their own work in dialogue with musicians, actors and artists who collaborate to give vitality and originality to the event. Entry is free, but tickets must be picked up at least two hours before the actual reading begins at a specially constructed box office in Via dei Fori Imperiali, Clivio di Venere Felice. For information tel. 060608, <a href="http://www.festivaldelleletterature.it/">www.festivaldelleletterature.it</a>.</span></span></span><br />
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