Water Tower Art Fest 2012

This year our slogan is: “Water Tower Art Fest follows the White Rabbit” as a sign of our never-ending curiosity for whatever comes our way. “Alice in Wonderland” embraces the space, where everything is possible as long as you are able to imagine it. Alice wanders through various ideas of worlds, meeting talking animals, flowers and people, who seem to irradiate onto their surroundings and modify them appropriate to their comfort. In Wonderland, it is not society which moulds imagination, but imagination, which moulds society.



The Non is governmental, non – profit, organization, working in the fields of art and culture, towards establishing collaborative connections with other international artists organizations and artists (creative people) themselves, with the aim of working with the means of art and cultural exchange, ideas, creating artistic communities, residencies with art for social change practices and art centers in Bulgaria as a base for free spiritual zones.

The goals of the organization are development of creative industries in the region, support for cultural diversity, development of regional cultural market, and support for mobility of people, ideas and works.

The NGO – IME has been established for the support of cultural production and cultural life in the Balkan region, as well as connecting the region with other parts of Europe and the World. The NGO is consisting of creative independent people and as such small organization doesn’t have the ambition to play the vast role of personification of the BG culture, but simply collaborate in a creative ways dealing with cultural, social and other issues on national and international basis.

programme 2012 / Water Tower

22 June 2012 (Friday)
Opening of the Water Tower in Lozenets
18:00 – 22:30

Address:
Sofia, Lozenets, the corner of Galichitsa Str. and Sv. Tedosiy Tarnovski Str.

Working hours for the period 23.06-30.06 are 15:00 – 20:00 h.

Music:
Munsee & Dichkata – Jam session (Bulgaria)

Artists:
Cathrine Constanse Gjelsnes (Norway): Installation in Yard “1793 lights”
Nevena Atanasova (Bulgaria): “Flowers of Evil”
Madoka Chiba (Japan/Germany): “Utopia” LED light installation
Pat Arnao (USA): “The Suspension of Disbelief”
Frode Sten Jacobsen (Norway) – Video Cycle: Water, Summer
With kind support of the Embassy of Norway
Juha van Ingen (Finland): ”I’ll Make Yours If You Make Mine”

21:30 – Screening of “Wonderland” (38′), directed by Dana Al Mojil (Kuwait)

22:00 – After Party (22.06) – World Ethno Jam at Club Twins

Presentations & Workshops:

Water Tower in Lozenets
25 – 27 June 2012, 11:00 – 14:00
Garreth Bell Jones (UK)
Curatorial workshop with final presentation on the 27th (Wednesday) from 15:00 h
With the support of the United Kingdom

Water Tower in Lozenets
28 June 2012, 14:00
Martin Mikush Presentation and discussion
Design charrette
or a quick community visualization
programme 2012 / Vivacom Art Hall

23 June 2012 (Saturday)
Opening at Art Hall Vivacom
11:00 – 20:00

Address:
4 Gurko Str.

Working hours for the period 24.06 – 29.06 are 15:00 – 20:00

Artists:
Andy Broadey (UK): Sight Seeing – Photography
Georgi Yamaliev (Bulgaria): Caught on a Hook (video installation)
Vanessa Daws (Ireland): Swimming #1 (Performance)
Ilina Konsulova – Butzi (Bulgaria): Evolutionary art
Ivelina Mineva & Georgi Vassilev (Bulgaria): “HOP” installation
Irina Georgieva (Bulgaria): Legal Alien по Кирил и Методий – pictures + neon
Irene Anton (Germany): “United Colors of Capitalism”
Iskra Nikolova (Bulgaria): “Under the Mask’s Disguise”
Kalin Plugchiev (Bulgaria): “Sede Vacante” diptych
Leyla Rodriguez and Cristian Straub (Germany): “Isle of Lox” video
Mariana Toneva (Bulgaria): Research on our Ability to Choose Between the Positive and the Negative
Maria Gouveli (Greece) – Interactive Painting Installation
Matthew Martin (USA, Bulgaria): “The Supporter” painting
Mariana Tancheva and Neli Borisova (Bulgaria): “Predetermined?” installation
Matthias Roth (Germany): “Bedtime Story for p” / With the kind support of the Goethe-Institut
Pila Rusjan (Slovenia): “Bedtime Stories”
Sara Sinclair (Scotland): “Untitled”
SOCHATA – SOFAR Channel Telegraph Agency – Max Gassmann and Mara Goldwyn (USA, Germany) – Interactive installation / With the kind support of the Embassy of USA
Tsvetelina Borissova (Bulgaria): After the End of Life
Hristo Kolev (Bulgaria): “The Drosophilla Effect”, “Conserved Technology”
Professor Kеnneth .G.Hay/Moorland productions (UK) – Absent Zen Garden
Roni Ben-Ari, Multi-Media Photographer (Israel) – video – “I’ve been there”
With the kind support of the Embassy of Israel

Presentations & Workshops:

Vivacom Art Hall
23 June 2012 (Saturday)
14:00 h
Alice Vaughan (UK) – Presentation & Discussion

Vivacom Art Hall
26 June 2012 (Tuesday)
16:00 h
Vladiya Mihaylova – Presentation & Discussion

Vivacom Art Hall
26 June 2012 (Tuesday)
17:00 h
Rositsa Marinova
presentation of “Parallel Steps, Parallel Spaces” project

Vivacom Art Hall
27 June 2012 (Wednesday)
17:00 ч.
Katya Stoycheva, Lili Angelova
Digging Deeper / Creativity Workshop
programme 2012 / Laboratory Bulgarian Rose

23 June 2012 (Saturday)
Opening of Laboratory Bulgarian Rose
17:00 – 21:30

Address:
3 Ivan Vazov str., on the corner with Rakovski str.

Working hours for the period 24-30 June are 15:00 – 20:00 h.

Music:
The Shadow Government (Bulgaria)

Artists:
Anika Weshinskey (USA, Turkey) & Arni Gudmundsson (Iceland, Sweden): “American Girl” performance
Galina Yotova (Bulgaria): “Abandoned and Seduced” photographs
Chris Swoon and Chris Fellner (Austria): “Rabbits and Queens” sound installation
With kind support of the Embassy of Austria
Georgi Stamenov (Bulgaria): “Room Way”
Nikola Minchev (Bulgaria): “Do-Undo” video installation
Lilla von Puttkamer and Karen Bösser (Germany): “The Slide Touch of an Animal” video installation
Maddalena Mauri – “A Past that Sometimes Makes it Difficult to Build the Present” wall drawing with colored earth
With the kind support of the Italian Cultural Institute
Stela Vassileva (Bulgaria): Installation
Stina Pehrsdotter and Niclas Hallberg (Sweden): “Wonderland”
Hitomi Kammai (Japan): “Rose Garden” installation
Francisca Ribeiro (Portugal): “Tales of Hope” photography
Yasen Gyuzelev (Bulgaria): “Alice in Wonderland” illustration
Julie Upmeyer (USA/Turkey): “Eat Me!” installation
Mia Momchilova – Performance fashion review start 20:00h. (23.06)

21:00 – 1 hour of UAMO City Tour – Skype conversation with UAMO City Tour 2012/13, Sofia

Sofia is part of the UAMO city tour 2012/13. In 9 cities worldwide artists are presenting their works connected to the theme “PLAY TIME”.
UAMO is happy to connect with wtaf in sofia.
UAMO considers itself as a platform for artists of all kinds, and thus, since the first festival in 2004 up till now,
more than 300 artists from over 20 countries have presented their works.
The festival’s theme to which the artists can present their works varies each year.
Since 2011, apart from the annual art festival in Munich, the UAMO City Tour also takes place focusing on local artists of the respective cities.
All works shown on site can also be seen at the annual UAMO Art Festival.
Each city tour event will be transmitted through a live skype connection to a parallel event in Munich.
more info: www.uamo.info

After 22:00 Party @ Blue Lion

Laboratory Bulgarian Rose, 2nd floor
25 June 2012 (Monday) – 11:00 – 14:00 h
26 June 2012 (Tuesday) – 11:00 – 14:00 h
Vanessa Daws (Ireland) – Stop motion animation workshop

Laboratory Bulgarian Rose
26 June 2012 (Tuesday) – 15:00 – 18:00 h
27 June 2012 (Wednesday) – 15:00 – 18:00 h
Lisa Hinterreithner (Austria) – Performance
programme 2012 / Pancharevo lake

24 June 2012 (Sunday)
Pancharevo lake – Picnic
12:00 – 19:00

Artists:
Jan Doms (Netherlands): Pancharevo Balloon Party – “BBQ” at the lake installation performance
Lusina Terziyan (Bulgaria): “Kitsch and Vulgarity – Nowadays Alice and What She is After…” installation and performance
programme 2012 / Special Venue Serdica basement

25 June 2012 (Monday)
Opening Special Venue Serdica basement
18:00 – 21:30

Address:
the corner of Maria Luiza Bul. and Ekzarch Yosif Str. – under Showroom Roca
Working hours for the period 26-30 June are 15:00 – 20:00 h.

Artists:
Jan Doms (Netherlands): “Regained History” glass installation
Rada Mateva/Plus (Bulgaria): “Black Hole” installation
Milena Vladimirova – Vladis (Bulgaria): installation
Antoana Petkova (Bulgaria): “Alice in…?”
Marian Stanchev (Bulgaria): “Human (w)Hole /Sense/” video installation
Nanci Traynor: Performance Serdika Dis-tour 18:30 (25.06)
programme 2012 / Lavele hostel

25 юни 2012 (Monday)
Lavele hostel
19:00 – 21:30
Opening of the graffiti wall drawing – result from the contest in partnership with “ Na tumno”.

Address:
Lavele str. 14
www.lavelehostel.com

Artists:
Einat Shteckler (Israel) – Recycled graffiti
With the kind support of the Embassy of Israel
programme 2012 / Twins Club

28 June 2012
20:00 – 21:00

Crooked Cinema + Live Music: “Robinson Cruzified” at Twins Club