M.A.P.:case study.02 :: Mini Festival for Media Art
M.A.P: case study.02. 11-15 December 2002. Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria.
This is a show as a result of one year process - 10 new individual art projects produced in interspace media lab. It is not the end of the process nor the begining of it, but a step in a longer term strategy to build a self sufficient local scene in extremely unfriendly environment of a total lack of infrastructure, market and policy in the field of contemporary art and culture in Bulgaria. This is an attempt to map a theritory of intervention on a micro level. We should also stress here that there is no pre-formulated curatorial speculation, shaping the show, but rather it is result of providing just a context for art production.
Instead of describing the spectrum of issues and tendencies the works in the show present, We would like to resume the conditions under which genealogy of art production was staged in the recent years:
::::::::::::::::: :: the artist in a scene of vacuum on micro level.
::::::::::::::::: :: afinity to self.colonisation.
::::::::::::::::: :: 0.political activism + cynical pragmatism in self.organisation.
::::::::::::::::: :: the state institutions in a never finished stage of reform,permanent confusion.
::::::::::::::::: :: criminalisation and profanisation of public space.
::::::::::::::::: :: media hybridisation, mutation + universal code compatibility.
M.A.P: case study.02 is a result of the partnership between interSpace Media Art Center, The Red House - Centre for Culture and Debate and MMTV - The Music Media of Bulgaria, with the financial assistance of British Council Bulgaria, Pro-Helvetia Antenna Sofia and Ballantines Bulgaria.
M.A.P.2002 [media.art.program] of which includes production/presentation/distribution of media art, is realised with the finansial assistace of The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technollogiy.::: read more on the project
We would like to thank all the fiends for the support to make the production, the exhibition and publication possible. All text and image material is a property of the artists, writers or interSpace Media Art Center.