In the show, you will see the artworks of our participating artists, created during their stay at the residency:
Lucas Croall – Australia/Scotland
„Баба“, A Performance by Lucas Croall:
„In 1980 my grandparents, along with my mother, her sister and brother, immigrated from Glasgow to Australia. I am the first member of the family to be born there. My identity, as with most children of immigrants, feels connected to the place of my family’s origin and to the place I was raised.
People all over the world use dance & ritual to express their connection to place. When we go to a new land, and establish our ecosystem, we simultaneously embrace the new world we find ourselves in and express the parts of ourselves that we bring from our place of origin. This creates a chord of dissonance, but a chord nonetheless. And so I would like to do a horo for you now, with some Scottish flavour…….“
Marianna Solomonidou – Cyprus
„Baby don’t hurt me, no more…“, Аn installation by Mariana Solomonidou
In “Baby don’t hurt me, no more,” the artist explores the parallel between human and architectural trauma, using healing as a central theme. Inspired by the natural environment of Gorna Lipnitsa, the artist created “patches”, from local materials – such as fruit, seeds and leaves—to symbolize repair, resilience, and the reconnection to place.
“Baby don’t hurt me, no more…” invites the viewer to reflect on their own experiences of trauma and recovery, emphasizing that in both architecture and humanity, the process of healing is an act of reclaiming wholeness despite the imperfections.
Selin Goksel – Turkey – “The Nature That Bundles Me Up”
“The Nature That Bundles Me Up”
Paintings by Selin Goksel
Three years ago I came to Old School Residency and it changed my life in a very good way. As a city person, I am highly exposed to noise and crowd. The fertile field that I adore and like to walk day and night became my escaping place in my mind when get too overwhelmed.
In my experience it is a place where you feel the stillness, nothingness but then the fullness. I can say that the field of Gorna Lipnitsa bundles me up with freedom and joy so I get happily triggered to create.
At the Magician’s Classroom of the Old School, first you will be seeing an approximately 6m long landscape painting that depicts the haybale field at day, sunset and night time. Secondly 5 watercolor paintings that I got inspired by the surrounding are hung up to be seen.
With the participation of
Dimitar from L.Y.R.A – Bulgaria
BLOCK DIAGRAM
of the Sustainable Revolution taking place in: Bulgaria and the Balkan countries/ The rest of the developed world
The paintings are a creative-philosophical thought experiment. These paintings and this experiment analyze one of the possible ways of future, sustainable development of Bulgaria, the Balkans and Europe in unity with nature. The path in question is based art.
Observing Bulgaria and the world today /21.09.2024/ we see that they are ” stuck” and desperately looking for a system of ideas that will give them meaning and faith to move forward.
We need a new political theory with a new subject. This subject could be art, as a philosophical concept, as seen by philosophers such as Nikolai Berdyaev and Giorgio Agamben. The new theory could be called Creative Political Theory.
Place: The building of the school in Gorna Lipnitsa – 2nd floor.
Time: 5.30 pm.
