Program Overview

Friday, 7 October
18:30h Opening of the exhibition
“Critique of Pure Image – Between Fake and Quotation,”
curated by Dimitrina Sevova, at the Old Baths/Bania Starinna; additional locations of the exhibition: billboard at the corner Blvd “6-i septemvri”/Main Street; installations in the main hall of the central train station. The exhibition will be open to visitors from the opening on 7 October to 8 November.
19:00h
Performance “Second Hand” by Sexismus Productions, Zurich, at the Ancinet Bath/Bania
Starinna
20:00h
Party with DJ Pauline Boudry
22:00h
Cinema projection: Surprise Movie

Saturday, 8 October 11:00h
Opening of the Theoretical Symposium by Dimitrina Sevova (curator of the project)
11:30h
Oliver Kielmayer, curator and art theorist, Zurich, Switzerland: Lecture on the conception
of the media project “WeAreTheArtists”
12:30h
Peter Zorn, independent fi lm-maker, curator and media theorist, Werkleitz/Halle, Germany:
Lecture “The Image as Common Property”
13:30h
Alice Cantaluppi, independent curator, art producer and theorist, Zurich, Switzerland:
Lecture “Reinventions of History”
14:30h
Lunch buffet
15:30h
Dr. Klaus Schönberger, media theorist, Internet anthropologist, Scientifi c Coordinator of the Forschungskolleg Kulturwissenschaftliche Technikforschung, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany: Lecture “Apparently Un-True – or How False Online Information Creates True (Real-Life) Events” 16:30h
Rudi Maier, media theorist and activist, anthropologist, Ludwigsburg, Germany: Lecture “that’s revolution – on ads and revolt”
17:30h
Discussion
19:00h
Performance “Who shot Immanence? On The Dynamics Of Appropriation And Intervention
In The Work Of Georg Paul Thomann” by Monochrom (Johannes Grenzfurthner & Günther Friesinger), Vienna, Austria

Sunday, 9 October
11:00h
Maria Draghici, artist, Bucharest, Romania: Lecture “Family Archive”
12:00h
Etoy.ZAI and Etoy.HAEFLIGER, media artists and corporate activists: Lecture on etoy.
HISTORY and the etoy.PERSPECTIVE on the culture of fakes and quotations, and on
how important it is to Etoy not to fake, but rather to lastingly manipulate reality in order to change values
13:00h
Vencislav Zankov, artist, independent curator, media activist and theorist, lecturer at the New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria: Lecture on the “E80 Exit Strategies & Projects” and the “Close up” discussion club
14:00h
Lunch buffet
15:00h
Monochrom (Johannes Grenzfurthner & Günther Friesinger), media artists, theorists and activists, Vienna, Austria: Lecture “The Life and Work of Georg Paul Thomann”
16:00h
A Room Of One’s Own (Nina Stuhldreher & Kristina Haider), artists, Vienna, Austria:
Lecture “Skirt Plaid Gift Choir Mail – Feminist art production as an experiment between cliche-dumping and appropration strategies”
17:00h
Sexismus Productions (Sabina Baumann, artist; Gaby Baldinger, journalist; Lilian Räber, journalist), Zurich, Switzerland: Game “The Sloppy Copy”
18:00h
Mirjam Wirz, photographer and artist: Lecture “An Alternative to the Idea of Market Failure”
19:00h
Discussion
21:30h
Openair Screening curated by Dimitrina Sevova: Selection of Short Videos, on the main street of Plovdiv near the municipality building. Films by: Pauline Boudry, David Crawford, Daniel Lo Iacono, code flow; from a selection by Emil Miraztchiev: Yavor Gardev, Plamen Solomonski, Kamen Stoyanov; from a selection by Athanasia Kyriakakos: Lina Theodorou, Ioanna Myrka, Chi-Jang Yin, Morgan Showalter

Monday, 10 October
11:00h
David Crawford, media artist and theorist, Chicago, USA/Göteborg, Sweden: Lecture “Stop Motion Studies: Script, Performance, and Montage”
12:00h
LK47 (Florian Agalli, independent curator and artist; Eri Daka, artist): Lecture on the artistic and curatorial practice of LK47 in Kosovo
13:00h Indymedia Sofi a, media activists, Sofia, Bulgaria: Presentation of the indymedia idea
and practice and of Indymedia Bulgaria in the global context
14:00h
Lunch buffet
15:00h
Pauline Boudry, artist, theorist, musician; Brigitta Kuster, artist, theorist; Renate Lorenz, independent curator, theorist, artist, Berlin, Germany/Zurich, Switzerland: Lecture on fakes and quotations in “copy me – i want to travel”
16:00h
Karin Michalski, independent fi lm-maker, Berlin, Germany: Lecture “women and queeries speak up – attempts to create feminist and queer media spaces”
17:00h
Tim Zulauf, artist, theater author and director, art theorist, lecturer at the University of Art and Design Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland: Lecture “Imitate Yourself”
18:00h
Nina Stuhldreher, artist and reality researcher, Vienna, Austria: Multimedia lectureperformance “I’ve Seen My Body Electric or How Subcultural is my Body Intelligence?”
19:00h
Discussion
20:00h
Euro-Bear Drink Party
22:00h
Cinema projection: Surprise Movie