code flow new and ongoing events and projects
2008-06-09 - 2008-06-30: Dimitrina Sevova's series of three photographic self-portraits as a drag king, "All Power Is Theater! Female Masculinity", has been short-listed in the All About Him! project (initiated and curated by Ventsislav Zankov) and will participate in the exhibition in front of the Ivan Vazov Theater in Sofia, Bulgaria. Ten of the works in the exhibition will then be selected to be realized as billboards in the streets of Sofia later in the year.
2007-12-14 - 2007-12-16: Dimitrina Sevova's documentary art film "Unbeschreiblich weiblich", is featured at Videomedeja 2007 at the Museum of Vojvodina in Novi Sad, Serbia.
Kunsthalle Winterthur: "Aggression"
2007-10-20 - 2007-12-04: Dimitrina Sevova is co-curating with Oliver Kielmayer the international group show "Aggression" at Kunsthalle Winterthur.
Dimitrina Sevova is also curating an exclusive program of lectures, screenings and discussions around the topic of "Aggression".
See also the Aggression newspaper (PDF, 449 KB).
Exclusive Preview of art:21 Season 4
2007-10-03, 18h30: Screening at F+F School of Art and Media Design, Flurstrasse 89, Zurich, organized by code flow and F+F School.
A review of the Venice Biennale by code flow
2007-06-13: Our review of Robert Storr's exhibition at the Venice Biennale was published in Jungle World, Issue No. 24, 13 June 2007 (in German).
Interview with Katharina Schlieben and Sønke Gau, Curatorial Team of Shedhalle
2007-05-31: This interview with the curatorial team of Shedhalle by code flow is featured in Issue #25/2006 of IDEA Magazine, pp. 86-93, in Romanian and English. IDEA Magazine is based in Cluj, Romania. This specific issue of IDEA Magazine participates in the Documenta 12 Magazines project.
Shedhalle, Zürich: "Lost & Found"
2007-05-11 - 2007-07-15: Dimitrina Sevova's newest project, "Unbeschreiblich weiblich", premieres at the "Lost & Found" show at Shedhalle, Zürich, curated by Alice Cantaluppi, Isabel Reiss, Anna Voswinckel. "Unbeschreiblich weiblich" consists of a documentary film with interviews, photographs from the artist's personal archive, objects and text, and is dedicated to the reflection on how women and other characters in the alternative local scene in Sofia, Bulgaria, deal with pop culture.
Curatorship, Culture and the Public: Curatorial Practice in the Post-Soviet Age (Part I & Part II)
by Allan Siegel
2007-05-08: In an e-mail interview by Allan Siegel, Dimitrina Sevova and other curators give their view on the conditions of curating in an East European context in the post-Soviet age.
Pessimism no more - Exoticism is Everywhere.
Back to Reality, or Micro-approaches for handling institutional matrices in the local art context
2007-05-03: This text by Dimitrina Sevova on art and its institutions in the Bulgarian and Romanian contexts is featured in Issue #03/2006 of Vector Magazine, in Romanian (pp. 187-195) and English (pp. 196-203). Vector Magazine is based in Iasi, Romania. (HTML version) This specific issue of Vector Magazine participates in the Documenta 12 Magazines project.
Update:
Belgrade "Unlimited"
2006-12-09: Article by Dimitrina Sevova on a top-level art event, the East European art world system, socialist heritage and a peculiar "Inner Museum", as witnessed on the spot at the October Salon 2006 in Belgrade, Serbia, published in WeAreTheArtists No. 9 (January-April 2007). For your convenience, here is an HTML version of the article.
Online reviews of code flow's project at Haus für Kunst Uri
2006-11-11: The following two online reviews have been published about code flow's project luncheon on the grass - postproduction by code flow:
Digital Brainstorming Weblog: Wilhelm Tells digitale Reproduzierbarkeit (in German; by general stumm)
clickhere.ch: Reproducibility of Wilhelm Tell, and a feminist exchange of roles (English translation; original in German; by Villő Huszai)
2006-08-31: Article by Dimitrina Sevova on how the boom on the international art market reverberates between the smoking guns of street fights of local mafia gangs and the wishes of the local art scene, published in WeAreTheArtists No. 8 (August-December 2006). (HTML version )
Digitaler Dachstock #2 in Haus für Kunst Uri
2006-08-17 - 2006-11-17: code flow, curated by Martina Weber, are featured in the second edition of Digitaler Dachstock, the digital and media art attic at Haus für Kunst Uri in Altdorf in central Switzerland, with their new work luncheon on the grass - postproduction by code flow. The dates are 17 August-17 November, the museum being closed however from 25 September-20 October. An event will be announced for the beginning of November.
Article in Umělec
2006-06-16: Article by Dimitrina Sevova, Sparks from the Interaction of Art and Politics in Zurich, published in Umělec, 2/2006 (English, German and Czech editions). In Zurich you can find Umělec at the Kunstgriff bookshop.
Dizzyland
Article(s)
2006-04-21: Article by code flow on Dizzyland published in WeAreTheArtists No. 7 (May-July 2006), and a complementary view on this video prize by Dimitrina Sevova here.
The Figure of the Successful Media Curator
2006-03-30 - 2006-04-01: code flow participate in the symposium Art - Place - Technology. International Symposium on Curating New Media Art at Liverpool School of Art & Design and FACT with the lecture: "Identifications of curatorial practices in media space. The figure of the successful media curator in the first decade of the 21st century".
Archive
One of the more important events
of the past few years was:
Fake Project
2005-10-07: Opening of the project "Critique of Pure Image - Between Fake and Quotation" at the Center of Contemporary Art "Ancient Baths", Plovdiv. International exhibition (until 2005-11-08), three-day theoretical symposium with strong international participation (2005-10-08 - 2005-10-10).