ART READINGS 2018, New Art Module
 

ART IN EUROPE: MODELS AND IDENTITIES

 
Hall 1
March 28, Wednesday
9:30 A welcoming speech by Assoc. Prof. Dr Emmanuel Moutafov, Director of the Institute of Art Studies, BAS
 
9:45 am – 11:05 am Panel 1 Theatre: Playwriting and Identity
Moderator: Rumyana Nikolova
9:45 am – 10:00 am Kamelia Nikolova (IoAS/NATFA) Galin Stoev’s theatre and Ivan Viripaev’s plays: identity and difference
10:00 am – 10:15 am Nikolay Yordanov (IoAS) Theatre education and theatre studies as factors creating the canon of Bulgaria’s playwriting
10:15 am – 10:30 am Ina Bozhidarova (NATFA) Adaptations of stage plays in contemporary theatrical practices
10:30 am – 10:45 am Veneta Doicheva (NATFA) The idea of corporeal as a value in Bulgarian playwriting
10:45 am – 11:05 am Discussion
11: 05 – 11: 30 Coffee/tea break
 
11:30 am – 12:35 Panel 2 The Contemporary Debate on Music
Moderator: Milena Bozhikova
11:30 am – 11:45 am Kristina Yapova (IoAS) Ideas of music over the centuries: some historical lessons for the new century
11:45 am – 12:00 Gergana Kostadinova (IoAS, PhD student) The avant-garde and the issue of its definition in the music of the twenty-first century
12:00 – 12:15 Ventsislav Dimov (IoAS) The soft power of the music for people in Bulgaria under Socialism
12:15 – 12:35 Discussion
 
12:35 – 1:40 pm Panel 3 Film: Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives
Moderator: Ingeborg Bratoeva-Daraktchieva
12:35 – 12:50 Maya Dimitrova (IoAS, NATFA) The concept of art onscreen: uses
12:50 – 1:05 pm Iosif Astrukov (IoAS) Photography as pop culture 
1:05 pm – 1:20 pm Yancho Mihailov (IoAS, PhD student) Emergence of new platforms of short film. From the underground subculture to the silver screen
1:20 pm – 1:40 pm Discussion
1:40 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch break
 
3:00 pm – 4:20 pm Panel 4 Fine Arts in a European Context: Culture and Politics, Part І
Moderator: Milena Georgieva
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm Plamen Petrov (University of Sofia, PhD student) The earliest general art exhibition in Bulgaria (1892) and its role in the history of this country’s road to Europe. An attempt at reconstruction
3:15 pm – 3:30 pm Milena Georgieva (IoAS) Bulgaria and the Balkans; Europe in the Balkans: Policies and ideas of the. Bulgaran weekly’s take on the world (1904–1909)
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm Anton Staikov (University of Sofia) Metaphors and propaganda. The Papagal (Parrot) cartoons bulletin-board newspaper in 1939–1953
3:45 pm – 4:00 pm Maria Miteva (IoAS) Regulation of art life in the interwar period: The European context and the national specifics. The role of the Union of art societies in Bulgaria
 
 
4:20 pm – 5:25 pm Panel 5 The Visual in Theatre and the Issue of Identity
Moderator: Nikolay Yordanov
4:20 pm – 4:35 pm Anna Topaldjieva (NATFA) Vision as a medium of translating the meaning of a performance
4:35 pm – 4:50 pm Albena Tagareva (IoAS) Set designers at the National Theatre in the period 1944–1968. Generations and trends
4:50 pm – 5:05 pm Milena Mihailova (IoAS) Identities under Socialism: an imposed ‘organic connection’ with the Communist Party or on the striving for creative freedom in the People’s Republic of Bulgarian in the 1970s
5:05 pm – 5:25 pm Discussion
 
 
Hall 1
March 29, Thursday
 
9:30 am – 11:20 am Panel 6 Architectural Perspectives
Moderator: Veselina Penevska
9:30 am – 9:45 am Veselina Penevska (IoAS) Creative approaches in European architecture at the turn of the twenty-first century
9:45 am – 10:00 am Nona Tsekova (IoAS, PhD student) Space and material in architecture: Interplays form a biomimetic point of view
10:00 am – 10:45 am Stela Tasheva (IoAS) Images of Sofia in contemporary film: Authenticity and fantasy
10:45 am – 11:00 am Veselina Mireva (IoAS, PhD student) Architectural connections bound by paper: Tradition and innovation
11:00 am – 11:20 am Discussion
11:20 am – 11:40 am Coffee/tea break
 
11:40 am – 1:30 pm THEMATIC SESSION 7 Cinema: Europe and the Balkans
Moderator: Teodora Doncheva
11:40 am – 11:55 am Ingeborg Bratоeva-Daraktchieva (IoAS) Borders, border-crossing and identity in the European cinema after 2010
11:55 am – 12:10 Stiliyan Emilov (NBU) Migration context in contemporary Turkish cinema; a comparison of perception and manner
12:10 – 12:25 Marian Ţuţui (‘G.Oprescu’ Institute of Art History) Types of censorship in Romanian film industry
12:25 – 12:40 Mircea Deaca (University of Bucharest) Scenotopes in European cinema. The case of the kitchen scenes in contemporary Romanian film
12:40 – 12:55 Nadezhda Marinchevska (IoAS) European avant-garde visual concepts in the contemporary Bulgarian animation
12:55 – 1:10 pm Radostina Neykova (IoAS) Contemporary art for children and adolescents: between the traditional and digital
1:10 pm – 1:30 pm Discussion
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Break for lunch
 
2:30 pm – 3:50 pm Panel 8 Theatre and Context: Models and Identities
Moderator: Kamelia Nikolova
2:30 pm – 2:45 pm Romeo Popiliev (IoAS) the political project of uniting the Mosaic native and theatre’s place in it
2:45 – 3:00 pm Joanna Spassova-Dikova (IoAS) Masquerade games in a globalising world of the East and the West: similarities and differences
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm Zornitsa Toteva (Stage Arts and Art Education Directorate, Ministry of Culture) Specifics of Katia Petrova’s theatre language
3:15 pm – 3:30 pm Rumyana Nikolova (IoAS) The subject of the dramaturgy of Socialist Realism
3:30 pm – 3:50 pm Discussion
 
3:50 pm – 5:10 pm Panel 9 Bulgarian Film and Context: Models and Identities
Moderator: Alexander Donev
3:50 pm – 4:05 pm Deyan Statulov (IoAS) Bulgarian film and the coercive renaming campaign. Propagandist practices
4:05 pm – 4:20 pm Teodora Doncheva (IoAS) National identity as shown in the reenactmentя in Bulgarian documentaries
4:20 pm – 4:35 pm Peter Kurdjilov European newsreels shot in Bulgaria prior to the Balkan Wars and information about them published by The Moving Picture World magazine, New York, in the period January 1908 – August 1912
4:35 pm – 4:50 pm Alexander Staykov (IoAS) The Bulgarian film market in the pan-European context: Interplays and perspectives
4:50 pm – 5:05 pm Nevelina Popova (NBU) The voice-over narration and the psychological dimensions to contemporary animations
5:05 pm – 5:25 pm Discussion
 
Hall 1
March 30, Friday
 
9:00 am – 10:35 am Panel 10 Fine Arts in a European Context: The Dialogue between the National and the International
Moderator: Maria Miteva
9:00 am – 9:15 am Irina Genova (IoAS) Art in France as covered by LIK magazine in the 1960s
9:15 am – 9:30 am Katerina Gadjeva (IoAS) Streets in Bulgarian photography of the 1960s. The Socialist city in a European context
9:30 am – 9:45 am Boika Donevska (NAA) The national and the universal in the 1960s art as viewed by Bulgarian critics
9:45 am – 10:00 am Vera Mlechevska (IoAS, PhD student) Limits to freedom of expression in visual arts of the late 1980s. Sources of information and contacts with Europe
10:00 am – 10:15 am Ivan Kabakov (University of Sofia) Graffiti as an art form of Europe’s urban spaces
10:15 am – 10:35 am Discussion
10:35 – 10: 55 Coffee/tea break
10:55 am – 12:15 Panel 11 Fine Arts in a European Context: Culture and Politics, Part ІІ
Moderator: Irina Genova
10:55 am – 11:10 am Maria Andirkova (NAA) The great debate on what art we need: Western European modernism or Socialist Realism. Nikola Mavrodinov and his critics
11:10 am – 11:25 am Mila Stareishinska (NAA, PhD student) New York art scene in 1942 and Peggy Guggenheim’s role. Prerequisites for opening the Art of This Century Gallery
11:25 am – 11:40 am Evgenia Rusinova (ULSIT) Problems of fine arts in the literary periodicals until 1944: European and national interpretations
11:40 am – 11:55 am Nikolay Poppetrov (IoAS) The Bulgarian art historian: An attempt at profiling (until the mid-1940s). Pertaining to the ‘Europeanisation’ of a forming movement
11:55 am – 12:15 Discussion
 
 
12:15 – 1:50 pm Panel 12 Genres, structures, interplays
Moderator: Nadezhda Marinchevska
12:15 – 12:30 Mihail Meltev (NBU) Glocalisation and reality TV shows
12:30 – 12:45 Alexander Donev (IoAS) Aspects of Westernisation in two recent German films
12:45 – 1:00 am Elitsa Gotseva (IoAS) European festival films
1:00 pm – 1:15 pm Gergana Doncheva (Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Tracology, BAS) Thessaloniki International Film Festival: Past, policies and new trends
1:35 pm – 1:30 pm Petia Alexandroba (NBU) Bulgarian fiction shorts as alternative films
 
1:30 pm – 1:50 pm Discussion
 
Hall 2
10:00 am – 11:20 am Panel 13 European – national – transnational: Dynamism of cultural interplays in music
Moderator: Ventsislav Dimov
10:00 am – 10:15 am Stefka Venkova (IoAS) New and European in Bulgarian church music at the turn of the twentieth century
10:15 am – 10:30 am Diana Danova-Damianova (IoAS) Sofia Music Weeks: A truly European Bulgarian festival
10:30 am – 10:45 am Rositsa Draganova (IoAS) Lullabies: Traditional and popular songs from the European past (an attempt to compare the ethnologic specifics)
10:45 am – 11:00 am Miglena Tzenova-Nusheva (IoAS) Performances of the Japanese traditional theatre in Bulgaria in 2012–2017: Interactions with Bulgarian teachers and artists
11:00 am – 11:20 am Discussion
11:20 am – 11:40 am Coffee/tea break
 
Hall 2
 
11:40 am – 1:30 pm Panel 14 Problems of composition and communication in contemporary music
Moderator: Kristina Yapova
11:40 am – 11:55 am Milena Bozhikova (IoAS) Acousmatic music now: criteria of audiovisual mnemonics and musicological analyses
11:55 am – 12:10 Angelina Petrova (IoAS) The impulse of Czech modernism and Konstantin Iliev’s studies with Alois Hába as an element of the idea of twelve-tone and modern music in Bulgaria, in 1946–1948
12:10 – 12:25 Stefan Hurkov (University of Sofia/University of Shumen) Images of holiness in contemporary music: St Clement of Rome as presented by Andrew Norman
12:25 – 12:40 Ilia Gramatikov (NMA) Legitimacy of instrumental concerts now. The case of Georgi Arnaudov
12:40 – 12:55 Ivan Yanakiev (Centre for Education, BAS) Equal division of the octave (EDO) with more than twelve notes: Concepts, authors, results
12:55 – 1:10 pm Emilia Karaminkova–Kabakova (University of Sofia, PhD student) Music and English language as a factor of shaping a creative generation and audience of preschool age children
1:10 pm – 1:30 pm Discussion
 
 
Hall 1
1:50 pm – 2:00 pm Conference closes