The Federation of Minor Practices

Opens Saturday, May 9

Veneta Androva Gery Georgieva Maria Nalbantova Rayna Teneva

The Bulgarian Pavilion is conceived as the headquarters of a fictional research lab operating within a post sovereign, care oriented political imagination known as The Federation of Minor Practices. Positioned slightly ahead of the present, the Pavilion looks back at the early twenty first century as the moment when the conditions for this formation first became visible.

The near past of this formation is presented through four films. Gery Georgieva's "UWU Channel Radiance" mobilises digital myth and prophecy to question regimes of identity, pleasure, and mediated truth. Veneta Androva's "Spray and Pray" examines infrastructures of disinformation through the ecology of mushroom websites and algorithmic systems. Rayna Teneva's "Geography Is Destiny" traces the entanglement of labour, care, and violence in the Rose Valley, where rose harvesting coexists with arms production. Maria Nalbantova's ongoing work at the Dragoman Marsh unfolds as a long term practice of ecological care, combining artistic research, environmental maintenance, and the recording of local human and non human narratives.

The Pavilion itself occupies the present as a space of suspension. Conceived as an interactive environment based on a computer game, it gathers signals from the four films and activates them through play as a practice of collective orientation.

From the perspective of an imagined future, the Pavilion appears as an early laboratory of formation, where shared procedures of attention, care, and play began to assemble a post sovereign political imagination.

Commissioner: Dessislava Dimova

Curator: Martina Yordanova