East and West of Sofia
4/2019, Sofia Underground Performance Art Festival, Sofia, BG
On 18 April 2019, I walked some 20km across Sofia, from its western administrative borders (Lyulin district) to its eastern end (Mladost district). The artwork was commissioned for the festival Sofia Underground themed “The Eastern Question”. I invited the audience to walk with me physically on-site or virtually through snapshots, short notes, and videos I posted online during the walk.
Both large residential complexes, Lyulin and Mladost, are significant for the eras in which they were built and later developed. Lyulin is a typical Soviet-style housing district from the 1970s. Mladost inherited the same Eastern Bloc setting of residential blocks yet nowadays it speaks not only of its socialist past but also of its capitalist present due to its rapid development.
