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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.4667px;"><a href="https://newnewsouth.atavist.com/walking-into-focus" target="_blank">An in depth story</a> of The Healing Blues and other projects I have worked on by Wayne Johns </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.4667px;">for The New New South through the Digital Publishing Project at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.4667px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.4667px;" />Todorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019677268097832152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878279581205824071.post-53567976221800689852015-02-14T18:03:00.001-08:002015-11-13T10:27:40.335-08:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 150%;">The Healing Blues is a social-practice art project that began as a
response to an invitation to exhibit art in a downtown storefront to promote the
annual blues music festival in Greensboro NC. I conceived the project in which homeless storytellers and
musicians collaborated to create The Healing Blues album. I partnered
with renowned jazz and blues musician, music
professor <a href="http://www.davefoxmusic.com/" target="_blank">Dr. Dave Fox</a>, who produced the CD. The 15 songs relate the stories
and struggles of the homeless population of Greensboro NC, and sales and
donations raised funds for the <a href="http://gsodaycenter.org/" target="_blank">Interactive Resource Center</a> (a day center for
the homeless). Local professional <span style="color: #222222;">musicians donated
their performances to the project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
homeless storytellers received a share of the royalties and an honorarium as
cultural producers for the CD.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;">Songwriters and homeless storytellers at <a href="http://www.goelsewhere.org/" target="_blank">Elsewhere Museum</a> for a Healing Blues Cafe</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">It was determined that the
storytellers who contributed to the songs would all be IRC clients. They
included Isiahm Wardlow, Shannon Stewart, Anita Gilmore, Tresa Scott, Ryan
Lennon, Mike Schumacher, Kris Schumacher, Yolanda Batts, Walter Jamison, Chris
Ward, Necole MacDonald, Eric Barnes and Forrest Willis. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Participating songwriters were Kris Ferris,
Kristy Jackson, David Fox, Bubba Klinefelter and Shiela Klinefelter, Sam
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">In June of 2014 Fox began working on the production
of the CD with Benjy Johnson of Earthtones Recording in Greensboro, NC. Fox brought in Lawyers, Guns, and Money,
The Fairlanes, Kristy Jackson, Neil Clegg, Jon Epstein, Sam Frazier, The Healing
Blues Band (Dave Fox, Roger Kohrs, Chuck Cotton, Benjy Johnson), Heymarket
Riot, Big Bump and The Stun Gunz, Chris Carol, Jessica Mashburn, Mike
Wesolowski and Charlotte Whitted as well as backup singers and horns to produce
the 15 songs on the CD. <span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Benjy Johnson, Sam Frazier, Roger Kohrs and Dave Fox recording at <a href="http://www.earthtonesrecording.com/" target="_blank">Earthtones</a>.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 150%;">Greensboro
College staff, students and faculty from the Art, Music, Business, Communications
and Sociology department wrote songs, performed on the CD, publicized the
project and helped stage concerts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.artsgreensboro.org/" target="_blank">ArtsGreensboro</a>
and the <a href="http://piedmontblues.org/" target="_blank">Piedmont Blues Preservation Society</a> supported the project through
fundraising and publicity. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; line-height: 150%;">Many
individuals supported crowd-funding campaigns, purchased Healing Blues CD’s and
attended Healing Blues concerts. To date $10,000 has been raised for the
Interactive Resource Center and homeless storytellers.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; line-height: 150%;">This
project illustrates how</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 150%;"> the healing process of talking
about and memorializing one’s struggle in living music can improve the lives of
individuals and how broad community partnerships involving the arts, education,
social services and philanthropy can address the needs of our most vulnerable
communities.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Here is a video I made for the Lawyers, Guns & Money song that features the homeless co author of the song Shannon Stewart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">The project is featured in <i><a href="http://blog.thebluesmag.com/" target="_blank">Blues Magazine</a></i> out of UK and <a href="https://www.freespeech.org/" target="_blank"><i>Free Speech TV</i></a> in the US as well as many local newspapers, TV and radio stations. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">To get involved go to <a href="http://thehealingblues.org/">Thehealingblues.org</a> where
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project leaders. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 36px;">A few quotes about the project:</span></span></div>
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<i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">Last
night's show was fantastic beyond what I could have imagined. To be able to sit
with our guests and see their physical responses to hearing their stories come
alive through music was truly a type of genius. </i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Gwen
Frisbie-Fulton – IRC Director of Fund Development and Marketing</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1666660308838px;"><i>"Never before in my forty five years living in the blues community has a project taken me as close to understanding what the blues is about as this one has."</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1666660308838px;"><i>Peter "Blewzzman" Lauro</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica"; line-height: 115%;">"After the Healing Blues show at Ziggy's Sunday
night, as I was packing up, this gentleman came up to the side of the stage. He
said to me, " I just found out that you guys are doing this for me...thank
you so much. Man, it's really cool that you all would do this...." When I left the gig, I turned down Cherry Street, and I'm pretty sure I saw that gentleman walking down the side of the road in the night rain. It never was about us as musicians, or our bands, or how well we played in front of each other, or how many people showed up.... it was about him.... that person walking somewhere in the rain without a home." </span></i></span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica"; line-height: 115%;">Roger Kohrs, The Healing Blues Band</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1666660308838px;"><i>"The young man I wrote my song about has now moved into an apartment, and I've been taking some household items to him. I took him a CD player with a copy of Healing Blues. He is so thankful and excited about the music and stories being told, and yes, this is much bigger than the music and bands. It's about helping others who, well basically, have nothing. Thanks for all your hard work. All we can try to do before our time is through here on Earth, is try to make it a little better place..."</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1666660308838px;">Mark "buddyro" Harrison, The Fairlanes</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1666660308838px;">In the I'm Walkin' video Shannon Stewart travels through many parts of Greensboro that are important to the homeless community, The Healing Blues project and civil rights in Greensboro, NC. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Shannon walking near W. Lewis St. with Lee St. behind him, Greensboro, NC</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Shannon on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive near S. Elm St., </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Greensboro, NC</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Shannon in building near W. Lewis St. by the Forge and Elsewhere, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Greensboro, NC</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Shannon with Greensboro Cultural Center on left and Festival Park behind him, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Greensboro, NC</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Shannon walking up to Greensboro Public Library, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Greensboro, NC</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Shannon at Interactive Resource Center, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Greensboro, NC</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Shannon on East Washington St., </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Greensboro, NC</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Shannon at South Elm and Barnhardt Streets, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Greensboro, NC</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Shannon at International Civil Rights Center and Museum on South Elm St., </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Greensboro, NC</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Shannon and Lawyers Guns & Money on Kress Terrace, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Greensboro, NC</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Shannon and Terry Vun Cannon on Kress Terrace, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Greensboro, NC</span></td></tr>
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From Budapest I took a train (where I met some very nice
Brits, Americans, Poles and a Check guy) to Belgrade where I hooked up with my interpreter – Sunitsa and the three friends that she selected for our
conversation and recording session.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
went swimmingly and despite my limited knowledge of Serbian I feel that I got
great material for my project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also
met this man – who immediately knew I was Russian by the way I was speaking
Serbian with him, gave an impromptu interview and called me his Brother (it’s a
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my brother</div>
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After Belgrade I took a bus going backwards up the Danube to
Vukovar, Croatia. The border crossing
was very tense and one young man was retained at the crossing probably for
interrogation. Before coming I contacted
an American psychiatrist Charles David Tauber, M.D. who runs a small non-profit
<i>Coalition for work with Psychotrauma and
Peace</i> in Vukovar working with all comers and dealing with issues of post
war narrative. His brilliant post on this subject can be found <a href="http://interchange4peace.org/?p=2883" target="_blank">here</a>. </div>
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Charles was extremely generous with his time and gave me a
comprehensive tour of the City that was almost completely destroyed in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vukovar" target="_blank">Battle of Vukovar</a> and is still in recovery as is evidenced by many buildings
in ruins. I did several short interviews in Vukovar and obtained a
glimpse into the madness of ethnic cleansing that went on in this town.</div>
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From Vukovar I took a bus to Belgrade and then Sofia, Bulgaria and
finally to Oryahovo, to stay at the Gallery Savchevi International
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This was my second stay at the residency and again I was
taken by how familial and informal it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Artists stay in a modest house on a hill overlooking the Danube and
Romania on the far bank, make their work and spend lots of time doing short day
trips and long evenings of conversation, with Rakia, great wine and Bulgarian
food for fuel. This time the group consisted of Bulgarians, Serbs a Ukranian and
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In Oryahovo I met a group of American artists traveling down
the Danube with the <a href="http://schooner-hippo.tumblr.com/page/2" target="_blank">Schooner Hippo</a> as part of a very interesting collaborative art project that Clemens, the captain of the schooner initiated and I could not
resist going along for the ride. Clemens grew up on this boat
built by his father when he was a child. We traveled from Oryahovo to Nicopol
the next day and enjoyed conversation and swimming in the river.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Upon return to Oryahovo I continued to prepare for our residency show, that fell at the beginning of the festival celebrating Diko Iliev, a
famous Bulgarian composer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
festival had everything from singers and dancers from Romania and Bulgaria, art
shows, amusements and fireworks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I spent
a few exhilarating days in celebration enjoying friends and attractions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">I hope to come back to this area next summer to continue working on the Mother Tongue project.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">This boy followed me for a
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">This building represents a famous Ulm box – a boat in which merchants in the middle ages traveled as far downriver as Belgrade. Later, impoverished Schwabisch peasants
traveled down the Danube to populate parts of Hungary and Ukraine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">At Passau the Danube is
joined by the Inn and the Ilz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> This summer Passau had a record flood as a result of the rivers swelling from heavy rains. </span>The top of the brown band on this former armory tower is how far the Inn flooded the city after traveling from the Austrian Alps.
Finally traveling by boat I leave Passau at the confluence of the three rivers.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">We continually see castles
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Arriving in Linz (where
Hitler spent his childhood and intended to retire) I am taken by how diverse
the population is. People of every ethnicity hang out together less than 70
years since the fall of the Nazi regime</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">We come to Mauthausen<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- a picturesque Austrian village on the
Danube that housed the Nazi Labor camp where Russian POW's, Jews, Roma and other enemies of the Nazi state quarried
granite.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Having traveled almost half
the river length I arrive in Vienna at the end of the German-speaking world
where I see the first Soviet built hydrofoil from Bratislava, Slovakia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Vienna is at once imperial
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while great graffiti covers it’s walls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="RU" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: RU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">An hour from Vienna on the hydrofoil and I'm finally in
the Slavic world – Bratislava, Slovakia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I hear the language and it sounds like Russian, but I can't quite
understand it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still, sounds familiar. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="RU" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: RU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">This sign in Czech is written on the bridge in Bratislava.</span></div>
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<span lang="RU" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: RU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">A loose translation is: <i>Much more than my verse you are reading, but a mirror which inspects all. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="RU" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: RU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">I met this art student/street artist spraying stencils for
tourists in old town Bratislava.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
friend who was taking pictures of him was happy to do an interview for me in
Slovak. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="RU" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: RU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">On to Budapest, Hungary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The city is an exotic
mix of Post-Communist abandonment and squalor and incredible Habsburg
architecture that screams of well healed imperial power and dominance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="RU" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: RU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">This man, Miklos gave me a Hungarian history and
language lesson along with an interview. He is one of the founders of the language school - <i>Fungarian</i>.</span></div>
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<span lang="RU" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: RU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">The Hungarians managed to hold on to their language after coming from
the Ural Mountain region of present day Russia and settling in modern day Hungary in the 10th century.
It is a beautiful sing song language that no one in Europe can understand
because it has neither latin nor slavic routes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="RU" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: RU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Agglutination<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- a
kind of gluing words to one another to form new words makes some Hungarian
words more like whole English sentences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="RU" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: RU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mobil+oz+tram <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>means
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<span lang="RU" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: RU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">I am off to Belgrade on the train and visiting Vukovar
in Croatia after that before going to Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Todorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019677268097832152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878279581205824071.post-28130304292244577902013-07-20T08:21:00.000-07:002013-07-21T12:12:18.239-07:00Mother Tongue Kick Off<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dear friends, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Thanks to many of you I kicked off the production of <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/90500578/mother-tongue-0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mother Tongue</a> two days ago. I
arrived in Donaueschingen, Germany on Thursday, July 18 and was fortunate to find a
great hotel and a bike shop within a half an hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I rented a bike in order to explore the town
with the intention of finding the source of the Danube, but it seems this act
thrust me into the middle of a controversy as to where the Danube actually
begins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">There is the storied memorial
of the Donauquelle – the spring of the Danube, (currently under reconstruction)
that is situated in the gardens of the palace of the
Furstenberg’s (local aristocrats) and lays claims to pilgrimage by the Roman Emperor Tiberius in 15
BCE and the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian in 1499 along with many other
celebrities. The Furstenberg’s elevated the story of the Donauquelle as the
true source to the status of legend and representatives of many nations on the
Danube have placed reverential plaques on this site. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Donauquelle under reconstruction and sans the statue and plaques</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The construction sign at Donauquelle</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Legends aside, the more
moderate cartographers have placed the source of the Danube at the confluence
of the Breg and Brigach rivers about a mile away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here I found two tipsy locals drinking <a href="http://www.fuerstenberg.de/en/about_us/history.html" target="_blank">Furstenberg beer</a> (since 1283) on a bench by a statue of a woman and child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The woman represents the Barr – the local landscape that gave birth to
the Danube and the Child of course is the fledgling river.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">The tipsy guys were happy
to be interviewed and spoke haltingly in German about the river.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My disadvantage is a lack of fluency in
German, so I will need to translate the interview in post- production.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Beer at the Breg, Brigach and Danube</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The mother - Barr, and child - Donau</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">I find the people extremely
friendly and have had success getting answers to my questions.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">I ask people to respond in their mother
tongue to Key Words that I present to them.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">The words are: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">1. Danube<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">2. Usually these words are
the names of the two countries above and below the Danube of the country I am
in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Germany, at the source of the
river it is only one word: Austria. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">In Austria the words will
be Germany and Slovakia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">3. Borders<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">4. The possibility of no
borders<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">I met a group of guys
playing beach volleyball and one of them, Peter, took me in his car about 20
miles to the Black Forest where yet another contender for the source of the
Danube resides at the small town of Furtwangen at the source of the river Breg.
Here at an altitude of about 1000 meters above sea level in the beautiful Black
Forest you will find multiple plaques at the spring of the Breg claiming the
spot as the beginning of the Danube. Near the spring is also the dividing line
between the watershed of the Danube and the Rhine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The confluence of Breg and Brigach with Danube on bottom right</span></span></td></tr>
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point to how the landscape is washed in our wishes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">I’m taking a 3 day bike
ride to the city of Ulm (about 150 kilometers north east) tomorrow morning as
the Danube is not navigable at this point. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">I will continue to blog every several days as I acquire
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">Peace</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Note: Much of the historic background I am getting from <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10438603-the-danube" target="_blank">Andrew Beattie's The Danube - A cultural History</a>, a worthy read.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><br />
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Todorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019677268097832152noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878279581205824071.post-35523791207052830062013-05-23T03:26:00.002-07:002013-05-23T03:31:42.323-07:00Launching the Mother Tongue Kickstarter ProjectJust launched the <i><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/90500578/mother-tongue-0" target="_blank">Mother Tongue</a></i> Kickstarter Project I am hoping to fund. Beyond trepidation at whether it will succeed or not, I have a lot of things to think about. Although there is always a need to define a project, (especially if there is a grant deadline) to me the project itself is an organic thing that will have it's own will and will eventually settle into what it wants to be. If I pay attention. <br />
To do:<br />
Contact organizations in Europe to set up interviews for the project.<br />
Contact friends in Europe to set up meetings, interviews.<br />
Research audio equipment<br />
Start learning German<br />
Think about general itinerary<br />
Keep thinking about the end goal - what is the simplest, most direct reason for this to be in the world.<br />
Is there really a need or even a possibility for a borderless society that preserves within itself multiple identities that come from our tribal beginnings?<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.crvp.org/book/Series03/III-7a/chapter_xii.htm" target="_blank">Interesting article by Tomonobu Imamici on this theme.</a></span></div>
Todorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019677268097832152noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878279581205824071.post-14033370021536826812013-05-22T19:36:00.005-07:002013-05-22T19:38:59.350-07:00Great Conversation with Josh of LOCALFLUX.<a href="http://www.localflux.net/PostView.aspx?id=290" target="_blank">Interview</a>Todorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019677268097832152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878279581205824071.post-19963041196514973302013-05-22T19:23:00.001-07:002013-05-22T19:34:28.645-07:00With the energy of Kingswood Oxford students - the Work makes itself. <a href="http://www.kingswoodoxford.org/page.cfm?p=2718" target="_blank">Slide show, talk video link.</a>Todorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019677268097832152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878279581205824071.post-77518529482203406892012-12-08T08:48:00.000-08:002012-12-08T08:48:01.546-08:00Stuffed Animal Project at KOHere is a <a href="http://www.stuffedanimalsforemergencies.org/Stuffed_Animal_Drives.html" target="_blank">link</a> to a stuffed animal donation organization.<br />
Make a comment about your project.Todorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019677268097832152noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878279581205824071.post-36426136291870536432012-12-08T08:43:00.001-08:002012-12-08T08:43:16.195-08:00Kingswood Oxford ResidencyBelow are some questions I asked at a presentation of my work at Kingswood Oxford. Here is a <a href="http://sdrv.ms/11XItJJ" target="_blank">link</a> to the power point presentation.<br />
I hope to have a conversation with you - the students about how these questions can lead to making art. Please make comments to start a conversation. I will be checking every couple of days. <br />
Does art have to stay in a frame?<br />
Is it ok to break the law?<br />
Can art be in the everyday?<br />
Is it ok to lie?<br />
Is it ok to destroy things?<br />
Can you alter public property?<br />
Is it ok to do ridiculous things?<br />
Can you farm with a bike? <br />
Can we be at home in nature?<br />
Can the world be your school?<br />
Is it ok to panhandle?<br />
Can you shape the future?<br />
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<br />Todorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019677268097832152noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878279581205824071.post-71423570716983262562010-04-20T07:52:00.001-07:002010-04-20T07:52:23.056-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQJaYb7VHs6kPUf920fr-8RGvNHwM6b_Z_LKx8YxtkV92qZvO-PuecECwqOf2MyZzkw4kKr0NwVHQVlstdSWIPYvkJHL0aOPEdMQBlEHDDlRdqwShdlqqXuOXVJYxrEc6AYdVHGcjNIsM/s1600/breadlogo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQJaYb7VHs6kPUf920fr-8RGvNHwM6b_Z_LKx8YxtkV92qZvO-PuecECwqOf2MyZzkw4kKr0NwVHQVlstdSWIPYvkJHL0aOPEdMQBlEHDDlRdqwShdlqqXuOXVJYxrEc6AYdVHGcjNIsM/s320/breadlogo.jpg" /></a></div>Todorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019677268097832152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878279581205824071.post-62072435959689907012010-04-20T07:48:00.000-07:002010-04-20T07:55:14.529-07:00Currently working on BREAD CYCLE WORKSThrough planting and harvesting a field of wheat in Hartford’s Frog Hollow neighborhood BREAD CYCLE WORKS is interested in engaging people in a communal way in order to affirm our relationship to the land and the physical and metaphoric sustaining qualities of bread. We aim to celebrate a multicultural calendar of rites and community activities associated with planting and harvesting. The breads we bake from the wheat will be shared with the Frog Hollow Community and volunteers and eaten at a fiesta.Todorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019677268097832152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878279581205824071.post-55400792512928242632009-06-08T05:20:00.000-07:002009-10-08T07:51:58.164-07:00Gypsy Wagon Prophet Theater<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3hS6X86hAzmNMkkBPPbU8k_vIREAj4XM3tSxjHx_fEU77E-_pFQI5xwz5tg36rXao5DDAedmOxstsbKwmHMKwrr1sRp1Hgl3f7G03BHqTZHY9p1ao5mX493-ICxurPQbt11cqQb_6ViQ/s1600-h/horse.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3hS6X86hAzmNMkkBPPbU8k_vIREAj4XM3tSxjHx_fEU77E-_pFQI5xwz5tg36rXao5DDAedmOxstsbKwmHMKwrr1sRp1Hgl3f7G03BHqTZHY9p1ao5mX493-ICxurPQbt11cqQb_6ViQ/s400/horse.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344933799602017570" border="0" /></a>truth<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">While living in Sofia I became interested in the Roma community of the city. They are most visible traveling the streets in their horse carts collecting scrap material from the trash or work sites. This marginalized community is living on the periphery of Sofia’s life in ghettos, economically impoverished and socially separated. In Sofia they are the only people still using horses, so there is a historic chasm between the Roma and the Bulgarians who drive cars. This mixture of contemporary and historic technology that can be observed in Bulgaria was my initial inspiration for creating The Gypsy Wagon Prophet Theater.<br />I wanted to give a voice to the Roma people by using their own traditional sayings. These sayings such as “What is a lie to you, is truth to me” contain clues to the history and identity of the Roma. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2leoRJzyQEY">See video. </a><br /><br /></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUJ8AzHAR8Bl-lZWIAo-e-i13QrzwImElY_yNoc9w182vTYLMkT9sLyeM0kGEiohUQKMYOaMTf1z9_t3zaPiK73SL6ZrrNV-Bkf60T8BTx1uUs5v5ciqxEPX7IQU7vL12MFqYauPQB70o/s1600-h/Horse4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUJ8AzHAR8Bl-lZWIAo-e-i13QrzwImElY_yNoc9w182vTYLMkT9sLyeM0kGEiohUQKMYOaMTf1z9_t3zaPiK73SL6ZrrNV-Bkf60T8BTx1uUs5v5ciqxEPX7IQU7vL12MFqYauPQB70o/s400/Horse4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344933671300031346" border="0" /></a>rage<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">I used a video projection of a slot machine on a screen mounted on a horse wagon. The slot machine spat out Bulgarian Roma sayings as the wagon traveled through Sofia. The wagon traveled through zones forbidden to Roma wagons by the decree of the mayor such as the square in front of the parliament building and other center city locations. The sayings become scrambled with time as the words start to be randomly selected by the slot machine creating a sort of chance poetry.<br /></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg45iqo0OlA_Iv-YwpTtshMCkg1mJd7O-34R3LVhv-Jb3DVlv5yfOXyRYdU2BXOTHi2cPZeZZCoX2poL9UJrk8y-VTI_tICa1g3nFD_Wrvar-OkGfPH7zuoHaWoy8kBTPFMrHdvSGiMprI/s1600-h/Horse2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 255px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg45iqo0OlA_Iv-YwpTtshMCkg1mJd7O-34R3LVhv-Jb3DVlv5yfOXyRYdU2BXOTHi2cPZeZZCoX2poL9UJrk8y-VTI_tICa1g3nFD_Wrvar-OkGfPH7zuoHaWoy8kBTPFMrHdvSGiMprI/s400/Horse2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344933513053352290" border="0" /></a>victory<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;">To me the slot machine represents chance of birth, profiteering at the expense of the poor, fortune telling. The horse wagon represents a marginalized minority holding on to their historic way of life in a sea of contemporary society represented by the cars.<br /></div><br /></div>Todorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019677268097832152noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878279581205824071.post-43010937657480058352009-05-13T11:59:00.001-07:002009-06-08T05:28:34.883-07:00Sofia Underground Performance FestivalThis week the <a href="http://sofiaunderground.blogspot.com/">Sofia Underground Performance Festival</a> is happening here. It promises to be quite an eventful and interesting week in Sofia.<br />I am doing a second annual performance with my pal Rebecca Parker - <a href="http://www.24hourconversation.com/">24 Hour Conversation</a> as well as organizing an <a href="http://electrickidsperformanceexchange.blogspot.com/">electric KIDS performance exchange</a> with my good friend Emcee CM. He is organizing a <a href="http://www.fluxfactory.org/kids/">KIDS has some work to do</a> schedule of events in NYC and we thought it would be nice to set up a virtual bridge between Sofia and New York and give people a chance to collaborate. We hope to have the website function as an open ended space for performance instructions and documentation that can be used by folks from all over the world. On May 23rd the Gypsy Wagon Prophet Theater will be traveling the streets of Center City Sofia<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><br /></span>Todorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019677268097832152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878279581205824071.post-68414410661753100162009-04-23T03:53:00.000-07:002009-10-08T07:57:56.738-07:00Temporal MonumentsThe name of my project in Sofia is Temporal Monuments. It has moved dramatically from my initial intention of doing video projections on buildings. Living in Sofia for a few months I have become increasingly aware of people begging in the streets, selling flowers on the corners or plying any kind of skill such as playing the accordion and dancing or carving wooden figurines.<br />While some might find this unsightly I see these people as survivors. I see Roma wagons cruising the streets for recyclable goods and I think about sustainability. These goods would otherwise find their way into a landfill somewhere. When there is a lack of resources sustainability becomes about survival. <br />These people on the streets of Bulgaria living by their wits are just making ends meet, but as a result not putting the kind of pressure on their environment most people of means do.<br />So this begging and hustling I see as hopeful. It’s like fishing, hoping to collect a bounty, something positive, helpful to one’s survival. It is about being opportunistic, working with what you have. In academia it’s called writing a grant proposal, here on the streets there is a more immediate and pressing need.<br />These are the people that I am interested in establishing a temporal monument for.Todorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019677268097832152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878279581205824071.post-35599422666401092122009-04-23T03:38:00.000-07:002009-10-08T07:59:27.861-07:00MonumentI found a headless monument in the park on the corner of Pirotska and Opalchenska Street and thought it would be a good space to honor regular folks in. An older couple told me that on top of it used to be a bust of Georgi Dimitrov – the Bulgarian Communist Dictator. After Dimitrov’s death a mausoleum was erected in the center of Sofia where he lay embalmed like Lenin on Red Square. Post communist political changes saw the mausoleum demolished.<br />I was later told by a policeman who was half-heartedly trying to stop us from completing our project that the bust was of the Russian writer-philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev who’s writings were based in Christian Spirituality. He was a Marxist and a revolutionary who gradually walked away from the radical Marxism of the Bolsheviks and found himself on the “Philosophers’ ship” of the exiles the Bolsheviks sent out of the country.<br />Both contenders for the monument were tied to Marxism, a philosophy promoting the equal rights among people.<br />So a temporal monument to the people at this spot seemed appropriate. I asked some friends to work on it with me. We created a set of stairs for easy access, cleaned graffiti from the monument, laid flowers and made a plaque to the Bulgarian people. You can see the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl4pLDac0dY">video</a> of the project and some photos I posted below. If you are in Sofia you can go to the site and take a picture of yourself on the base. Send it to me if you do. Here is a <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=108616687392211378252.00046822a84916fdf15f3&ll=42.702434,23.310091&spn=0.004463,0.010997&t=h&z=17">map</a> of the location.Todorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019677268097832152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878279581205824071.post-13122592924354789272009-04-23T03:36:00.000-07:002009-04-23T03:38:32.783-07:00Before<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDgIdVR2zw_CpeTnWO379gkJjwe0pWJ_wSNMPs4SWvTQ8dNO5B3ZNg4Rm_ElxQZcJADYY2huPGI-qpaAbgGKcxQgdl8hHDXDX7kk4StsnZmIbRM4P2nv4iZbqSz7XPsIH1-LfSYFj30fQ/s1600-h/monument2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDgIdVR2zw_CpeTnWO379gkJjwe0pWJ_wSNMPs4SWvTQ8dNO5B3ZNg4Rm_ElxQZcJADYY2huPGI-qpaAbgGKcxQgdl8hHDXDX7kk4StsnZmIbRM4P2nv4iZbqSz7XPsIH1-LfSYFj30fQ/s400/monument2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327834315316560178" border="0" /></a>Todorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019677268097832152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878279581205824071.post-87944133190951683782009-04-23T03:24:00.001-07:002009-09-27T09:24:03.882-07:00After<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuzQLY6B6JcX_qyXH8YHUSdGstfBrTe0klptZUwbG126grJHKJUvcvh1P7rbvJU54CM1zs8L5Wqa9Fneqc1X9y15nm3JLXOqa3Lv7fgieDphkjsIDCjToX7i8a_TbB942ZLAXQ9DSWvmA/s1600-h/monumentsmall.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuzQLY6B6JcX_qyXH8YHUSdGstfBrTe0klptZUwbG126grJHKJUvcvh1P7rbvJU54CM1zs8L5Wqa9Fneqc1X9y15nm3JLXOqa3Lv7fgieDphkjsIDCjToX7i8a_TbB942ZLAXQ9DSWvmA/s400/monumentsmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386182150054024354" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSfkioiptHnWae8p4KuNVQbcgkFlbQlVdQaTf6krC8j-1vX99xGANG58WMDXSV9prdnEyEWcbmIjRbyyBnT96hpCCWNw0tVV55Xahe5oV-xt3D-DHRqxlFmUQR3ZM5sACLHRcY4CpIY8s/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 288px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSfkioiptHnWae8p4KuNVQbcgkFlbQlVdQaTf6krC8j-1vX99xGANG58WMDXSV9prdnEyEWcbmIjRbyyBnT96hpCCWNw0tVV55Xahe5oV-xt3D-DHRqxlFmUQR3ZM5sACLHRcY4CpIY8s/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386182030530521426" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkqmIAbL7QlPHqtDwmG6WYocw8pTLxUukG6tZibaaADdfd2jfieR8vWSdCDlF_HWPI-tQvwPcbJxGOxA0BLf_xMWEXauUBzSW1-O6O705gOynSkKoa2VumLFQHqeIy_uL3Wy53ZlQDrwo/s1600-h/toni2.jpg"><br /></a>Todorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019677268097832152noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878279581205824071.post-2639272044005914242009-04-07T14:00:00.000-07:002009-10-08T08:02:17.486-07:00Are they biting? Кълве ли?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCj_YclT670AD3aciQQ2ty7ddDX-mP2TtKYJ9DDjFxWy77EdvaEvfaufN5ceTxfB4ltly6F7841rDTrjSIBhJB3yCzIaAN8nq-j_djCinSDymZzbPcDqmhqSIbGcojJcMFr5cfuk4NDDE/s1600-h/Fish2Small.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 313px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCj_YclT670AD3aciQQ2ty7ddDX-mP2TtKYJ9DDjFxWy77EdvaEvfaufN5ceTxfB4ltly6F7841rDTrjSIBhJB3yCzIaAN8nq-j_djCinSDymZzbPcDqmhqSIbGcojJcMFr5cfuk4NDDE/s400/Fish2Small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327841422226177570" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:78%;">MONUMENT TO THE HOPEFUL FISHERMAN<br />Кълве ли?/Are they biting?, Performance, Sofia, Bulgaria, March 2009</span><br /></div><br />To make art in Sofia I am looking for the spaces between spaces. I am trying to figure out the potential, the possibilities. I am searching for the margins of the built environment for the places not yet resolved. Those spaces are alive with possibility. Can you catch fish in a puddle in Sofia? No, but you can catch lots of smiles, greetings and the proverbial Кълве ли?(Culve li?), Are they biting? What are you getting? Som (catfish). They are bottom feeders – opportunists. Just like so many have to be. It is a fruitless activity, but somehow full of hope. Yes. They are biting. The opportunities to be inspired, to figure it out, to create are everywhere in Bulgaria.Todorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019677268097832152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878279581205824071.post-53942684822722493632009-04-07T13:39:00.000-07:002009-10-08T08:04:55.396-07:00ICH BITTE SIE FUER 1 WORT<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFGpnx_Mi2NxHn8t5wiHmTakYxEHrYwyeHq2rtIudGT_FsM96jDLHF3rkRR7A5aplocgZlZHfOJRmv9hVhbFXKGS5wW0O3gA6jyb-PyH4uVOAcnOERq2FLUQ813t-MEfX9kE8bZHd61j0/s1600-h/beg1asmall.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFGpnx_Mi2NxHn8t5wiHmTakYxEHrYwyeHq2rtIudGT_FsM96jDLHF3rkRR7A5aplocgZlZHfOJRmv9hVhbFXKGS5wW0O3gA6jyb-PyH4uVOAcnOERq2FLUQ813t-MEfX9kE8bZHd61j0/s400/beg1asmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322052528354481522" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">MONUMENT TO THE HOPEFUL BEGGAR<br />ICH BITTE SIE FUER 1 WORT / I BEG YOU FOR ONE WORD<br />Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse,</span><span style="font-size:78%;"> Berlin, Germany, March 2009</span><br /></div><br />For the Fulbright Conference in Berlin I created a performance at the Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse.<br />In many countries especially in the West, begging is considered a contemptible occupation practiced in order to receive money dishonestly for obtainment of food, drugs or alcohol. Historically however, the western tradition has been known for respecting beggars such as Diogenes of Sinope and Lazarus. <span style="font-style: italic;"> I am the least of these</span>, were the words Jesus is recorded as saying in the bible about less fortunate people, beggars included. In many countries of the east like India, Japan and others begging can be considered a spiritual occupation, which frees the beggar from material concerns such as labor for money and keeps them on the path to enlightenment.<br />My decision was to beg for something considered non-material – a word. I was interested in the attitudes and behavior of people towards someone in a position of a supplicant. What kind of poem could come from the words collected in a specific location in a specific city? In this case, it was the Friedrichshtrasse train station in Berlin.<br />The experience was humbling. Many people did not realize I was begging for a word, did not look at my sign and thought I was asking for money. They avoided my gaze, completely ignored me, or walked a large circle around me. I felt that I was putting them in an uncomfortable position of having to make a decision about giving. On the other hand, twenty-eight people chose to give a word. This relationship between those in need and those with resources plays out on a regional and world scale and the decisions to give or not to give are crucial to our future.Todorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019677268097832152noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878279581205824071.post-50003420017128202382009-04-07T13:25:00.000-07:002009-04-23T12:50:19.251-07:00Brigada<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuTQmgi_-ZwCevpb6wv9xkwUEe1VulHxKACf97ejsG_wPUjUKe-3laDPu8Au0pFKpeFNBVlicxaln2hOLIyXUbZ5Pz45uN2SUdOhOw5c3s-TZDeA800FB9r-qkh1VQI6NfwJV0tzsPW_c/s1600-h/artRemovalBG+copy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 176px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuTQmgi_-ZwCevpb6wv9xkwUEe1VulHxKACf97ejsG_wPUjUKe-3laDPu8Au0pFKpeFNBVlicxaln2hOLIyXUbZ5Pz45uN2SUdOhOw5c3s-TZDeA800FB9r-qkh1VQI6NfwJV0tzsPW_c/s400/artRemovalBG+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322048793395201122" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br />Art Removal Poster, February 2009</span><br /></div><br />In Sofia, we have formed Brigada which is an Art Taskforce consisting of a group of art students, graduate students and professors. All the members of Brigada are artists willing to work in new and collaborative ways. They are left to right: myself, Boyan Dobrev, Radostin Vasilev, Nikola Grozdanov, Ivan Genov , Stanislava Penelova.Todorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019677268097832152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878279581205824071.post-14220589604422787282009-04-07T13:14:00.000-07:002009-10-08T08:09:39.815-07:00Art Removal<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9HnwxwvYn2xTOA6xwfAEq_jQP0n_g0ZTZL8LSCNbADmCx9KdPat4grN72DITcE9_dp4qpzM1E5A6RRKHjniwnN3uAA-8Z3W9jvVd1pHKM4cxgBhlfKuWdAXPrgP1uD7JzmNGMcuSl6eo/s1600-h/removal.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 297px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9HnwxwvYn2xTOA6xwfAEq_jQP0n_g0ZTZL8LSCNbADmCx9KdPat4grN72DITcE9_dp4qpzM1E5A6RRKHjniwnN3uAA-8Z3W9jvVd1pHKM4cxgBhlfKuWdAXPrgP1uD7JzmNGMcuSl6eo/s400/removal.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322046111690118866" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">ERASING THE MEMORIAL<br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;">Performance, Video Installation,</span><span style="font-size:78%;"> Art Removal Taskforce, Union of Bulgarian Artists, February 2009</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">So far Brigada has completed one Art Removal Project in Bulgaria. The project consisted of erasing a photograph of the Soviet Army Monument. The projects intent was to satirize censorship. I find it ironic that during Soviet times Socialist Realism was the accepted art and most others were censored. In this case a piece of Socialist Realism art is getting censored.<br /></div></div>The idea for Art Removal came from an experience with censorship I had in the US. It stemmed from indignation by shop owners regarding street art a group of my students created to help homeless people. In response to the negative reaction we created the Art Removal Taskforce. The Taskforce is a satirical representation of agents of censorship. Art has been a powerful propaganda tool for many centuries. The removal of art has also been a powerful way for various interests to assert themselves and squash dissent and varying opinions on their rule. For instance, Hitler instigated infamous book burnings. He censored, banned and held exhibitions of Degenerative Art, which he considered most modern art of his age. Likewise, despite worldwide protest the Buddha statues of Bamiyan province, Afghanistan were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001 as they were considered idols.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ART REMOVAL TASKFORCE</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Let us solve your thinking, feeling problems<br /><br />COMMERCIAL / RESIDENTIAL / INDOOR / OUTDOOR<br />REMOVING ART OF ANY TOXICITY FOR THE PAST 1000 YEARS – O SO CERTIFIED<br />ON CALL 24 HOURS<br /><br />Is the art in your home, office or out in the world making you think?<br />Is it controversial? Does it make you feel out of the loop?<br />THE ART REMOVAL TASKFORCE IS THE ANSWER TO YOUR PROBLEMS<br /><br />Equipped with the latest technology: Lasers, acid, sand blast, electric power erasers,<br />toothbrushes, bulldozers, mops, brushes, whitewashing AND MORE!<br /><br />NO JOB TOO BIG OR SMALL<br />From the smallest drawing in your living room to the largest monument……..<br /><br />Specializing in:<br />Book Burning<br />Provocative Graffiti removal<br />Painting restoration/erasure<br />Pesky Contemporary Art censure<br />Graven Image modification<br />Erotic Sculpture veiling<br />WE DO IT ALL!<br /><br />For a free estimate contact: artremoval@gmail.com</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Art Removal taskforce flyer, February, 2009</span><br /></div></div>Todorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019677268097832152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878279581205824071.post-57694244205456501372009-04-07T13:05:00.000-07:002009-04-07T13:11:04.850-07:00Spine at the Lunar Eclipse<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAolIJ-RitGqdbpGSIkBoDAileSMwZqYeVUc0Gt7DqqYbn5QhQhIkxGTbC9_zyqRI-wn9HW-Ep2ow726thf-xE-csaXsf86ghksvgCb3HzdztvKz-r1JX9Rw9nk-645fopC85Zs6jsj2c/s1600-h/P8160933.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAolIJ-RitGqdbpGSIkBoDAileSMwZqYeVUc0Gt7DqqYbn5QhQhIkxGTbC9_zyqRI-wn9HW-Ep2ow726thf-xE-csaXsf86ghksvgCb3HzdztvKz-r1JX9Rw9nk-645fopC85Zs6jsj2c/s400/P8160933.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322044481080732946" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Thanks to my fellow students at the Fulbright International Summer Institute in Triavna, I experienced a new way of working. I was looking for a way to create, think, enjoy the collaborative moment and release the control – trust others. We created a performance in a square in Triavna, which inspired me to work outside the realm of galleries and museums and bring my art into the everyday.<br />The students created one-word responses to the word hate that were then created into the following poem which I wrote onto their bodies in the Triavna Town Square.<br /><br />СИЛНА СТРАСТ ЗА<br />ЛЕСНА ПЕЧАЛБА<br />НАДЗЕМНА ПОХОТ ЗА<br />РОЗОВИ БЕЗРАЗЛИЧНИ<br />YСМИВKИ<br />МИРЪТ СТРАДА,<br />ОБСЕБВAН ОТ МИНАЛО<br />И НАСИЛИЕ, БОЛКА,<br />РЕВHOСТ,<br />ДИСКРИМИНАЦИЯ<br />ВOEННА МАШИНА,<br />ДРЪН - ДРЪН<br />НЕВEРНИТЕ ДРУГИ СЕ<br />БОРЯТ С УЖАСЯВA-<br />ЩАТА ГЛУПОСТ<br /><br />INTENSE PASSION FOR<br />EASY PROFIT<br />OVER-GROUND LUST<br />FOR PINK INDIFFERENT<br />SMILES<br />PEACE SUFFERS<br />OBSESSED WITH PAST<br />AND VIOLENCE, PAIN,<br />JEALOUSY,<br />DISCRIMINATION<br />WAR MACHINE,<br />BLAH-BLAH-BLAH<br />UNFAITHFUL OTHERS<br />FIGHT HORRIBLE<br />STUPIDITYTodorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019677268097832152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878279581205824071.post-89142369307929667322009-02-25T14:32:00.000-08:002009-02-25T14:45:02.911-08:00Can a Mongolian, Bulgarian, Russian-American and a Czech dance together?I have been taking <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z2bchLtP4c&feature=related">Bulgarian folk dancing</a> lessons at the language school. Our teacher Rositsa (Dew), is incredibly passionate and knowledgeable. She has studied folk dancing since the age of 5 and brings great skill to her teaching. We went to a folk dancing concert at the National Palace of Culture, which completely blew my mind. The dancing, costumes and music were great. The performers were skilled and the Bulgarian Horo is a fitting dance for the kind of communal lives people in the villages live to this day. <br />It is the kind of Cultural Capital that cannot be measured in lev or euro. <br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzs7xMWLp8nyvxOX2LEz8BQLs8VZHbZFpBkZhVjUEwB7JTp9-gzHVed5uzIDbi6q245bGqtmLm6V9ZdgcToow' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Todorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019677268097832152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878279581205824071.post-19842499716779744332009-02-25T13:44:00.000-08:002009-02-25T14:31:50.755-08:00I thought I would show a few steps to our 5-month-old daughter and she picked it right up.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyfUmZfjGFqLlK6FQmoJWwIVeXDxGgkXRRDYp2bwrPrQ5DlY8kJCxnQagsxDeHfPH_unI3wYjoPf2vfWOwWgA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Todorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019677268097832152noreply@blogger.com2