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Mother tongue: a forbidden experiment! by Atila THE FUTURE IS NOW, A JOURNEY TO CLIMATE CHANGE by Nicolas Tagnati L’edito’ Tic-tac-tic-tac!. Long time no see! What did you do during all this time? Did you enjoyed every single day of restaurants and bars opening? It has been a strange and busy period for us. We tried to renew ourselves and this is not an easy task to do. We also did some workshops'clay, pizza, natural cosmetics), we shot some videos, visited some places in the mountains or at the sea, we went to many art exhibitions, did some renovations and spent some party time in the bars! It takes time to be alive! I also realized that it takes a lot of time to do Nothing. I dont' mean to not do anything but to actively do Nothing. The difference is subtle. I decided to take the time to lose it. Being contemplative to struggle against the dictature of time is a luxury. Doing nothing is an art that require a preparation. When you want to achieve a task you usually know how to rich your goals. But what if the objective is NOTHING? This is paradoxical but I lately felt like I’m wasting time doing too many things. So, I thought if I do nothing, I might not feel that the time is wasted. And you know what? It worked! The lockdown is a golden occasion to change our relation to time. So, get rid of your watch, look around you, appreciate the sun, look at the flowers, observe the birds and relax. Spring is coming! ? time in back go backwards written sentence a Can Nicolas 2 Culture The culture sector was not spared by the cornavirus it participate today to give artists the possibility pandemic. Lockdown, curfew, closing of spaces dedicated to be shown and supports the demand when it comes to to cultural activities… all those differents politics contemporary art. related to the management of the health crisis had an And in fact, Varusha-South seems to be the new hearth of impact on the cultural life around Europe. But it doesn’t the contemporary art scene in Veliko Tarnovo. mean that noone is working to continue to promote artist TAM the famous bar and art space holding a variety of and cultural events, and by different kind of actions cultural events will open soon his new door in this manage to contribute to keep the culture sector alive. In neighborhood. The gallery Heerz Tooya, also in this France for example, profesionnal dancers in partnership street will welcome in march the artists of the ARV.I with bars, offered improvized solos that passers-by could residency and further on the street on a huge door it’s see through the windows, in order to highlight the fact written « work in progress » and it seems that two guys that bars are closed as well as theater or any other are working to transform this spot in a new exhibition cultural places. In belgium also dance troupes protested place. But who are those people working hard to develop in the street dancing in groups or in and promote cultural’life in the city ? solos. This month we would like to highlight two main characters But what about Bulgaria and more of the contemporary art scene in Veliko Tarnovo and its precisely about Veliko Tarnovo ? surroundings : Denica Milusheva and Lars Nordby. Both visual artist and curator, Lars and Denica with Nicolas Since december 2020, if you go Tagnati, were the guests of a podcast in Radio E-volution, for a walk in the neighborhood the webradio in partnership with this bulletin. In this of Varusha South, you might see podcast, we talked about the ARV.A residency in Vishovgrad through a strange window neither your with Lars and Nicolas but also about the situation of reflect nor restaurant owners working the cultural life since the pandemic in Europe and more hard in the view of the oppening of food precisely in Bulgaria with Denica Milusheva. We also establishment, but a work of art. « 1m2 Art » is a project discussed about the place of contemprary art in the city of the curator Martina Yordanova in collaboration with and the relation with the general people and I invite TAM, its purpose is to « give the chance to young and you to go on Radio E-volution website to listen to this established creators to present their own works of art podcast to know more about theese topics. in an unusual exhibition space ». Even if this project was not planned in respond of the pandemic situation, 4 5 Will follow bellow a short presentation of Lars Nordby DENICA MILUSHEVA and Denica Milusheva but to know more about them I invite Denica is a visual artist from Bulgaria. She holds a you to go on ARV.I website and TAM facebookpage, you Master of Fine Arts, at the University of Veliko Tarnovo will find all the informations about cultural life in and she is currently pursuing a PhD on methods of teaching Veliko Tarnovo and people who are working hard to make it in performing art. Denica is also a curator. She has been possible, but if you’re sick of being on « an active agent in developing platforms and opportunities your phone or laptop since everythnigs for young artists to exhibit and communicate their work is online, I would recommand you to to an audience in the Veliko Tarnovo area ». just hang out in Varusha, it seems Using differents medium, Denica explores in her work « our that… Spring is coming ! psychological and physical relationship to the spaces we inhabit in our daily lives, and the bodies LARS NORDBY we move through them with ». She has Lars is visual artist from Norway, done since 2016, severals exhibitions he holds a Master of Fine Arts, at the in Sofia, Veliko Tarnovo and Gabrovo National Art Academy of Oslo (Norway), but also in Poland. he has done since 2014 severals solo Denica Milusheva is also a board exhibitions in Norway and Bulgaria but member of TAM with which she is very also in Denmark, Austria and Netherlands. He has also active in the promotion of the cultural been part of group exhibitions in Poland, Norway, USA, life. (in Chicago where he has done an exchange in 2015 to the Hyde Park Art Center), Germany and Bulgaria. He explores https://arv.international/Denitsa-Milusheva in his work such concepts as theatricality, identity and ideology. Also a writer, he has published two texts in Raphael 2018 entitled « The abstract frontline of Identity » and « Old Laughter and Synonyms for actors ». Lars Nordby is also a freelance curator and he is the Director of the Artist Residency ARV. International in Bulgaria ; but also the director of the contemporary art gallery Heerz Tooya in Veliko Tarnovo. https://arv.international/nordby 6 7 The future is now A journey to the climate change years. Its surface area decreases and it becomes thinner. A disaster for the polar bears and the seals that live there. In Greenland, the ice cap is shrinking. On all continents, August 2020, Death Valley, National Park, US National mountain glaciers are already melting in front of our Weather Service’s automated station at Furnace Creek in eyes. For example, the Mer de Glace glacier, in the Alpine California hit extreme high of 54.4C°. It could be the massif of Mont-Blanc, has retreated by 120m in a century. hottest reading ever reliably recorded on the planet. It’s affecting the tourism sector of the entire region. Climate change is too often seen in the countries of the North as a distant deadline. Too often, everything happens as if we are little concerned. But it is already changing The sea is rising the daily lives of millions of human beings: global heatwaves, melting ice, floods, giant fires, droughts, As a result of the melting of glaciers and ice caps, the devastating storms... A world tour of populations and sea is rising. About fifteen centimeters in a century. This landscapes which are already suffering very concretely phenomenon has been accelerating for 30 years. According and severely from its consequences. Climate change is now. to the climatologists of the IPCC, the level of the seas and oceans is currently rising Arctic ice is by 3mm/year. Thermal expansion due to heat also strongly contributes melting to this rise in water levels. As a domino effect of rising sea levels, We begin this journey in the regions of the coasts and over the north of our globe, in populated deltas live now under the Arctic Circle and more the constant threat of submersion. precisely in the Russian See these coasts where high human city of Verkhoïansk in densities are concentrated and most Siberia, 1,300 inhabitants. of the mega-cities with more than 10 It experienced a historic million inhabitants. Most of them heat record in June 2020: are located in Asia which is today 38C°. Unheard of at this latitude. The Arctic Circle is the most threatened continent. heating up 2 to 3 times faster than the rest of the planet. The sea ice has been melting more and more rapidly for thirty 8 9 Mumbai, the Indian megalopolis of 20 million inhabitants, is built on a peninsula. Now, during the monsoon, slum dwellers (poorest neighborhoods) have their feet in the water and fear losing their homes. The local government is trying to curb this marine invasion by planting mangroves to form a natural dike, with no guarantee of success.