Off-site: Ecologies of Prehod

Ecologies of Prehod is curated by Off-site: a research initiative at the intersection of heritage studies, environmental humanities, and critical media practice, founded by Pauline Shongov, Maya Shopova, and Borislav Angelov in 2020. The exhibition features the work of Nicolás Kisic Aguirre, Katarina Burin, Sam Ghantous, Elitza Koeva, Manar Moursi and is hosted at Swimming Pool in Sofia, Bulgaria. For the past four years, artists received and responded to material, aural, and visual prompts collected from sites in Bulgaria that have fallen into ruin since the start of the transition period from a planned to market economy known as Prehod. In re-imagining what it means to care from a distance for tangible and intangible heritage, the exhibition rethinks Prehod from a proper noun to a process of transitioning from one material state, historical period, and geographic place to another.

This exhibition is made possible with the support of the National Culture Fund of Bulgaria, Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, Harvard Critical Media Practice, and the Film and Visual Studies program at Harvard University. 

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