The Close-up Discussion Club
The Place The Granary (Hambara), 22,' 6th September' Str.
Time Every Thursday – 6.30 p.m.
Idea and coordination
Ventzislav Zankov vzankov@nbu.bg ,
Ivana Mourdjeva de_bella@yahoo.com

2004 2005
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[june]

30.06.2005
contemporary photography

23.06.2005
legal - illigal art - on the egge presentation of Ivan Moudov

16.06.2005
'Footbag _how to use it' [hek - beyond the game]

09.06.2005

Leshper Commerce Inc. /movie / Director : Dimaitar Taralezkov
86 min comedy

02.06.2005 -
June Poetry Readings
IN TRIBUTE TO HRISTO BOTEV

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[may]

26.05.05
what happened and/or not happened on xfilm fetsival - presentation of Krassimir tersiev&rene beckmann /xfilm organizers/

19.05.05
Andrej Paunov, bg cinema and/or "Geori and the butterflies'

12.05.2005
RADAR Living, 2003-2004 missirkov/bogdanov

05.05.05
art and/of boxing
"post-graduate qualification" presented by Iliyan Lalev
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[april]

28.04.05
"Close up" Discussion Club presents new short documentaries and fiction movies by students at New Bulgarian University [read more]

21.04.05
On April 21 in the "Go & See" - "Close up" Discussion Club ass. prof. Kalin Yanakiev presents "Culture of relaxation - Conservative notes without theoretical pretensions". [read more]

14.04.05
On April 14 in the "Go & See" - "Close up" Discussion Club the Association for Youth Culture and Contemporary Arts "Radar" will present "Graffiti - Voices from the Street". [read more] [graffiti gallery]

07.04.05
"Go & See" - "Close up" Discussion Club Nikolay Mihaylov will present - Animation in the video clips - history and progress. [read more]

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[march]

31.03.2005
contemporary BG video art presented by Emil Mirazchiev 'attoday'

24.03.2005
Women of Allah: Introducing the art of Shirin Neshat
presentation by Vania Nedialkova
[see&read more]

17.03.2005
experement.org: net communities in BG

10.03.2005
On March 10th "Go & See" - "Close up" Discussion Club will present Art Group 'Come On' Film industry and young people in Europe. NisiMasa.
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[february]

17.02.2005

On 17th February the "Go & See" - "Close up" Discussion Club will present "Manga mania in BG territory"
Danel Rakovsky (aged 17) Anton Kochev (aged 17)
will drag you to the territory of the Manga according to the following agenda:
1. What is manga, anime and what is the difference between them?
2. History of the manga and anime
3. Shoyo/Shonen (male/female) anime and manga
4. Different genres of anime:
Episodes, movies, AMV (Anime Musik Video)
And how to find anime/manga â BG
5. Hentay*with and without comment

Discussion place and time: "The Granary" (Hambara), Thursday, February 17, 6.30 p.m.
For contact and suggestions:
vzankov@yahoo.com
de_bella@yahoo.com

10.02.2005

On 10th February the "Go & See" - "Close up" Discussion Club will present three short pop-art movies by Yavor Gardev (idea, camera, production) and Kalin Nikolov (music, montage).
... and hardly related to them discussion topics:

The digital double. Techniques to fight death and oblivion through media visualization of the body. The virtual body - a product of the mediated life time. The possibility for parallel historical time and the idea of living archives. Technologies of the lasting memories. Democratization of the archive memory. The possibility for montage corrections of the personal past according to the criteria of the present. Industries and economies of the memory. The pretension for eternity of the carrier. Forms and transformations of time after its digital duplication. Time and perception in the digital era. Progressive accumulation of the parallel personal times. The metaphysical temptation to maintain one's life time in a permanent horizon. The Babylonian bait of technologies and their respective industries. Total emancipation of the media. Self-thematizing media.

"Shall anyone set a foot on the new strand in his pure algorithmic self
Where the death has been already dispowered having faced his digital double
And where freely and fearlessly beasts and humans in flourishing flocks
Shall live spotlessly calm and contentedly…"

Kiril Merdjansky

"... And I wish when I die all the traces to be vanished behind"

Francois Alphonse Donatien Marquis de Sade

Discussion place and time: "The Granary" (Hambara), Thursday, February 10, 6.30 p.m.
For contact and suggestions:
vzankov@yahoo.com
de_bella@yahoo.com

03.02.2005

On 03rd February "Go & See" - "Close up" Discussion Club will present the entertaining musical radio program "Evil Night", traditionally inhabiting the frequency of Radio Net (106,9 MHz) from 8 till 10 every Saturday.

A presentation by the thought-illusionist Zhelev, Jofroa Kachamakor de la Braga, and Koshchei the Extreme to reveal the creative-liberal happening, delicately garnished with the most brutal death and grained metal.
The presentation will include a short evil literary reading of the new poetic form "sclonnet" as well as an episode of the legendary soap radio opera "Cravenness and ugliness".
How to pencil the extreme music' eyebrows and whether it could find soil here will get clear in the course of the discussion.
Bring your own ear stoppers! The organizers will provide an ambulance.

Discussion place and time: "The Granary" (Hambara), Thursday, February 3, 6.30 p.m.
For contact and suggestions:
vzankov@yahoo.com
de_bella@yahoo.com

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[january]

27.01.2005

On 27th January in the "Go & See" - "Close up" Discussion Club, the Association for Religious and Public Support to People Deprived of Their Freedom will present "Notes from the Attempts to Humanize the Dead Home. Modern (Bulgarian) Prison".
The Act for Execution of Sanctions claims that:: execution of sanctions aims at repairing and reeducating the convicted to abide by the laws and good morals, to have a warning effect on them, to deprive them of the opportunity to commit other crimes and to have an educating and warning effect on the other members of society.
The goal is to prepare for future integration, socialization and adaptation for stratifying life in the society.
Is it a paradox to set such a goal and suggest such ways to achieve it: isolation from the society, total possession of the time and body of the imprisoned and monotony. Turning a person from autonomous to dependent to the system.
How does such a person go to back to "freedom" if the preparation for this happens in the "lack of freedom"?
On the other hand there is the opinion of the "general public" that prison is an "academy" for criminals.
The comments of the experts that "There is no more expensive way for the society to make the criminal bigger criminal but to put him in prison, but unfortunately there is no better choice for now" (Prof. Dr. Т. Minev) sound as a bad joke. Though it is realistic enough if we follow the economic indicators.
Could a paradox so well-formulated as a socially desirable goal set by the law and the environment that applies and executes the conviction "deprivation from freedom" be a really functioning recovery system for victims, criminals and experts?

20.01.05
On 20th January "Go & See" - "Close up" discussion club will present the video films "Fire Steps" by Anton Terziev and Katya Damianova. The video films present issues related to the future described as anti-utopist nightmarish horror, paranoiac fear from ourselves and shame from our own thoughts. In short, the authors suggest a discussion topic and describe their films in the following manner: [READ&SEE MORE]

13.01.05
On January 13th in "Go & See" - "Close up" Discussion Club, The "Promena" Association will present the documentary "Grass" - director Ron Man - historian and researcher of subcultures, over-voice - Woody Harrelson ("Natural Born Killers", "The people vs. Lary Flint"). If you are bothered by the social problem of drugs, this movie will show you the American example of governmental policy on that issue, an example that should be avoided by every aware society.
Directed with Canadian pragmatism and well-intended humor, the documentary "Grass" tells about the war against the marijuana at the propaganda front by demonstrating the absurd grotesque of the "educational" movies produced by the American government in which cowboys smoke joints and kill their friends before surrendering to animal passions.
The movie is funny also for non-stoned viewers, but it is advisable to avoid it if you genuinely believe that the place of the cannabis-lovers is behind bars. We strongly recommend it to panicked parents and school doctors who have graduated before the dawn of democracy.

Discussion place and time: "The Granary" (Hambara), Thursday, January 13, 6.30 p.m.

For contact and suggestions:
vzankov@yahoo.com
de_bella@yahoo.com

06.01.2005
On January 6th the "Close up" Discussion Club will present "X-tendo".
The "X-tendo" group has started its activities in 1999 as an informal organization of independent artists. In 2002 continuing with its activities it was registered as an association for urban research through the means of art. The association defines its mission as observation and exploration of the urban environment linking it with the everyday behavior, the routine, the memory, the trace and the sign. In their projects "X-tendo" tells about the city as a unity of space, its inhabitants and their behavior.
Is it possible every day life to be used as material for creation of art? Could the typical places in a city - place for recreation, place for waiting for the pubic transport, meeting place, crossing place - to be told about on the borderline with the grotesque? These and other questions related to the memory of the city, the invention of the city through the memories of its inhabitants, everyday gestures and behavior, will try to address the presentation of Elena Koleva-Ivanova.
share your opinion about x-tendo online here>>
http://www.dnevnik.bg/show/Default.asp?storyid=143809&rubrid

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[november-december 2004]

30.12.2004
On December 30th the "Close up" Discussion Club will present the Best of the Archives - what happened between 21.01.03 and 23.12.04.
It will be presented:
- Low-budget video spots - presented by Milen Marchev;
- "The power of imperfection" - a video presented by Jaap de Ruig;
- "Exhibition for Men"- presented by "ТАКА" - a company for visual arts;
- "Media - interpretation" - an experimental video documentary from the USA presented by Daniela Kostova.
A new year's presentation by the club's organizers, which will close up the year of discussions. And of course: a small party.

Discussion place and time: "The Granary" (Hambara), Thursday, December 30, 6.30 p.m.
For contact and suggestions:
vzankov@yahoo.com
de_bella@yahoo.com

23.12.2004
On December 23rd "Go & See" - "Close up" Discussion Club will present the Virginia Zaharieva's documentary on the performance "Vulnerability - five movements".
The idea of the performance which took place in September 2003 in the ladies' swimming pool at Central Bath is Reminding of and Presenting the movements forgotten by the body that had helped us to achieve the shortest path to pleasure. In the real time the five movements were presented in the following order: Mistrust, Seduction, Aggression, Strategizing and Submission.
In painting there are 5 basic colors as in interpersonal relations there are 5 basic movements that we enrich with nuances if we have more flexibility and fantasy.
The discussion will shed light on stripping down the communication to 5 basic communication means, minimalism and pre-verbal simplicity by exploring the basic emotional conditions as means for purification of senses and shortening the path of energetic influence between people.

16.12.2004
one year eskimo.org

09.12.2004
"Go & See" - "Close up" Discussion Club will present the International competition for realistic painting"Balkan Artists 2004"- its concept, participants, nominated and awarded artists.

02.12.2004
Is there an underground culture in the web sites?

25.11.2004
Could an artist remain an artist if he uses only computer in his work?

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Discussion place and time: "The Granary" (Hambara),
Thursdays, 6.30 p.m.
For contact and suggestions:
vzankov@yahoo.com
de_bella@yahoo.com

we are trying to find out volontier who could translate the bulgarian content of the site into english. Any suggestions?

till then you have 3 options:

• see the bulgarian version/there are some pics, in case you can't read bulgarian
• see the archive >> there is english version
• go to see the 'Go&See" project, as a part of 'Close up' discussion club