Bulgaria

The Bulgarian pavilion is conceived as the headquarters of a fictional research lab operating within a post-sovereign, care-oriented political imagination known as The Federation of Minor Practices. The pavilion looks back at the early twenty-first century as the moment when the conditions for this formation became visible.

The near past of this formation is presented through four films. Gery Georgieva’s UWU Channel Radiance mobilises digital myth and prophecy to question regimes of identity, pleasure and mediated truth. Veneta Androva’s Spray and Pray examines infrastructures of disinformation through mushroom websites and algorithms. Rayna Teneva’s Geography Is Destiny traces the entanglement of labour, care and violence in the Rose Valley, where rose harvesting coexists with arms production. Maria Nalbantova’s ongoing work at the Dragoman Marsh unfolds as a long-term practice of ecological care, combining research, maintenance and local narratives.

Conceived as an interactive environment based on a computer game, the pavilion gathers signals from the four films and activates them through play as a practice of collective orientation.

From the perspective of an imagined future, the pavilion appears as an early laboratory of formation, where shared practices of attention, care and play assemble a post-sovereign political imagination.