KX ART (see in details here) is a series of experimental works combining high humanities texts (from our publications) with everyday gestures and acts. The relationship between the two “worlds” is along the lines of analogy or challenging absurdity. This episode is based on texts by American philosopher Judith Butler from her book The Force… More
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Experiments about the Content
KX ART – Episode 6: My Story
KX ART (see in details here) is a series of experimental works combining high humanities texts (from our publications) with everyday gestures and acts. The relationship between the two “worlds” is along the lines of analogy or challenging absurdity. This episode, entitled „My Story“, is based on texts by French writer Georges Perec from his… More
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KX ART – Episode 4/5: Confessions / Flesh / My “Self”
As you already know (or could see in details here), KX ART is a series of experimental works combining high humanities texts (from our publications) with everyday gestures and acts. The relationship between the two “worlds” is along the lines of analogy or challenging absurdity. This episode, entitled “Confessions / Flesh / My “Self”“ is… More
Experiments about the Content
KX ART – Episode 2: “Language – Limit – Death”
As you already know (or could see in details here), KX ART is a series of experimental works combining high humanities texts (from our publications) with everyday gestures and acts. The relationship between the two “worlds” is along the lines of analogy or challenging absurdity. The third episode is entitled “Language – Limit – Death”,… More
Experiments about the Content
KX ART – Episode 2: “European vs. Barbaric”
As we have explained in details here, KX ART is a series of experimental works combining high humanities texts (from books among our publications) with everyday gestures and acts. The relationship between the two “worlds” is along the lines of analogy or challenging absurdity. The second episode is entitled “European versus Barbaric” and is based… More
Experiments about the Content
The Experiment KX ART – Episode One
We have created our own podcast – KX TALKS – in a dual form, i.e. video (Youtube) and audio (Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts) version. We have also created the KX VIDEO series where we keep processed videos of public events we organize. But amidst this relatively “classical” approaches to audiences and to the content… More
Experiments about the Publics
Thinking Together With or Against What the Books Say?
We’ve been thinking about our next experiment for a long time. And for a long time we were preparing it, including via “seducing” supporters… Finally, we went through something that brought us unexpected excitements. As well as a hope that it might turn out that we had made not a one-off curious cultural gesture, but… More
Experiments about the Publics
Creating Booktrailers Together?
We do believe that publishing books is above all a cultural work (and only in one of its aspects – an ordinary economic activity), and we also think that the experiment is the best way towards breakthroughs in this direction – be it an experiment with the contents or the forms of the cultural products,… More
Experiments about the Content
Theatre of Thought, or How an Experiment Started as Individual and Ended-up as a Group Experiment
In 2011-2012, after the publication by Snejanka Mihaylova of her art-book Theatre of Thoughts (2011, ISBN 9789545871559, in English), and during almost an year, we worked collectively (in open and in closed types of workshops) on the subject of a “theatre of thought”, and how such an idea could help in our strive for transforming… More
Experiments about the Professional Field
Bulgarian Society of Publishers in Humanities
At the end of 2006 Antoaneta Koleva, director of the publishing house, together with Malina Tomova (1950-2011), director of Stigmati Publishing House, initiated discussions with colleagues publishers of books in humanities and exquisite elite fiction, incl. two reviews and a literary newspaper. The idea was to establish a type of organization aiming at helping the… More