Conversation within the art installation
BETWEEN THE PAST THAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN AND THE FUTURE THAT ALREADY HAS BEEN
City Garden, the site of the former Mausoleum
May 10, Saturday, 4 – 6 p.m.
With the participation of: Alexander Popov, Asen Nenov, Gergana Rakovska, Tsvetelina Hristova
Moderators: Nadezhda Moskovska and Stefan Prokhorov
Visual environment: Filip Boyadzhiev
In the center of the city stands a circle of neon letters – without pause, without punctuation marks, like a thought that tries to contain time. Krasimir Terziev’s installation is not just an object, it is a place for sharing and thinking, in which the past and the future look at each other.
The conversation “Future – Now!” is part of a series of public events within the work. The conversation will seek an answer to the question of how we think about the time that has not yet come, but is already shaping our present. The event is a meeting between science and the humanitarian, between individual fears and community visions.
Anxiety
What kind of world do we live in and what worries us in it?
The climate crisis, social isolation, loss of orientation – these are not just personal fears, but symptoms of deeper social processes.
Rapid technological changes give rise to uncertainty.
The city – overpopulated, fragmented, often in conflict between development and decay – is a mirror of these anxieties.
Forecast
What can we predict if we look closely?
Scientific perspectives outline a future of automation and hyper-connectivity.
Education and work are no longer what they were – the future of careers is moving through new models of knowledge, creativity and adaptability.
The urban environment needs a readjustment – towards sustainability, accessibility and care.
Progress
What does “a better future” mean?
Not just growth, but development with measure and direction.
The circular economy and new ecological approaches question old consumption patterns.
Community can be the new engine of change – through solidarity, mutual aid and shared resources.
The conversation takes place where the memory of the place weighs heavily, on the site of the former Mausoleum – loaded with history, irony and paradox. The installation places us “in between” – between the past and the future – but it is precisely this “in between” that is the space of choice, of conscious change, of imagination, which keeps us firmly in reality.
