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Residency Program
  Boyan Manchev
Philosopher (Paris, Sofia)
March 26 - April 20, 2007 		 
     
 

Boyan Manchev gave a presentation at apexart on April 18, 2007

 Boyan Manchev is Director of Program at the International College of Philosophy in Paris and Associate Professor of Theory of Literature and Philosophy, New Bulgarian University, Sofia. Guest Lecturer at the Sofia University and at the Academy for Theater and Film in Sofia, he also organized and collaborated to projects of ZKM (Karlsruhe), Tanzquartier (Vienna), ICA (Sofia), Kunsthaus (Dresden) and the Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart). In 2006 he was guest of the EHESS in Paris and Thinker in residence of the project IDEE (Initiatives in Dance through European Exchange). He is member of the Editorial boards of the magazines Rue Descartes (Paris) and Altera (Sofia).

His work concentrates on the theory of the representation, the image and the body and the contemporary conceptualizations of the subject and of the community; it pays particular attention to contemporary visual arts, theater and dance. Author of The Unimaginable. Essays in Philosophy of Image (Sofia: NBU, 2003) and of several edited volumes, essays, articles, reviews and interviews in Bulgarian, French, English, Italian, German and Russian.
Among his recent publications are “Der Totale Körper der Lust”, in Boris Groys, Anne von der Heiden, Peter Weibel, eds. Zurück aus der Zukunft. Osteuropäische Kulturen im Zeitaler des Postcommunismus (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2005), « La désorganisation de la vie » (Lignes, n°17, 2005), “From Æsthetical to Ethical Community », in Elke Marhöfer. Get out of here and think we (Revolver Verlag, 2005) and « La vita fissata e la natura morta : l'immagine et la finitudine » (Chorus una costellazione. Rivista culturale europea, 2, 2005), “Transformability. Performing Society and the Contemporary Conditions of Dance” (Theater dez Zeit, April 2006), “Transformance. The Body of Event”, in Martina Hochmuth, Krassimira Kruschkova, Georg Schöllhammer, eds. It takes place when it doesn't. On dance and performance since 1989 (Revolver Verlag, 2006).

   

 

Boyan Manchev was recommended to apexart's program by Stephen Wright, writer, philosopher, Paris, France.

His residency is supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

apexart's International Residency Program and Resident Lecture Series are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation.