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DOUBLE BIND
Artists: Josef Daberning, Boriana Dragoeva, Andreas Fogarasi, Pravdoliub Ivanov, Daniela Kostova, Dorit Margreiter, Ivan Moudov, Stefan Nikolaev, Lisl Ponger, Florian Pumhosl, Rassim, Klub Zwei
Curators: Iara Boubnova, Georg Schollhammer
Double bind, noun, in 1956 : a psychological category, in which a
person of a single source receives embassies messages which allow no appropriate
answers.
More generally: dilemma (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Electronic
edition, in 1994-5)
double bind is no manifestation but a meeting, a "gesture ", the will to divide different experiences. These experiences developed in at least two cities, the own towns of the participating artists: Wiena and Sofia.
The Irida Gallery, the Ata center for Contemporary art and the XXL Gallery, which reprezented normally different facets of the complicated present contemporary art in Bulgaria, co-operates in this project for the first time.
double bind is inspired by the magazine Springerin, Vienna and Institute
of contemporary art, Sofia and suported by Euro-Bulgarian cultural centre
and Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien.
