Dourmana's installation „Post Global Warming Survival Kit“ will be presented during the Sonica – Sound and Experimental Art Festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The opening will be on 6th of June, and the program of the festival contains different music events, installations and interesting performances.

Just before Christmas on 22nd (Monday) I will have a talk about my works together with Valeria Petkova, who is a very interesting researcher experimenting with human perceptions.
This talk will take place at Goethe Institute in Sofia and is part of Sofia Upgrade – a programme of meetings and presentations of artists, curators and scientists.
I will present my project Post Global Warming Survival Kit and will talk about my experiments in converting and modifying digital devices to work in infrared.

Text by Sabine Himmelsbach
Artistic Director of Edith Russ House for Media Art

In his infrared installation Post Global Warming Survival Kit, the Bulgarian artist Petko Dourmana plunges viewers into a post-apocalyptic eschatological scenario of the kind described so compellingly in countless science fiction novels or Hollywood films. Dourmana makes the fear of an invisible menace palpable, something to be physically experienced. On entering the room, viewers at first think there is nothing in it but an old caravan. Only the use of a night vision device enables viewers to experience the landscape surrounding them.

The contrast between the wide landscape projection and the discreet light from the trailer that appears when you bring the night vision close to the eyes in the darkness is the most beautiful part of the installation.

More images from the opening of Post Global Warming Survival Kit can be found in the gallery:
http://dourmana.com/image/tid/7