SHARED SPACE II

The event builds upon Biliana’s concept “Shared Space of the Liberated Sound,” which was first presented in 2023 at Toplocentrala Sofia in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Sofia.

It brings together guest artists living in Berlin, alongside a newly created installation by Biliana and Elsa, thereby creating a shared performative space.

The project further develops the artistic dialogue that began in 2022 during Biliana and Elsa’s first encounter at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. It explores transitions between sound, silence, word, meaning, and non-meaning, and focuses on non-verbal forms of communication through presence, gesture, voice, instruments, and collective listening. The gallery space becomes a living installation, shaped by Mencagli’s ceramics, fabrics, and found natural materials, interwoven with Voutchkova’s sound compositions based on collected lullabies, which are transmitted via built-in mini-speakers.

Musical spatial interventions in shifting constellations respond to the installation, which functions simultaneously as a score and as a space. The invited performers work in a co-compositional process, developing shared material in advance and activating the space in a full-day sequence of interventions. The focus is on attentive listening and collective resonance, through which individual forms of expression merge into a shared sound space.

SHARED SPACE II offers an immersive, participatory experience that expands performance as a shared act of listening and exchange and opens up space for encounters between performers, the installation, and the audience.