Boryana Rossa - Students
Ph.D. (MFA, 2007)
Boryana Rossa is an artist and curator based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Till 1st August 2004, she works under the name Boryana Dragoeva. She makes photographs, films, performances and combinations of all these. Her videos Celebrating the Next Twinkling; Back & Forth; The Moon and the Sunshine; Why Beauties Fall in Love with Beasts have been shown internationally at venues such as Video Medeja, Novi Sad; Steirischer herbst, Graz; The 8-th International Biennial, Cairo; Regina Gallery, Moscow; Kunsthalle, Vienna.
In 1999 together with the Bulgarian artist Ventsislav Zankov she establishes Zet_maG (online magazine for art and critical culture).
Rossa’s projects - Spookybots, Robo-Sapiens, Roboriada, Citizen Robot, and the curatorial project "Defenseless and Bad" are dedicated to human/machine relations and have been exhibited at Foundation for Art and Creative Technologies (FACT), Liverpool, Society for Art and Technology (SAT), Montreal; CMU Art Museum, Chiangmai, Thailand; National Gallery of Fine Arts and Goethe Institute, Sofia.
In 2004 together with the Russian artist Oleg Mavromatti, Rossa establishes UTRAFUTURO - an international group of artists that works in the intersection of technology, ethics and human/machine identity.
Rossa’s works are concerned with an investigation of attitudes towards “the other”, “the different”, the “alien” in contemporary technologically and biologically advanced cultures. She raises issues about how artificial intelligence, robotics and biotechnology seem to offer exciting opportunities, but they bring new questions (or old questions in a new form) concerning the relations between the margins and the mainstream, the oppressed and the oppressor, the “different” and the “same”. Trough her recent performances “The Last Valve”, “Blood Revenge” and “The Living and the Dead” Boryana shows us that while technology helps us to extend our bodies, it also creates new opportunities for hatred. New concepts of “diversity” and hierarchy take place and bring life to new types of power structures. She considers gender issues pretty much dependent on technological development that has to be the prism trough which we must look at them nowadays.
Recent shows:
Wild Girls and Renegades: 25 Years of Performance at Exit Art, NY; The Gaze and the Mirror, special program of the 2nd Moscow Biennale, at the Museum Centre of the Russian State University for the Humanities; Global Feminisms, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at Brooklyn Museum.
Writes for: 39 Grama Newspaper About Gravitation, Bulgarian culture and culture politics newspaper, and UMWELT online magazine for body politics.
Boryana Rossa (Ph.D. candidate) and Oleg Mavromatti's work included in selection of 100 video works.
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