feeling, movement, and imagination
Collective Creation Through Art
Experience was the first one. First, we need to take in the world through our senses. The event took place in Sun and Moon Event Center, starting with a sensory walk and experience for the participants. Blindfolded, they had an opportunity to interact with different abstract items, as well as play with the blocks. Textures, sounds, and unexpected forms stirred the imagination, making each step an invitation to feel more deeply. Listening to the intuitively created music with the eyes closed prepared the audience for the active part of the performance – collaborative drawing on the big paper placed on the floor. What followed was a quiet yet powerful moment of shared creation, where sound, memory, and instinct shaped the lines.
Artists participating: Mateusz Filipiuk (Jazxing, synthesizer), Kris Filipiuk (maudition, guitar), Bozhana Slavkova (flute), Hristo Donev (saxophone)
Meaning, as the second event, was an experiment of translating the movement, beautifully facilitated by Ira Stoyanova, into the visual form. After a series of dance and movement warm-ups, with the background of the improvised music, the participants had their chance to translate the movement of the body and mind to the big format painting on one huge canvas spread across the room in the National Students’ House. The energy of moving bodies in motion flowed directly into color and gesture, turning the entire space into a living, breathing artwork. Each mark on the canvas held a trace of rhythm, weight, and presence. For many, it was a liberating experience—connecting body, sound, and visual expression without the need for words or prior artistic skill. Simply being present.
Artists participating: Ira Stoyanova (Exp Art Lab, dance workshop), Mateusz Filipiuk (Jazxing, synthesizer), Jakub Sautycz (Jazxing, percussions), Kris Filipiuk (maudition, guitar), Hristo Zhelev (Chengel Prelest, percussions and drum machine)
Creation was closing the great triptych, where in Gallery Artur, among the musical background, different forms of expression were playfully spread around. Inviting the participants to choose and freely interact with them were crayons, big papers, musical instruments, an open microphone, and a couple of different toys. The space was set up more like a playground than a gallery—loose, open, and alive. People wandered, paused, touched, played, scribbled, and jammed. Some created and reflected alone, others spontaneously formed groups and played togheter. Freedom of choice, after playing with Experiencing the world and giving those experiences Meaning, led to a truly free Creation—unfiltered, messy, joyful. No one told anyone what to do, and yet the room filled with sound, color, and laughter. A gentle chaos where everything belonged.
Artists participating: Mateusz Filipiuk (Jazxing, synthesizer), Jakub Sautycz (Jazxing, sound engineering), Kris Filipiuk (maudition, guitar), Plamen Mandadjiev (guitar, kaval), Bozhana Slavkova (flute), Dobrinka Boeva (piano)
A wise author once said:
“You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and then practicing it.”
— Sue Monk Kidd
What did we learn?
Take away
We would debate that this project wasn’t just about experiencing art—it was more about opening a space where people could meet through their senses, through gestures and sounds, through shared curiosity. Each part stood on its own, yet built naturally on what came before: from tuning in to the world, to shaping what was felt into form, to eventually letting that form unfold freely in the moment. In the end, it wasn’t about the little drawings, the recordings, or even the performances themselves—No, it was about the process of being fully present, together. A reminder that creation doesn’t have to be polished to be meaningful. And that sometimes, the most honest artistic expressions happen when no one is trying too hard or least expects it.
Experience
Meaning
Creation
Playing together
Creative expression
The resulting pictures, videos, and sound snippets from the events give a taste of what it was to be inside the experience, either as a musician or participant.
The borders between performer and audience were blurred in the active form of collaboration and co-creating the experience for everyone involved.
This is my inspiration for this theme and it is something I recently discovered as a mindset. I found new logic for my entire life through caring for another and how much hope that brings to an individual when they have to do things to make another creature’s life better and not their own. Which of course makes everyone in the equation happy.