Sophia Bulgakova

YOU ARE SOURCE PROJECTION AND REFLECTION is an ongoing series of experimental setups exploring nonlinear reading in motion. In this series I'm attempting to rearrange the understanding of a physical space and find more abstract solutions to it. Create an infinity of possible compositions which allow the imaginary to exist in more than one dimension, intertwining with reality and shaping notions of the viewer.

INEVITABLY BLUE is a participatory performance which deals with imaginary matters. The experience within it allows to transcend from the present environment, travel to where colour exists when movement cuts the air, and dreams are intertwining with reality in more than one dimension.

YOU ARE SOURCE PROJECTION AND REFLECTION is an ongoing series of experimental setups exploring nonlinear reading in motion. In this series I'm attempting to rearrange the understanding of a physical space and find more abstract solutions to it. Create an infinity of possible compositions which allow the imaginary to exist in more than one dimension, intertwining with reality and shaping notions of the viewer.

Sonic Sprawl is a spatial immersive sound installation consisting of meters and meters of insulation pipes. These pipes transport sounds and spaces and are able to resonate sound from one location to another, creating a new type of network. Uniting and intertwining with their surroundings, the tubes have the capacity to transform narratives within an environment. By spreading out entities absorbing and shaping the space with its existence, the installation encourages visitors to rethink the idea of presence and rearrange their understanding of a physical space. The exhibition demonstrates pipes as a tool where the imaginary starts to exist in more than one dimension, by intertwining with reality and the perception of the viewer. Visitors are encouraged to interact, follow and listen to the pipes, exploring and developing new ways of sensing the place. Sonic Sprawl premiered at Sensing The Place, a collaborative project of the ArtScience Interfaculty and Sonic Acts and was presented at the Sonic Acts Academy 2018.

Sonic Sprawl is a spatial immersive sound installation consisting of meters and meters of insulation pipes. These pipes transport sounds and spaces and are able to resonate sound from one location to another, creating a new type of network. Uniting and intertwining with their surroundings, the tubes have the capacity to transform narratives within an environment. By spreading out entities absorbing and shaping the space with its existence, the installation encourages visitors to rethink the idea of presence and rearrange their understanding of a physical space. The exhibition demonstrates pipes as a tool where the imaginary starts to exist in more than one dimension, by intertwining with reality and the perception of the viewer. Visitors are encouraged to interact, follow and listen to the pipes, exploring and developing new ways of sensing the place. Sonic Sprawl premiered at Sensing The Place, a collaborative project of the ArtScience Interfaculty and Sonic Acts and was presented at the Sonic Acts Academy 2018.

Sonic Sprawl is a spatial immersive sound installation consisting of meters and meters of insulation pipes. These pipes transport sounds and spaces and are able to resonate sound from one location to another, creating a new type of network. Uniting and intertwining with their surroundings, the tubes have the capacity to transform narratives within an environment. By spreading out entities absorbing and shaping the space with its existence, the installation encourages visitors to rethink the idea of presence and rearrange their understanding of a physical space. The exhibition demonstrates pipes as a tool where the imaginary starts to exist in more than one dimension, by intertwining with reality and the perception of the viewer. Visitors are encouraged to interact, follow and listen to the pipes, exploring and developing new ways of sensing the place. Sonic Sprawl premiered at Sensing The Place, a collaborative project of the ArtScience Interfaculty and Sonic Acts and was presented at the Sonic Acts Academy 2018.

Nothing but Colour is an immersive live installation, exploring colour as a definition of space based on the multi-sensorial experience and use of the Ganzfeld effect.   The audience is invited one by one to walk through it, wearing a specific gear which redirects your senses for the experience of the piece. The participant is starting with hearing the recorded narration, which directs the imagination and line of thoughts when invited to start walking.  Walking as deep as possible into the installation, the viewer experiences a composition of full-colour fields, which are mixing and merging, creating a perceivable new environments with every step. The viewer undergoes resistance through the elastic cord, which is attached to the shoulders, and that is pulling back and shapes the physical sensation of the space, allowing to move through it. 

THE GUIDED TOUR is a site-specific performative interaction for a cityscape developed in the city of Budapest by Sophia Bulgakova and Cécil Pina during the ArtScience Interfaculty project Budapest Interventions in 2016. It is designed specifically to reflect upon the city and its environment, as well as redirect and reimagine our relation to it through storytelling and perception adjustment devices. The tour allows the audience to take objects out of their usual context and surroundings as an intention to stimulate and observe new narratives developing in existing spaces. The work creates illusory spaces and optical illusions for participating audiences, as well as recreating history and reevaluates how we get to know a foreign city through a prism of reinventing a guided tour. In 2016 Sophia Bulgakova and Cécil Pina invited people passing by next to St. Stephen's Basilica in Budapest to participate in a free guided tour around the square, they performed The Guided Tour intervention with three groups of participants on the 19th of February 2016.