The Neighbours unsilences a history of political violence that was left unacknowledged by the Bulgarian state after 1989. A product of 20-years of research and 10-years of studio work, the project (a collaboration with Krasimira Butseva and Lilia Topouzova curated by Vasil Vladimirov) proposes how historians might narrate histories absent from archives or subjected to collective silence. The pavilion has been supported by the Department of History, IHUM, and the Humanities Council at Princeton, as well as by the University of Toronto and the Ministry of Culture of Bulgaria...
Julian Chehirian is a PhD Candidate in the History of Science at Princeton University, and an artist working in the multimedium of documentary installation. Julian Chehirian is a PhD Candidate in the History of Science at Princeton University, and an artist working in the multimedium of documentary installation.