The project Chocolate Formula is performed by students from the primary school The Tower and the National School of Plastic Arts and Design Acad Detchko Uzunov in Kazanlak under the leadership of Ani from Bulgaria and Johannes from Germany. Anna Kiriakova graduated from high school in Kazanlak and the National Academy, and works currently with Johannes on various projects in Stockholm. In Kazanlak they have chosen to implement a very interesting project aimed at conflict as a means for this is art. The first stage is called “chocolate formula”. Kazanlak children from two schools have made 5 kinds of candies in different flavors – sweet, salty, bitter, sour and flavor of seafood. With the help of master pastry and supported by Johannes and Ani, they submitted to the mayor of Kazanlak Stefan Damyanov their delicious products and promised to arrange an exhibition of photos of the whole process of production. The next step is to paint the wall surrounding the Roma neighborhood in Carmen.

Julia Mladenova
“Public Relations”
Kazanlak Municipality

Twice a year, the people of Karlsruhe a city in the south of Germany take the things that do not matter to them anymore, down from the basements, out on to the streets. The next day, public servants show up to collect these objects and take them away. The few hours between the disposal of old belongings and the arrival of the garbage men are when the hunt happens for retrievers in search of all kinds of things. These people may be inflicted with youth, poverty or boredom.

Since January 2010, we have engaged in a re-evaluation of things that are perceived to be worthless. Our main interest is in the manifested knowledge that rests in discarded books, magazines, advertisements and printed materials. By creating new combinations of old materials through reduction and editing, we attempt to transform this archive of rejects into an accessible format.

At the Manufactory for Garbage Publications, we only use raw materials gleaned from piles of unwanted throw-aways. We add nothing, besides a point of view.

Einer von und beiden is Martin Borst and Johannes Tolk.

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