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Insecure Wisdom // Несигурна мъдрост

26 – 30 April 2022

“To understand that there’s no security is far from just to agree with the theory that everything changes and even to observe the transience of life. The idea of security is based on the feeling that there is something constant in us. Something that can sustain in all the days and changes in life. We try to assure ourselves in the immutability, durability and safety of this sustainable core, of this centre and soul of our being that we call “I”. Because we think it to be the real human – the subject that thinks our thoughts, feels our feelings and knows our knowledge. Substantially we don’t understand that there can be no security until we take into account that this “I” doesn’t exist.”

Alan W. Watts
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety, 1951
(© 1979, Marry Jane Watts)
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In a more segregated, confused and threatened world we are still digesting the past or trying to predict the future. That leads to the growth of anxieties and various disorders, besides all the misinformation, global pandemic, political failures and ecological disasters. To understand insecurity does not only mean to face it but to become one with it. Understanding comes with realisation. The only thing that is certain is change, constant transition, the transformation of energy, the flow of time.

Those constants have always served as provocations in the themes of the Sofia Underground festival. After the online pandemic edition, the event will return to the physical realm with an exhibition, presentations, showcases and performances in different venues with the aim to spread artistic messages for the Age of Anxiety.