Journeys Towards the Discarded

Collaborative biographical essay by Hannah, Nikola, and Yanka

Published in Seminar_BG, the Cultural Studies journal of University of Sofia, since February 2023
Available here
(in Bulgarian)

This is our personal story. Our different journeys and cohabiting alongside discarded objects/ waste, starting from three different contexts: England’s “working class” North, the late “Transition period” of Bulgaria, and the racialised minority’s segregation in Plovdiv. Our paths crossed, finally, in Duvar Kolektiv, the experiment in collaborative art which cuts across the boundaries of difference. The text is by each of us, the illustrations by Hannah using patterns and textures found discarded by the containers.