Snejanka Mihaylova, “Diagonal Thinking”
Snejanka Mihaylova’s lecture explores thinking as a creative and political practice unfolding in the gaps between past and future, destruction and renewal.
Beginning with Hannah Arendt’s notion of the interval as a condition for new thought, the lecture moves through Paul Valéry’s poetic dialogue “Eupalinos ou l’Architecte” toward the architectural spaces of Tadao Ando on Naoshima. Through philosophy, architecture, and travelogue, Mihaylova reflects on reversed temporalities, survival after catastrophe, and the possibility of imagining forms of life otherwise, approaching art as a fragile yet necessary space for future-oriented thought.
Snejanka Mihaylova’s practice is grounded in performance and writing, as well as in long-term artistic research that approaches performance as a form of thinking and inquiry. Central to her work is the understanding that thinking is not solely internal or abstract, but emerges through relational, embodied, and acoustic experiences in acts of listening, voicing, and shared attention.
Photo by Violeta Apostolova
With the support of the Ministry of Culture of Republic of Bulgaria