The Cart of Commons
15 July 2026, 5:00-8:00 PM
Krasno Selo Market
The Cart of Commons is an urban intervention project using a merchant cart as a mobile performance installation to explore non-monetary trade within the Krasno Selo Market. Through interviews and field research, the project maps the informal communication, care and exchange that exist between the people, and often beneath, the structures of monetary trade. The cart will serve as a platform for collecting and sharing verbal testimonies, object exchange and soundscapes of the marketplace. Embeded within the cart, a live radio transmission will be a connective element to all the shops and stands around, activating the neighbourhood as a living receiver. It aims to activate the neighborhood as a living, receptive space. The cart itself is constructed by the artist Kiril Karudov, whose craft gives physical form to the project’s conceptual heart.
The radio program will be broadcast on Radio “Kyufte” https://qft.fm/
Isul Kim is a sound artist and composer from New Zealand, based between Germany and the Netherlands. Her practice explores contextuality as a relational framework, working with found sound and radio technologies. Her work has been presented at the Sonic Acts, GMEA Albi, Sofia Underground, and Reeperbahn Festival.
Viktoria Nikolova is a singer, performer, and sound artist whose work combines theory and practice, focusing on mediation within performative processes. She works with sound and vocal improvisation in multidisciplinary contexts and has performed at the Holland Festival, Opera Forward Festival, Grachtenfestival, and Bachfest, among others.
Isul and Viktoria met at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague in 2023 and formed the duo Parent. Since then, they have developed projects exploring the potential of the operatic voice and power electronics within performance art, and created the radio programme A Case for Libretto for Radio WORM in Rotterdam.
Their diverse practices extend across sound installations and themes of human communication and labour, seeking nonlinear narratives and collective experiences that emerge between performative and everyday spaces. In Bulgaria, they have presented their work at the Sofia Underground Performance Art Festival, Sofia Experimental, and TAM in Veliko Tarnovo.
With the financial support of the National Culture Fund and Sofia Municipality – Summer Programme.
With the financial support of Culture Moves Europe and the European Union.
This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.
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Presentation of an audio guide that can be listened to individually or in a group during a walk through the city