Lilia Topouzova featured on CBC Radio

Lilia Topouzova's exhibit, the Neighbours. A room in a museum is recrated to look like a living room, with a projection screen used to simulate an open window.

ICCIT Professor Lilia Topouzova was recently interviewed on the CBC Radio show IDEAS. She discussed her interactive multimedia installation The Neighbours, which was chosen to represent Bulgaria at The Venice Biennale this past year, with host Nahlah Ayed.

During the Communist era in Bulgaria, anyone who opposed the government could be arrested and sent to the Gulag. Topouzova has been collecting the stories of those who survived this imprisonment for the past 20 years. Neighbours brings to light the silenced memories of these survivors by recreating a room of their former homes where fragments of these conversations can be overheard.

The full interview is available on the CBC Radio website. Her forthcoming book on the topic, Unsilencing: The History and Legacy of the Bulgarian Gulag, will also be published by Cornell University Press this month.

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