Yoana Buzova is an artist and educator, intrigued by public space and short-lived and neglected moments and objects. Her work intersects installation, intervention and manual making. Collaboration, knowledge accumulation and distribution take up an important place in her work. She loves circuitry and likes to do it herself. Yoana completed the Master of Media Design at the Piet Zwart Institute. Member of Varia.
Branch of knowledge, subject:
Instructor at the Interaction Station.
What inspires you?
I am fascinated by (seemingly) ordinary things and practices. There is both potential and poetry in the unnoticed.
There is both potential and poetry in the unnoticed.
What defines you as a tutor? Your strongest points?
Making others feel calmer, slowing down. That proves to be quite necessary for an academic environment.
What is your dream/goal as a tutor?
I want to guide students into being more caring about both thinking and making. And also to nurture the merge of those two, they seem too far separated at the moment.
Name one item from your bucket list?
To document and contextualize the disappearing practices of improvised repair in the Balkans.
Whom would you call true innovator?
For me, those are who we are unable to find in lists and top 10 charts. Those are the people driven by societal issues, critically examining and participating in the every-day. And hey, might as well not call them pioneers, just be one of them.
