In the past few years, Ivo Dimchev, an openly queer artist in a relatively conservative and patriarchal country, has improbably become one of Bulgaria’s most famous singer-songwriters.
lockdown, when all restaurants and theatres and music venues were shut, the performance artist and musician Ivo Dimchev posted a message on his Facebook profile announcing that he would perform private shows upon request at apartments and houses around Sofia and beyond. “I don’t want to sing online,” he wrote. “I want to sing in people’s homes . . . I mean in their living rooms . . . They sit on their sofas . . . I sit in a chair three meters away with my MIDI keyboard upon my knees.
One concert quickly turned into ten, and ten into a hundred. Dimchev brought a videographer along and began posting footage from people’s kitchens and living rooms, in their basements and attics, by wash basins and washing machines. He played in suburban mansions, in downtown hipster lairs, in run-down apartments on the outskirts of Sofia.
“When I sing my songs in kitchens, surrounded by plates and forks and sinks and dishwashers, this third, new dimension opens up,” Dimchev said. Dimchev describes art as a space in which he can “create my own story to be free.” Growing up gay in Sofia, he was abused by his homophobic classmates; a group of metalheads once locked him up in a room and beat him senseless. He found comfort in music. An extroverted child, he would sing to his friends, and often bring them to tears.
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