The Bulgarian Pavilion is conceived as the headquarters of a fictional research lab operating within an experiment in a post sovereign, care oriented political form. The Lab is imagined as part of a speculative constellation referred to as The Federation of Minor Practices, not a state or institution, but a dispersed formation sustained through attention, maintenance, and shared responsibility. Positioned slightly ahead of the present, the Lab looks back at the early twenty first century as the moment when the conditions for this formation first became legible.

The four films presented in the Pavilion constitute the near past of this formation. They do not appear as evidence, but as signals that register how political, social, and ecological tensions were already shaping everyday life.