Mobile Workshop in Almaty
Dushanbe Art Ground announces Mobile Workshop in Almaty in the frame of: “SPACES ON THE RUN - Mapping, activating, rethinking the status of public spaces in Central Asian context” project. Mobile Workshop in Almaty: 2 – 5 of February, 2015 Address: Chaikovskogo Street 144 А, оffice 506, Almaty. Participants: visual artists, curators, architects, designers, urban activists from Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. Mobile Workshop’s tutor: Vladimir US - art manager and curator (Oberliht Young Artists Association, Chisinau, Rep. Moldova) Project organizer: Dushanbe Art Ground (Public Foundation “Sanati Muosir”) Project partners in Almaty: Urban Initiatives "Ctrl+S Almaty", ICOMOS Fund Kazakhstan, Saken Narinov/studioVDNH/Almaty. Project partners: Prince Claus Fund/NL, Arts Colaboratory - a Hivos&DOEN Foundation programme/NL, Goethe Institute Tashkent/UZ, Goethe Institute Almaty/Kazakhstan, Open Society Institute – Assistance Foundation in Tajikistan. Description: Mobile Workshop in Almaty is organized by Dushanbe Art Ground in partnership with Urban initiatives "Ctrl+S Almaty” as a mobile platform to research/analyses /mapping of the changing status of public spaces in Central Asia and was designed as integral part of SPACES ON THE RUN - Mapping, activating, rethinking the status of public spaces in Central Asian context” project. Mobile Workshop is conceived as a 4 days interaction between project participants, project team and invited tutor (Vladimir Us - art manager and curator, Chisinau) will consist in presentations, guided tours with local guides (Raushan Atagulova –architect and Alimaguli Ramankulova –architect) and working sessions (starting from 10.00 to 17.00) that will take place in Almaty where the main urban transformations occurred recently. The workshop participants will collect data and will provide comprehensive analyses concerning the causes, main actors as well the consequences of urban changes and impact on the society standards. By this research platform we wish to examine the structural determinants of public space and how it relates to the dominant activities both of the state—a public institution—and of business and commercial interests— the private interests under modern “Asian” type of capitalism. Mobile Workshop tutor: In the capacity of workshop tutor Vladimir Us will share his knowledge and experience in reclaiming public space through artistic practices in conjunction with a range of projects organized by the Oberliht Association in the past seven years, highlighting a number of artistic interventions which took place outside of traditional cultural institutions (the projects INTERVENTIONS, CHIOSK, the Civic Centre of Chisinau). These projects drew together artists, architects, sociologists, activists and other participants expressing interest in the transformations undergone by the public space in Chisinau, the goal being that of creating, through such cultural interventions, a truly public space. This efforts became possible via self-education and self-organization as well as through the development of a new cultural and digital infrastructure which is better suited to the needs of independent cultural entities in Moldavia, offering an alternative to the institutional environment and proposing new ways of engaging with the public. Vladimir US (1980) works as art manager and curator in Chisinau, Moldova, he is a founding member of Oberliht Young Artists Association. He studied art, curating, cultural management and cultural policy in Chisinau, Grenoble and Belgrade. Through his recent works and projects he examines the processes of transformation of the public space in post-Soviet cities along with the need for conceptualizing an alternative network of public spaces in Chisinau. Mobile Workshop in Almaty is organized with support from Open Society Institute – Assistance Foundation in Tajikistan. “SPACES ON THE RUN - Mapping, activating, rethinking the status of public spaces in Central Asian context” project aims is to understand/analyze the processes behind recent transformations of the public spaces in post-socialist context and investigate the status of public spaces in Central Asia challenging the hegemonic narratives, consumerist and private interests by re-appropriating/re-thinking and re-activating the public space trough contemporary art and social practices. The project will consist in the following components: - Mobile Workshops to be organized in Dushanbe, Almaty and Bishkek, - research-documentation lab, theoretical seminars, a number of art projects/creative interventions in the public space will be realized by invited participants from Central Asia (Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan). In order understand the dynamic of transformation of public spaces in the region a series of Mobile Workshops will be organized in Dushanbe/Tajikistan, Almaty/Kazakhstan and Bishkek/Kyrgyzstan to undertake a comparative analysis and investigate the processes behind recent transformations, mapping, planning, use, and commercialization of public space in the context of Central Asia. This project is supported by Prince Claus Fund, The Netherlands, Arts Colaboratory - a Hivos&DOEN Foundation programme, The Netherlands and also by Goethe Institute Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Goethe Institute Almaty, Kazakhstan and Open Society Institute – Assistance Foundation in Tajikistan. Dushanbe Art Ground (Public Foundation “Sanati Muosir”)-is a non-profit organization registered in 2012 in Dushanbe. DAG mission is to advocate for the development of contemporary art practices in Tajikistan, to redefine the role of the artist in contemporary society and shift the function of the artist from mere producer to engaged researcher and critic. DAG strategy is to achieve long-term sustainable development for new media arts and new platforms where creative and civic communities could collaboratively invent alternative avenues for social development and change. Dushanbe Art Ground activity is supported by Open Society Institute – Assistance Foundation in Tajikistan and Swiss Cooperation Office, Tajikistan. +++++++++++++++++++++ stefan rusu - curator dushanbe art ground tel: + 992 935036903 email: [email protected] <http://compose/?mailto=mailto%[email protected]> skype: suhebator1
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