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please find below the info related to Mobile Workshop - Bishkek,
this is the third workshop developed in the frame of "Spaces on The
Run" project,
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Mobile Workshop in Bishkek
Dushanbe Art Ground announces Mobile Workshop in Bishkek in the frame
of: “SPACES ON THE RUN - Mapping, activating, rethinking the status
of public spaces in Central Asian context” project.
Mobile Workshop-Bishkek: 2 – 5 of March 2015
Address: conference room (3 floor), Isanova street 42/1, Bishkek
Participants: architects, designers, anthropologists, urban activists
and visual artists from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
Mobile Workshop’s tutors: [STEALTH.unlimited] – ANA DŽOKIĆ (SRB/
NL) and MARC NEELEN (NL)
Project partners in Almaty: “Urban initiatives”- Public Foundation
(Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)
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”-Public Foundation (Bishkek,
Kyrgyzstan) 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 tutors - STEALTH.unlimited –
ANA DŽOKIĆ (SRB/NL) and MARC NEELEN (NL) and will consist in
presentations, guided tours with local guides (Natalya Andrianova -
architect and Gulinara Kurmanova - biologist) and working sessions
(starting from 10.00 to 17.00) that will take place in Bishkek 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 tutors:
STEALTH.unlimited – ANA DŽOKIĆ, (SRB/NL) and MARC NEELEN, (NL).
Following collaboration since 1996, in the year 2000 ANA DŽOKIĆ and
MARC NEELEN initiated STEALTH, a practice spanning Rotterdam and
Belgrade. Through intensive collaboration with individuals,
organisations and institutions, STEALTH broadens the understanding of
what architectural and urbanistic engagement can be today. Their work
connects urban research, visual arts, spatial interventions and
cultural activism – to mobilise thinking on shared future(s) of the
city and its culture.
STEALTH made numerous investigations into the complexity and
inconsistency of recent urban developments on the territory of former
Yugoslavia and in 2010 co-initiated the platform Who Builds the City?
in Belgrade, Serbia. Since 2008 they co-curated a/o the Dutch Pavilion
at the Architecture Biennial in Venice, the Tirana International
Contemporary Art Biennial, IMPAKT festival in Utrecht, the fiction-
based project Once Upon a Future for the biannual Evento in Bordeaux,
and the exhibition A Life in Common with Cittadellarte – Fondazione
Pistoletto. With Marjetica Potrč STEALTH completed a public art
commission for a schoolyard in Sweden, in Gothenburg they initiated a
spatial intervention with the local community and with El Puente_lab
they built a cultural development node out of recycled materials in a
slum neighborhood of Medellín, Colombia.
Mobile Workshop in Bishkek 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.
Project organizer: Dushanbe Art Ground (Public Foundation “Sanati
Muosir”)
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.
Mobile Workshop organizers:
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.
Public Foundation "Urban Initiatives" (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan) - is a non-
governmental organization founded by enthusiastic citizens in 2014.
The Foundation conducts research of the urban environment, seminars
and discussions on urban development, helps enterprising citizens and
municipal structures to embody the idea to change the city. The
Foundation's mission – is to promote the ideas of participation of
citizens in the development of cities in Kyrgyzstan, education in the
field of urban studies for young professionals (architects,
sociologists, anthropologists, designers, transport, urban planning
systems and many others), as well as the institutionalization of
supporting initiatives of citizens.
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all the best,
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stefan rusu - curator
dushanbe art ground
tel: + 992 935036903
email: [email protected]
skype: suhebator1
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