*In Between: Video Art and Film from Tajikistan* Co-Curated by Olga Stefan/Itinerant Projects <http://olgastefanconsulting.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4e8e884f65034bffcdc47271b&id=d514a49627&e=448cf5d02d> and Stefan Rusu Produced by Itinerant Projects November 23, 7pm, Dock18, Rote Fabrik, Zurich with the support of Open Society, Tajikistan
*Program* Screening is followed by a panel discussion: *"The grey zones of free expression in artistic production" *with artist Alla Rumyateseva, and curators Olga Stefan and Stefan Rusu. BIOS Alla Rumyantseva is a visual artist, born in 1977, lives and works in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Rumyantseva graduated from Technological University, Faculty of Design (1999). Since 2007 she works in the field of contemporary art, exploring the following media - video, animation, installation. She participate in a number of exhibition at; Videoart Festival «Pusto» Moscow (2007), exhibition «Stills», Kazakhstan (2010), «One Minute Film Festival», Germany (2010), 54nd Venice Biennale, Italy (2011), film festival «Reformat», Bishkek (2013), Purgatory IV Film Exhibition & Artist Bazaar (2013). She attended a number of workshops and seminars: Seminar on video art «Art and environment», Tashkent (2010), workshop «Philosophical aspects of Contemporary art», Dushanbe (2010), art and science project «Glacier Music», Tashkent (2013). Her works were exhibited in Moscow, Bishkek, Venice, Tashkent and Dushanbe. Olga STEFAN is an independent curator, writer, and lecturer born in Bucharest, raised in Chicago and since 2009, based in Zurich. She has curated numerous exhibitions including solo shows with Dan Perjovschi, Lia Perjovschi, Stefan Constantinescu (which travelled in Europe and the US) and Keren Cytter. Her recent group shows include *Fragments of a Life*, *Laughter and Forgetting*,* Showtime: The Cinema in the Gallery*, *Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner: Hospitality as Artistic Practice*, *Few Were Happy with their Condition: Video, Film, and Photography in Romania*, *Blurred Lines* and *Fire it Up: Ceramic as Material in Contemporary Sculpture*. She is currently working on a multi-city exhibition in Romania on Holocaust remembrance through art and oral histories, *The Future of Memory*. She contributes regularly to ArtReview, Frieze Magazine, Art in America, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, Artslant, and Artmargins. http://www.olgaistefan.wordpress.com/ <http://olgastefanconsulting.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=4e8e884f65034bffcdc47271b&id=985b54b7ba&e=448cf5d02d> Ştefan RUSU (born in 1964, Câietu, Moldova) is curator, editor, visual artist and filmmaker, his artistic/curatorial agenda is geared towards the social and political changes in post-socialist societies after 1989. In 2004 he completed MA in Cultural Policy and Management (Mediation in the Balkans) at Belgrade Art University and following the years 2005-06 attended Curatorial Training Program at Stichting De Appel in Amsterdam. Beginning with 2000 he was involved in the development of KSAK - Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau where he managed curatorial projects and art initiatives. After he moved to Tajikistan in 2013, he become involved in the activity of Dushanbe Art Ground, where beside designing and curating projects he was responsible for programs management, including fundraising and long-term sustainability of the organisation. His recent curatorial projects developed in Tajikistan include SPACES ON THE RUN. Mapping, activating, rethinking the status of public spaces in Central Asian context (2015) and Reimagining the New Man. Practicing civic duties through social and visual media (2014). Olga Stefan/Itinerant Projects carried out research in June 2015 with a grant from Pro Helvetia. 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