[oberlist] Research-Documentation Lab & Seminars_SPACES ON THE RUN project_Tajikistan

Fri Jun 20 20:01:36 CEST 2014

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*Research-Documentation Lab & Seminars*

Dushanbe Art Ground announces Research-Documentation Lab and Theoretic
Seminars in the frame of: “SPACES ON THE RUN - Mapping, activating,
rethinking the status of public spaces in Central Asian context” project.

Research-Documentation Lab and Theoretic Seminars:  23 of JUNE-1 of JULY,
2014

Project organizer: Dushanbe Art Ground (Public Foundation “Sanati Muosir”)

Participants: Invited participants from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
and Tajikistan.

Project partners: Prince Claus Fund/NL, Arts Colaboratory - a Hivos&DOEN
Foundation programme/NL, Goethe Institute Tashkent/UZ

Project partners in Tajikistan: The State University of Visual Art and
Design of Tajikistan, The Union of Artists of Tajikistan, The Union of
Designers/Tajikistan, The Union of Architects/Tajikistan.

Regional partners: Anthropology department-AUCA/Bishkek, Museum
Studio/Bishkek, Saken Narinov/studioVDNH/Almaty

*Description of Research-Documentation Lab and Theoretic Seminars:*

The purpose of Research-Documentation Lab and Theoretic Seminars is to
share experience and to undertake a comparative analysis of the
transformations of public spaces in Central Asian context. Invited
participants from Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and
Tajikistan) will confront their knowledge and project proposals with the
local context and the actual status of public spaces in Tajikistan. They
will work on the field (individually or in groups) and will further develop
their research and project proposals, will elaborate texts in conjunctions
with urban transformations in Dushanbe. A number of international curators
from Tbilisi/Georgia, Samara/Russia and Honk Kong/China will present that
recent practices of dealing with the public space, they will share their
experience in exploring and activating public space using new approaches
and strategies.

*Lectors involved in Theoretic Seminars:*

*Nini Palavandishvili – curator of GeoAIR, Tbilisi, Georgia*

Nini Palavandishvili was born in 1976 and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia. After
studying Art History in Tbilisi, she graduated from the UdK Berlin in
Faculty of Public and Industrial Communication. In 2006 Nini joined artist
initiative GeoAIR and since then she is actively engaged in curating and
organizing international exchange projects in Georgia and beyond its
borders. Nini Palavandishvili is also a coordinator of an art residency
program launched by GeoAIR in January 2010 in Tbilisi, Georgia.

*Nelya Korzhova - curator of Shiryaevo Biennale, Samara, Russia.*
Nelya Korzhova was born in 1963, lives and works in Samara, Russia. In
1997, she together with Roman Korzhov organized Regional Public Charity
Foundation "Center for Contemporary Art" of Samara (art director, ROBF
"CSI"). It was the first professional institution in Samara, actively
engaged in the search for new forms of communication of art in the social
environment, the development of international dialogue in contemporary art.
In 2001she attended Scholarship program for curators of the German
Institute of International Relations (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
(ifa), Stuttgart). Since 2007 she works in the Volga branch of the National
Center for Contemporary Art.

*Stefan Rusu – curator of Dushanbe Art Ground, Dushanbe, Tajikistan*
Ştefan RUSU (born in 1964, Câietu, Moldova) is an art manager, curator,
editor and filmmaker based in Dushanbe/Tajikistan. Ştefan’s artist and
curatorial agenda is closely connected to the processes post-socialist
societies underwent and to the changes that occurred in these societies
after 1989. Beginning with 2000 he was involved in the development of KSAK
Center, where he developed curatorial projects and art initiatives. In 2004
he completed an MA in cultural management from Belgrade Art University,
following the years 2005-06 he attended the Curatorial Training Program at
Stichting De Appel in Amsterdam.

*Cosmin Costinas - Executive Director/Curator of Para Site, Hong Kong.*
Cosmin Costinas (b. 1982, Satu Mare, Romania) he was the Curator of BAK,
basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands (2008-2011), co-curator
(with Ekaterina Degot and David Riff) of the 1st Ural Industrial
Biennial: Shockworkers of the Mobile Image, Ekaterinburg, 2010, and Editor
of documenta 12 Magazines, Kassel/Vienna (2005–2007). He co-authored the
novel Philip (2007) and has contributed his writing to numerous magazines,
books, and exhibition catalogs across the world. Costinas has taught and
lectured at different universities and art academies in Europe and
Asia. Costinas lives and works in Hong Kong.

*Theoretic Seminars lectures schedule:*

*Date: 24th of JUNE*

*Time. 10.00*

Lecture (I) title: *Undergo. the parallels - an attempt to rethink public
space.*

Lecturer: *Nini Palavandishvili *– curator of GeoAIR, Tbilisi, Georgia

Objective of SPACES Undergo. the parallels project was to raise questions
and issues, which became silent. To quote Boris Buden: “Art is form of
publicity, because it explores the possibilities of the public, its new
meanings. Art creates a public space and deals with its specific issues
through available possibilities, through making some facts visible, by
raising questions and issues that no only interrogate the old public
sphere, but also generate new forms of publicity.”

Lecture(II) title: *Mapping Vacant Central and Eastern Europe*

Lecturer: *Nini Palavandishvili *– curator of GeoAIR, Tbilisi, Georgia

The Vacant Central and Eastern Europe project follows the project VAC
(Vacant Central Europe) initiated in 2013 by KÉK - Hungarian Contemporary
Architecture Centre. It aims to address the problem of vacancy by mapping
empty properties, by researching planning instruments, architectural tools
and by exchanging experiences and strategies of intervention that make the
temporary use of empty properties and their conversion for another use
possible.

Date:* 25th of JUNE*
Time: *10.00*
Lecture (I): *International contemporary art festival “Street as a Museum –
Museum as a Street”*
Lecturer: *Nelya Korzhova - curator, Samara, Russia**.*
The festival “Street as a Museum – Museum as a Street” (curated by Nelya
Korzhova&Roman Korzhov) is dedicated to new techniques of interaction
between contemporary art and an urban environment. The festival presupposes
simultaneous exposure of contemporary art pieces on public bus stops and
exhibition halls, the main task of which is to define a boarder between the
field of “culture and art” and street space.
Lecture (II): *International Shiryaevo Biennale «: between Europe and Asia»*
Lecturer: *Nelya Korzhova - curator, Samara, Russia*
An important part of the structure is the biennial international art
laboratory that conducted the experiment of contemporary art in the Russian
village for two weeks. The peculiarity of this phase is living of artists
during the Biennale in the homes of local residents. This condition of
"immersion" into the local cultural environment is seen as a method of
creating irrelative or "ideal" environment for artistic expression. The
basic idea of such an experiment - to give the artist a chance to 'start
working from scratch', without the pressure of accumulated image and
technologies of arts market.

Date:* 28th of JUNE*

Time:* 10.00*

Lecture: *What is to be done with public space?*

Lecturer: *Stefan Rusu - curator of Dushanbe Art Ground, Dushanbe,
Tajikistan*

He will introduce CHIȘINĂU - Art, Research in the Public Sphere project  –
a cross-disciplinary platform realised in 2010 that investigated the
connections between political and cultural symbols and propaganda and its
impact on the urban environment, the interference between personal
narratives and imported ideologies and cultural discourses in relation to
the public sphere. The artists projects and interventions in the city of
Chisinau explored the dominant institutional and political discourses that
have shaped the society and the urban landscape of the city of Chisinau in
the course of its recent history. Beside that he will introduce the art
practice of Joanna Rajkowska and Ewa Rudnizka from Poland that deals with
various aspects and interpretations of public space.

Date: *1st of JULY*
Time: *10.00*
Lecture title: *A Journal of the Plague Year. Fear, ghosts, rebels. SARS,
Leslie and the Hong Kong story.*
Lecturer:* Cosmin Costinas - Executive Director/Curator of Para Site, Hong
Kong.*
A Journal of the Plague Year. Fear, ghosts, rebels. SARS, Leslie and the
Hong Kong story started from the events that affected Hong Kong in the
spring of 2003, tracing the different narratives, historical backgrounds as
well as the implications of these events in relation to the contemporary
culture and politics of Hong Kong and the world.  The city has a
subjectively internalised history of epidemics and of representations in
the colonial era as an infected land that needed to be conquered from
nature, disease and oriental habits in order to be made healthy, modern and
profitable. These narratives culminated with the identification of the
bacillus causing the plague during an epidemic in Hong Kong in 1894, in
Para Site's current neighborhood. In conjunction with his lecture Costinas
will present a number of artsits and projects: *Ai Weiwei, Bernd Behr,
Natalia Sui-hung Chan, Oscar Chan Yik Long, Yin-Ju Chen, James T. Hong,
Irene Kopelman and the others. *

*“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.

Project team:

Project curator - Stefan Rusu

Project manager - Jamshed Kholikov

Coordinator of educational section - Surayo Tuychieva

Assistant manager – Serafima Gatzalova

Address:

Dushanbe Art Ground,

State University of Visual Arts and Design of Tajikistan,

Str. Aini 31, Dushanbe, Tajikistan.  Post code: 734012

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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.

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stefan rusu - curator

dushanbe art ground
tel: + 992 935036903
email: suhebator at gmail.com
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