[spectre] gray) (area . Korcula . Croatia presents Changing Climate - Central Asian Video

[darko fritz]

gray) (area

space of contemporary and media art . Korcula . Croatia

presents . Changing Climate
a selection of Central Asian Video curated by Stefan Rusu

. 21 - 30 . 07 . 2007
. opening . Saturday 21th . 20.30 h


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The selection shows particular interest of Central Asian artists for  
cinematic language that become an effective tool in exploring  
contradictions and confusions of the Islamic states, some decades  
after dissolution of soviet block. We invite you to dive into  
artist’s laboratory, in which the reuse of spiritual tehnics and  
practices becomes effective models in articulating critical attitudes  
toward inertia, rampant globalization and neo-liberal anarchy. The  
artists obsession for ecstatic vocabulary comes from the varieties of  
nomadic rituals, pre-Islamic and syncretic practices that define  
their life and cultural environment.

The exhibition is an attempt to question former and ongoing EU policy  
measures/adjustments toward the black market development and labor  
force migration from the Eastern countries, as the effects of its  
policy during the 90’s in the Western Balkans. In such circumstances  
the artists exploring the values of nomadic culture become a valuable  
contribution in changing actual cultural and political climate.


Presented artists: Abilsait Atabekov, Alexandr Ugay from Kazakhstan,  
Veaceslav Ahunov/Uzbekistan and Ulan Djaparov/Kyrgyzstan

Stefan Rusu is artist and freelance curator based in Chisinau,  
Moldova and Bucharest. In 2005/2006 he attended the Curatorial  
Training Program at Shtichting De Appel from Amsterdam where he co- 
curated Mercury in Retrograde (www.mercuryinretrograde.com)

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gray) (area is located 10 meters by the sea in the basement of The  
Memorial Collection of Maksimilijan Vanka [http://www.hazu.hr/ENG/ 
MemColl_M_Vanka.html] . Put sv. Nikole 7 . Korcula


open daily 19. 30 - 21.30 h or by appointment

gray) (area is an initiative by Darko Fritz . darko at darkofritz.net .  
tel +385 [0] 91.5800193