[spectre] Mobile Workshop in Almaty_SPACES ON THE RUN project

[stefan rusu]

dear all,
find below the info concerning the workshop organised by Dushanbe Art
Ground in partnership with Urban initiatives "Ctrl+S Almaty” in Almaty,




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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.



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stefan rusu - curator

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