[spectre] Book Launch -“Spaces on the Run” @ Dushanbe ArtGround, Tajikistan_19thDecember_17.00

[stefan rusu]

Dushanbe Art Ground invites you to book launch titled “SPACES ON THE
RUN” (English-Russian
and Russian-Tajik versions) and the discussion with project participants.

Location: Dushanbe Art Ground center
Address: 91 Rudaki Street, 5thFloor (building of «Zinat» studio), Dushanbe,
Tajikistan
Period: 19 December, 2016
Time: 17.00

The launch of the publication will be accompanied by a discussion with
project participants – Gafur Shermatov, Victor Dubovitskiy, Surayo
Tuichieva, Murod Sharifov and Aleksei Rumyantsev.
About the publication:
The publication encompass project components divided in four chapters; the
first chapter introduces essays and contributions by invited researchers,
second chapter is dedicated to a moving research platform across Central
Asia - Mobile Workshops organised in Dushanbe, Almaty and Bishkek,
highlighting some of the cases.
This chapter also introduces the research-documentation laboratory and
theoretical seminars developed in Dushanbe along with essays by invited
curators. The last chapter comprises the documentation of art projects in
public space realized by invited participants in Dushanbe.

Texts and contributions: Victor DUBOVITSKIY, Madina JUNUSSOVA &Elena TYO,
Natalia ANDRIANOVA, Abdumannop ZIYAEV, Gafur SHERMATOV, Vladimir US,
[STEALTH.unlimited] Ana DZOKIC&Marc NEELEN, Gamal BOKONBAEV, Yuliya
SOROKINA, Nelya KORZHOVA and Stefan RUSU.

Next to it projects and interventions in public space by Ewa RUDNICKA,
Alexander NIKOLAEV, Jamshed KHOLIKOV, Aleksei RUMYANTSEV, Surayo TUYCHIEVA,
Bakhytzhan SALIKHOV, Murodjon SHARIFOV, Suleiman SHARIFI, Gulbara OMOROVA,
Sitora Tursunova and Bahtier RAKHIMOV.
Publisher: Dushanbe ArtGround / PF “Sanati Muosir”
Concept&Editor: Stefan RUSU
Design: Farida YUNUSOVA
Translations: Caterina YULDASHEVA
Proofreading (Russian version): Caterina YULDASHEVA, Lilia DRAGNEVA
Proofreading (English version), Laura SCHLEUSSNER, Erik William SMITH
Printed by “MEGA BASIM YAYIN SAN VE TIC A.S.” Turkey. Istanbul.
Edition: 500
ISBN 978-99947-892-7-6

About the project:
The project Spaces on the Run was inspired by fundamental transformation of
public space that took place in conjunction with the fundamental changes
that occurred in Central Asian countries in the early nineteen-nineties, as
one country after the other claimed independence. The main objectives of
the project were not only to investigate how these changes affected the
function and role of public spaces in major cities (Dushanbe, Almaty,
Bishkek, and Tashkent) but also to engage with these spaces, using
contemporary art practices and social engagement as tools for activating
and creatively appropriating them. The project consisted of a research and
documentation laboratory, theoretical seminars, and a number of art
projects/interventions in public space, developed by participants from
Central Asia (Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan). The
final presentation of the project included public programs and art projects
in public space of Dushanbe. This process, in addition to introduction of
creative practices into the public sphere, also implied interaction with
local communities and the formation of a new public.

This project was supported by Prince Claus Fund/NL, Arts Colaboratory - a
Hivos&DOEN Foundation programme/NL, Open Society Institute – Assistance
Foundation in Tajikistan, Swiss Cooperation Office, Tajikistan and was
co-funded by: Goethe Institute Tashkent/UZ, Goethe Institute
Almaty/Kazakhstan, Adam Mickiewicz Institute Poland.

Regional project partners and co-organizers of Mobile Workshop in Almaty
and Bishkek: Urban Initiative "Ctrl+S Almaty", Kazakhstan, “Urban
initiatives”- Public Foundation, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Project organizer: Dushanbe ArtGround (PF Sanati Muosir)

Dushanbe ArtGround/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 ArtGround activity is supported by Open Society Institute –
Assistance Foundation in Tajikistan and Swiss Cooperation Office,
Tajikistan.


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stefan rusu - curator

dushanbe artground
tel(TJ): + 992 935036903 <+992%2093%20503%206903>
tel(KZ): + 996 555964936
email: suhebator at gmail.com
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