[spectre] Mobile Workshop in Dushanbe_SPACES ON THE RUN project

Tue Jun 17 15:58:47 CEST 2014

Mobile Workshop in Dushanbe

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Dushanbe Art Ground announces Mobile Workshop in Dushanbe in the frame of:
“SPACES ON THE RUN - Mapping, activating, rethinking the status of public
spaces in Central Asian context” project.

Mobile Workshop in Dushanbe: 18 - 22 of JUNE, 2014

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

Participants:

Participants from Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Practical information:

Besisde Mobile Workshop selected participants will take part in
Research-Documentation Lab, Theoretic Seminars and will present their
project in the final presentation in Dushanbe.

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-TJ, The Union of Architects-TJ/Dushanbe.

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

Mobile Workshop description:

Mobile Workshop was conceived as a 4 days interaction between project
participants, tutors and invited lecturers, will consist in presentations,
guided tours and working sessions and will take place in Dushanbe where the
power is concentrated and 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 tutors:

STEALTH.unlimited – ANA DŽOKIĆ, (SRB/NL) and MARC NEELEN, (NL). Following
collaboration since 1996, in the year 2000 ANA DŽOKIĆ and MARC NEELEN
initiated STEALTH, a practice spanning Rotterdam and Belgrade.  Through
intensive collaboration with individuals, organisations and institutions,
STEALTH broadens the understanding of what architectural
and urbanistic engagement can be today. Their work connects urban research,
visual arts, spatial interventions and cultural activism – to mobilise
thinking on shared future(s) of the city and its culture.

STEALTH made numerous investigations into the complexity and inconsistency
of recent urban developments on the territory of former Yugoslavia and in
2010 co-initiated the platform Who Builds the City? in Belgrade, Serbia.
Since 2008 they co-curated a/o the Dutch Pavilion at the
Architecture Biennial in Venice, the Tirana International Contemporary Art
Biennial, IMPAKT festival in Utrecht, the fiction-based project Once Upon a
Future for the biannual Evento in Bordeaux, and the exhibition A Life in
Common with Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto. With
Marjetica Potrč STEALTH completed a public art commission for a
schoolyard in Sweden, in Gothenburg they initiated a spatial intervention
with the local community and with El Puente_lab they built a cultural
development node out of recycled materials in a slum neighbourhood of
Medellín, Colombia.

“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
<http://compose/?mailto=mailto%3asuhebator@gmail.com>
skype: suhebator1
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