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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">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. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">Mobile Workshop in Dushanbe: 18 - 22 of JUNE, 2014</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">Project organizer: Dushanbe Art Ground (Public
Foundation “Sanati Muosir”)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">Participants:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">Participants from Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan,
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">Practical information:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">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. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">Project partners: Prince Claus Fund/NL, Arts
Colaboratory - a Hivos&DOEN Foundation programme/NL, Goethe Institute
Tashkent/UZ </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">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. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">Regional partners: Anthropology
department-AUCA/Bishkek, Museum Studio/Bishkek, Saken Narinov/studioVDNH/Almaty</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">Mobile Workshop description:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">Mobile Workshop tutors:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">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.<span style> </span>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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">“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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">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. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">Project team:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">Project curator - Stefan Rusu</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">Project manager - Jamshed Kholikov</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">Coordinator of educational section - Surayo
Tuychieva</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">Assistant manager – Serafima Gatzalova</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">Address:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">Dushanbe Art Ground, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">State University of Visual Arts and Design of
Tajikistan, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="RU">Str. Aini 31, Dushanbe,
Tajikistan. <span style> </span>Post code: 734012</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="RU"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
<i style><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">FB page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dushanbe.artground?fref=ts"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://www.facebook.com/dushanbe.artground?fref=ts</span></a></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">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.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="RU"></span></p>
<div><div dir="ltr"><div> <br><font size="1"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><br><font>+++++++++++++++++++++<br><br>stefan rusu - curator<br><br>dushanbe art ground<br>tel: <a value="+992935036903">+ 992 935036903</a><br>
email: <a href="http://compose/?mailto=mailto%3asuhebator@gmail.com" target="_blank">suhebator@gmail.com</a><br>
skype: suhebator1</font><br></span></font><br></div></div></div>
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