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Art Ground in partnership with Urban initiatives "Ctrl+S Almaty”</font></span> in Almaty,<br></font></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> <br></font></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">
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</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br><br><font>Mobile Workshop in Almaty</font></span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>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. </font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>
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</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>Mobile Workshop in Almaty: 2 – 5 of February, 2015 </font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>Address: Chaikovskogo Street 144 А, оffice 506, Almaty.</font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>Participants: visual artists, curators, architects,
designers, urban activists from Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.</font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>Mobile Workshop’s tutor: Vladimir US - art manager
and curator (Oberliht Young Artists Association, Chisinau, Rep. Moldova) </font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>
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</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>Project organizer: Dushanbe Art Ground (Public
Foundation “Sanati Muosir”)</font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>Project partners in Almaty: Urban Initiatives
"Ctrl+S Almaty", ICOMOS Fund Kazakhstan, Saken
Narinov/studioVDNH/Almaty.</font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>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.</font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>
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</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>Description:</font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>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. </font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>
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</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>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.</font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>
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</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>Mobile Workshop tutor:</font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>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.</font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>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.</font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>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.</font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>
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</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>Mobile Workshop in Almaty is organized with support
from Open Society Institute – Assistance Foundation in Tajikistan.</font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>
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</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>“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.</font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>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.</font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>
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</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>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. <br></font></span></p><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
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