<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">dear friends,<br><br>
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">Dushanbe
Art Ground invites you to a publication (along with DVD) launch of “Reimagining
the new man. Practicing civic duties through social and visual media” project
accompanied by screening of the films realized by project participants. <br></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><br></font></span></p><div style="display:inline"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////</font></span></div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><br><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US"></span></font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><br><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US"></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">Publication launch & Screening at Kino House</span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US"><br></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">Location:
“Zebuniso” Cinema («House of Кino»)</span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">Address: 131
Ayni Street, Dushanbe, Tajikistan</span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">Period:
16 MAY 2015</span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">Time:
14.00</span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US"> </span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">This
small format publication titled – “Reimagining the New Man / Practicing civic
duties through social and visual media” comprises written contributions by:
Zebiniso Iskandarova, Kuntuvdy Natalia, Faizulloev Muhidinjon, John Davis, Mark
Boswell and Stefan Rusu and works developed during the film workshop by Marifat
Davlatova, Aytegin Muratbek uulu, Syrlybek Bekbotayev, Alexandr Nicolaev,
Murodzhon Sharipov, Rumyantseva Alla, Sulaymon Sharifi together with the new
works and contributions by project team: Surayo Tuichieva, John Davis, Mark
Boswell, Jamshed Kholikov.</span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><b><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US"> </span></b></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><b><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">Project description:</span></b></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">“Reimagining
the new man. Practicing civic duties through social and visual media” project
was designed to investigate post-socialist context and the condition of Tajik
society, which was formed during the soviet period and shifted after the
collapse of Soviet Union to open market realities and capitalist principles. In
these circumstances the project aims at understanding, analyzing and
questioning civic engagement, participatory practices in community development
and transfer of knowledge by means of social and visual media in contemporary
Tajikistan. </span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">Practical
section - film workshop “Reimagining the new man” took place between17 - 29
March at Dushanbe art Ground and was an in-depth exploration of the use of
archival material, the aesthetics of appropriation, re-enactment, sampling and
detournement, and the transfer of cinematic language to digital forms. It
consisted in a series of lectures, seminars, film screenings, and assisted
hands-on labs (selection of archival sources, analogue-digital transfers,
writing of film scenarios and editing of final films). Each participant
produced a film based on the re-use of archival sources (propaganda films
archive from the socialist era, fragments of new films, home movies or private
archives, television and internet). The Film Workshop provided an opportunity
for cross-cultural exchange between artists and students from Tajikistan,
regional artists from Central Asian countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and
Uzbekistan), and the international guests tutors (John Davis (San Francisco,
USA) and Mark Boswell (New York, USA) who have been invited to lead the
workshop.</span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US"> </span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><b><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">Film program:</span></b></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">1.
“WELCOME TO THE NEW COUNTRY”- a film by Aytegin MURATBEK UULU - visual
artist/sound artist, Bishkek/Kyrgyzstan</span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">2. “BACK
TO THE PAST” – a film by Marifat DAVLATOVA - visual artist,
Dushanbe/Tajikistan.</span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">3. “PASSAGES”
– a film by Syrlybek BEKBOTAYEV - visual artist, Almaty/Kazakhstan,</span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">4.
“HUMANITY” – a film by Alexandr NICOLAEV - visual artist, Tashkent/Uzbekistan,</span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">5. “FROM
CIRCLE TO CIRCLE”- a film by Murodzhon SHARIPOV - visual artist/ designer,
Dushanbe/Tajikistan,</span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">6.“I MET
A GIRL”- a film by Alla RUMEANTZEV - visual artist, Dushanbe/Tajikistan,</span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">7. “DAY
OF GROUNDHOG” – a film by Sulaymon SHARIFI & Ozar SHARIFI – visual artists,
Dushanbe/Tajikistan.</span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US"> </span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US"> </span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><b><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">Project partners:</span></b></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">Dom
KINO/Dushanbe, The University of Art and Design/Dushanbe, The Union of Artists
of Tajikistan, Tojikkinoprokat/Dushanbe, Angor studio/Dushanbe, ArtAREA
/Dushanbe. </span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">This
project is supported by U.S. Embassy in Tajikistan and U.S. Democracy
Commission Small Grants Program; and co-financed by Open Society Institute –
Assistance Foundation in Tajikistan and Swiss Cooperation Office, Tajikistan. </span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">Technical
support: Angor studio/Dushanbe, ArtArea studio/Dushanbe.</span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US"> </span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><b><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">Organizers:</span></b><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US"> Dushanbe Art Ground/ Sanati
Muosir in collaboration with « Кino House», Dushanbe</span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><b><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">Dushanbe Art Ground/Sanati Muosir</span></b><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US"> – 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. </span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">Dushanbe
Art Ground activity is supported by Open Society Institute – Assistance
Foundation in Tajikistan and Swiss Cooperation Office, Tajikistan.</span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US"> </span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><b><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">« Кino House» of the Union of Cinematographers of Tajikistan</span></b><span style="color:rgb(16,19,26)" lang="EN-US">
- a place for conferences, plenums, congresses of members of creative Union;
celebration of anniversaries of national cinema; screenings and film premiers; meetings
of filmmakers with the public and exhibitions of set</span></font></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font size="2"> </font></div><font size="2">designers and artists.</font><p></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><br></font></span><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////</font></span></div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><br><br></font></span><div style="display:inline"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">best regards,<br></font></span></div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><br><font size="2">+++++++++++++++++++++<br><br>stefan rusu - curator<br><br>dushanbe art ground<br>tel: <a value="+992935036903">+ 992 935036903</a><br>
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