<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><p class="gmail-m_1265441489007859309gmail-m_4396716850098436549gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><font size="2">Dushanbe Art Ground invites you to book
launch titled “SPACES ON THE RUN” <span lang="RU">(</span>English-Russian and Russian-Tajik versions) and
the discussion with project participants. </font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="gmail-m_1265441489007859309gmail-m_4396716850098436549gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><font size="2">Location: Dushanbe Art Ground center<br>Address: 91 Rudaki Street, 5thFloor (building of «Zinat» studio), Dushanbe, Tajikistan<br>Period: 19 December, 2016<br>Time: 17.00 </font></p><p class="gmail-m_1265441489007859309gmail-m_4396716850098436549gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><font size="2">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. </font></p><font size="2">About the publication:<br>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.<br>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.
</font><p class="gmail-m_1265441489007859309gmail-m_4396716850098436549gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><font size="2">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. </font>
</p><p class="gmail-m_1265441489007859309gmail-m_4396716850098436549gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><font size="2">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.</font></p><font size="2">
Publisher: Dushanbe ArtGround / PF “Sanati Muosir”<br>Concept&Editor: Stefan RUSU<br>Design: Farida YUNUSOVA<br>Translations: Caterina YULDASHEVA<br>Proofreading (Russian version): Caterina YULDASHEVA, Lilia DRAGNEVA<br>Proofreading (English version), Laura SCHLEUSSNER, Erik William SMITH<br>Printed by “MEGA BASIM YAYIN SAN VE TIC A.S.” Turkey. Istanbul.<br>Edition: 500<br>ISBN 978-99947-892-7-6<br><br>About the project:<br>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.
</font><p class="gmail-m_1265441489007859309gmail-m_4396716850098436549gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><font size="2">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.</font>
</p><p class="gmail-m_1265441489007859309gmail-m_4396716850098436549gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><font size="2">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</font>
</p><p class="gmail-m_1265441489007859309gmail-m_4396716850098436549gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><font size="2">Project organizer: Dushanbe ArtGround (PF Sanati
Muosir) </font>
</p><p class="gmail-m_1265441489007859309gmail-m_4396716850098436549gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><font size="2">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. </font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="gmail-m_1265441489007859309gmail-m_4396716850098436549gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><font size="2">Dushanbe ArtGround activity is supported
by Open Society Institute – Assistance Foundation in Tajikistan and Swiss
Cooperation Office, Tajikistan.</font></p><p class="gmail-m_1265441489007859309gmail-m_4396716850098436549gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><font size="2"><br>***********************</font><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><font size="2"><br><br><br>stefan rusu - curator<br><br>dushanbe artground<br>tel(TJ): <a href="tel:+992%2093%20503%206903" value="+992935036903" target="_blank">+ 992 935036903</a><br><span>tel(KZ): <a value="+992935036903">+ 996 555964936<br></a></span>email: <a href="http://compose/?mailto=mailto%3asuhebator@gmail.com" target="_blank">suhebator@gmail.com</a><br>
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