[oberlist] Mobile Workshop - BISHKEK in the frame of SPACES ON THE RUN

[stefan rusu]

dear friends,
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please find below the info related to Mobile Workshop - Bishkek,
this is the third workshop developed in the frame of "Spaces on The  
Run" project,

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Mobile Workshop in Bishkek

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

Mobile Workshop-Bishkek: 2 – 5 of March 2015
Address: conference room (3 floor), Isanova street 42/1, Bishkek
Participants: architects, designers, anthropologists, urban activists  
and visual artists from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
Mobile Workshop’s tutors: [STEALTH.unlimited] – ANA DŽOKIĆ (SRB/ 
NL) and MARC NEELEN (NL)

Project partners in Almaty: “Urban initiatives”- Public Foundation  
(Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)
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.

Description:
Mobile Workshop in Almaty is organized by Dushanbe Art Ground in  
partnership with “Urban initiatives”-Public Foundation (Bishkek,  
Kyrgyzstan) 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.
Mobile Workshop is conceived as a 4 days interaction between project  
participants, project team and invited tutors - STEALTH.unlimited –  
ANA DŽOKIĆ (SRB/NL) and MARC NEELEN (NL) and will consist in  
presentations, guided tours with local guides (Natalya Andrianova -  
architect and Gulinara Kurmanova - biologist) and working sessions  
(starting from 10.00 to 17.00) that will take place in Bishkek 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 neighborhood of Medellín, Colombia.

Mobile Workshop in Bishkek is organized with support from Open Society  
Institute – Assistance Foundation in Tajikistan.

“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.

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

Mobile Workshop organizers:
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.

Public Foundation "Urban Initiatives" (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan) - is a non- 
governmental organization founded by enthusiastic citizens in 2014.  
The Foundation conducts research of the urban environment, seminars  
and discussions on urban development, helps enterprising citizens and  
municipal structures to embody the idea to change the city. The  
Foundation's mission – is to promote the ideas of participation of  
citizens in the development of cities in Kyrgyzstan, education in the  
field of urban studies for young professionals (architects,  
sociologists, anthropologists, designers, transport, urban planning  
systems and many others), as well as the institutionalization of  
supporting initiatives of citizens.


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all the best,


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stefan rusu - curator

dushanbe art ground
tel: + 992 935036903
email: suhebator at gmail.com
skype: suhebator1


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