[Oberlist] NEW/OLD ROUTES Project at BizArt,Shanghai

[stefan rusu]

NEW/OLD ROUTES

 A Selection of Video Art From Central Asia

Participating Artists: Abilsait Atabekov, Erbolsin Meldibekov and Alexandr
Ugay from Kazakhstan, Veaceslav Ahunov, Serghei Ticina from Uzbekistan, Ulan
Djaparov, Gulnara Kasmalieva & Muratbek Djumaliev from Kyrgyzstan

Curated by Stefan Rusu

Opening: January 11th, 2008, Friday 18:30
Exhibition dates: January 12th - 20th, 2008 (11:00 - 18:00)
Lecture: January 14, 11 am
Venue: BizArt Art Center

4/f, Bldg 7, 50 Moganshan Road, 200060 Shanghai
Tel: 86 21 62775358

www.biz-art.com, www.arthub.org.cn

Li Xuehui:  xuehui la biz-art.com

Alexia Dehaene: guanchaoqun la yahoo.com.cn

 New/Old Routes is an exhibition and publication that explores the nomad
specificity of the Islamic states after the collapse of Soviet Union. An
overview of the present situation of the Central Asian context by an
external viewer becomes imperative; this visual material compiled by a guest
curator creates a retrospective look at the internal and evolving processes
of the socio-political and cultural background.

Overlapping networks and the relationship between the archaic-nomadic and
the present-day post-industrial traditions provide a synthetic equation and
an extraordinary cultural load. The re-use of tradition in these artists'
practices become the necessary tool for articulation of contemporary art
discourse to establish the nods of resistance against inertia, apathy and
historical amnesia.

The project's first edition that took place in Croatia, Poland, and Germany
promoted the positions of Asian artists and enabled cultural exchange
between the contemporary art practitioners from Europe and Central Asia.
The project's current version as presented in Shanghai, China at BizArt
Center intends to open up the process of cultural exchange between China and
Central Asia and show a number of diverse positions on the Asian identity,
with a special focus on video production from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and
Kyrgyzstan

About the Curator:

Stefan Rusu is artist and freelance curator based in Chisinau, Moldova
currently he is the projects coordinator at the Center for Contemporary
Art/Chisinau. In 2005/2006 he attended the Curatorial Training Program at
Shtichting De Appel from Amsterdam where he co-curated Mercury in Retrograde
(www.mercuryinretrograde.com)

About ArtHub
ArtHub Foundation not-for-profit organization that supports contemporary art
creation
in China and the rest of Asia

New/Old Routes is organized as part of the Bizart/Arthub's Prince Claus
Fund-the Netherlands Network Partners 2008-2010.
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