过去/现在 -- 通道
中亚录像展
OLD / NEW ROUTES
A selection of Video Art from Central Asia
BizArt Art Center, Shanghai
Exhibition Dates: January 12th – 20th, 2008.
Curated by Stefan Rusu. Under the auspices of Defne Ayas.
The Old/New Routes project 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 compiled visual material by guest curator creates a retrospective look at the internal processes of the social-political evolution and cultural background.The idea behind the project is overlapping networks and the relationship between these two traditions—the archaic-nomad one and the present-day post-industrial culture—that provides a synthetic equation and cumulates an extraordinary cultural load. In such way the practices oriented toward the re-use of tradition become the necessary tool for articulation of contemporary art discourse that establishes the nodes of resistance to inertia, apathy and historical amnesia. The project consists of an exhibition Old/New Routes to take place in Shanghai, China at BizArt Center and a publication under the same title. With these actions we intend to deepen and open the process of cultural exchange between China and Central Asia, with a special focus on video production from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
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
About the Curator:
Stefan Rusu is artist and freelance curator based in Chisinau, Moldova currently he is working as project 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).
