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Old/New Routes, A selection of video art from Central Asia
 Curated by Stefan Rusu
Opening: January 11th, 2008, Friday (18:30)
Exhibition dates: January 12th - 20th (11:00 - 18:00)
Conference: January 10th, pls contact Alexia Dehaene (
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Venue: BizArt Art Center
4/F, Bldg 7, 50 Moganshan Road 200060 Shanghai
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
create 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 nods of resistance to inertia, apathy and historical amnesia.
The project goal is to promote the attitudes and positions of the Asian artists and cultural exchange between the contemporary art practitioners from Europe and Central Asia.
The project will consist an exhibition Old/New Routes happen in Shanghai, China at BizArt Center and publication under the same title. With this actions we intend to deepen and open the process of cultural exchange between China and Central Asia with a selection of artist positions from 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
For further info pls contact:
Tel: +86 21 62775358
Li Xuehui
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