
Artist talk: Gulnur Mukazhanova
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IADA OPEN CALL: ART AND TEXT (RU/EN)
IADA announces a contest for writing articles, essays, research, critical and theoretical texts related to the theme of contemporary art in Central Asia.

Open Call: Tbilisi Common Architecture Biennale RU/EN
The winning proposals will be realized during the event in October/November 2020 digitally and physically in selected locations in Tbilisi and around the world.

PULOTA. LIDA BLINOVA
A short documentary film the biography of the artist Lidia Blinova, created by Saule and Suinbike Suleimenova, was shown on the Bread and Roses exhibition in Berlin, as well as in the Northern Barbarians screening program in Amsterdam.

Exhibition: First contact
The catalog of young artist exhibition in the program of Astana Art Show 2019

Mean Girls analysis through Kant’s essay on Enlightenment
«Once she’s thrown into the routine of high school life she faces a Kant’s example of a binary power structure in the representation of Regina George, “plastics” as guardians and minors embodiment in students they target». Alua Sugralimova
Alpystogyz : «Многие мемы основаны на моих личных чувствах»
Alpystogyz, создает мемы, отсылая к теме постколониальности, критикуя авторитарную политику и продвигая идеи феминизма. Мы поговорили с автором одной из самых популярных казахстанских страниц о феномене мемов и психологии людей в интернете.

Going out of the comfort zone: An Interview With Artist Aziza Shadenova
Especially for IADA the artist Aziza Shadenova shared her experience about working during quarantine and spoke regarding her new video work «Out of the Comfort Zone»

ARTIST TALK: YERBOSSYN MELDIBEKOV
In an interview, Yerbossyn talks about the choice to become an artist as an ironic combination of circumstances. Through a period of studying at an art college, communication with Shaimardan Sariyev, before the exhibition “Eternal Return”, the artist talks about what influenced his formation.

«The Way»
Film-portrait of the artist Askhat Akhmedyarov, directed by Evgeny Lumpov

«В детстве до какого-то момента казалось, что в небе нет атмосферы, была степь и сразу начинался космос»
Специально для IADA, художник Асхат Ахмедьяров рассказал о своей картине «Разгонный Блок», поделился мыслями о будущем и мнением о выставке Cybernomadism.
Behind the Screen: an interview with a curator Robbie Schweiger
Full Moon is a series of screenings of video art at Amsterdam-based cinema. The last event Full Moon #8: Northern Barbarians was focused on Central Asian art across Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Specifically for IADA curator Robbie Schweiger answered some questions and explains different conditions of seeing art at a cinema and his research into Central Asian art.

«In childhood, until a certain moment, it seemed that there was no atmosphere in the sky, there were a steppe and space began immediately»
Especially for IADA, the artist Askhat Akhmedyarov spoke about his painting “Accelerating Block”, shared his thoughts about the future and his opinion on the Cybernomadism exhibition.

The «Turkestan Album» in color
The "Turkestan Album" is one of the main photo documents that recorded the life of Central Asian people of the 19th century. Published by the order of Governor General Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman, the album presents a colonial ethnographic survey of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.
Experience. The curatorial program in Belgrade (EN)
Aigerim Kapar - a curator from Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan), explains her participation experience in the curatorial program WCSCD and speaks about working as a tutor.

Опыт: кураторская резиденция в Белграде (RU)
Айгерим Капар куратор из Нур-Cултан (Казахстан), рассказывает о своем опыте участия в кураторской резиденции WCSCD и начале работы в качестве тьютора.

Elysium - ADA YU
«I believe an artist is a technician of a spirit. And therefore art is the specific language capable of transmitting the spirit. I believe an artist is like a prism that intakes the white light and releases a spectrum of colors».

Curatorial Statement: Deep currents
The works by the artists in residence criticise the fundamental causes of all visible and invisible environmental and ecological destruction, sending us back to the question of what the concept of Nature is in the minds of modern people.

Artist talk: Meruert Kunakova
«My work is reminiscent of a patchwork quilt, which is associated with the Soviet projects to redirect water channels for irrigation purposes, and the redrawing of identity»

Artist talk: Alua
Inspired by the Arte Povera movement which challenged the concepts of value and industrialization, “abstract value” analyzes the commodification of nature and its resources from the real abstraction theory perspective.

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