IADA ANNUAL REPORT 2022
IADA ART RESIDENCY / NURBOL NURACHMET / PARIS /2022
At the beginning of 2023, we are happy to share our project highlights from 2022.
BOOK
Punk Orientalism: The Art of Rebellion
Author: Sara Raza
Explores the spaces and places associated with the former Soviet Union, focusing on the artists and ideas hailing from Central Asia and the Caucasus, which were long perceived as an extension or "client" states of the USSR. The theme of non-conformity and the punk rejection of state authority is a continuous thread throughout the book, which highlights changing and divided societies and their evolving norms in the post-Soviet period.
Inspired by the titular concepts, punk and orientalism, the text functions as a form of bricolage, uniting punk movements and strategies, which can be traced in popular visual culture from the 1970s onwards. The idea of punk is coupled with a critical study of orientalism and its historical association with imperialist assumptions of knowledge concerning the East. Punk Orientalism expands its association with this territory to explore former Soviet possessions in Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as looking at the USSR's complex relationship with the Arab world, Iran and Turkey.
Thematically organised, Punk Orientalism presents a thoroughly researched and fascinating selection of contemporary art from a complex and multifaceted part of the globe, featuring diverse artists such as Lida Abdul, Babi Badalov, Ergin Çavusoglu, Taus Makhacheva and Erbossyn Meldibekov who have challenged state and academic policies, mapped new territories, and formed new artistic movements. Punk Orientalism examines history as a conduit for revisionist thinking and rebellion, appealing to those readers interested in revolutionary practices in contemporary art. This thought-provoking book highlights breaking free from the entrapment of imperialism and shines a light on one of the most under-researched regions in the contemporary art world.
BOOK
GULNUR MUKAZHANOVA
The artist Gulnur Mukazhanova was born in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, shortly before the end of the USSR. She did her studies at the Art Academy in Almaty and the Kunsthochschule in Berlin Weißensee. Still living in Berlin, she has been working for years mainly with textiles. Her work is influenced by Kazakh textile traditions, with felt as her most important material. She addresses identity problems and the transformations of traditional values of her culture in the age of globalization. In her art, she processes her Kazakh origins and the actual state of society there with an international perspective.
This book provides an overview of her work over the last 10 years. Each unique copy is numbered and signed, through a textile inlay individually inserted in the title. In addition to 45 illustrations of her work, an extra chapter highlights 15 of her works on glossy paper. An introduction by the Italian art critic Enrico Mascelloni and an interview with the artist by the German-French curator and architect Thibault de Ruyter complete this monograph. All texts in the Book are trilingual: German, English, and Russian.
IADA ART RESIDENCY 2022 : NURBOL NURAKHMET
In the summer of 2022, the artist from Kazakhstan Nurbol Nurakhmet has been in Paris during a residency program for 2 months. After a residency Nurbol kindly discusses his experience and concept of new works with curatorial assistant Phoebe Bradley-White.
The full interview was published on the website Ainalaiyn Space.
«Studying, Researching, Taking Skin Off, Cutting in Half, Analysing by Taking Apart and Synthesizing by Putting Back Together, Not Necessarily in the Right Order»
- Nurbol Nurakhmet
The Bridge of Arts: Laura Kuramysova
In June 2021 The International Art Development Association together with The Embassy of France in Kazakhstan announced an open competition for a scholarship program for all undergraduates with Kazakhstani citizenship studying fine arts and applied arts in France. In 2022 Laura Kuramysova finished her term below is the interview where the artist shared her experience and impressions of studying in France.
Courtesy by artist Laura Kuramysova