Global ArtLab 2013

April 24, 2013

Владимир Пакратов:
- Я веду сайт о жизни Ташкента. Только что пришел, слышал о выставке, но не ожидал, конечно, такого, хотя видел фотографии о подготовке экспозиции. Во-первых, здесь очень много совершенно разных работ - и инсталляции, и картины, и обманки, какие-то бытовые эффекты, музыка...
Я не часто бываю на вернисажах, и такую масштабную вижу впервые. Очень понравился проект.

Vladimir Pakratov:
- I run a site about life in Tashkent. I Just arrived, I heard about the show, but did not expect, of course, this, even though I saw photos of the preparation of the exhibition. First, there are a lot of very different works - and installations, and paintings and trompe l'oeil, some household materials, music ...
I am often at the openings, and this is the first time I have seen such a large scale works. Loved the project.

ABOUT CEC ARTSLINK

CEC ARTSLINK is an international arts organization. Our programs encourage and support exchange of artists and cultural managers between the United States and Eastern and Central Europe, Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus. We believe that the arts are a society’s most deliberate and complex means of communication, and that artists and arts administrators can help nations overcome long histories of reciprocal distrust, insularity and conflict.With solid expertise and lasting partnerships in 30 countries, CEC ArtsLink promotes communication and understanding through collaborative, innovative projects for mutual benefit. CEC was founded in 1962 to enable citizens of the United States and the Soviet Union to accomplish what their governments could not – opening doors, sharing ideas and building mutual trust. In today’s transformed and complex world, citizen diplomacy is still urgently needed. Click here for a short history of our organization

ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS

Kendal Henry is an artist and curator who lives in NYC and specializes in public art. He’s worked on a variety of public art projects and programs in the US, Europe, Russia, Asia and Australia. Kendal has served as a Manager of Arts Programs at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Arts for Transit for eleven years. During that time, he has overseen the fabrication and installation of their permanent art projects, served as a member of the MTA’s in-house design team, produced temporary exhibitions at Grand Central Terminal, and produced the MTA’s award-winning poster program. Previous to his experience at the MTA, he served as a project manager at the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs’ Percent for Art Program. While in Dushanbe, Kendal will create projects with local artists that utilizes art as a tool for education, communication and empowerment while maintaining the merits of a work of art. Community will be an integral part of the creation process.

Third Rail Projects, led by Artistic Directors Zach Morris, Tom Pearson, and Jennine Willett is dedicated to reframing dance and performance and bringing art to the public through an array of media and within a variety of contexts including site-specific performances, dance theater, installation art, video and multi-media projects, and immersive performance environments. Collectively, Third Rail artists have been granted commissions, support, and residencies from presenters, organizations, and foundations including: Arts Brookfield, Danspace Project, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation, Abrons Arts Center, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Dance New Amsterdam, Dance Theater Workshop, Topaz Arts, La Mama ETC, 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center, The American Music Center, The Lucky Star Foundation, and Materials for the Arts, among many others. Third Rail artists have also received numerous awards including two 2008 New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Awards for Vanishing Point, a 2001 New York International Fringe Festival Award for Choreography from the Present Company, and others

Since 1995 Gabriel Reese has been focusing his creative energy on challenging public perception of forgotten places and people within the urban landscape. In order to understand and relate better to these locations he develops a personal relationship with the space, researching the community around it, the history and purpose, as well as the reasons for neglect. By focusing on these otherwise unseen places Reese attempts to address the less desirable issues that we often choose not to face. Reese is known to many as Specter and has established himself as a prominent figure within the New York public art community.

ARTBAT CONTEMPORARY ART FESTIVAL

International Contemporary Art festival ARTBAT FEST is a project that unites Kazakhstan and foreign participants in various areas of contemporary art. The uniqueness of this festival is that it creates cultural events that blur the boundaries between artists, actors, musicians and the audience. Art objects are presented in changing architectural, informational, and social spaces in which we live, making it more interesting and appealing. Young and talented artists get site, material and technical support for the implementation of their artistic ideas, and in exchange, new information and skills, broaden our circle of professional knowledge and development. The overall result is a cultural community, tourism and high-quality entertainment.

THE ILKHOM THEATRE OF MARK WEIL

The Ilkhom Theatre of Mark Weil is the only professional independent performing arts organization in Uzbekistan was founded in 1976 by legendary director Mark Weil. The Ilkhom Theatre has always been known as a destination of intellectuals’ pilgrimage, a place of concentration and creating of modern cultural environment. The Ilkhom has never been a political figure; nevertheless, this fact didn’t prevent the theatre and its artistic director from being blamed for non-conformism in the years of stagnation in 1980s as well as from being ignored by the power and state bodies supporting culture in the post-Soviet years.

At the present the Ilkhom Theatre remains the only theatre collective in Central Asia with the ability to realize the most ambitious projects, while retaining its political and artistic independence.