The moving, sounding, performing body exists in connection with the world. It helps us both experience it and define our place in it. This gathering begins with gestures, sounds, and movements from across Central Asia and the Caucasus. From there, we ask: how does performance respond to changing social and political conditions? How does it open new ways of living and relating to the world around us?
What kinds of memory, strength, and knowledge live in the body? How does focusing on the body change the way we think about existing histories and art histories? What other ways of telling stories and witnessing appear through live performance?
A history in acts and gestures brings together artists, scholars, curators, and writers through presentations in multiple formats. Together, they offer expanded perspectives on the past and present of performance across the region. Over two days, they explore how performance can reshape our ideas of self, body, community and collective existence.
Participants include:
Ruben Arevshatyan, Andrius Arutiunian, Ännäs Bağdat, Medina Bazarğali, Uta Bekaia, Syrlybek Bekbotaev, Anuar Duisenbinov, Leah Feldman, Ana Gzirishvili, Angela Harutyunyan, Aigerim Kapar & Antonina van Lier & Aigerim Ospan (Artcom Platform), Gulnara Kasmalieva & Muratbek Djumaliev, Ermek Kazmuhambetov, Diana Kudaibergen, Kyzyl Tractor (Said Atabekov & Smail Bayaliev & Arystanbek Shalbayev), Lovozero, Jamilya Nurkalieva, Irena Popiashvili, Elena Razlogova, SAMRATTAMA, Vija Skangale, Yuliya Sorokina, Zere.
This event is organised by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational in partnership with Hyundai Motor, in collaboration with the Almaty Museum of Arts.
The panel Resonances of Belonging: Sonic Roots and Sonic Presence is co-convened together with Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture.
