Restore. Repair. Remain: An International Archive Practicum

Date

Place

Tselinnyi center for contemporary culture

DESCRIPTION

International researchers and artists will discuss the critical conceptualization of archiving contemporary art and transnational forms of memorial culture.

The program of the practicum was developed by the online archive Dokumentatsiya (part of the research anthology Horizon founded by Tselinny Center for Contemporary Culture) and the Russian Art Archive Network at Garage. Participants will include artists, curators, and researchers from Algeria, Hong Kong, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Türkiye, and Uzbekistan who work with collections of documents and study primary sources in search of answers to complex problems. The program includes open lectures and presentations by practicing archivists, independent researchers, institution staff, and contemporary artists.

Conference questionS

What questions should we ask in order to update our knowledge and experience of archives?
Can the archive help in the production of a future building?
What models of memory can be created in transnational and networked archive collections?
Which voices remain silenced in collections?
Which histories are excluded from the official narrative and which remain to be told?
Which evidence is yet to become visible?
The future, whatever its form, is being created now, but how do we move forward?

PARTICIPANTS

Angelina Burliuk — researcher, manager of the RAAN project (Germany)

Verikbol Dukeev — supervisor in the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, Suleyman Demirel University, researcher at OSCE Academy in Bishkek (Kazakhstan)

Özge Ersoy — senior curator at Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong)

Saadia Gacem — doctoral student in the anthropology of law, feminist activist, member of the collective Archives des luttes des femmes en Algérie (Archives of Women’s Struggles in Algeria) (Algeria)

Asel Kadyrkhanova –artist and researcher at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam (Kazakhstan)

Alima Kairat — artistic director, Tselinny Center for Contemporary Culture (Kazakhstan)

Aigerim Kapar — independent curator, multidisciplinary researcher, decolonial practitioner, eco-art activist, Artcom Platform (Kazakhstan)

Oleg Karpov – director, curator, founder of the Turkestan Archive (Uzbekistan)

Alima Kudaibergen — cultural and political sociologist, political sociology docent in the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge (Kazakhstan / UK)

Kulshat Medeuova — Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, author of numerous academic papers on nationalism, memory, and architecture (Kazakhstan)

Zarina Mukanova — social anthropologist, translator, documentary director (Kazakhstan)

Elmira Nogoibaeva — director of Center Polis Asia, founder of the Esimde Research and Discussion Space (Kyrgyzstan)

Sasha Obukhova — art historian, curator of Garage Archive Collection (Russia)

Dilde Ramazan –curator, director of Khalfin Foundation (Kazakhstan)

Sezin Romi — senior librarian and archivist, SALT (Türkiye)

Shuddhabrata Sengupta — artist, writer, and curator, Raqs Media Collective (India)

Saule Suleimanova — artist (Kazakhstan)

Katya Suverina — researcher, lecturer at University of Potsdam (Germany)

Alexandra Tsai — independent curator and researcher (Kazakhstan)