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fromArtforum
1 month ago

Different Children Will Be Born

An artwork is not created when an artist finishes it. It is created when it's visible to an audience and when it becomes discourse. If there's no ecosystem, nothing works. Central Asia is in the midst of an unprecedented investment in such art infrastructure, including new permanent venues, purpose-built museums, and international biennials.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Forty years in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot

An isolated Old Believer family, the Lykovs, lived decades in remote western Sayan Mountains without contact, sustaining a primitive homestead and rejecting some outside offerings.
Design
fromArchDaily
2 months ago

Inside Contemporary Kazakhstani Architecture: Exploring the Work of NAAW

NAAW is a Kazakhstani architecture studio blending research, collaboration, and material experimentation to shape contemporary identity through iterative, curated interiors and interdisciplinary design.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Soviet attitudes framed local culture as backward': the record label standing up to Russian imperialism

Their gathering still had to be dispersed, but the enthusiasm that Ored Recordings inspires even among enforcers of the law speaks volumes about the power of what Khalilov and his friend and label co-founder Timur Kodzoko call punk ethnography: the recording of religious chants, laments and displacement songs at family gatherings, local festivals, in people's kitchens, to fight against the erasure of Circassian culture.
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