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01.03.11. OPEN CALL: "Peace and diversity” Video Art Exhibition. Deadline: 20 April 2011

Open to: all video artists and video creators (individuals, groups or organizations) of any nationality, sex, age and background. Award: participation of artist’s project on first International Video Art Exhibition in Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, in June 2011.

Theme. We defined theme of the exhibition as “Pease and diversity” as a reflection on the events happen in today’s world. Political, economic life influences on the changes in social behavior and the ways it influences are different as the results of it. As an act or reflection on the metamorphoses happen today we want to show how artist from different countries around the world perceive those events and world changes.

Eligibility. We are open to every creator (individuals, groups or organizations) of any nationality, sex, age and background.

Application. The proposed video can be of any genre (video art, experimental video, animation, photo presentation, short movie etc.). Duration under 35 minutes. Applicants can apply their previous video-art works or create new original video composition.

There is no entry fee. Deadline: April 20, 2011.

Video submission. Video works should be sending by post or be downloaded to the any free upload/download service or via your personal website putting passwords and sending link and password to us by e-mail.

Accepted formats: DVD, uncompressed movie files .avi or .mov (data DVD or CD)

Applicants need to send filled entry form in a Word file format, with a still image or a photograph for each video (tiff or jpg, 800x600pixels, 72 dpi) to the following e-mail address: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . After the deadline will be announced results of chosen works for exhibition.

Video requirements
- not less than two minute and not more than thirty five minutes long
- must be made by applicant
- be of good quality
- should include an intro screen that details the project name and author name

12.05.10. Videos from the third exhibition (Bishkek), photos (Tashkent).

09.05.10. Photos from the exhibition in ENTHUSIASM section.

28.02.10. "STILLS-Enthusiasm: To be or not to be" is a final exhibition of the project which will entail presentation of two photo-films, photo exhibition “STILLS-Summary” and the special project by Anatoly Kolesnikov. April 14-24, 2010, Koldo-Art Gallery, Bishkek.

14th of April: 06 p.m. Opening of the exhibition. Koldo-Art Gallery, address: 27/1 Erkyndic Boulevard
15th of April: 09.45 a.m. - 06 p.m. Conference “Central Asian Anthology of Images: photo and video formats”.
Conference hall of G. Aitiev Kyrgyzstan National Museum of Visual Arts

Boris Chukhovich, Oksana Shatalova. Bishkek Constructivism: "...Summarizing our experiments of visualizations of concepts, “Summary” became logical reason for conceptualization of visuality..." read more

Oksana Shatalova. Laziness as an avant-garde technique (The group “…graphy”): "...Group members are actively manipulating with technological aspect of photography, by highlighting and hypertrophying analogue (endless, non-discrete, non-digital) generating of the photographs..." read more

27.01.10. We have finally selected the works to be included in the film "STILLS - Enthusiasm: To be or to be" which will complete the trilogy. 
More than 1550 photos were offered by 81 artists out of which 180 photographs by 43 artists from 4 CA countries were selected for the film. 
You can find the names of the artists here.

27.12.09. Please see video and photos from the second exhibition.

28.11.09. New text translations:
Boris Chukhovich. STILLS and visualization of concepts
Oksana Shatalova. To be recognized
Alexei Ulko. Anti-intellectualism

18.11.09. Photo galleries are updated.

12.11.09. STILLS-Locality: to be recognized: 219 photos by 45 artists from Central Asia.

22.10.09. The first exhibition of the project: October 1-3, 2009, Almaty, Tengri-Umai Gallery.
113 photos by 47 artists from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
Soundtrack: [afterband], Almaty
Please see video and photos from the exhibition in ATTRACTION section. 

STILLS

Participants: artists from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and other countries.
Curators: Oksana Shatalova (Kazakhstan), Boris Chukhovich (Canada).
Media: photography with technical interference of any degree.
Duration: May 2009 – May 2010.
Events: 3 exhibitions (Almaty, Dushanbe, Bishkek), release of the DVD.

Goals:
- Curatorial research in artistic way (“reconnaissance in force”) – in order to create photo network STILLS.
- Hyperbolized “presentation” of CA art through simple and polemical concepts - ATTRACTION, LOCALITY, ENTHUSIASM. The first 2 concepts depict “strategic vectors” of our art. The third – existential and naïve, brings a feeling of openness to the future. 

Outcome

Three mosaic photo-films made of photos by various artists presenting Central Asian Anthology of Images. 
An original sound track was composed for each of the films. Each of the films was displayed as a video installation at separate exhibitions.