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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.