A contemporary Kazakhstani poet, singer, media artist, and author of publications in the literary and art magazine "Apollinariy". His works include video art, experimental music, and performance art. Key methods in his work include analysis, observation, and recitation. Key ideas are criticism of consumer society, social problems, the subconscious, fantasy, and memory.

He studied at the Moscow Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting and participated in the master class of the "Musaget" Public Fund (2000). He is a member of the electronic music duo "Sample Brothers" ("Pop’s Machine", in collaboration with Konstantin Timoshenko).

In his work, T. Issaliyev explores the boundaries of human imagination and the subconscious, visiting sacred places of the inner world ("Hookah Smoker", 2004). When creating audio works, he uses his voice as a sonic landscape, adding ambient sounds that immerses the listener in a meditative state ("No Expiration", 2020). In the song cycle "Yellow Dogs" (2004), he ironises Soviet pop songs, reworking them into a synthesis of pop culture and conceptual recitation.

T. Issaliyev played a contrasting role in the video work by the art group ZITABL ("Media-Aitýs", 2002), performing as a "prosperous visitor to supermarkets and banks", a "dandy aristocrat" — an allegory of Almaty’s wealth. Works authored by T. Issaliyev or created with his participation have been exhibited in Kazakhstan and abroad: presentation of the CD catalogue of the Second Annual Exhibition of the SCCA (Film Centre, Almaty, 2001); "D-Generation" ("Ular" Gallery, Almaty, 2003); "Video Identity: Sacred Places of Central Asia" (SCCA, Almaty, 2004); and the literary and musical show "Poetic Exacerbation" ("Da Freak", Almaty, 2008).

Information about T. Issaliyev is stored in the Documentation project collection — the archive of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art – Almaty (SCCA).

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Photograph provided by Timur Issaliyev