Talks

History, art, field: how to explore Central Asia today?

Lecture, Discussion

18.05.2025 13:00

Yale University Day in Almaty with the participation of KIMEP University and the Tselinny Center for Contemporary Culture

Virgin Lands in the Anthropocene

Workshop, Lecture, Film

Workshop and film screenings conducted in English from SAVA and Tselinny.

Participants: Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Alen Askar, Aigerim Kapar, Oleksiy Radynski

Civic Courage: The Medical Expedition of Bakhia Atchabarov

By Togzhan Kassenova

Nuclear Legacy and Civic Courage

By Togzhan Kassenova

Blue Humanities in Central Asia

Lecture / Discussion

Jambyl Library (43 Nazarbayev Ave)

Public Opinion Laboratory with Madina Tlostanova

Public Opinion Laboratory with Madina Tlostanova

“Entangling Climate, Waters, and Communities”

Tselinny x Artcom x Balqashqa Qamqor

Korkem Experience Store

Transliterative Tease

Lecture / Performance

Tselinny Temporary (137 Zheltoksan Street)

Lecture-performance by Slavs and Tatars as part of the Azbuka Strikes Back public programme

Hevea: Research Presentation

Tselinny Temporary

Artist Talk with Aiganym Mukhamejan

Discussion, Lecture

Tselinny Temporary

Artist Talk with Almagul Menlibayeva

Lecture, Discussion

Tselinny Temporary

Speed Dating: A Talk on Safe Spaces

Workshop, Lecture

Tselinny Temporary

Artist Talk with Saodat Ismailova

Lecture, Discussion

Tselinny Temporary

Studio Structure and Process Management

Curator Studios

Decolonial Optics in Visual Art and Poetry

Tselinny Temporary

By Yegana Jabbarova

Emancipatory Practices in Literature and Art

Tselinny Temporary

By Altyn Kapalova

Introduction to Feminist Philosophy

Tselinny Temporary

By Alla Mitrofanova

Artist Talk with Taus Makhacheva

Cinematic Biographies

Tselinny Temporary

By Amir Karakulov

The Future of Others: A Decolonial Perspective on the Future

Tselinny Temporary

By Anvar Musrepov

Lecture Series: New First-Rank Geniuses

26.11–10.12.2020

Tselinny Temporary

With Rustem Begenov

Live Performance with Nazira Karimi

Nazira Karimi (@nazirakar) is an artist from Kazakhstan and Tajikistan currently based in Vienna (Austria), where she studies Art and Digital Media at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Performance in Online Games

By Margarita Skomorokh

Memes as Street Art

by Vladislav Sludsky

Paper Walks Around Almaty

A Series of Workshops with Madina Zholdybek

Experimentation in Traditional Culture through the Work of Writer and Küishi Talasbek Asemkulov

Quarantine Reading: Boccaccio and Manzoni

Discussion, Workshop

Online Platforms as Hybrid Exhibition Formats

Sites of Memory in Kazakhstan

28.04-04.06.2020

Diary of a Journey to Issyk-Kul

By A. Bissenova

Ethnography of the Kazakh Steppe During the Colonial Period

By Alima Bissenova

Postcolonial Theories

With A. Bissenova, S. Sitar, and M. Tlostanova

Mapping the Architectural Landscape Through Mixed Media

Tutors: Anel Moldakhmetova, Adil Azhiyev.

by ArchCode Almaty

Almaty and Lessons from Japan

Archiving the Architectural Landscape

Workshop tutors: Anel Moldakhmetova (Kazakhstan), Ilya Malkov (Russia)

by ArchCode Almaty

Lecture by Manuel Herz

Mental Maps as a Tool for Place-Based Research

by ArchCode Almaty

Tutors: Anel Moldakhmetova, Malika Darisheva.‍

by ArchCode Almaty

Open Lecture by Composer Dmitriy Kurlandskiy

In Search of Modernity: Contemporary Literature of Kazakhstan

Rosalind Krauss, A Voyage on the North Sea: Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition

Reading by Alexander Ugay