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Clifford J Pereira

Kenyan-born Clifford (Cliff) J Pereira is a historical geographer, researcher, museum curator and heritage consultant with a portfolio of global projects. He is a world authority on the subject of Zheng He and Africa. Pereira has contributed to numerous publications, radio and documentary programmes. He is best known for his work on Africans in the Indian Ocean World, especially the ‘Bombay African’ narrative and on the Panos de Terra textile of the Cape Verde Islands. Pereira was recently featured on […]

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You Mi

You Mi is a Beijing-born curator, researcher and professor of Art and Economies at the University of Kassel/Documenta Institute. Her academic interests lie in the social value of art, new and historical materialism, as well as the history, political theory and philosophy of Eurasia. She takes the Silk Road as a figuration for re-imagining networks in her long-term research and curatorial project, and has curated exhibitions and programmes including the 13th Shanghai Biennale (2020-21), the research/curatorial platform ‘Unmapping Eurasia’ (2018-) with […]

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Slavs and Tatars

Slavs and Tatars is an internationally renowned art collective devoted to the area East of the former Berlin Wall and West of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia. Since its inception in 2006, the collective has shown a keen grasp of polemical issues in society, clearing new paths for contemporary discourse via a wholly idiosyncratic form of knowledge production: including popular culture, spiritual and esoteric traditions, oral histories, modern myths, as well as scholarly research. The collective’s practice […]

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NoolOdin

Ayrat and Zafar Nalibayev are the duo behind the cryptographic art of NoolOdin. They were born in Uzbekistan and currently reside in the European Union. Using the jester persona as a means to express their ideas, they believe that art is the most effective way to address sensitive topics without being intrusive. They create their art by coding messages and embedding them in interactive environments. NoolOdin’s art encourages the spectator to think critically, leaving the final interpretation up to the […]

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Kokonja

Kokonja is an artist who was born in Aqmola oblysy, Zhalgyzqaragsai in 1996. Based in Almaty, she studied Philology and Interpretive Sociology, and now uses textile and sound art as her languages to create lucid expressions of decolonial practices and experiences. From the generations of traditional craftswomen in her maternal line, who felted, wove and sewed, Kokonja has found the meaning in continuing this mastery as a way of releasing the voices of Kazakh female practitioners’. She also sees sound […]

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Alexandra Tsay

Based in Almaty, Kazakhstan and elsewhere, Alexandra Tsay is an independent curator and researcher interested in the conjunction between contemporary art and critical theory. Her research interests focus on the politics and aesthetics of contemporary art in transitional societies of Central Asia. Tsay has curated exhibitions and programmed festivals in Almaty. Tsay is also a co-editor of the collective volume Stalinism in Kazakhstan: History, Memory, and Representation  (Lexington Books, 2021). During her Spring 2017 fellowship at George Washington University, Tsay […]

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You Mi

You Mi is a Beijing-born curator, researcher and professor of Art and Economies at the University of Kassel/Documenta Institute. Her academic interests lie in the social value of art, new and historical materialism, as well as the history, political theory and philosophy of Eurasia. She takes the Silk Road as a figuration for re-imagining networks in her long-term research and curatorial project, and has curated exhibitions and programmes including the 13th Shanghai Biennale (2020-21), the research/curatorial platform ‘Unmapping Eurasia’ (2018-) with […]

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Yang Yeung (CA Research Group)

Yang Yeung is a writer on art and an independent curator. She devotes herself to following how artists think, move and make sense of the world. She founded the non-profit soundpocket in 2008 and is currently its Artistic Director. She was co-curator for The Listening Biennial (2021). Her recent publications include ‘What Good is This?’ for After Hope at The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, ‘caring is a quality: on being touched by Alecia Neo’s Care Index’ for Dance Nucleus, […]

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Lena Pozdnyakova (CA Research Group)

Lena Pozdnyakova is an artist from Almaty living between Berlin and Los Angeles. Currently, she is a doctoral student at the Art History Institute, Free University in Berlin She is an alumna of the Design Theory and Pedagogy programme at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. She holds a Bachelor Degree in Architecture from Sheffield University and a Masters in Architecture from Anhalt University of Applied Sciences. Lena has previously worked in UrbanDATA and 3Gatti Architectural Studio […]

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Anna Pronina (CA Research Group)

Anna Pronina is an interdisciplinary researcher, curator and cultural historian of the Soviet Union, with an emphasis on Central Asia, currently based between Tashkent and Vienna. Pronina pursues a PhD degree in History at Central European University (Vienna). Her research interests include architecture, performing arts, (post)colonial world, nation-building processes and cultural policy in Central Asia. Previous to her PhD research at CEU, Pronina received MA and BA in Cultural studies from Moscow State University. She is also an editor and […]

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