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"Report from Central Asia: Video Comes to the ‘Stans"
Thomas McEvilley
Art in America,
December 2005
P. 86-87
From the SCCA archive
Digital collection
Documentation, Tselinny
Center of Contemporary Culture
To the Western art world, Central Asia might seem the Last Mystery.
Such works [by Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Dzhumaliev] seemed to embody the approach that scholars George Marcus and Michael Fisher term "anthropology as cultural critique," which involves regarding one's own culture as would a stranger from outside.
It is as if the Kyrgyz artists in Siberia were performing a cultural critique on themselves through anthropological researches into their own origins.
современный кочевник,
странствующий дервиш
стихийная «дикость»
