Conference Programme: Friday 23 September 2022
Dr Shamsh Kassim-Lakha, Chairman of UCA’s Board of Trustees & Acting Rector
UCA Venue: Library; Speech Mode: Online
Dr Maxim Khomyakov, Dean of UCA's School of Arts and Sciences (SAS)
UCA Venue: Library; Speech Mode: Live
Paul Thomas, Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference Founder and Series Chair
UCA Venue: Library; Speech Venue & Mode: Science Gallery Foundation, Online
UCA Venue: Library; Disccusion Venue & Mode: Science Gallery Melbourne, Online
Session 1: Sic Transit: A Psychotopology of Images - Session Chair: Edward Colless
- 10.30 - 10.45: Leon Marvell. Judith, Salome, the Last Girl and a Weeknd Massacre
- 10.45 - 11.00: Chris Henschke. Itinerant crimes: tracing public dissection as artistic gesture in David Cronenberg’s film Crimes of the Future
- 11.00 - 11.15: Melody Woodnutt. Globalisation as a catalyst for filmmaking: Heterotopian substrates inspired by Italo Calvino's city of Ersilia
- 11.15 - 11.30: Diego Ramirez. Quantum Nomad
- 11.30 - 11.45: Discussion
Session 2: Travel-In-Itself: Towards a Theory of Esoteric Travel Writing - Session Chair: Thomas Moran
- 11.45 - 12.00: Edward Colless, writer. Traveller’s tale
- 12.00 - 12.15: Thomas Moran, writer and performer. Travel writing as micro-climatology: Watsuji Tetsuro and travel philosophy
- 12.15 - 12.30: Ursula de Leeuw, writer and researcher. The esoterica of surrealist travel photography
- 12.30 - 12.45: Discussion
UCA Venue: Dining Hall
Ulrike Al-Khamis, Director & CEO of Aga Khan Museum
UCA Venue: Library; Speech Mode: Online
Panel 1: Role of Museums in Shaping Nomadic Memories
Chair: Altyn Kapalova
- 15.00 - 15.15: Anel Kulakhmetova, Communications Lead/Research Fellow, GSD, UCA. New Trends in Preserving Nomadic Culture in Kazakhstan Cultural and Art Space.
- 15.15 - 15.30: Baktygul Midinova, Director, Museum of Osh Fine Arts. Saving Nomadic Heritage at the Village Level.
- 15.30 - 15.45: Cholpon Turdalieva, Chair of the Department of Anthropology, Technology/Urbanism and International Development, American University in Central Asia. How to Create an Image of a Nomadic Woman in the Modern Museum.
- 15.45 - 16.00: Altynai Kudaibergenova, Head of Visitor Department, Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts. Digital Nomadism and Contemporary Museum.
- 16.00 - 16.15: Discussion
UCA Venue: Library
*Simultaneous Sessions
Film Festival Panel: Portrayal of Nomadic Lifestyle in Kyrgyz Cinema
UCA Venue: Grey Classroom (203)
*Simultaneous Sessions
Session 3A: Trauma & Memory
- 16.15 - 16.30: Leslie Nobler, William Paterson University. Cameography: Portraits of Resilience.
- 16.30 - 16.45: Liezl Dick, Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation and Anna Wilson,
University of Stirling. “It seems like my home never existed on a map”: subjectivities of informality and imperceptibility in Cape Town, South Africa. - 16.45 - 17.00: Chloe Cassidy, UNSW. Traversing the Landscape of the Soul to Empower the Soma.
- 17.00 - 17.15: Lisa Andrew, Museum of Contemporary Art. Modified fruit: Weaving a Rhetoric of Place with Transcultural Threads.
- 17.15 - 17.30: Discussion
UCA Venue: Grey Classroom (203)
*Simultaneous Sessions
Session 3B: Tradition and Hypermodernity
- 16.15 - 16.30: Meder Akhmetov, Independent Scholar. Nomadology & the Everyday Object.
- 16.30 - 16.45: Narjis Mirza, UNSW Sydney. Hayakal Al Noor, Bodies of Light (chair).
- 16.45 - 17.00: Eva Kekou, University of Peloponnese. From Odyssey to Ulysses: a Round Trip.
- 17.00 - 17.15: John Dimopoulos – National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA). Hypermodern Apparatus of Capture and the Outside.
- 17.15 - 17.30: Discussion
UCA Venue: Library
UCA Venue: Library
*Simultaneous Sessions
Session 4A: Documenting the Decolonial and Gender
- 17.45 - 18.00: Gulzat Egemberdieva, Humboldt University. Neither on the Mountain, Nor in the Plain: Kyrgyz Nomadism and Time Compression.
- 18.00 - 18.15: Nariste Alieva, Ala-Too International University. The Decline of the Warrior Woman: Image of Central Asian Women in Film through the Lens of the Jungian Archetypes.
- 18.15 - 18.30: Hamid Shahbazkia, Westminster International International University, Tashkent. Digital Caravanserais for the Old Silk Road.
- 18.30 - 18.45: Meruert Kurmangalieva (Russian Language Presentation), Independent Scholar. Kazakh Musical Culture.
- 18.45 - 19.00: Discussion
UCA Venue: Library
*Simultaneous Sessions
Session 4B: Violence and Gender
- 17.45 - 18.00 pm: Michel Gantous, Independent Scholar. Incubadora de Masculinidades: Towards Plurality and Nomadic Ethics.
- 18.00 - 18.15: Lolisanam Ulugova, Independent Scholar. Art Reflections on Women from The Global South.
- 18.15 - 18.30: Clara Barzaghi and Rafael Urano, Unicamp. Barbarizing Perspectives on Violence – Mapa Teatro's Artists laboratory.
- 18.30 - 18.45: Tamkin Hussain, Lahore University of Management Sciences. Transversal Politics of Violence in Contemporary Pakistani Art.
- 18.45 - 19.00: Discussion
UCA Venue: Grey Classroom (203)
Venue: University of Central Asia Naryn Marquee
Nomadic Image Magazine
The Seventh Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference is held in the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, a country where equestrian nomadism remains a powerful cultural signifier. In a hybrid online and in-person event hosted by the University of Central Asia on its Naryn campus, the conference offers an exciting opportunity for international participants to connect with Kyrgyz and other Central Asian creatives and scholars, and to explore experimental imaging cultures at the crossroads between East and West, and hypermodernity and tradition.
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