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#Shaarkana #eco-tour #lectures #shows #workshops #exhibition #swap-party #eco-practices  #Library of saved books and much more

Dates: October 7-9, 2022 

Bishkek School of Contemporary Art, together with Tazar Mekenim & MoveGreen, invite friends and guests to participate in the eco-art festival “TRASH-4: Follow the Trash River”, that will take place in Bishkek on October 7-9. During those three days we will engage in #shaarkana urban discussions about waste management and explore a photo exhibition dedicated to water pollution. We will take a ride along the banks of Ala-Archa river from Ala-Archa National Park across the whole city of Bishkek and all the way to Ala-Archa water reservoir, located next to the city’s landfill, where American artists will guide us through the process of making paper out of waste material. We will experiment with food products and finish the day with the screening of a documentary about people who work at the landfill. 

This year’s Trash festival is dedicated to the problem of pollution caused by the landfill. Not only soil and air are polluted, but also water. Through the stories of invisible people who live around the landfill site and the water reservoir, we want to demonstrate the effects of irresponsible consumption and lack of a waste management system. The festival explores the case of the Ala-Archa water reservoir pollution. Melt-water from the glaciers flows from Ala-Archa gorge through the city of Bishkek and stops at a 22-meter-tall dump site. Then the polluted water is used for irrigation of agricultural lands around the Chui valley. The produce from those fields makes its way to the market shelves and onto our tables.

Art-Trash Festival consists of several events in different locations:

• Oct.5 | 16:00-18:00 – Media-tour to the Museum of Green Technologies at the “Fluid” Public Foundation (April 7 str. 1A/9) with lectures and discussions on the topics of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Register here: https://forms.gle/HEHEYaJnCtk2GWsH6 (number of seats is limited)
• Oct.7 | 18:00-20:00 – Shaarkana “Sort and Manage” will take place at the Frunze Memorial Museum (Frunze str. 364). The same location features a photo exhibition by Vladislav Ushakov on the topic of river and water body pollution. Register here: https://clck.ru/32AWb2
• Oct.8 | 09:00-20:00 – Eco-tour “TRASH-4: Follow the Trash River” (all seats booked). The tour results will be featured in a video and published in zine-catalogue “Aralash”.
• Oct.9 | 13:00-20:00 – Eco-workshops by American artists Alex Christensen, Rudy Medina and Melissa Porter, followed by a screening of “The Hill”, a film that was featured at the Cannes Film Festival, directed by Denis Gheerbrant and Lina Tsrimova. The location is the “Library of saved books” in Altyn-Kazyk settlement (str. Altyn-Kazyk 7, 29), next to the city’s landfill site. Free entrance. Accessible by public transportation (https://go.2gis.com/hzor1). 

On the first day of the festival (Oct. 7 | 18:00-20:00) we would like to invite everyone for another round of SHAARKANA urban talks, themed “Sort and manage” and dedicated to waste management; and to a photo-exhibition by Vladislav Ushakov, on the topic of pollution of rivers and bodies of water.  Independent experts, scientists, government representatives and community members from the residential neighborhoods around the landfill will come together to discuss the main problem in waste management – what to do with trash, and explore perspectives of waste sorting at the level of municipal policy. Tazar app representatives Aimeerim Tursalieva and Munara Moldobaeva will present the results of their research on waste management. Co-founders of the #MayorPutItOut initiative Vladislav Ushakov and Bermet Borubaeva will discuss the problems of the landfill and ways of resolving them.  

On day two, Oct. 8 (all seats booked, results will be posted online), we will go on a ride from Ala-Archa gorge across Bishkek to the city landfill to witness the morphology of river pollution. The tour group includes experts in the field of water resources management, representatives of government and water management systems, who will form a joint group to work on the case. The glaciers of the Ala-Archa gorge are receding, the amount of water coming in is decreasing, and even that gets polluted as it makes its way through the city. After the trip video documents and results will be published in zine-catalogue “Aralash”.

On day three, Oct 9, we invite everyone to residential settlement Altyn-Kazyk near the landfill. The “Library of saved books” is a space for local community development that was created during the Third Trash-Festival in 2021. Children attend classes in the library and we plan to establish a creative workshop there that would process and transform the textile waste from the sewing industry (Free entrance). Artists from Chicago and Milwaukee will present their workshops exclusively for the festival. Authors of the “Open Kitchen” project Alex Christensen and Rudy Medina will experiment with food, mixing their own products with local produce, and combine traditional food preservation techniques with modern ones.  Melissa Potter will incorporate the waste from all the food experiments into her workshop, where she will demonstrate the process of paper-making. At the end of the day, we will all get together to watch the widely-discussed film by Denis Gheerbrant and Lina Tsrimova “The Hill”. The film uses stories of people who work at the Bishkek city landfill to demonstrate the realities of our times, and there will be a discussion afterwards on how we can improve those.

Organizers: Bishkek School of Contemporary Art (Bermet Borubaeva) & Tazar Mekenim (Aimeerim Tursalieva & Munara Moldobaeva) & MoveGreen (Tolgonai Elemanova & Munara Borombaeva & Nurzhan Chunueva), together with Meerim Seidakmatova.

Partners: Open Kitchen (USA), Feminist Seed Bank, “Eco Mir” public foundation, KuramaStory, «ArtEast» community-based organization, Institute for Youth Development” Public Foundation, Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago).

With financial support from the government of Switzerland and Democracy Commission of the U.S. Embassy in the Kyrgyz Republic. 

Residence of American artists is funded by CEC ArtsLink International Fellowship Program 

Detailed information available on website and through telephone: +996500527484, www.bishci.com 

Facebook-event: https://www.facebook.com/events/3251382345101082?active_tab=about 

Media materials https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13BU2PVqCBuAMsC_4IKeiYo-woySdD34a?usp=sharing 

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Bishkek School of Contemporary Art (BiSCA) is an informal self-organized and socially-oriented platform. We are interested in the interchange of ideas, emotions, and energy in relation to art as a practice and are involved in the school on a voluntary basis.
Web-site: www.bishci.com, 

Telegram: https://t.me/bishci, 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bishkek_art_school/, 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bishartschool/

Tazar mekenim is a platform and a mobile app for sorting and recycling in Kyrgyzstan. We train citizens on the proper sorting and submitting of their waste materials for recycling. We also provide training for offices and encourage them to be responsible for their ecological footprint.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tazar.app/  Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/tazarapp/
YouTube: https://youtu.be/XKPP5zy_vC4
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/kg/app/tazar-kg/id1523623515
PlayMarket: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.io.tazarapp&hl=ru&gl=US 

MoveGreen is an ecology organization that works to improve air quality, based on data analysis, involving civil society in decision-making. 

Web-site:https://movegreen.kg/, 

Instagram:   https://www.instagram.com/movegreen.kg/, 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MoveGreen.kg 

Dear all.

we are happy announce our Open-call for the fourth environmental festival “TRASH-4: Follow the trash river”!

Timing of the project: August – October 2022 ||| Bishkek

Location: Ala-Archa Gorge, New settlement “Altyn-Kazyk”, and Ala-Archa water-reservoir.

Applications are accepted until August 20, 2022! Apply here https://clck.ru/sNkBZ.  

We are accepting applications for the research ecological festival “TRASH-4: Follow the trash river” from environmentalists, activists, artists, journalists and concerned citizens. If you want to take part, then send us your works on the topic of the relationship between the pollution of the Ala-Archa River and the Bishkek landfill:

• Stories, articles or reflections on water and garbage problems 
• Artwork and installations
• Drawings or photos
• Poems and/or short fiction storytelling 
• Songs or music, etc.  

All selected works will be published catalog of the Aralash zine (approximatly in the December 2022) 

Contact: +996500527484, Bermet.

“TRASH-4:Follow the Trash River” Eco-Festival Description:

This year eco-festival focuses on water and garbage issues in Bishkek and aims to create reflection and discussion. Together with activists, scientists, artists, citizens we are going to create a platform for communication that explores methodologies of how we can solve global environmental problems on a local and global level through reflections, experiments, art-intervention, analysis, installations, publications.

Nowadays the issue of environmental problems in Bishkek is very urgent – stinking garbage dump, smog, polluted agricultural land, hyper-cars and many other problems of the city threaten the health and lives of people. The problem of garbage is acute not only in Bishkek and all of Kyrgyzstan, but also in the world. The Bishkek landfill has long been out of service and a new one should be started, but it is not happening.

The Bishkek sanitary landfill accounts for almost 80% of all emissions in the sector, including methane, landfill gas and other harmful pollutants. Even after complete closure of the landfill, it will still emit emissions for about a hundred years (Calculations of data from the EIA – Environmental Impact Assessment for the landfill reclamation project).

At the same time the pollution from the garbage dump spreads to the nearest water protection zones of Ala-Archa water reservoirs, which are formed from the crystal clear river Ala-Archa, emerging from the Ala-Archa gorge – the pride of Kyrgyzstan. The glaciers of the Ala-Archa Gorge are retreating, the water becomes less and less, and the rivers passing through the city are being polluted – people dump waste into the river, it passes through a toxic garbage dump and five brick factories and other industries are built near the reservoirs. The problem of drinking water is acute in the coming decades due to climate change, so we want to hold a series of events highlighting this critical issue.

Highlights of the TRASH-4:Follow the Garbage River 2022 Eco-Festival: 

(tentative program, stay tuned to https://bishci.com/2022/07/25/open-call-trash-4/ for updates).  

October 7 – “Shaarkana” on waste management and landfill involving experts, activists, officials, media and city residents. 

October 8 – Ecotour along the Ala-Archa River “Follow the Garbage River” – from the the Ala-Archa gorge along the river through Bishkek city, the garbage dump and to Ala-Archa Water reservour with researchers, activists, experts, media and artists to show by one example what happens to the river. Ecotour facilitator: Meerim Seidakmatova.

October 9 – Workshops by American artists on making paper from plants and food waste (Melissa Potter) and presentation of the Open Kitchen project (Alyx Christensen & Rudy Medina) + Screening of the film “The Hill”, a Cannes Film Festival participant (directed by Denis Gerbrand and Lina Tsrimova, 2022). 

December 2022 – Publication of festival results – zine “Aralash”.

Program of the ecotour along the Ala-Archa river “Follow the trash river” on October 8 

(For sellected throgh open-call participants and accredited media)

Organizers: 

Bishkek School of Contemporary Art (curator Bermet Borubaeva), Tazar Kyrgyzstan (curators Aimeerim Tursalieva, Munara Moldobaeva), moderator Meerim Seidakmatova. 

Partners: “Archa Initiative” Public Foundation. The “TRASH-4: Follow the Garbage River” Eco-Festival will be organized in partnership with UrbanHub – a community of urbanists and urban ecologists of Bishkek working on greening, air quality, waste management, urban infrastructure and mobility. 

Sponsors: The EcoFestival is funded partly by the Swiss government.

The American Artists Residency is sponsored in part by cultural exchange project the CEC ArtsLink International Fellowship Program.

Poster designer: Adele Ismailkhanova

About the organizers: 

Bishkek School of Contemporary Art (BSCA) is a dynamic online and offline platform that offers to accumulate and promote art practices, reflections and experiences in their various manifestations, both at the level of mediums and at the level of artistic decisions / gestures / acts.

Web-site: www.bishci.com,  

Telegram: https://t.me/bishci,  

Instagram: www.instagram.com/bishkek_art_school/,  

Facebook: www.facebook.com/bishartschool/ 

Tazar Kyrgyzstan is a platform and mobile application for sorting and disposing of recyclable materials in Kyrgyzstan. We teach city residents how to properly sort and dispose of their garbage / waste / recyclable materials. We also train offices  to become responsible for their ecological footprint.

Instagram:www.instagram.com/tazar.app/ 

Facebook: www.facebook.com/tazarapp/ 

YouTube: https://youtu.be/XKPP5zy_vC4, 

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/kg/app/tazar-kg/id1523623515 

PlayMarket: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.io.tazarapp&hl=ru&gl=US 

Gudskul’s Collective Studies & The Bishkek School for Contemporary Art (BiSCA)
Documenta 15, in framework of Public Program
La Tabebh Series: Practicing inter&translocal collectivism in GMT +6 to +9
June 22, 5pm-8pm (Berlin time). Kassel, Fridericianum + online
Zoom link https://zoom.us/j/97150025082 (Meeting ID: 971 5002 5082)

BiSCA will present a zine-catalog ARALASH-6* and moderate discussion about art + ecology. ARALASH-6 is a zine-catalog ecological art-festival TRASH-3, which was held in 2021 as part of the study “Art + Ecology” and focused on environmental equality issues. Due to the situation of the pandemic in 2021, the art festival took place in several stages, which included work on the research base, a series of online and offline educational events, and public events with presentations in the Altyn-Kazyk housing estate, which is located near the landfill. 

 *ARALASH” During the one-month Artist in Residency project, Georgian book artist Nini Khuroshvili was working together with the students of ArtEast to create an experimental zine. 8 students of ArtEast were actively involved with their individual projects, working on the ideas they were interested in and sitting on:) Collecting all the raw materials, creating moodboards, discussing about: format, paper, binding, presentation, plus drinking chai” was a pleasant working process.

 Program (3 parts)

17:00 – 18:00

Part 1. Introduction

• Introduction – co-curators of Trash-3 Festival – Bermet Borubaeva & Aimeerim Tursalieva

• Zine Presentation – Alima Tokmergenova 
• “Library of resued books” – Ravshan Ta Jing

18:00 – 18:30

Part 2. Trash-Festival Artists’ experience:

• “Agents of communication” – artist, Gluklya Pershina-Yakimanskaya
• Oksana Kapishnikova
• Annie Albagli
• Muratbek Djumaliev (ArtEast)

18:30 – 19:00 

Part 3. “Trash into Tresuares”

• Megha Ralapati (HPAC, Chicago)
• Erika Dudley (Urban Growing Collective), Melissa Potter, Alyx Christensen & Rudy Medina (Open Kitchen)
• Simon Dove (CEC ArtsLink, NY)

19:00 – 20:00 – Open floor for the discussion and reflection, participants can share their experiences

 In collaboration with Tazar Kyrgyzstan, Hyde Park Art Center, CEC ArtsLink, ArtEast. Urban Growing Collective, Open Kitchen, Students of Kyrgyzstan for a green economy)

Another Performance by BiSCA this day will be The Kassel-Bishkek live portal will open on June 22 at 14.00 (in Bishkek), but we are waiting for you at 13.00 in the film lecture hall of the museum to tell you about us and how we became part of such a grand event as documenta fifteen. https://bishci.com/en/portal-bishkekassel-2/ 

Program (June 22, Bishkek):

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The documenta fifteen exhibition takes place in Kassel every five years, and Kyrgyzstan will be presented for the first time (within the GUDSKUL space). This opportunity came about thanks to our participation in Gudskul Study Kolektif educational program (October 2021 – May 2022, batch 4, curators – ruangrupa, Serrum and Grafis Huru Hara). Together with 7 collectives from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam and Taiwan, we are building a critical and experimental dialogue, through sharing process and experience-based learning. . As a result of our communication, our exchange of knowledge and experience, La Tabebh collective of collectives was born.

We will present the process of our work at the Museum Fridericianum at the opening of documenta fifteen in June this year. 

In addition to BiSCA collective representation at the exhibition, a member of our team, Diana Ukhina, will present an individual sound performance in Kassel on June 28 as part of another initiative for documenta fifteen – DAVRA. DAVRA is a collective of 19 young artists from Central Asia created by Saodat Ismailova, exploring the common cultural heritage of the region. A red thread running through all DAVRA projects is the concept of “сhilltan” (from Persian “forty bodies, forty people”), denoting holy entities or spirits present in Central Asian mythology.

The Bishkek School of Contemporary Art (BiSCA) is an informal, self-organizing collective, where we exchange thoughts, emotions and energy in connection with art as a practice. The participants are involved in the creation of the School for free.

Our collective:

Oxana Kapishnikova

Ravshan Ta Jing

Diana Ukhina

Alima Tokmergenova

Sergei Khegai

Kanaiym Kydyralieva

Saadat Aitalieva

Syinat Dzholdosheva

Bermet Borubaeva

Event partners: National Museum of Fine Arts named after Gapar Aitiev, Art workshop SYNERGY, Gudskul’s Collective Studies, La Tabebh, Documenta 15. 

The project is partly funded by the Swiss government.

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