Exhibition Accompanying Event: Steppe synanthropies

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Exhibition Accompanying Event: Steppe synanthropies

  • Wed 13 Nov 2024
  • 7:00PM

Join us on November 13th for special accompanying events for our autumn exhibition Steppe synanthropies: extant across continents, exploring the lives of migratory species: human and avian.

6pm Artist-guided tour of the exhibition Steppe synanthropies: extant across continents and open discussion on the idea of planetarity in their projects.

7pm Art and science conversation, reflecting on the project question “Can human lifeways produce opportunities for a new wild life to be born?” and discussing the idea of “imagining climate dignity” in Central Eurasia.

Artists Selbi Jumayeva, Alisa Verbina, and Olha Vinichenko will be joined by Ruslan Urazaliyev from the Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan and Dr. Carol Kerven to celebrate and amplify the contributions of farmers, herders, scientists, and conservation enthusiasts around the world who make the conservation of species like the Sociable Lapwing possible.

Dr. Carol Kerven is an applied research socio-economist with forty five years of work experience in agricultural and livestock development, first in Africa, and since 1995 mostly in the desert and mountain rangelands of Central Asia. She has led multidisciplinary research and development projects on extensive livestock systems in pastoral regions of Africa and Asia, and consulted for governments, international donor agencies, NGOs, private firms and research institutes. Previously Dr. Kerven served as editor of the peer-reviewed journal Nomadic Peoples. Now she is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief since 2009 of an international peer-reviewed journal Pastoralism – research, policy and practice. She is also director of a research and consultancy firm Odessa Centre in the UK.

Ruslan Urazaliyev is a researcher of Association of the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan, where he leads the Sociable Lapwing conservation project. He has fifteen years of experience in ornithology. His research focuses on critically endangered and key bird species of the steppe, wetland management, and urban biodiversity conservation. Urazaliyev is a member of the UNEP AEWA Sociable Lapwing International Working Group, which informs the UN CMS Single Species Action Plan for Sociable Lapwing. He is also an external PhD candidate at The University of Münster.

The Sociable Lapwing Conservation Project was initiated by Kazakh and British scientists through a preliminary study in 2004 and launched fully by the Association of the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan with the support of BirdLife International and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in 2005. The project has not only illuminated the significance of this steppe wader and placed it on the global conservation map, but also discovered both Kazakhstan hosting 95% of the population for nesting, and Tallymerjen on the Turkmen-Uzbek border serving as a main intercontinental migration stopover.

This art and science conservation event is part of an interdisciplinary mixed-media exhibition of a collaborative project by three Central Eurasian migrant research artists, who tapped into ornithology, computation, folk, video, and performance art, to reflect and connect the routes and narratives of people(s) and birds, whose habitats and life cycles span borders, and continue to be extant in between continents.

Image: Video performance by Alisa Verbina and Olha Vinichenko, accompanied by Turkmen Yomud women singing ghazal (semi-improvised poetic story-telling), co-written by Selbi Jumayeva, about lapwings in Central Asia. Migratory bird tracking devices, used in ACBK research by Ruslan Urazaliyev. Currently on view at AFC.

This event is presented in collaboration with the Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan.

The call for proposals, "IMAGINE CLIMATE DIGNITY: Artistic Collaborations," invited artists living and working in Austria to apply jointly with international colleagues for specific art projects at Austrian Cultural Forums around the world. Thematically, the project proposals should engage with climate and the environment, exploring how the dignity of nature and the dignity of humanity can be harmonized permanently.

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