Manaschi

ManaschiFinalist for Prix Jan Michalski de Littrature 2023 In his latest tragicomedy Hamid Ismailov interrogates the interaction between tradition and modernity, myth and reality. A radio presenter interprets one of his dreams as an initiation by the world of spirits into the role of a Manaschi, a Kyrgyz bard and shaman who recites and performs the epic poem, Manas, and is revered as someone connected with supernatural forces. Travelling to his native

making a cloth that eventually became so identified with Africa that many don't realize its origins

Being Together: A Manual for Living reflects on these themes

Through her writing

presenter of Sophie Fiennes’s three-part documentary The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema

This alternative travel guide accompanies the objects on view in the exhibition at MAMA (Rotterdam) and tells the tales of these artifacts that are found and made by Susan Kooi in the Italian region Campania

One evening

Does faith necessarily imply a limitation of freedom

The installation of the collection must come with a pedagogical activation

Many chapters resonate with each other in that they capture the experiences shared by many places in Asia

Now’ is inspired by a rhetorical phenomenon disseminated in the media with the intention of implicating people with an agenda

identifying subsets of images to be compiled for discussion

ethos-bending fundraising exercises