{"id":2851,"date":"2014-09-21T18:16:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T18:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lufomuseum.fenomen.de\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=2851"},"modified":"2016-08-10T13:29:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T13:29:38","slug":"almagul-menlibayeva-transoxiana-dreams","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/event\/almagul-menlibayeva-transoxiana-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Videozone: Almagul Menlibayeva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shamans, nomads, and socialism: Kazakhstan, onetime Soviet federated state lying between Europe and Asia, is a country of contrasts. The Kazak artist Almagul Menlibayeva explores these contrasts in her video works, alternating between documentary film and mythological storytelling. Her poetically-charged images, which she combines with a realistic view on desolate landscapes, give an impression of both the ongoing traditions and dramatic disintegration in her homeland.<\/p>\n<p><em>Transoxiana Dreams<\/em> (2011) looks at the social and ecological changes, the result of large-scale misguided communist projects, impacting on the region around the Aral Sea, once the fourth largest inland sea in the world. Almagul Menlibayeva immerses us in the dream world of a fisherman\u2019s young daughter, letting us take part in her father\u2019s search for the lake in the dried-out steppe. In visually stunning shots, centaur-like female figures keep appearing in the barren landscape, evoking the local nomadic tradition in the inhospitable post-Soviet environment.<\/p>\n<p>Intriguingly strange female figures also play a role in the two other films. In <em>Kissing Totems<\/em> (2008) we encounter them on the grounds of a derelict factory, while in <em>Exodus<\/em> (2009) they are present as the nomads of the steppe break camp.<\/p>\n<p>In all three works we see Kazakhstan\u2019s desolate landscapes and ruins through the eyes of young girls. Alternating between dream and reality, they show us a picture of their homeland attempting to find its place between past and present.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy American-Eurasian Art Advisors LLC<br \/>\nCurator: Miriam Lowack<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Videozone: Almagul Menlibayeva, Installation Views<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7038 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1412_Ost-02051.jpg\" alt=\"1412_Ost-0205\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1412_Ost-02051.jpg 460w, https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1412_Ost-02051-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7039 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1412_Ost-02311.jpg\" alt=\"1412_Ost-0231\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1412_Ost-02311.jpg 460w, https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1412_Ost-02311-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7037 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1412_Ost-01841.jpg\" alt=\"1412_Ost-0184\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1412_Ost-01841.jpg 460w, https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1412_Ost-01841-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><em><br \/>\nPhotos: Carl Brunn \/ Ludwig Forum Aachen<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transoxiana Dreams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":2836,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[14],"class_list":["post-2851","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-exhibition","cat_exhibition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}