Intervention in public space - “Wish them luck!”

Location: Pаrк Poytaht (Bogy Poitaht)
Time 3 JUNE, 19.00-20.00

Most of the post-Soviet countries develop laws and create social and environmental actions, but creating it all,

they do not provide solutions to solve these problems, do not contribute to and does not consult citizens cdoncerning certain important public issues.But the main problem lies in the fact that when one authority decides to solve a particular problem, the other authority does not give permission, or creates obstacles in solving the issue. For such cases there is always a person who solves these problems through corruption. The project aims to identify the mechanism of bureaucratic corruption activities through interventions in urban space. In this project, there is a problem and there is a solution, though not everyone is able to solve it. In this case, instead of list of tasks we have a number of watering cans filled with sand / gravel signifing the task/problem, and only one watering can is empty and one person who is choosen (corrupt person) can use a watering can, fill it with water and watering green spaces, but some others who wish to follow his example (to use watering can) will face the problem that they can not deal with.

“Wish them luck!”

“Reimagining the new man”

Period: 29th of March

I produced a film based on the re-use of archival sources (propaganda films archive from the socialist era, fragments of new films, home movies or private archives, television and internet).And explored/re-used/re-contextualized existing visual material and commented upon the gaps/ruptures/continuities between the dismantling of socialism and currently established neo-liberal system, questioning/defining the role of citizen/civic duties in the society.
“Practicing civic duties through social and visual media” project was designed to investigate post-socialist context and the condition of Tajik society, which was formed during the soviet period and shifted after the collapse of Soviet Union to open market realities and capitalist principles. In these circumstances the project aims at understanding, analyzing and questioning civic engagement, participatory practices in community development and transfer of knowledge by means of social and visual media in contemporary Tajikistan.

Chose your granade

Tadsch:Au - Art Embassy
Soho in Otterkring 2008

Upon an invitation to the art-festival "Soho in Otterkring/ Vienna" an empty house in the Neulerchenfelderstrasse 15 was redefined as "Art-Embassy". 15 artists from Vienna and Tadschikistan lived and worked there for the duration of a month.

During opening hours audience, artists, lectureres and passers by were invited to participate in talks, discussions, screening, performance and production of art in order to retrieve a "visa". On a daily base lectures were held as new works invaded the space of the embassy in course of the ongoing process.

Via the internet website of the Embassy the daily schedule was announced.

The building was demolished after the end of the exhibition.

Participating Artists: Mansurshon Kasakbaev, Muzak, Niclas Anatol, Franziska Helmreich, Mumtoz Kamolzoda, Inna Klado, Sao Nicolao, Iliez Mamadschanow, Ute Müller, Karim Nadschmidinov, Günther Orban, Peter Pilz, Heike Schäfer, Murod Scharipov und Karoline Riha

http://www.karolineriha.at/TadschAu2.html