[Discussion] CALL FOR PAPERS- Artistic Imagination & Reality, IRICS Conf., Vienna, Dec. 2005

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CALL FOR PAPERS- Artistic Imagination & Reality, IRICS Conf., Vienna,
Dec. 2005

Innovation and Reproduction in the Cultures of Central Asia (IRICS)
Vienna, Austria
December 5-9, 2005

Section:
"Artistic Imagination and Reality"

Chaired by:
Munira Shahidi
Zyodullo Shahidi International Foundation
Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Please send your paper suggestions, abstracts, and contributions for the
"Artistic Imagination and Reality" section of the IRICS conference to:

Munira Shahidi
Ziyodullo Shahidi Museum of Musical Culture
Loik Sherali Str.108
Dushanbe 734002
Tajikistan
E-mail: munira_shahidi@yahoo.com

Description of conference section:

Innovation has always been a core of diversity in Central Asian
cultures. But expressed mainly in the art and literary thought of the
classical pre-Soviet period, innovative capability has been dominated by
the ideological and propagandist style of the Soviet cultural policy.
Although the theater, cinema and modern visual arts developed during the
Soviet period resulted in the transformation of some aspects of the
Central Asian classical heritage, synthesizing them with Russian
technical capability, this sovietizing of the classical heritage has
proved to be a stumbling block to internal development. For this reason,
emancipation from Soviet ideological control is the basis of present-day
innovation in its global significance. This process began with the
dissolution of the Soviet Union and the subsequent rethinking of the
reasons of the Civil War of 1992-1997 in Tajikistan. These crucial
political events provided the impetus for innovative ideas in the
novels, music, theater, cinema and paintings of the post-Soviet period
in Central Asia.

Artist companies, both amateur and professional, organized as NGOs, are
now viewed as perhaps the most important organizational factor in the
successful development of new capabilities in post-Soviet Central Asia.
Innovations in the management of cultures are mostly demonstrated by
leading actors in Tajikistan, Kirgizstan, Kasakhstan and Uzbekistan,
opening perspectives for creating and reproducing new ideas, based on
folklore and a rethinking of the world classical heritage. One of the
main sources of the new ideas in the theaters of Uzbekistan and
Tajikistan, for example, is sufi poetry and discourses, based on
history, between sufi and the secular tendencies of the classical
heritage of Central Asia. The clash between classical images and
discourses and contemporary reality is providing the stimulus for new
ideas in literature, music, theater and cinema.

The aim of this section is to demonstrate the division, contradiction
and interconnection of innovations and the technical capacity for
reproduction, which is still weak in Central Asia. Thus, the section is
calling for papers that will contribute to defining the new, innovative
features to be found in the regional cultures of today, to discussing
their potential for growth and to suggesting ways of obtaining the
technical equipment needed for developing that potential. The organizers
of the section believe that any cooperative circle can become more
creative and more successful by internalizing such principles as
creativity, capacity, awareness, positive intentions and cooperation.

For more information about the conference, please go to:
<http://www.inst.at/irics/index.htm>

Please note that the conference organizers can not cover the conference
participants' travel expenses.




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