taus makhacheva
taus makhacheva
Taus Makhacheva mainly uses performance and video along with installations, photographs and objects as well as food – recently. Makhacheva’s roots (Avar-Dagestan) play an important part in her works, which oppose the official ideological claim for cultural authenticity. She investigates the re-invented traditions and the newly created rituals significantly conditioned by the commercialisation of the culture that are supposed to help consolidate the post-soviet Dagestan society. .artSümer is proud the take part in the second edition of Moving Image Istanbul with her film “A Space for Celebration”.
Dagestan. All dates apart from 29th July and 7th August in the wedding hall “Marrakesh” are booked. The same goes for “Afalina” and “Oriental Palmyra” and many other wedding halls. Summer is the wedding season. Being the capital of the republic of Dagestan, Makhachkala has many similar spaces, built to accommodate 200, 300, 500, even 1000 guests. An eclectic mix dominates in the architecture of these purpose built halls. The same mix of secular forms and traditions that have become universal today dominates the rituals of the wedding ceremony. As a result, a new local culture of celebration is formed.
Anthropomorphic figures move, freeze, play and dance in the halls, trying to establish a way of interacting with the outer as with the inner. Humour and irony, as instruments in this work, make visible the attempt to form a subject in the new public space.
Taus Makhacheva mainly uses performance and video along with installations, photographs and objects as well as food – recently. Makhacheva’s roots (Avar-Dagestan) play an important part in her works, which oppose the official ideological claim for cultural authenticity. She investigates the re-invented traditions and the newly created rituals significantly conditioned by the commercialisation of the culture that are supposed to help consolidate the post-soviet Dagestan society. .artSümer is proud the take part in the second edition of Moving Image Istanbul with her film “A Space for Celebration”.
Dagestan. All dates apart from 29th July and 7th August in the wedding hall “Marrakesh” are booked. The same goes for “Afalina” and “Oriental Palmyra” and many other wedding halls. Summer is the wedding season. Being the capital of the republic of Dagestan, Makhachkala has many similar spaces, built to accommodate 200, 300, 500, even 1000 guests. An eclectic mix dominates in the architecture of these purpose built halls. The same mix of secular forms and traditions that have become universal today dominates the rituals of the wedding ceremony. As a result, a new local culture of celebration is formed.
Anthropomorphic figures move, freeze, play and dance in the halls, trying to establish a way of interacting with the outer as with the inner. Humour and irony, as instruments in this work, make visible the attempt to form a subject in the new public space.