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Anna Kin is Almaty-based research-driven artist, manager of cultural projects and language enthusiast. Currently working in the field of socially engaged art, photography, performance and new media.


Explores the traces of the Soviet Empire through the languages and cultures of the peoples of Central Asia, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. The artistic method includes the practice of caring and solidarity. The artist enters into a dialogue with people through various mediums – happenings, workshops, total installations.





01.05.1999
Almaty, Kazakhstan
+77089096369
 

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Research-driven project. Radical proposals for worlds in

transition. Language enthusiasm. Re-inventing future.


New Media. Sonic Art.

Almaty-based artist Anna Kin’s latest video art project "ღ" presents the state of different ethno-linguistic groups following imperial collapse and political transition. For this artwork, people from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia are asked to recite their alphabets. By doing so, Kin aims to showcase languages that have suffered forced assimilation by their former political regimes. Now, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, these languages are either rejuvenating or fading. "ღ" is an invitation to explore individuality, diversity, and the power of language. The project is a work in progress, and Kin plans to keep extending this video art collection as a lifelong project.



ALPHABETS:

Türk alfabesi;

Azərbaycan əlifbası;

Vukovica;

Abetka;

Abeceda;

Mkhedruli alphabet;

Alfabeti shqip;

Makedonska azbuka;

lakːu maz;

Lezgi alphabet;

Tifinagh;

Nogai alphabet;

Mari alphabet;

Balkar alphabet.







*Anna Kin’s project is called “ღ”, which takes its title from the Georgian letter ghan whose form playfully echoes the heart symbol, poignantly places a conversation about anticolonial language politics in dialogue with affect. Her work asks not only what languages sound like, but how they animate our sensuous and emotional experiences of the world, that is, how they articulate our lived attachments to political and social worlds in transition. In her film we see not only a crucial effort to catalog the sonic and gestural worlds of languages in crisis and transition, but an artwork that challenges how we think about our affective and somatic embodiment of language more broadly”. – Leah Feldman, project’s supervisor.


credits:

Photographer: Zhanar Shaki @shaki_ranazh, Liza Kin

@lizakin_photo

Cameraman: Danilo Ceković @danilocekovic

Cameraman & editor: Bahtiyar Khelis @toomuchsnp

Participants: Ilmirat Mukhamedzhanovich Vafin, Tatar

diaspora representative;

Arash Jafari Sarouei (@arash604) Persian diaspora representative,

Yakub;

Hatiye Garip (@hatiyegarip) Turkiye;

Elchin Jafarov (@jafarovelchin) Azerbaijan;

Sonila Abdalli, Albania; Luka Lebanidze, Sakartvelo;

Ana Dragić (ena_dredzik) Serbia;

Tane Laketić (@wennduanwunderglaubst) Serbia;

Tetiana Kryvenko (@tataproducer) Ukraine;

Andrea Markoska (@markoskaandrea), Macedonia

Supervisor: Leah Feldman (@lost_intheether)

Sites: @tselinnycenter @cultura.kz Almaty, Kazakhstan

Site manager: Shakarov Amir @mynameisamirplombir

The project is supported by Chevron Kazakhstan, U.S.

Diplomatic Mission and the Eurasian Cultural Alliance





Video art & interview series screening in terms of Slavs

and Tatars public program in Tselinny Center of

Contemporary Culture, Almaty




(click here!)

10-13 May 2023 AZBUKA STRIKES BACK 



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 ღ – Live performance of the sound art project, segment

of the extended artwork “ღ”. Berlin art book fair,

organized by Station of Commons, Miss Read x lumbung

radio Prefair Program 17-21 September 2023 at

Gerichtstrasse 45, Berlin.


For this sound experiment I blended phonemes from

collected alphabets: albanian, turkish, kartvelian, and

azerbaijani and mixed them with acousmatic field

recordings of both urban and rural areas.





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Solo exhibition. Multi-channel video & sound installation, special commission for ARTBAT festival, Supported by Eurasian Cultural Alliance, Chevron and Goethe Institut in Kasachstan.

28 Sep-10 Oct 2023 in Egin Space, Almaty





ღ –Group show KUZEY: Displaced Identity, Exhibition of contemporary art about the peoples of Kazakhstan.























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OpenSourcingLove–

collaborative crowdsource project created together w/Aigerim Tumenbay. It’s idea based on the concept of cognitive bias. By definition: “a systematic error in thinking that occurs when people are processing information. Frequent result of one’s brain’s attepmt to simplify information processing.”

Background story: Last summer, me and my friend started simultaneously noticing lots of heart shapes everywhere we went. Upon sharing them on social media, we began to receive more pictures from friends and strangers even, so we created a profile on are.na,and lots of people all around the world have contributed improvements to its design and functionality. Our worldwide #opensourcinglove movement, also known as #osl can be followed on instagram. Please visit https://opensourcinglove.com for more info.


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OSL zine. Published with a support of British Council, presented in the frame of Styq decentralised city festival. 19 June 2022, Almaty


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Metamorphosis, 2022. Video loop, 1 minute 17 seconds. (Open Sourcing Love)
edit: Aigerim Tumenbay
sound art: Anna Kin
The artwork were presented on 9th of October 2022 in Gallery 263,

Cambridge, MA

Shapeshifting pop-up group show & joint performance piece curated by Maya Rubio & Gabi Abrao






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Love and Solidarity Weekend was a cycle of events, where we suggested letter writing practice as a form of expressing solidarity and support. The project employs a letter-writing format and the artifact of a letter as a tool for reflection and a symbol of self-love. We believe that writing love letters is an inspiring action capable of motivating people to engage in positive change, especially amidst the challenging times we are experiencing worldwide. We consider it a powerful means to raise awareness about society’s issues and challenges. Through sharing personal stories, insights, and perspectives in these letters, we aspire to document significant shifts in our shared comprehension of the world, raise awareness, and connect with the vibrant energy of individuals contributing to the change toward a more conscious generation.


Our love-solidarity letter writing and recording session, featuring postcard cover images of Open Sourcing Love artworks, took place at the Goethe Institut in Kazakhstan, continued during the Missread Art Book Pre-Fair program in Berlin and concluded at the Neue Nachbarschaft Moabit center, where letters from our workshop were handed to kids from Ukrainian at-risk families.


OpenSourcingLove – Love and Solidarity Workshop, Open Sourcing Love artist collective, Berlin art book fair, organized by Station of Commons, Miss Read x lumbung radio Prefair Program 17-21 September 2023 at Gerichtstrasse 45, Berlin. At this event we suggested love letter writing practices as a form of healing, after we invited participants to recite their letters for a live stream at lumbung radio, here you can listen to some extracts.

We believe that letters written during turbulent times can become valuable historical documents. They provide a personal perspective on events, emotions, and experiences that might not be captured in official records. These letters can serve as primary sources for future generations, helping them understand the impact of these times on individuals and communities. Love & Solidarity Workshop is an emotional journey created to build up a connection with the community where love and solidarity reign.





OpenSourcingLove – Love and Solidarity Workshop hosted by Open Sourcing Love artist collective with the support of the Goethe Institut in Kasachstan, at the Neue Nachbarschaft Moabit center, Berlin
23 Sep 2023






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Portrait of Almaty. Photo album dedicated to the people and place of my hometown in Kazakhstan. February 2024. Film Photo on ilford hp plus, craft album 210*297

This photo album is my my love letter to Almaty, which is my home, and the people of the community in it are my anchor. I've decided to create a situation that would allow me to make my life meaningful and purposeful. Here, in a safe space, I mark my presence as a subject, detached from events and people with the click of a shutter. Roland Barthes rightly noted that "only surveillance cameras objectively and indifferently capture." At the moment, the photos in the album can be described as a "portrait of Almaty," because for me, the city is primarily the people who infuse it with life energy, create, and make sense of it through their actions. Places and nature are interludes between acts; they are as important as the people who inhabit them.I try to anticipate the upcoming outbreaks of celebration, joy, or tenderness. I am most intrigued by moments shared by large groups of actors united by a common idea or values.


Music
Video sketches
A pause.
Why a pause?

Morning sex Meditaza Sleep is important
Meditative computer music produced with experimental method, both analog and electronic eqiupments. I used to collect a lot of different noises: bowling egg, der Kühlschrank, sound of the rainy forest, rivers, wooden sticks and forbidden percussion instrument. I also experimented with the vocal, and recorded it in the bathroom to shape a volume sound. The layout of the bathroom has a longer reverb and makes the voice more dreamy.
A pause is a symbol of latency, it is a confrontation with high-efficiency.
Delight of the latency is that it preserves the dignity of the unspoken words, unshown gestures, undone actions.The exhaustion of all available human resources occurs because several social order denies the value of latency, the value of a potentiality that remains presently unactualized, but preventively collected. 



Die Abenteuer des Baron Münchausen–

The dreamer's mind is free from constraints, depict resistance powerless against it. The character of Baron Münchausen – always recalls the image of my father. This work is my experiment with the soviet film adaptation, layered on the footage of my dad I took before and after he got a brain stroke. I re-mastered a sound and made a video row using a kaleidoscope and a different scenes of the film.



Link to the full video: https://vimeo.com/668867326