Homepage Programme Dossiers Shop Press Archive     deutsche Version Home/Virtual HKW/Dossiers/Details Dossier Off the Silk Road Art and Culture from Central Asia Title Artists and Personalities changed on 01.06.2002 crossroads post-colonialism, desert, transformation, tradition, beauty, post modernity, nature, myth, modernity, marginalisation, power, emptiness, Islam, identity, borderline experience, globalisation, history, remembrance, movement for democracy, bureaucracy, anxiety Additional themes Introduction Attempts at Orientation Culture or Business Symbols of Power Viacheslav Akhunov, "The sand of forgetting" (sand installation art) Shaarbek Amankulov and Lizzy Mayrl, "Living Time" (video installation art) Essays on the "state of the art" in post-Soviet times Valeria Ibrayeva Fathers and Sons Sergey Maslov The Walking Dead Akhmedova Nigora The Uzbek Post-Modern