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 Symbols of Power 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 Artists and Personalities Culture or Business Central Asia Sabine Vogel Central Asia 2001 Sabine Vogel On the relation of power and art and on the reification of power in public space Jean During The Pressure of Colonialism Larissa Pletnikova und Dana Safarova Art in the Gulag Philipp Meuser From Oriental Pre-Fab High Rises to Symbiotic City Marcus Bensmann Building Myths by Law