AK JOL
MANIFEST
OVERVIEW
MOBILE ENCOUNTERS
AK JOL
A road, a container, a landscape, a body, a memory.
A word spoken before someone leaves.
A wish for the road ahead.
In Kyrgyz, Ak Jol carries something like a blessing: may your path be open, may it be bright, may you arrive well. For ArtCity, it has become more than a phrase. It is a way of looking at movement, at the people we meet, at what travels with us and what is left behind.
AK JOL Art Mobile grows out of several years of journeys, conversations and artistic work between Germany, Switzerland and Kyrgyzstan. It brings together photography, architecture, film, traditional knowledge and social exchange. Not as separate disciplines, but as fragments of one moving process.
A test, an invitation, a meeting point.
A place to look at what has already begun and to gather the people who may carry it further.
At the center stands a recycled shipping container. A simple object, already familiar in the landscapes of Kyrgyzstan. Built for transport, marked by global trade, then used again, and now given another life as a mobile gallery and meeting place. It carries the logic of movement in its own body.
The container is being developed as an architecture that can open, shift and adapt. Its structure draws from Kyrgyz nomadic traditions, from the yurt, from textile practices, from materials that are available locally and can be reused. It is not meant to arrive as a foreign object. It is meant to learn from the places it enters.
AK JOL Art Mobile is a road in progress.
A structure for encounter.
A collective practice in motion.
TEAM CREDITS
Project Lead: Louise Amelie
Project Mgmt: Maria Luisa Arnold
Line Producer: Andreas Bauer, Alison Klymchuk, Maria Haverkamp, Bakai Osmoev, Anna Polev, Amir Aidarov, Marianne Wagner
Corporate Design: Zarah May Ford, Martyna Gverzdyte
Photo & Direction: Louise Amelie
Lead Architect: Maria Luisa Arnold
Art Direction: Ieeza Ospan, Altynai Osmoeva, Aika Aiganysh
DoP: Xaver Neumann, Frank Weber
Edit: Vladimir Amzek
Font & Graphics: Sultan Geo Jumataev
Grading: Imri Agmon, S.EC Studios
Translation: Dr. Mahabat Sadyrbek
Copywriting: Alison Klymchuk
Technician: Peter Müller
Sounddesign: Habelbeats, Jonas Briere
Webdesign: Pasquale Ascione
ARTIST
Altynai Osmoeva // Alison Klymchuk // Altai Usenov // Amantur Imanaliev // Agua con Gas // Brad Downey // Christian August // Corner Edition // Darika Bakeeva // Diana Rakhmanova // Dastan Temir // DJ Chichi // Felicitas Butt // Hot Wlan // Ieeza Ospan // Islam Doorov // Louise Amelie // Maria Luisa Arnold // Marian Tone // Mirlan Sheichenbeav // Meggy // Mr. Funky Chicken // Natisa KA // Nartalka // Niklas Apfel // Omurbek Pedro Wirz // Karataev // Kadir Amigo Memes // Saadat Aitalieva // Sven Uwe Kaiser // The Wa // Zhyldyz Bekova … more to come tbd
PARTNER
Foundation West-Eastern Encounters // German Federal Foreign Office // SEE YOU Rental // S.EC Studios // Aliph Foundation // Novastan // Culture Heritage Memorial Lab // PhaseOne // WAYS Kultur Stfitung des Bundes, KOL Fest, Tolon Museum
FORMER COLLABORATORS
Copy Writing & Social Worker: Darja Nesterowa
Cuartion: Andreas Bauer
Head of Production: Studio KOA, Keshia Luna Biedermann
Line Producer: Ulrike Carrillo, Peri Rana Hueck, Simon Melchers
Corporate Design: Zarah May Ford, Olivia Rynkiewicz
Head of PR: Peri Rana Hueck
Font & Graphics: Sultan Jumataev, Niklas Apfel
Head of Construction: Elisabeth Bender, Thomas Schelle
SPECIAL THX
Diana Osmoeva, Alina Vedmedyeva, Anna Kaiser, Arslan Issak, Katharina Nesterowa, Janny Hollstein, Carola Franz, Begimai Mamytova, Franz Gillman, Florian Schulte, Pauline Wegener, Alexandre Airaudo, Alma Wegener Airaudo, Abakirov Ozgorush, Sibel Huz, Marlon Steinheuer, Vincent Grunwald, Anahí Funes, Josie Reinschke, Laura Wondolleck, Johanna Fink, Dr. Henry Müller, Renate Wegener, Dr. Bernd & Melanie Steinheuer, Dr. Doris Bauer, Klaus Hillmann, Ulukbek Beishekeev
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