Conversation: Saodat Ismailova and Perwana Nazif
Conversation: Saodat Ismailova and Perwana Nazif
Saturday, March 30, 1pm PST on Zoom
Saodat Ismailova, 18,000 Worlds (still), 2023. HD film, color and black & white, sound, 31 min.
Join us on March 30th at 1pm PST for a virtual conversation between artist Saodat Ismailova and writer Perwana Nazif in the final hours of Ismailova’s exhibition, Other Time and DAVRA research collective.
Ismailova will discuss her practice and film works with Nazif. Their discussion will focus on the three works brought together in JOAN’s installation space: The Haunted (2017), Chillpiq (2018), and 18,000 Worlds (2023).
Perwana Nazif is a writer and programmer based in Los Angeles. She is the Art Director at the Los Angeles Review of Books and former Art Editor at Astra Magazine. Her research involves histories of radical psychiatry and experimental cinema.
Saodat Ismailova is an Uzbek filmmaker and artist who graduated from Tashkent State Art Institute and Le Fresnoy, National Studio of Contemporary Arts. Interweaving myths, rituality, and dreams within the tapestry of everyday life, her films investigate the historically complex and layered culture of Central Asia which stands at the crossroads of diverse material histories and migratory legacies. Departing from her personal history marked by growing up in post-Soviet Uzbekistan, Ismailova reaches out to the collective dimension of memory. Her research encompasses the region’s ancestral knowledge and traditional spiritual practices, as well as the modern history of Uzbekistan which manifests through the interlacing of archival footage from its cinematic history. She initiated DAVRA research group in Central Asia in 2021. In 2022 she participated in the 59th Venice Biennale and presented new work at documenta fifteen. Ismailova received The Eye Art & Film Prize, Amsterdam in 2022. Her works are in the collections of Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; The Centre of Pompidou, Paris; and others.
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