RIDE THE CASPIAN Featured in Chain of Fire: The Prologue Exhibition for the 2016 Honolulu Biennial, Now thru 11/9
On view today, October 30 through November 9, Bahar Behbahani and Almagul Menlibayeva's Ride the Caspian will be featured in Chain of Fire: The Prologue Exhibition for the 2016 Honolulu Biennial. Co-presented by Hawai'i International Film Festival and Honolulu Biennial Foundation, Chain of Fire is curated by Dr. Kóan Jeff Baysa and Isabella Ellaheh Hughes.Ride the Caspian is a two-channel video installation that creates a dialogue between Kazakhstan and Iran, two cultures situated at the crossroads of the Middle East and Central Asia, adjacent to one another and bound by the Caspian Sea. Menlibayeva's and Behbahani's collaborative project explores a contemporary relationship between two ancient cultures-featuring both the nomadic pagan traditions of the Turkic/Kazakh tribes, apparent in the post-soviet environment of Kazakhstan, and the wide reaching Persian traditions of a settled people with a complex authoritarian structure, located in the territory of Muslim Iran.
The inaugural Honolulu Biennial, presented by Honolulu Biennial Foundation (HBF), marks Hawaii's first entry into the global biennial circuit. Honolulu Biennial will focus on art from Oceania, the Asian continent, and the Americas, with its preview exhibition and public programs, including Chain of Fire: The Prologue Exhibition for the 2016 Honolulu Biennial. Officially launching in 2016, the full-scale Honolulu Biennial will be curated by Fumio Nanjo, presenting groundbreaking international contemporary art-in addition to emphasizing Hawaii's notable, but under-recognized contributions by its communities and individuals to global arts and culture-on the international stage.
Exhibition: October 30 - November 9, 2014
LOCATION/S
Agora
441 Cooke Street
Our Kaka'ako, Honolulu, HISPF Projects
729 Auahi Street
Our Kaka'ako, Honolulu, HI
445 + 449 Cooke Street
Our Kaka'ako, Honolulu, HI
Photo Credit: Still from Ride the Caspian, Bahar Behbahani and Almagul Menlibayeva, 2011, Two-channel, HD Video © Bahar Behbahani & Almagul Menlibayeva;
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