Ulugh Beg: Instrinsic Futurstistic Machine of Central Asia_Plan Sketch up by Almagul Menlibayeva©

Ulugh Beg: Instrinsic Futurstistic Machine of Central Asia_PIA Planetarium, a site specific multimedia installation at Lahore Biennale 2020, curated by Hoor Al-Quasimi
Almagul Menlibayeva in collaboration with Inna Artemova and German Popov.
ATRIUM:
video and sound installation, height 31‘ -3 11/16“ diameter 50‘ ,
GROUND FLOOR:
360 degree drawing installation, 92´lenght, 12´height, ink on canvas
The Cabinet of Morphological metamorphosis.
Transition from Doyra (Central Asian frame drum) to celestial sphere represents suprematist planimetrics of archetypal shapes. The similar process of transformation represents relationships of organological architectonic of traditional musical instrument with structures and shapes of Space craft. This installation is paying tribute to Timurid sultan and astronomer Mīrzā Muhammad Tāraghay bin Shāhrukh (میرزا محمد تراغای بن شاہ رخ).
German Popov/Almagul Menlybayeva
2020
An Orbital Observatory of a site-specific multidisciplinary installation, invites the viewer to PIA Planetarium of Lahore.
Comprising of a ten screen video with quadrophonic sound and 360-degree drawing installations, this satellite formation presents the collaboration of three artists and their reflection upon the life of the Astronomer, the Great Ruler of Samarkand Sultan Mirzo Ulugh Begh. His legacy includes a 15th Century observatory that is represented by an artistic video and photo monitoring from the heights of conceptual orbits and depths of the Utopian/Dystopian skylines, fictional architecture and landscapes.
The scattered episodes and non-linear chronologies, juxtaposed with medieval empiricism and the latest cosmological models, are constructed into "alternative realities” and turned into radiant rays of multi-sensorial documents and imaginary objects, pixelated by Space debris and the Industrial pollutions of modernity.
Accompanied by a real time performance with electro-acoustic and musical experiments that touch upon the rare subjects of musical intervals, with xenharmonic
scales, this project is reestablishing the longstanding cultural ties of ancient Maveranahr with the Mogul Empire.
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