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Kyzyl Tractor, Purification Performance Documentation, Short Version, ACAW Signature Exhibition 2018

Kyzyl Tractor Art Collective “Purification” Performance Video Documentation, As part of “Focus Kazakhstan-Thinking Collections: Telling Tales”, the signature exhibition of Asia Contemporary Art Week 2018— which surveyed the collective’s artistic collaborations from mid 1990’s till the present day. Click here to see documentation of the entire exhibition. The drum seen in this video was especially commissioned as a recreation of the large-scale drum first used in the group’s legendary performance in 2003. With a tendency to monumentalize sound instruments, Kyzyl Tractor has often used the drum to assert ancient and indigenous materials along with Shamanistic customs into contemporary society. Shamanism is a spiritual practice that is an essential fabric of traditional Kazakh folklore and is characterized by a profound connection to consciousness, spirits, and the relationship between humans and nature. Kyzyl Tractor treats shamanism as an artistic strategy, similar to any other conceptual or physical material used in their practice. The group does this as both a way of seriously contemplating shaman philosophies while also spoofing them. The performance, “Purification” is a proposition for creating flow within a chaotic world — a movement towards a state of consciousness, transcending from darkness or depression to lightness and ecstasy. This process suggests that instead of fearing or banishing undesired qualities or feelings, such as envy, anger or bitterness, one should find a way to transmute them, ending in their sublimation. Kyzyl Tractor has performed “Purification” in Prague, Perm, Vienna, Shymkent, Almaty and for the first time in Jersey City, USA in 2018. Courtesy of Kyzyl Tractor Art Collective & Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) Any text contents quoted and or referenced from this document must be credited as “Written by Leeza Ahmady, Vladislav Sludskiy & Asia Contemporary Art Week.”