tags: Активизм, Деколонизация, Искусство, Исследования, Расизм, СССР, Утопия, Кыргызстан

tags: Activism, Decolonization, Art, Research, Racism, USSR, Utopia, Kyrgyzstan

Research femzine ak zhol, utopia / goodbye, utopia was created on the basis of several sources published in the late 1990s and 2000s on the situation of women in Kyrgyzstan. The focus of the research was on the immediate past - the 1990s, in connection with my interest in searching for voices of different times, the practice of agency, politicization and the imaginative representation of women.

One of the sources became key for me - the study and book by Raya Osmonalieva, Women of Kyrgyzstan: Yesterday and Today. Thus, this is partly a research study, immersion in immersion, a research construct by the author of the stories of the life of women in Kyrgyzstan during the Soviet and transitional periods. As a result, it turned out that the central material was the “stories in quotations” of the research participants and their relation to certain key events of the continuation of the entry into the public political field of the civil women's agenda in Kyrgyzstan.

I was learning more about events and living conditions of the 90s.

Such texts are incredibly inspiring and become a point of revealing social relations and a point of recognizing oneself - recognizing the context (socially, culturally, politically, economically determined conditions), rules, norms, breakdowns and slow systemic transformations of the immediate past of your culture. By culture, I mean living conditions within the framework of established gender relations, in their combination with various age-old practices, performances and meanings that define and reproduce our social order. These are social relations and transformations of the 1990s, the time of union, the traditional way of life rooted in the past in connections with Sharia norms and many others. The femzine is built on three conditional tags, through the filter of which I selected the material and which are dissolved in the mood of the texts - # vulnerability, # solidarity, # inner strength - to see and feel the vulnerability of your situation, understand the connecting lines from recent / old history, look for forms of solidarity and support each other. The inner strength of women whose stories I encountered in the situation of a reader of a research book became significant for me in the process of immersive reading of the study.

Through these mirage-like tags, through
disclosure of stories-quotes behind them, their
relation to events-release dates
women in the political field of Kyrgyzstan in the 90s,
and also with visualization based on
materials published at that time,
I'm creating
reassembled nonlinear
history-construction,
sounding in different voices and
multi-layered visuals,
separate facts-events-dates in order to show the historical agency of women and imagine my own local feminism.

The focus on locality in one's inner quest, attention to global feminist and other agendas facing erasure/rejection - this is how it seems close to me to speak and practice feminism and share with those who are also in the dynamics of their politicality.

Local feminism is what I have been thinking about and discussing lately with my colleagues and friends Maya. For me, this is the process of searching for a feminist agenda (for some a feminist trans agenda), #femgraphia and myself, based on local specific practice, context, collisions with global processes and ideas. And this is just one possible aspect of the category of local feminism, which is in the process of forming its own specifics, limits / not limits of analysis and forms of implementation in a specific geographical, temporal, historical, imaginary situation of Bishkek in 2020.

Diana U