Global Art Lab places five US social-practice artists in ad hoc residencies in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to develop projects connecting their work to local cultural contexts and providing a bridge for the circulation of perspectives. Four cultural practitioners from Central Asia toured the US and invited artists whose practice engages the social in their exploration and critique of capitalism’s present sequence. Empowering local reality to inform understandings of global transformations, Global Art Lab seeks to use the arts to expand global connectivity through the reciprocal exchange of ideas and actions.

From food to kids to cell phones to a shared apprehension of 21st century changes, this project links our common humanity to specific actions. These project illustrate and advance the potential for a connected and collaborative future.

Global Art lab is a SHL global initiative lead by CEC Artslink in NYC with support from the Christensen Fund and presented at Stanford’s CREEES.

The grand finale and final sweep from Bishkek to Dushanbe is taking place now. You can follow all of this and the projects on the blogs below:

• GAL Blog
• Global ArtLab 09
• 10 Sec. 1Bayt
• The Borrowed Kazan