“City Code” / “Almaty_Collider”, 2017 

 

The city as «a neural network, the new nervous system of the urban landscape», requires identification of its words, signs and images. "City Code" is dedicated to the city of Almaty, to its spirit and to its citizens. I was interested in the city places with history, that are meaningful for the people. This visual research of specific geography of the City within the limits of wide row of interrelations. It raises the questions, concerning functioning of public space during paradigmatic changes.

“City Code” / “Almaty_Collider” is a panoramic presentation of the most perilous political flashpoints: Independence Square, Almaty, Kazakhstan, place of the December event of Jeltoqsan 1986 – the first protest in USSR. By brining Almaty events into global vernacular, project deliberately resets the global understanding of Kazakhstan modern history, while at the same time resetting the understanding of local, as world-historic turning points. 

Sense of media urban experience by means of mosaic panorama consists in a way a visitor could be brought a little closer to that dramatic moment and could be wrapped with these visual experients and could test every moment, dipped in incarnate reality among multidimensional spaces of collisions between past, present and future with their own sets of correspondences. 

Whether the will of people has been transformed during this time in a decorative pattern?