Ride the Caspian

Overview

Almagul Menlibayeva and Bahar Behbahani explore the dialogue between two ancient cultures that border the Caspian Sea on the crossroads of the Middle East and Central Asia. Their collaborative video probes the relationship between the nomadic pagan traditions of the Turkic/Kazakh tribes apparent in the industrialized Post-Soviet environment of Kazakhstan, and the Persian traditions of Iran’s longstanding agricultural and urbanised civilisation.

Made possible with a grant from the Open Society Institute Budapest, Art and Culture Network Program and generous support from Priska C. Juschka Fine Art and Sharjah Art Foundation.

April 2011

This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 10