Public-Talk #9. CONTEMPORARY NOMADISM: NEO-TRADITIONAL, PHILOSOPHICAL AND ARTISTIC – BY MR. NIKOLAY SMIRNOV, 27 OCTOBER, 2022

Area: Art, Сultural Studies, Anthropology, Philosophy, Sociology, Contemporary Art, Digital Humanities
Speaker: Nikolay Smirnov, an artist, geographer, curator and researcher working with spatial practices and representations of space and place in art, science, museum practices and everyday life. His practice is aimed at analysis and implementation of complex narratives in form of text, exhibition dispositive and film. Nikolay Smirnov participated in the main projects of the 5th Ural Industrial Biennial (2019, curator Xiaoyu Weng) and The 2nd Riga Biennial (2020, curator Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel). In 2021 Nikolay received a Frame curatorial research fellowship, in 2018 Pernod Ricard Fellowship. Residencia: Para Site (Hong Kong, 2019), Villa Vassilieff (Paris, 2017-2018)
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OVERVIEW

On  27 October, 2022 Nikolay Smirnov, an artist, geographer, curator and researcher delivered an offline public lecture on dimensions of nomadism today. The first is a concrete nomadism, for example, stock-raising nomads of the Eurasian steppes, Berbers, or Nenets of the Arctic tundra. The second is nomadism as a philosophical and artistic phenomenon, which can be called “nomadism of the philosophers” or philosophical nomadism. It became especially significant during postmodernism, in the second half of the 20th century. Some nations even construct their identity on the nomadism, trying to paradoxically ‘settle on nomadism’. But this phenomenon of contemporary post-nomadic societies unites various nomadisms and can tell us something important about the human condition and contemporaneity in general. The research was produced in the frame of the grant program for the study of Qatari history and culture, 2022.