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Georgy Mamedov

Assistant Professor

Television, Cinema and Media Arts Department

Division of Arts, Humanities and Communication

 

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Georgy Mamedov is an Assistant Professor in the Television, Cinema, and Media Arts department at the American University of Central Asia. He holds a Master of Arts in Central Asian Studies from the American University of Central Asia (2020, Kyrgyzstan), a graduate degree in Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Culture from the Russian Anthropological School at the Russian State Humanities University (2011, Russia), and a specialized degree in Linguistics and Intercultural Communication from the Department of English Language and Typological Linguistics at the Russian-Tajik Slavonic University (2009, Tajikistan). 

Georgy joined AUCA in 2016. He is a member of the International Council of Museums and Museum Workers (ICOM). He was a visiting research fellow at Indiana University in Bloomington (2023, USA) and received the AUCA Matthew Nimetz Award for academic publications in 2022 and 2021. In 2015, Georgy became a Chevalier des L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres - a professional French Ministry of Culture and Communication award for “outstanding contribution in the field of visual art and promotion of intercultural dialogue.” 

Georgy is an internationally recognized curator of contemporary art. In 2011, he co-curated Central Asian Pavilion at the Venice Biennial; his curatorial and artistic projects have been shown in Amsterdam, Bergen, Berlin, Cologne, Helsinki, New York, Moscow, Queensland, Singapore, Yekaterinburg, Saint Petersburg as well as in the Gapar Aitiev Kyrgyz National Museum of Arts in Bishkek and in museums in Naryn and Mailuu-Suu. 

  • ICOM Member (International Council of Museums and Museum Workers), 2022
  • Selected for the Lauttasaari Manor Residence by the Kone Foundation, Helsinki, Finland (gave his residency to the Ukrainian artists in need), 2022
  • Matthew Nimetz Award for publication “How Is Internationalism to Be Understood? A Leninist Perspective on Identity Politics.” In: Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn (ed.). Lenin150 (Samizdat), 2nd, Expanded Edition. Daraja Press, 2021
  • Chevalier des L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (The Order of Arts and Letters). Professional award of the French Ministry of Culture and Communication for “outstanding contribution in the field of visual art and promotion of intercultural dialogue”, 2015
  • Contemporary Marxist Theory and Practice
  • Modern and Contemporary Visual Culture in Central Asia
  • Radical Imagination, Queer Politics, Theory and Art

Books:

  • Oksana Šatalova, Georgij Mamedov (Hrsg.). Verständnis des Sowjetischen in Zentralasien (Concepts of the Soviet in Central Asia). Berlin: Metropol-Verlag, 2021

Academic Articles:

  • Translating Art into Politics through Central Asian Feminist and Queer Fantasy. In: David W. Montgomery (editor). Central Asia. Contexts for Understanding. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2022

Essays in print:

  • Соучастие: о колониальности по-русски. Егана Джаббарова (ред.-сост.). Деколониальность: настоящее и будущее. Сборник статей. Москва: Горизонталь, 2022
  • Decolonial Efforts in the Post-Soviet Context. In: Ekaterina Degot, David Riff, Jan Sowa (eds.). Perverse? Decolonization? Berlin/Cologne: Archive Books/Akademie der Künste der Welt, 2021 (in English and German)
  • How Is Internationalism to Be Understood? A Leninist Perspective on Identity Politics. In: Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn (ed.). Lenin150 (Samizdat), 2nd Expanded Edition. Daraja Press, 2021
  • Radical Imagination Can Only Be Collective: Political (Re)Discovery of Soviet Dialectical Pedagogy. In: Anne Klontz, Johan Pousette (eds.). Collectively. Thinking Working Living Together. Stockholm: Art and Theory Publishing, 2020 (English and Swedish)

Essays online:

  • The Gonzo Weimar Germany of George Grosz.Jacobin, September 2022
  • The Unfree Love of “Big Joe”, Tribune, January 2022
  • Five Video Clips from Kyrgyzstan: Akyns. Norient, November 2021
  • TikTok and the Proletkult. Jacobin, June 2021
  • Art Through the Ages
  • Artistic Research Methods
  • Ethics of Artistic Production
  • Film Lab
  • Senior Project Seminar I, II