Post Tagged with: "Uyghur"
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Connecting through Nava
by Mukaddas Mijit Connecting through Nava: Documenting Shared Musical Heritage with Uzbek and Uyghur Musicians in Tashkent, March 2025 In March 2025, we embarked on a one-week field trip exploring the connections between Uzbek Maqam and Uyghur Muqam practices with few outstanding musicians. Our journey led us to the Yunus Rajabi Institute of Traditional Music in Tashkent- a landmark institution for Uzbek musical heritage. For this initial phase of our project, we […]
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Geopoetics
Geopoetics is a collaborative audiovisual experiment led by Mukaddas Mijit, featuring six Uyghur diaspora artists. Rooted in themes of displacement and the fragmented relationship to place, the project deconstructs conventional notions of geography and belonging. Through loosely defined instructions (score), the artists responded with a mosaic of soundscapes and visual narratives, exploring the emotional and physical landscapes of their current surroundings. Visit the Geopoetics website: Website link: Link: https://www.neroeditions.com/geopoetics The making […]
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Project Strands
MAQĀM BEYOND NATION is designed in the form of six interlinked research strands based in different contact zones across the maqām world. Strand 1: Maqām across the Soviet-Chinese divide Rachel Harris, Giovanni De Zorzi, Mukaddas Mijit This strand aims at “unbordering” Central Asian maqām repertoires across the former Soviet-Chinese divide. It focuses on repertoires canonised in the twentieth century as the separate Uzbek and Tajik Shashmaqām, and the Uyghur Twelve […]
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Keeping Uyghur Culture Alive in Exile
On February 24, 2024, the Orient-Institute, Istanbul hosted an ‘invitation-only’ event, “Keeping Uyghur Culture Alive in Exile.” The event responded to the repression, surveillance, mass detention and cultural destruction experienced by Uyghurs in recent years. The event focused on the ways in which academics, educators and artists have responded to fears of the erasure of Uyghur culture by engaging with exile communities who are striving to keep their culture alive. Rachel Harris, Professor […]