Persistent Patterns

Nurbol Nurakhmet, in conversation with Maia Kirchkheli, Diana Kudaibergen and Indira Dyussebayeva – Ziyabek

In this conversation, Nurbol Nurakhmet will be discussing his current artist residency where he continues working on Persistent Patterns, the subject matter that initiated from his solo show, Panopticon: The Unsettled Body that took place last year at Three Highgate Gallery. The theme will be uncovered from the psychoanalytical perspective in conversation with Maia Kirchkheli, focusing on the body and space, while the socio – political aspects will be covered by Diana Kudaibergen. The curator of Nurakhmet’s solo show and the current residency, Indira Dyussebayeva – Ziyabek will be moderating the conversation.

Dr. Diana Kudaibergen

Dr. Kudaibergenova studies different intersections of power relations through realms of political sociology dealing with concepts of state, nationalising regimes, and ideologies.

Dr. Diana T. Kudaibergenova received her PhD in 2015 from the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Her first book, Rewriting the Nation in Modern Kazakh Literature (Lexington, 2017) deals with the study of nationalism, modernisation, and cultural development in modern Kazakhstan. Her second book Toward Nationalizing Regimes. Conceptualizing Power and Identity in the Post-Soviet Realm focuses on the rise of nationalising regimes in post-Soviet space after 1991 with a prime focus on power struggles among the political and cultural elites in democratic and non-democratic states (Pittsburgh University Press, 2020). Currently, she is completing her third book manuscript on power, state, and resistance in contemporary art of the post-Soviet Eurasia and work on a new project dealing with state/regime theory.

Dr. Kudaibergenova spent more than two years researching and teaching first sociology major students in Turkmenistan in English at the International University of the Humanities and Development in Ashgabat. She has also held a postdoctoral position at the Lund University Sociology of Law Department and was a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the GCRF-funded COMPASS project at the Centre of Development Studies at POLIS Department at the University of Cambridge.

Dr Maia Kirchkheli

Dr   Maia   Kirchkheli is a psychoanalyst, a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society.   She   is   currently   in   full-time private practice in London. She teaches psychoanalytic theory   at   IOPA, BPA, and UCL. Besides being a psychoanalyst, she has been involved in various artistic pursuits and her main area of interest is an overlap of creativity and psychoanalysis. Kirchkheli, M (2017) ’Beyond words’ won the Winnicott Essay Prize marking the publication of the Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott by Oxford University Press in 2017. Her paper Holding and Visceral Attention, Bodily Concentration of an Analyst under Covid-19 Lockdown won Rozsika Parker Prize 2020, run by the Journal of British Psychotherapy where it was published.

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