Georgy Mamedov is a curator and writer based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. History and practice of radical imagination and progressive re-interpretation and appropriation of the soviet socialist legacies are the central themes of his artistic and research projects. Georgy is the co-author of “Queer-Communist Manifesto” and several books including A Book on Happiness for Young (and not so) LGBT (and not only) People (Bishkek, 2020), the pioneering Russian language collection of feminist and queer science fiction, Utterly Other (Bishkek, 2018); Queer Communism is Ethics (Moscow, 2016); Concepts of the Soviet in Central Asia (Bishkek, 2016) and Bishkek Utopian (Bishkek, 2015). Georgy also regularly writes on politics, culture and art for international media outlets such as Jacobin and OpenDemocracy. As the day job Georgy holds a position of Assistant Professor of film and media arts at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek. In 2015, Georgy became a chevalier of the French Order of Arts and Letters.
Georgy Mamedov
laboratory speaker
From Extremities to Infinity: bodies, infrastructures and their (dis)connectivities
RECOMMENDED LINKS
Against Simple Answers: The Queer-Communist Theory of Evald Ilyenkov and Alexander Suvorov By Georgy Mamedov & Oksana Shatalova
The Unfree Love of ‘Big Joe’ By Georgy Mamedov
Queer in Space: Kollontai Commune Archive
‘We need to formulate a left-wing idea of happiness’
A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN BY VIRGINIA WOOLF
Against Simple Answers: The Queer-Communist Theory of Evald Ilyenkov and Alexander Suvorov By Georgy Mamedov & Oksana Shatalova
The Unfree Love of ‘Big Joe’ By Georgy Mamedov
Queer in Space: Kollontai Commune Archive
‘We need to formulate a left-wing idea of happiness’
A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN BY VIRGINIA WOOLF
