OLD WORLD ORDER / NEW WORLD ORDERS is an artist film exhibition programme curated by Tendai John Mutambu for the British Council and LUX, which explores topics such as national identity, racial and cultural histories, internationalism, local versus global.

The OLD WORLD ORDER / NEW WORLD ORDERS programme contains a curated compilation of four works, alongside associated installations. The flexible nature of the programme means that collaborating curators choose some or all of the works for their exhibition and can introduce other artworks as they wish.

'With new constituencies forming, others renewed and boundaries being re-drawn, urgent questions surrounding belonging and identity loom over our communities and institutions. What, then, can history teach us about the strength and fragility of collectivity, nationhood and internationalism?' - Tendai John Mutambu, Curator

Collaborating partners and venues

• Artspace Aotearoa, Auckland, New Zealand (1 December 2020 – 12 December 2020)
• ArtMeken Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan (20 September 2019 – 20 October 2019)
• Shymkent Fine Art Museum, Shymkent, Kazakhstan (14 June 2019 – 14 July 2019)

Artspace Aotearoa, Auckland, New Zealand (1 December 2020 – 12 December 2020)

Exhibition Title: OLD WORLD ORDER / NEW WORLD ORDERS

Artworks exhibited:

• Callum Hill, Crowtrap, 2018, 15 minutes (LUX)
• Rosalind Nashashibi, The States of Things, 2000, 3 minutes, 18 seconds (British Council)
• Luke Fowler, ENCEINDRE, 2018, 20 minutes, 41 seconds LUX)
• Morgan Quaintance, Another Decade, 2018, 26 minutes and 50 seconds (LUX)

No public programme due to Covid-19.

ArtMeken Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan (20 September 2019 – 20 October 2019)

Exhibition Title: OLD WORLD ORDER / NEW WORLD ORDERS

Curator: Valeria Ibrayeva

Artworks exhibited:

• Callum Hill, Crowtrap, 2018, 15 minutes (LUX)
• Rosalind Nashashibi, The States of Things, 2000, 3 minutes, 18 seconds (British Council)
• Luke Fowler, ENCEINDRE, 2018, 20 minutes, 41 seconds LUX)
• Morgan Quaintance, Another Decade, 2018, 26 minutes and 50 seconds (LUX)

Public Programme:

• Artist talk: Zoya Falkova ‘Hybrid Epistemes of Post-Colonialism'
• Artist talk: Saule Dyussenbina ‘GIF Animation as a Means to Construct History’
• Artist talk: Yerbossyn Meldibekov ‘Mutations and Transformations in a Post-Truth Era’
• Artists talk: Yelena and Victor Vorobyovy ‘Document and Metaphor’

Shymkent Fine Art Museum, Shymkent, Kazakhstan (14 June 2019 – 14 July 2019)

Exhibition Title: OLD WORLD ORDER / NEW WORLD ORDERS

Curator: Aigul Ibrayeva

Artworks exhibited:

• Said Atabekov, Steppen Wolves series, 2014, photographs
• Callum Hill, Crowtrap, 2018, 15 minutes (LUX)
• Rosalind Nashashibi, The States of Things, 2000, 3 minutes, 18 seconds (British Council)
• Luke Fowler, ENCEINDRE, 2018, 20 minutes, 41 seconds LUX)
• Morgan Quaintance, Another Decade, 2018, 26 minutes and 50 seconds (LUX)

Public Programme:

• Curator talk: ‘Creative Initiatives. Multimedia Exhibitions on the Platform’
• Artist talk: Said Atabekov ‘How the Steppe Wolves series was created.’
• Artist talk: Smail Bayaliyev: ‘The History of the Kyzyl Traktor art group’
• Artist talk: Vitaliy Simakov ‘Form, Space and Structure’

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OLD WORLD ORDER / NEW WORLD ORDERS is part of WE ARE HERE: Artists’ Moving Image from the British Council Collection and LUX – a series of five artists’ film programmes curated by Tendai John Mutambu for the British Council and LUX, an international arts agency that supports and promotes artists’ moving image practices.

Each programme is curated around a theme: national identity, marginality, intimacy, the future and the archive.

WE ARE HERE interrogates how outstanding emerging and established British or UK-based contemporary artists are influenced by these themes and how they explore them through biography, documentary, poetry and fiction.