The project emerges from a collaboration between four scholar-artists—one Kyrgyz and three international researchers at the University of Central Asia—working in partnership with the Dobolu community and its museum director.
A collage of villagers’ voices, documentary photography, and autoethnographic reflections presents both a portrait of a mountain community facing climate change and out-migration, and a meditation on the documentary process itself.
The work was exhibited as a participatory multimedia installation at the AS Art Gallery in Naryn as part of the Nomad 2024: The Infinite Sky festival of film, culture, and ideas.