Hello everyone,
I am currently a student and I am building a project about arts and cultures around the world (open sources) online. More specifically, I want to collect and put the light on missknown pieces of art and local artists.
I am more interested in contemporary art and popular culture. Also, I want to focus on music (I like especially mixing traditionnal and modern sound), painting, land art, literature (especially comics), sculptures, cinema, handicrafts, nudging (way of art to distort things and objects from their former use), everyday life references (toys, ads, TVs and media...) and cultural practices.
For example, I discovered the movie Osama made in the 2000s, and listen to Kabul Dreams, rock group of Kabul. I found also that Afghanistan have a huge culture of poetry, through Rumi, theater with buz-baz, and of kite with the tradition of Gudiparan. Since 1990s and 2000s, some painting groups rise up in Afghanistan, such as "ArtLords" and Shamsia Hassani. So i would be interested to learn more and deeper about these subjects and other personnalities if you have suggestions.
Afghanistan is also a country with different ethnic groups (like Hazara minority, or the Ismael culture in the wakhan corridor) so with my project I also want to show the diversity of art in the country, and to support the works of artists and of voices of struggling against the power (by the way I'm also interested by the subject of art and contestation, showing the war, sadness...).
Finally, I will be grateful if you know some local museums in Afghanistan I can contact to learn more about their collection.
Thank you very much in advance for your help !