Ash Bulayev

Ash Bulayev has worked for 20 years as curator, producer and artist, at the cross-section of contemporary performance and time-based visual arts.

In 2016-17, he was involved in the continuing development of the MA program in Expanded Curation at the Amsterdam University of the Arts - DAS Theatre program, established by Barbara van Lindt. Since 2015, he has collaborated as a creative producer and consultant with Dries Verhoeven, Lotte van den Berg, Miet Warlop, Maria Hassabi, DD Dorvillier, Julian Hetzel, Germaine Kruip and Kat Valastur.

Since 2015 he has been involved in researching new models for supporting contemporary performing artists whose art practice and means of production has become increasingly trans-national and borderless. In 2015 he organized several expert meetings to delve deeper into the above mentioned questions, at SPRING Festival (NL) in May 2015, and at BRUT Vienna (AT) in November 2015. In 2015, he was also involved in a research project with the Flanders Institute (Kunstenpunt) as part of the long-term research, Reframing the International – a keynote talk can be found here.

From 2012-2015 he was the Curator of Contemporary Performance at EMPAC (New Yοrk), commissioning new works by artists such as Ant Hampton, Eve Sussman + Simon Lee, Temporary Distortion, Lars Jan, Kris Verdonck, Ellie Ga and many others, as well as presenting the work of Rabih Mroue, Xavier Le Roy, Lisbeth Gruwez, Ralph Lemon, Marie Brassard, Clement Layes, Wojtek Ziemilski, Julien Maire, and other contemporary time-based artists.

From 2002-11, he was a Co-Artistic Director (in collaboration with Tzeni Argyriou) of amorphy.org, a collaborative platform for experiments in the fusion of performing arts and old/new media.

From 1991-2002 he lived and worked and played in New Yοrk City, learning what it means to make, to make with others, and to play seriously.

He has contributed to artistic research policy research by giving talks, leading mentoring sessions, and participating in various EU network projects at institutions such as: Flanders Art Institute (Belgium), Performing Arts Festival (Germany), Tanznacht 2016 (Germany), Dansehallerne and Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Denmark), RESHAPE EU project (2018-2021), ARC (Switzerland), Green Park (Greece), etc.

He holds an MA in performance from DasArts, an internationally acclaimed graduate program from the Amsterdam School of the Arts.