Jerūiyq

Journey Beyond the Horizon

Abstract

The Kazakhstan project at the 60th Venice Biennale (20 April 2024–24 November 2024) was titled Jerūiyq: Journey Beyond the Horizon. According to the curators, Anvar Musrepov and Danagul Tolepbay, it aimed to stimulate Kazakh decolonial futurism: “We wanted to create our own Wakanda, our post-nomadic essence, our ‘Kazakhness.’ Technology and the future are present in it, but they are not the primary focus. There is something beyond language, a spirituality, perhaps something connected to space and the landscape, our identity, which largely determines our way of thinking.” In these words we see how decolonial futurism functions as a creative disruptive fiction that mediates between forging spatial identity, geographical imagination, and decolonial indigeneity.