Mariia Pankova is a multimedia artist and documentary filmmaker. She joined the program from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Maria’s research interests centered around regional variations of artistic identities and practices as well as art for social change. View her The Sounds of A City here, short documentary that features an elderly music school teacher who has been playing for tips on the streets of Bishkek, for twenty years. Her thesis project is titled “Cultural Politics and National Imaginaries in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan.” It took the form of a written academic thesis.
