Public space Bishkek

Bishkek -  The public telephone book is omnipresent. Mostly job offers (tele marketing) or courses in English (Hot English). People living in the appartment buildings customize their the balconies. Store things like chairs for black day (when there is nothing in the shops anymore) Around the buildings we see little cities of storehouses. Single houses do have outside toilets. Even the rich people stick to that sometimes. There are public sittingrooms created by people on scattered big stones, on horsebacks (at the outskirts of the city) playing chess or backgammon. There are post Soviet slogans about how to behave, capitalist billboards, official and unofficial regulations written on walls. There is the graffiti referring to popculture. Tokyo hotel (loosers), Rammstein and Linkin park.
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab