The 5th Summer Seminars for Art Curators
August 15-20, 2010; Yerevan and Ijevan, Armenia
Participants: Elke Krasny/Armenak Grigoryan/Michelle Kasprzak/Karin Grigoryan/Sarah Rifky/Arevik Grigoryan/Patrycja Rylko/Marlène Perronet/Harutyun Alpetyan/Adnan Yildiz/Aykan Safoğlu/Carmen De Michele/Gor Engoyan/Nvard Yerkanian/Natuka Vatsadze/Liana Khachatryan/Viviana Checchia/Sona Melik-Karamyan/Ida Hirsenfelder/Pau catai Marles/Taguhi Torosyan
Volunteers and free participants: Shoair Mavlian/Özge Çelikaslan/Emanuele Braga/Maddalena Fragnito/Narek Tovmasyan/Marine Hovsepyan
Program
15.08 Sunday
10:00-10:30 Opening Remarks and Introduction
10:30-12:00 Lecture
Dr Margarita Tupitsyn: Russian Art as a Sisyphean Project
12:00-1:30 Lecture
Dr Vardan Azatyan: Myths and Visions of Artistic Avant-gardes in Armenia
18:00- 20:00 Presentations
Marlène Perronet: The Tea Ceremony
Elke Krasny: Notions of Transversality: Dialogues of Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics
Adnan Yıldız and Aykan Safoğlu: Artistic Dialog+ Curatorial Grammar
“AH OH” by ğ (soft g)
16.08 Monday
10:30-12:00 Lecture
Victor Tupitsyn: Seeing Through a Crack
12:00-13:30 Talk and Round-Table: Curatorial Interventions
Sarah Rifky: Reconjugating the Curator-Function: a case study in curating contemporary art, thinking about cultural policy and producing publics in Cairo
18:00- 20:00 Presentations (3)
Michelle Kasprzak: The Transient and Mutable Monument
Joanna Warsza: The Logic of the Projects in the Public Realm: A Talk on Slalom between
a social involvement and the politics of the hidden agendas (based on my
curatorial practice)
Ida Hirschenfelder: Land Art in SFRJ – Reinterpreted Monuments
17.08 Tuesday
Visit to art institutions in Yerevan
18:00 –20:00
Round-table discussion on cultural and institutional politics organized by Rene Gabri and Ayreen Anastas
18.08 Wednesday
Travel to Ijevan
19.08 Thursday
* Working language: English
* Working language: Armenian
10:00-11:30 Lecture*
Julian Vigo: Public Art in Haiti: The Goudou Goudou and the Museum of Disaster Relief
(Ijevan Tourism and Business Development Center)
12:00-14:00 Panel Discussion*
Art criticism and curatorial training school: “1985-1991 Ijevan Sculpture Symposium.Post Factum” (Ijevan Tourism and Business Development Center)
15:00-17:00 Presentations (4): Anthropology of the Communal**
(Ijevan Tourism and Business Development Center)
Pau Cata i Marles: Theory as Practice: A Creative Practitioner-based Research on CASAMARLES’ Local Context
Carmen De Michele: Tepito: Art in the “Rough Neighbourhood”
Natuka Vatsadze: From Apt Art to Art in the Apartment
Ruben Arevshatyan: Red Thread e-Journal
17:30-18:00 Presentation: The City: Borders and Definitions” workshop*
(Ijevan branch of Yerevan University)
Nvard Yerkanian, Harutyun Alpetyan
(Between students of Yerevan Open University and Yerevan State University, Ijevan Brach) 19.00-20.30 Roundtable * (Ijevan Tourism and Business Development Center)
On Cultural Exchange and Dialogue
Moderated by Eva Khachatryan
20.08, Friday
12:00-13:30 Talk and Round-Table: Curatorial Interventions*
Ida Hirshenfelder: SCCA- World of Art Curatorial Course
16:00-17:30 General Round-Table (House of Culture) **
