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      AICA 
      Armenia
      Summer 
      Seminars for Art Curators
      6-th 
      Edition
      THE 
      INSTITUTIONAL AND IDEOLOGICAL OPERATION OF TRANSNATIONAL ART 
      EVENTS
      July 
      25-August 4, Yerevan, 
      Armenia
       
  
    

      
      
      The 1989 Fall of Berlin Wall did not only mark the 
      collapse of the ideologically bipolar world order and the start of the 
      triumphant rhetoric of global capitalism but also the leveling of 
      contemporary art practices, representational mechanisms and institutional 
      structures. The historical collapse of state socialism also designated the 
      breakdown of an art system that relied on non-market driven consumption 
      and circulation. The unofficial art practices heretofore evolving behind 
      the Iron Curtain found a comfortable shelter in various transnational 
      biennials, art festivals, fairs, collections and discursive events 
      mushrooming since the 1990s.
The transnational art events are no longer 
      exhibitions in a traditional sense of art representation, but these are 
      global events that are also evolving in extra artistic domains that 
      include discussions, educational programs, networking and so on. “Global” 
      and mobile artists and curators, leaving the imprint of thousands of 
      carbon traces, fly from Moscow to Venice, from Sao Paolo to Seoul and from Gyumri to Beirut in order to 
      share the latest discursive vogue and the representational paradigm, the 
      possible potential of radical political art as well as the latest 
      curatorial stratagems and artistic debuts. 
Then, what are those 
      mechanisms, systems and ideologies of contemporary art representation that 
      construct the global art event in the transnational framework? How does 
      this framework impact certain local contexts? How is the aesthetical value 
      being constructed and articulated through such events?
By proposing the 
      above outlined framework, the 6th edition of the International Summer 
      Seminars for Curators in Yerevan is initiating a series of seminars, 
      lectures, discussions and public reading groups that aim at questioning 
      the economic, political and ideological bases of constructing the global 
      art event on one hand, and the participation of the contemporary art scene 
      in Armenia in those events on the other hand.
Coinciding with the 54th 
      Venice Biennial of 2011, where three Armenian curators are representing 
      three artists, a series of events is aimed at addressing the role of 
      global art events in reshaping Armenia’s cultural policy. We 
      will refer to the history of Armenia's participation in the 
      Biennial and its ideological and cultural-political implications. Hence, 
      the most important issue that we would like to propose relates to the role 
      of the curator, its purpose and function in relation both to the local 
      scene and the ongoing international redefinitions of the curator within 
      the framework of transnational art events.
The aim of the program is 
      twofold: to discuss a timely issue in the international arena and at the 
      same time address the experience of participation of the local context in 
      transnational art events. Further, we would like to extend these questions 
      to discuss issues related to the impact of these events on cultural policy 
      and institutional politics in the field of contemporary 
      art.
      PARTICIAPNTS: 
      Lecturers  
Misko Suvakovic, Beatrice von Bismarck, Bassam El Baroni, 
      Sarah Rifky

Presenters
Ozge Ersoy, Eleonora Farina, Maaike Gouwenberg, Isabella 
      Hughes, Milena Leszkowicz, Marianna Liosi, Kamil Julian 
      Malinowski Combiz Moussavi-Aghdam, Saša Nabergoj, Corina Oprea, 
      Claudia Slanar, Elisa Tosoni

Round-table 
      moderators
Angela Harutyunyan, WHW and 
      Nazareth Karoyan, Sasa Nabergoj, Sarah Rifky, Vardan 
      Azatyan
      Reading 
      session's conductor
Angela 
      Harutyunyan
      Critical & Curatorial 
      Studie's 
Lousine 
      Navasartyan, Vaghinak Ghazaryan, Sona Asatryan, Inna Kholodova, Susanna 
      Vardanyan

ABSTRACTS
      International & Global Nomad:Art & 
      the Transcultural 
Misko Suvakovic 
      

In this two-part lecture I will point 
      to the transformation of the intercultural status of art in modernism, 
      postmodernism and contemporary times. I will discuss the imperial model of 
      the influence of large dominant cultures on small marginal cultures. 
      Further I will discuss the influence of French, German and Russian art at 
      the turn of the 19th and the 20th century. I will perform a model of 
      cultural imperialism. I will consider the notion of style in international 
      Western art, design and architecture between the 1930s and 1950s. I will 
      point to the American cultural imperialism and Soviet internationalism 
      during the Cold War. I will further interpret the concepts of the plural 
      and the transcultural in postmodernism. It will help to indicate the 
      difference between the nomadic and transcultural art practices. I will 
      introduce the concept of the global and point to characteristics of a 
      global art. The concepts of regional, glocal and transitional art in 
      relation to globalization will be discussed and performed parallel to 
      analysis of artistic practices and art 
      institutions.

Curatorial Conditions – Relations in 
      Process
Beatrice von Bismarck

Collective forms of curating have been a trend in recent 
      years. It has become obvious especially for international large scale 
      exhibitions, from the teams at the Manifesta, via the various Biennials – 
      the one in Berlin, Venice, Istanbul or 
      the Caribbean -- to Okwui Enwezor’s 
      documenta 11 in 2002 or the travelling exhibition “Utopia Station”. While 
      these forms of collaboration allow for synergies with respect to expertise 
      as well as to symbolic capital – fame and status, they also possess a 
      self-reflexive potential analyzing, questioning and redefining the 
      conditions and relations in the field. The talk will trace recent examples 
      of the latter approach and analyze its implications for the notion of 
      authorship and work within the field of the curatorial. As a 
      transdisciplinary, transprofessional and transcultural mode of working 
      together, collective curating mirrors not only the connectivity specific 
      for curatorial practice but also the questions pertaining its economic 
      aspects. Activities, roles and positions can be brought together in ever 
      newly definable re lationships. What gains central importance in this 
      context is the capacity of collectivity to accumulate different forms of 
      capital, its operational function and the techniques and strategies 
      employed to this end.

Bassam El 
      Baroni
Just What Is It that Makes Today's 
      Transnationalism So Prescribed, So Paradoxical? *

After and sometimes during the span of a "transnational" art 
      event (such as a biennial) journalistic and critical material circulates 
      pointing towards the event's over or under-representation of artists from 
      a certain region, the nationalities of the participating artists etc. In 
      these debates the wider issues of what kind of art is subject to exclusion 
      in present day "trans-nationalism" and the reasons behind this supposed 
      ineligibility are often overlooked. The talk will claim that the majority 
      of art being produced around the world is non-compatible with the paradigm 
      of contemporary discursive art production that the curators of such events 
      aspire to. In fact, it might not be a matter of aspiration but actually of 
      obligation. Most peoples' imaginary of what art is can be tagged under the 
      term 'Fine art', art characterized by the academic application or 
      manipulation of canonical art histories. The present day biennale and 
      similar event structures favor 'contemporary art' over 'fine art', the 
      reasons given are unconvincing for most people. It is in unraveling, 
      analyzing, and healing the schism between these two nodes of art that 
      might lay a more pertinent chance for a radical transnational 
      model.
* Based on the title of Richard 
      Hamilton's 1956 work entitled "Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So 
      Different, So Appealing?"

Sarah 
      Rifky
On Being an Institution

The discussion on a desire for increased autonomy in the arts 
      is by no means new. Increasingly, the desire of being autonomous or 
      independent is outlined in the way one choses to formulate what one does 
      as an artist and as a curator, be that individually or collectively. An 
      analysis of the daily trivial aesthetics that make up the work of 
      independent, self-employed and self-invested people, including artists and 
      curators, is integral towards understanding the structures within which we 
      operate primarily governed by a de facto social contract that binds our 
      individual practices into a type of collective action derived from a 
      shared collective intentionality. What 'I' do becomes part of what 'we' 
      do. The modus operandi that governs our relations and our work is 
      increasingly tending towards a form of 'self-institutionalization'. We 
      become locked into a system of relations that predicates certain forms of 
      work and responsibilities that lie outside of the bounds of acting on the 
      pure intentionality of hopes, desires, dreams and visions. The flexibility 
      and autonomy of practice dissipates in this collective condition whereby 
      we exist in relation to each other in the manner of institutions rather 
      than persons.
To be able to think about 
      institutions, it is necessary to think oneself into the institution. What 
      is an institution and how can we perform ourselves as institutions in a 
      way that deflects the precariousness of new forms of flexible labour 
      within an increasingly intertwined economy that subsumes us, and art? This 
      and other questions pertaining to time, responsibility and self-fashioning 
      of institutions will form the basis of this lecture, and the subsequent 
      moderated 
      discussion.


PRESENTATIONS

Ozge 
      Ersoy
Transnational Art Events and Regional Artistic 
      Practices

Ersoy’s presentation will 
      introduce her two recent projects, How to Begin (2010) and The Timeline 
      (2010). How to Begin is a publication that invites artists and curators to 
      envision the possible impacts of the soon-to-be-built Guggenheim Abu Dhabi 
      on their own practices in particular, and the art scenes of the Middle East in general. The Timeline (2010) takes 
      the form of a poster that suggests the question of how exhibition 
      practices could engage contemporary art that tackles peoples, places and 
      cultures which once constituted the expansive Ottoman 
      Empire. The Timeline acts as an interpretive and suggestive 
      mapping exercise as it highlights the changes in the fields of museology, 
      as well as visual arts and culture during the 19th and 20th century 
      Ottoman Empire. It also raises questions 
      about the ways in which contemporary art, modern art and traditional art 
      forms have been categorized through clear-cut definitions and so-called 
      ‘ruptures’ from their predecessors.

Ersoy’s presentation will focus on two fundamental questions: 
      What is lost when curatorial and critical accounts of non-Western 
      contemporary art are limited to ahistorical and essentialist readings? And 
      what is the potential of emerging art organizations and museums to 
      challenge the existing representational mechanisms in contemporary arts? 
      Ersoy’s interest lies in rethinking the representational mechanisms in 
      this field, as well as our very expectations from curatorial practices and 
      emerging infrastructural models in the 
      arts.


Eleonora 
      Farina
National Art Systems vs. Transnational Art 
      Events: the Romanian case

Compared to 
      other East European artistic milieus, Romania has managed to strongly 
      establish itself at an international level presenting artists in major 
      transnational art events. The most impressive example is the one by the 
      dissident Ion Grigorescu (1945), who during the last years has exhibited 
      at documenta12 (2007) and at the 6th Berlin
Biennale (2010) and is representing the Romanian Pavilion at 
      the 54th Venice Biennial. How is it possible to build a national art 
      system to support the enormous international (and, let us say, occidental) 
      demand? How can a country that has just come out of a communist 
      dictatorship (the Ceauşescu's one) propose, or better impose, its own 
      artistic choices? Or maybe is it more suitable to talk about the 
      'colonization' of Romanian art by foreign curators? Taking my cue from my 
      experience as assistant curator at the National Museum of Contemporary Art 
      in Bucharest (MNAC), I will discuss the Romanian art scene focusing on the 
      mechanism of exportation of local art out of its national borders: from 
      the disputed MNAC to the internationally known Pavilion Unicredit (founder 
      of the Bucharest Biennial), from the independent The Paintbrush Factory in 
      Cluj-Napoca to the new Club Electro Putere in Craiova, from the numerous 
      not-for-profit spaces (among all the Centre for Visual Introspection in 
      Bucharest, curator of the Romanian Pavilion at the last Venice Biennial) 
      to the active commercial galleries (i.e. Plan B in Cluj-Napoca, dislocated 
      in Berlin for three years) ending with the much needed art magazines 
      (principally “IDEA art + society”).

Maaike 
      Gouwenberg
Local Audiences, Global 
      Curating

Within my practice as a 
      curator there are different elements to focus on. Here in Yerevan, I would 
      like to give you a small introduction about myself and where I come from, 
      the scene and the changes at the moment in The Netherlands, after which I 
      would like to concentrate on two things. The part will focus on the 
      question “How to show a project that connects both to the local context 
      and the international art scene while at the same time critically engages 
      with the given structures of the Netherlands, where community 
      art and social projects are pushed through by the (local) 
      government?”
The second part will focus on an 
      ongoing project. It is a close collaboration with artist Gerbrand Burger 
      who will make a performance that deals with the (impossible) attempt to 
      take on the view of the outsider, collected in a story that will be turned 
      into a theater play and video work. The idea of the outsider connected to 
      the role of the curator within the global art scene might be a good 
      starting point for a conversation. The underlying structure of the 
      organization, which deals with questions on the role of the curator as 
      producer, and has as one of the main goals to place the artist and his 
      work at the core of the program will be brought to 
      attention.

Isabella 
      Hughes
Contemporary Art: An Agent of Cultural 
      Diplomacy

Getting back to the core of 
      cultural diplomacy, a definite buzz word these days: it's about exchanges 
      and building relationships between people and cultures different than our 
      own. I will discuss the power that contemporary art has to build greater 
      understanding, tolerance and awareness both within the US, where I am from, by focusing on new 
      immigrant and indigenous communities, as well as contemporary art and 
      cultural diplomacy in a more global context, with an emphasis on the 
      Middle East. I'll also reference my own 
      background as an Iranian-American, born and raised in Hawai'i, now living 
      in the Arab world and how this impacts my curatorial practice and the 
      projects that I develop. I will reference two past exhibitions that I've 
      curated and one upcoming project and how they relate to this 
      topic.

Milena 
      Leszkowicz
Contemporary Art and 
      Anthropology

How can contemporary art 
      criticism benefit from cultural and social anthropology?
Recently a number of publications and workshops including the 
      books Contemporary
Art and Anthropology and 
      Between Art and Anthropology edited by Chris Wright and
Arndt Schneider and the Connecting Art and Anthropology (CAA) 
      workshop in 2007 pointed towards a convergence of art and anthropology. 
      While cultural and social anthropologist reach out to the art world to 
      find new ways of representation and more freedom for experiment, the 
      understanding and interpretation of contemporary art production can deeply 
      benefit from anthropological approaches and methods. In reliance on 
      ethnographic fieldwork anthropologists generate much of their data and 
      knowledge through direct, personal interactions and observations creating 
      in-depth and thick descriptions. Such ethnographic studies in the field of 
      art practice and criticism can be used to challenge and analyze processes 
      of value production or understanding general processes underlying the 
      cultural connections and clashes which appear when art (increasingly 
      non-Western art) is exhibited in inter - and transnational 
      contexts.

Transnational exhibitions and 
      art events increasingly confront artistic expressions based on different 
      local, cultural and political influences with a globalized, international 
      art market and context. It seems that anthropologists might be uniquely 
      positioned to understand art as an activity embedded in a complex set of 
      social relationships and cultural 
      influences.


Marianna 
      Liosi
Residency zine

Among other projects I’ve developed so far, one in particular 
      fits with the topic of the Seminars. It’s a long term work which started 
      last year and arose from the interest in residency programs as one of the 
      strongest examples of transnational events in the contemporary art system. 
      The research consisted of mapping residencies provided by Western European 
      art institutions, in order to list who and how many artists from Central- 
      East areas caught the attention of the Western art system in the past. 
      Consequently, a report of various ways each artist experienced the 
      residency was collected. These contributes will be part of an e-zine, 
      temporary entitled Res-zine that should ideally circulate by email and 
      would be periodically brought up to date.
The 
      project aims at mapping artists/curators passages from a context, a social 
      history, a society and a culture to another, and at highlighting the role 
      that residency programs play in the art system, in terms of relationships 
      among people, territories and point of views. Behind this, key topics 
      concern the definition of geographical and political borders and its 
      influence on the art system; the growing network occurring thanks to 
      artists’ movements and to physical and cultural passages and its effect. 
      Accordingly, the Residency-zine would become a means to give form to the 
      network and spread information, since it is free of charge, nonofficial 
      and non-professional. It will represent a virtual map of artists’ 
      movements and physical and cultural passages, as well as a way cross 
      political and geographical borders.

Kamil Julian 
      Malinowski
Daniela Kostova Unorthodox 
      Image

I would like to present the 
      exhibition Daniela Kostova Unorthodox Image that I organized in early 2010 
      in Warsaw in the framework of 93 Foundation, and the project-book I issued 
      from that.
The project evolved around the 
      Alexander Nevski Orthodox Church, built by the Russian Church and co-funded by the Russian Empire – a 
      huge church imposed over Warsaw, located at the Saxon Square 
      and hated by the Poles. I invited artist Daniela Kostova to work with the 
      (non-existing nowadays) church, and as a result new works were created. 
      The project touched upon political and historical issues related to the 
      Russian presence in Warsaw as well as contemporary 
      functioning of unwanted historical architecture that often goes covered 
      with huge advertisements. Furthermore, Unorthodox Image interrogated the 
      relation between image, memory (screen memory) and (official) history: the 
      way they complement and contradict one other.
The project book includes both textual and visual material, 
      where images create their own narration. The publication is a survey from 
      analysing the work by Daniela Kostova, through texts covering the 
      background of the history of the Saxon Square and Alexander Nevski 
      Orthodox Church with archival photographs, to essay on art of Daniela 
      Kostova, a Bulgarian-born and New York-based 
      artist.

Combiz 
      Moussavi-Aghdam
The Narratives of Art History and 
      Iranian Intelligentsia in the 1960s and 1970s

Since the early twentieth century, many Iranian intellectuals 
      have attempted to construct and demonstrate their new identity with 
      reliance on their national history vis-à-vis the history of the modern 
      West. Associated with nationalism, Shiite Islam and modernist currents, 
      certain narratives of Iranian history shaped modern Iranian subjectivities 
      during the past century. In this context, the development of art 
      historical narratives in intellectual environment played a significant 
      role in the flourishing of modernist artistic trends in 
      Iran of the 1960s and 1970s. On 
      the one hand, the narratives of both Iranian and Western art history were 
      mainly based on the writings of Euro-American scholars with their 
      Orientalist and colonialist views. On the other hand, both Marxist and 
      Formalist approaches in art criticism were highly influential in 
      determining the new modes of image representation, specifically when the 
      Cold War reached its zenith within mentioned period. Today, with reference 
      to art history books and journals available at the time, policies on 
      translation and publication, university curricula and exhibition 
      catalogues are be able to analyse the flourishing of modernist trends in 
      Iran, and the ways images are chosen, reproduced and located within the 
      historical narratives.
This talk intends 
      explore the links between the narratives of art history and the history of 
      intellectual trends in 1960s and 1970s in Iran. 
      Despite the fact that visual analysis can play a significant role in 
      showing how modern Iranian identities have been developed, almost all 
      intellectual discourses have failed to address the ways the collective 
      subjectivities are imag(in)ed through visual arts and its history in 
      Iran. In this paper, I will 
      focus on the role of ideological agendas in the construction of modern 
      Iranian art history and the approaches in which Orientalism meets 
      nationalist and religious tendencies. Revealing the limits and problems of 
      these canonised approaches in art history will shed light on some 
      unexplored angles of Iranian identity today.

Saša 
      Nabergoj
Dolce Far Niente: The Praise of 
      Laziness

In this lectures Saša Nabergoj 
      will try to defend the right to leisure in contemporary hyper-productive 
      society. She will examine the roots of our contenporary obsession with 
      work and in the 18th century. The capitalist economic system was formed 
      during the Enlightenment, and within this system rational discourse on 
      work and economy emerged. At the same time, however, an alternative 
      discourse celebrating laziness was established. In this discourse lies the 
      roots of resistance to participation in a social project based on the work 
      ethic, and the beginning of scepticism about the belief that productivity 
      and the production of goods are the ultimate goals in life. The generally 
      accepted circle of supply and demand fuelling the consumer society of the 
      21st century will be questioned with reference to artists such as Kazimir 
      Malevich, Marcel Duchamp and Mladen Stilinović. Laziness will be presented 
      as an alternative which can turn the need for (multi)production into 
      freedom for production.

Corina 
      Oprea
Breaking Through the Political Ideology within 
      the Venice 
      Biennale

Since its launch in 1895, the 
      Venice Biennale has been constructed on the politics of nation-states. 
      Besides being an artistic platform the biennale functions as a marketing 
      agency for states and regions. Individual countries are showcasing in 
      national pavilions their own artists and representing their nations. 
      Through the years, the biennale mirrored also the global geo-politics and 
      the changes happening on the European map. New countries are represented 
      each year, similar to other transnational events, such as Sports Olympics. 
      In some cases, state sanctioned identities are being highjacked by 
      individual or political interests in order to achieve individual 
      curatorial or artistic projects.
The biennial 
      has also become the stage for initiatives that use the political charge of 
      the event to reach across with a meaningful content that questions 
      political strategies within artistic 
      contexts.


Claudia 
      Slanar
InBetween Disruption: About the Connection 
      Between Artistic and Political Events

How does the character of an event frame an exceptional state 
      interrupting our ontological state of being? How and why do artistic 
      practices that deal with events investigate not only a rupture that an 
      event (and its often traumatic experience) presents in the fabric of our 
      sensual world, but also seek to re-visit it, to re-frame and re-shape the 
      “distribution of the sensible” (Jacques Rancière)? Is there an intrinsic 
      quality or potential to (hopefully and possibly) change the course of a 
      particular historical narrative when dealing with such a practice and can 
      the “thought-provoking” (Claude Lefort) nature of an event be reshaped 
      again by its re-staging?

Elisa 
      Tosoni
Transnational Artistic Events: On Temporality 
      and its Repercussions on the Local Context

Is it possible to imagine a biennial - the most iconic of 
      transnational art events - as something that could possibly exceed its 
      canonized temporality? Could an event be considered not as a momentum, but 
      rather as an iteration of simultaneous momenta, for which power resides in 
      a moving - evolving - mass, becoming something that stretches across a 
      time-lapse of two years? Or would the art system then face the paradox of 
      a continuous, eternal biennial, in which one edition fades through to the 
      next? And, again, what are the consequences of the voracious rhythms of 
      artistic production and consumption, often dictated by those of global 
      institutions, on the locality? How could a host city or territory forge a 
      biennial in becoming, adapted to the rhythms of its own social norms, its 
      inhabitants and geographies, aiming towards sustainability and perhaps a 
      fruitful slowness? Rethinking the temporality of such events, by shifting 
      the attention away from the “finished” exhibition and artworks, the 
      opening week and the art professionals’ tourism, towards a continuously 
      accretive process, in which a variety of tangents unfold simultaneously or 
      remain idle, appears to be a solution to connect with - rather than tower 
      over - the local context.
The presentation 
      will address these questions through the lens of three case studies: BB3 
      (Bucharest, Romania, 2008), Manifesta (with particular focus on the 
      exhibition The Rest of Now, and its offspring Tabula Rasa, at Manifesta 7 
      - Bolzano, Italy, 2008) and the 6th Momentum Biennial (the exhibition 
      Imagine Being Here Now, and its itinerant performance program - Moss, 
      Norway, and across Scandinavia, 2011).
      
PROGRAM

July 25, 
      Monday

11:00- Breakfast
11:30 – Opening Remarks
Angela 
      Harutyunyan and Nazareth Karoyan
12:00pm 
      –Lecture
Beatrice Von Bismarck, Curatorial 
      Conditions – Relations in Process
1:30-2:30pm 
      – Lunch
2:30pm –4:00 Round-Table 
      Discussion
On the Temporality of 
      Transnational Art Events
Moderated by Angela 
      Harutyunyan
6:30 - Introduction on Suburb 
      Cultural Center by Eva Khachatryan
7:00 – 
      8:30 Public Presentations (Venue—Mkhitar Sebastatsi Fine Arts 
      School)
Eleonora Farina, National Art Systems 
      vs. Transnational Art Events: The Romanian Case
Elisa Tosoni, Transnational Artistic Events: On Temporality 
      and Its Repercussions On The Local Context
Maaike Gouwenberg, Local Audiences, Global 
      Curating

July 26, 
      Tuesday

10:30-Breakfast
11:30- Lecture
Misko Suvakovic, 
      International & Global Nomad: Art & The Transcultural, Part 
      I
1:00-2:00pm –Lunch
2:00-3:30 – Round-Table
Curating 
      a Biennial, Moderated By WHW and Nazareth Karoyan (TBC)
7:00- 8:30 Public Presentations (Venue – The Club, 40 
      Tumanyan str.)
Claudia Slanar, In-between 
      Disruption: About the Connection between Artistic and Political 
      Events
Ozge Ersoy, Transnational Art Events 
      and Regional Artistic Practices
Corina Oprea, 
      Breaking Through the Political Ideology within the Venice 
      Biennale

July 27, 
      Wednesday

10:30– 
      Breakfast
11:30-Lecture
Misko Suvakovic, International & Global Nomad: Art & 
      the Transcultural, Part II
1:00-2:00 – 
      Lunch
2:00-3:30 –Round Table 
      Discussion
Institutional Frameworks of 
      Transnational Art Events, Moderated By Sasa Nabergoj
7:00-8:30- Public Presentations SWEET 60s in Yerevan, 
      transit.at (Harutyun Galents Museum, behind Mergelyan 
      Institute of Physics) 

SWEET 60s is a long term 
      experimental, curatorial, scientific and educational research project that 
      investigates the hidden territories of the revolutionary period of the 
      1960s through contemporary artistic and theoretical perspectives, which 
      has developed around itself a wide international network of interested and 
      cooperating individuals and institutions. 

The curatorial and artistic focus of SWEET 60s lies on "post 
      ideological societies" (in post-Soviet, post socialist, Eastern European, 
      Middle Eastern, West and Central Asian as well as North African countries 
      and in a second phase in China and Latin America), in making a comparative 
      analysis and contextualizing the historical developments in the arts, 
      culture and societies of the 60s and 70s and researching their subsequent 
      effects on contemporary socio-political and cultural situations. The 
      Yerevan 
      presentation for the International Curatorial Summer School brings 
      together key personalities involved in the project. The participants will 
      give an insight into their practice in regard to the project „Sweet 
      60s“.

Introduction - Ruben Arevshatyan 
      artist, art critic and independent curator, Yerevan and Georg Schöllhammer 
      editor, author, curator and editor-in-chief of Springerin magazine, 
      Vienna

Speakers

Ali Akay curator, sociologist, Mimar Sian 
      University, Istanbul 
Keti Chukhrov philosopher, Institute of 
      Philosophy, Moscow
Ivet Curlin curator, member of 
      'What, How & for Whom' (WHW) 
      curatorial collective,
Zagreb Sohrab Mahdavi cofounder and English 
      editor of Tehran Avenue magazine, Tehran 
Lali 
      Partenava, Art Historian and Critic, Tbilisi.
„Sweet 60s“is supported by Allianz 
      Kulturstiftung and the European Commission through the Culture 
      Program.
ERSTE Foundation is the main partner of 
      tranzit.at.

The panel is coorganized by International 
      Curatorial Summer School - Yerevan

July 28, 
      Thursday

10:30 – Breakfast
11:00 
      – Lecture
Sarah Rifky, On Being an 
      Institution
1:00-2:00- 
      Lunch
2:00-3:30 – Round-Table 
      Discussion
Labour, Value and Art Production in a 
      Transnational Framework
Moderated By Sarah 
      Rifky
7:00-8:30 – Public Presentations (Venue – 
      Cafesjian Museum Foundation)
Kamil Julian Malinowski, Daniela: Kostova 
      Unorthodox Image (Suburb Center’s 
      presentation)
Isabella Hughes, Contemporary Art: An Agent 
      Of Cultural Diplomacy
Sasa Nabergoj, The Praise of 
      Laziness 

29th July, 
      Friday
Visits to Art Institutions: National Art 
      Gallery, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Arts 
      (ACCEA)

July 30th and 31th - Weekend Retreat to 
      Lake Sevan 

August 1st, 
      Monday
11:00-2:00 – Visits to Art Institutions: Museum 
      of Modern Art, Cafesjian Foundation, Art Laboratory, 
      etc.
5:00-8:00 -Reading Sessions In Various Locations 
      In Yerevan
Conducted By Angela 
      Harutyunyan

August 2nd, 
      Tuesday
10:30 – Breakfast
11:00- 
      Lecture
Bassem El Baroni, Just What Is It that Makes 
      Today's Transnationalism So Prescribed, So 
      Paradoxical?
1:00-2:00- 
      Lunch
2:00- 3:30 – Round-Table 
      Discussion
Transnational Art Events and Local Cultural 
      Politics
Moderated By Vardan 
      Azatyan
7:00-8:30pm – Public Presentations (Venue – 
      Narekatsi Cultural Center, near Vernissage)
Mariana 
      Losi, Residency Zine
Milena Leszkowicz, Contemporary 
      Art and Anthropology
Combiz Moussavi Aghdam, The 
      Narratives Of Art History And Iranian Intelligentsia In The 1960s And 
      1970s 
      
      
August 3rd-4th, Wednesday - 
      Thursday
11:00-2:00 – Visits to Art Institutions: 
      Museum of Modern Art, Cafesjian Foundation, Art Laboratory, 
      etc.
5:00-8:00 -Reading Sessions In Various Locations 
      In Yerevan
Conducted By Angela 
      Harutyunyan

Boris Groys, “Art and Money” and 
      “Comrades of Time”
Allan Badiou, exceprts from The 
      Communist Hypothesis
Agamben –“Author as 
      Gesture”
Bataille – The Story of the Eye, Part 
      II
Jalal Toufic –Undeserving Lebanon, 
      excerpts
12:00-4:00 – Visits to Art Institutions and 
      Artists’ Studios

Intersections: Critical and 
      Curatorial Practices of Art and Art Education, ed. By Angela Harutyunyan. 
      PrintInfo: Yerevan, 
      2011 
      
       
      www.aica.am 

       
      Sources: 
      www.artservis.org

      www.curating.infors

      naac.am

      summerschoolforcuratorsyerevan.blogspot.com

      queeringyerevan.blogspot.com

       
  
    

       
      PARTNERS:
       
      "Mkhitar Sebastatzi " Fine 
      Arts School 		 	   		  
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