The World of Art program on 5th Summer Seminars for Art Curators

Aesthetic Communities and Contextual Translation of Communal Art

August 15 - 17, 2010, Yerevan, Armenia
August 18 - 20, 2010, Ijevan, Armenia

SCCA-Ljubljana and The World of art regularly cooperate with AICA-Armenia association on preparation of International Summer Seminars for Art Curators in Armenia. The seminar each year brings together international art curators, critics and theorist to a series of workshops, seminars, lectures and public presentation, which centre around debates on aspects of art criticism, curating, cultural policy and critical practices.

The 5th edition of the seminar is going to be focused on a theme of community art and aesthetic communities which are subject to interpretations in different historical time frames, when the original meaning might be reinterpreted or even lost. Some of the questions raised, include the problems of reception and contextual translation of art works produced under different historical circumstances. In this aspect it is necessary to understand the role that the curator plays in translating the perceptual politics that perpetuate in the understanding of a work of art. What happens to the work of art when both its intended message and its addressee are lost? What becomes of a specific community in which the work is situated? What is the role of critics, curators, historians and writers, who exposes, reinterprets and repositions the communal work?

The program of the seminar is going to be comprised of two parts. The first part entitled Aesthetic Communities and Contextual Translation of Communal Art will take place in Yerevan from August 15th till August 17th, while the second part The Communal Function of a Monument will be held in Ijevan from August 18th till 20th.

The Program will accommodate daily lectures by invited specialists such as Victor and Margarita Tupitsyn, Julian Vigo, Vardan Azatyan and Joanna Warsza as well as round-table discussions and presentations by the participants.

Practical and theoretic educational programme World of Art, organised by SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts – Ljubljana (Slovenia) since 1998 will also be part of a seminar. Ida Hiršenfelder, Digital Video Archive DIVA Station assistant at SCCA-Ljubljana, will in the frame of the seminar on the basis of a case study and some additional published sources open a discussion about the changing purpose of curatorial educational programmes and the reconceptualising the role of curators in the past decade.

5th Summer Seminars for Art Curators

Organisator: AICA-Armenia, established and registered under the name National Association of Art Critics, was founded in 2005. It is the national Armenian brunch of the International Association of Art Critics. The goal of AICA-Armenia is to re-establish the double responsibility of art criticism, spreading critical perception on artists and society in respect to art history, in all diversity of its contemporary expressions. Its activities include organization of conferences, seminars, public discussions, art historical research; production of critical and theoretical texts in printed and electronic media; defence of the professional copyright and moral interests of the critics; partnership and networking with international art organizations and implementation of exchange programs.
President of AICA-Armenia: Nazareth Karoyan
Member of AICA-Armenia: Angela Harutyunyan
Coordination and communication: Marianna Hovhannisyan
PR and Documentation: Karin Grigoryan

Volunteers and free participants: Shoair Mavlian (UK/Australia), Özge Çelikaslan (Turkey), Emanuele Braga (Italy), Maddalena Fragnito (Italy), Narek Tovmasyan (Armenia)

Partnerji: SCCA-Ljubljana / World of art, BM SUMA (Istanbul), Townhouse Gallery (Cairo) in SCCA-Alma-Aty

Participants: Elke Krasny (Austria), Armenak Grigoryan (Armenia), Michelle Kasprzak (Netherlands), Karin Grigoryan (Armenia), Xenia Nikolskaya (Sweden/Egypt), Arevik Grigoryan (Armenia), Patrycja Rylko (Poland), Marlène Perronet (France), Harutyun Alpetyan (Armenia), Adnan Yildiz (Turkey), Carmen De Michele (Germany), Gor Engoyan (Armenia), Nvard Yerkanian (Armenia), Natuka Vatsadze (Georgia), Liana Khachatryan (Armenia), Viviana Checchia (Italy), Sona Melik-Karamyan (Armenia), Ida Hiršenfelder (Slovenia), Pau cata i Marles (Catalan/Spain), Taguhi Torosyan (Armenia)

Supporter: OSI Transkaukazja Embassy of France in Armenia

MORE INFORMATION:
http://www.naac.am/html/htmeng/indexeng.htm

The World of Art program is supported by City municipality Ljubljana, department for culture, and Ministry of Culture.

[Published August 13, 2010]