Angela

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
International Summer Seminars for Art Curators

Post Socialism and Media Transformations: Strategies of Representation

July 21-August 1, 2008, Yerevan, Armenia

AICA-Armenia is calling for applications to participate in the 3rd International Summer Seminars’ Program for Contemporary Art Curators, which will take place from July 21-August 2 in Yerevan, Armenia. The project is being realized in collaboration with SCCA-Ljubljana in Slovenia (www.scca-ljubljana.si ), SCCA-Alma-Aty in Kazakhstan (http://www.scca.kz) and Beral Madra Center for Contemporary Art in Istanbul(http://www.btmadra.com).

The program is comprised of a series of lectures,presentations and workshops that focus on issues related to the methodologies of curating, the role of the curator in the ever increasing globalization othe art market, strategies of representation and institutional structures in the contemporary art world.

The deadline for applications is: April 15th, 2008.

For more information and to download the application form, please, refer to our website: www.naac.am

If you have further questions, please, contact: Angela Harutyunyan: angela.harutyunyan@gmail.com or Nazareth Karoyan: n-karoyan@naac.am

Suggestions for topics

Dear All,
these are my suggestions for the next summer seminars:
1)Alternative institutions, curatorial and artistic initiatives, networking, self-organization - decentralization, democratization of art and of socio-political discourses? – (proposals for presentations: WHW, Zagreb; Chto Delat?, St. Petersburg; Rotor, Graz, Wyspa Art Institute, Gdansk)
If sb is interested in this topic – please add of the names of interesting organizations

2)Shifting public spaces, cities in transition. Positioning of art in public debates and production of public spaces in post-socialist countries.
(proposal for presentation: Marius Babias, Berlin/Bucharest
(your suggestons are welcomed).
Also, I confirm the interest in the topics suggested during the feedback session:
-Nationalism and Globalization in Post-Socialist Condition
-Methodologies of Art History, Critical Writing and Curating

Suggestions Needed: from Angela

I wanted to ask for your suggestions for next year's summer seminars' topic. Also, if you would like to suggest people for leading the courses and giving presentations, please, post them in the blog.
Any contribution is welcome.
Subject to funding, there might be a possibility to organize an alumni network meeting sometime in March. I will keep you informed about the outcomes.

Welcome speech :-))))

Finally I could log in and can post my original comment as a new posting.

Another suggestion will follow this one.

Nadul',
you rock. Thanks a lot. I will also tell last year's participants about the blog. Meanwhile I suggest that we exchange the links related to our professional activities that we have mentioned during the presentations and beyond.
Here are some contributions from me:
--for some texts on Armenian art: www.naac.am
--ACCEA updates its website quite often: www.accea.info
--Utopiana's site is always underconstruction: www.utopiana.am
--for the alternative Armenian pavilion in Venice Biennale: www.underconstructionhome.net
--A version of my presentation that did not take place, can be found on SCCA-Ljubljana's website: http://www.worldofart.org/current/archives/28

This is all from me for now. I will aslo make a selection of the photos you left on the desktop and post them. Also, Grigor is preparing a dvd. I will get hold of it and copy for all of you once I go back to Armenia in October.

Stay tuned.
angela

Some photos from Joanna

posted by nadia