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International Summer Seminars for Art Curators

Post Socialism and Media Transformations: Strategies of Representation

July 21-August 1, 2008,  Yerevan, Armenia
 
AICA-Armenia announces 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, SCCA-Alma-Aty in Kazakhstan and Beral Madra
Center for Contemporary Art in Istanbul.
 
The program is comprised of a series of lectures, presentations and
workshops that center around issues related to the methodologies of
curating, the role of the curator in the ever increasing globalization of
the art market, strategies of representation and institutional structures in
the contemporary art world.  The theme of the 2008 project Post-Socialism
and Media Transformations: Strategies of Representation will focus on
aspects of new media representation in the specific context of
post-Socialism. The aim is to look at transformations in the uses of media
for artistic production and the mechanisms of representation in the artistic
scenes of former socialist countries, with an awareness of ideological
connotations of new media utilization.  We will look at the transformation
of the media use historically, taking into account those larger social and
cultural conditions that have shaped dominant modes of new media art
production, representation and reception in the post-Socialist context.
 
Coinciding with the 6th Giumry Biennale held in Giumry, Armenia, the
participants of the program will have an opportunity to contribute to the
Biennale.  The format of the contribution will be developed throughout the
workshop depending upon the workshop leader's and participants' initiative.
 
The intensive two-weeks program will comprise of a theory and method
courses, as well as a curatorial workshop.  The courses will be combined
with presentations by local and international artists, curators, art
historians and cultural workers as well as with visits to artists' studios,
galleries and museums in Yerevan.  The participants will gain knowledge not
only about theoretical and methodological issues related to curatorial
practices but will also get acquainted with Armenian artists, curators,
critics as well as institutional structures in the field of contemporary art
in Armenia.  Throughout the past two years of the program, the participants
have developed a lively forum of alumni networking through collaborating
with each other on common themes in the form of exhibitions, symposia and
publications.   The courses and the workshop are conducted by
internationally renowned academics and curators.

Instructors' Short Biographies:

Dominique Abensour: is the director of the Quartier, a center for
contemporary art in Bretan's city of Quimper, France. She has curated a
number of exhibitions, including those of Pat Steir, Tania Mouraud, Gorges
Adéagbo, James Hyde, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Yuri Leiderman, Raphaëlle de
Groot and etc. In 1990-1994 she was in charge of cultural activities of the
National Gallery of Jeu de Paume in Paris, while also employed by Gorges
Pompidou Center. She has extensively thought in various art schools in
Valence, Dijon, Reims, Quimper.

Anthony Auerbach: Artist and theorist based in London and Maastricht,
Anthony Auerbach is a research fellow at Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht.
His projects, dealing with the issues of mapping memory and surveillance
through video technologies,  include Video as Urban Condition (ongoing) and
INS Inspectorate Berlin.

Petja Grafenauer Krnc (1976, Ljubljana) is a PhD candidate of Visual
anthropology at Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis in Ljubljana. Currently she
is working as an independent curator at the Ganes Pratt Gallery. She
lectures at Famul Stuart, School of Applied Arts and World of Art School at
SCCA - Center of Contemporary Arts Ljubljana. She regularly contributes
articles to several Slovene and international art periodicals; the themes
she is dealing with being especially painting and the construction of the
Slovenian art world discourse in the realm of modernism and contemporary
art.

Olesya Turkina: Art critic, curator and Senior Research Fellow in
Contemporary Art Department at the State Russian museum in St. Petersburg.
Her international projects include Russian Pavilion at the 48th Venice
Biennial (1999). She has written to various art magazines: Moscow Art
Magazine, Paradoxa (London), Cultural Studies, Kabinet (St.Petersurg), Siksi
(Nordic Art Review), Flash Art International and catalogues: Europe, Kunst.
Hannover, 1991; Manifesta 2, 1998; After the Wall, Stokcholm, 1999;
Manifesta 3, 2000,  Berlin Москва. Moskau Берлин. Kunst. 1950-2000.
Martin-Gropius-Bau. 2003. She teaches Contemporary Art at Smolny College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University. Since 1999 she
is a Member of the Russian Space Federation.


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