AND AND AND / Event 3 / Discussion Considering Contemporary Art Institutions in a Post-Soviet Context / Yerevan, Armenia / August 17, 2010
For the third event in this series, Yerevan will serve as the context for a discussion concerning contemporary art and its institutions in the post-Soviet world. Image: Courtesy of AND AND AND
AND AND AND is an artist run initiative, which will use the time between now and dOCUMENTA (13) in 2012 to consider with individuals and groups across the world the role art and culture can play today and the constituent publics or communities which could be addressed.
The series of interventions, situations, and occurrences entitled AND AND AND are part of dOCUMENTA (13) and will compose a map of emergent positions, concerns, and possible points of solidarity.
This summer, for the 5th consecutive year, the Armenian chapter of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA-Armenia) will host its Summer Seminars for Art Curators. This year's event entitled 'Aesthetic Communities and Contextual Translation of Communal Art' attempts to consider the question of the changing conditions of reception of artistic works, using remnants from the Soviet legacy and the contemporary post-Soviet context as a backdrop for such an inquiry.
The disintegration of the Socialist countries and the Soviet Union produced massive transformations which are still underway. AND AND AND believe that "Candy-colored revolutions interspersed with increasingly manufactured conflicts are the most extreme manifestations of the struggles and disagreements which remain an intrinsic part of those processes. In each of these countries, the attempts to re-articulate new histories and futures, often based on a national identity, have implicated culture as a central part of that battleground." Such projections also have implicated the changing of curriculums, changing conditions for the production / reception of artistic practices and sometimes the construction of new institutions for art.
Given the larger questions concerning these transformations, as well as the specific focus of this year's summer seminars, AND AND AND has proposed to organize a roundtable discussion at the Center for Contemporary Experimental Art (NPAK) in Yerevan. The discussion will involve artists and organizers within the Armenian context, who have attempted over the last few decades to construct institutions for contemporary artistic practice, ranging from contemporary art centers to schools, biennials, or less formal associations. The questions will hover around the role that such institutions play or are attempting to play within these larger transformations and struggles.
Where is the place of contemporary art today? What can an art school or a contemporary art center best do in a place such as Yerevan, Armenia - given its histories, the specific concerns and struggles present today, as well as its shared place in regional and global processes?
Time / Tuesday August 17, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
City / Yerevan
Country / Armenia
Location / 40° 10' 32.1600" N, 44° 31' 4.4400"E
Address / Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, 1/3 Pavstos Biuzand Blvd.
