Utopiana/exhibition-symposium

[HayArt]

Utopiana

Yerevan
HayArt
Exhibition (25.9 - 25.10)
and
Symposium (26.9 - 28.9)

Armenia celebrates the 10 years of independence and the 1700 year of the
adoption of Christianity. Utopiana prefers to celebrate the future.

We would like to adress the question of utopia in our time, in order to
rediscover its power of liberation and creation. We can say with Ernst
Bloch, The Spirit of Utopia: "It's in order to find utopia, to find what is
just, for what one ought to live, to be organized, to have time, (…) That's
the reason why we build out in the unknown and search for the true, the
real where the mere factual reality disappears - incipit vita nova."
The idea of this exhibition is to unite artists, critics and philosophers
in a utopian territory, in a space with no frontiers. The idea is to
populate this territory with art that is based on its own potential and not
on political or economic power. Art's independence is the condition of it's
capacity to open new ways of thinking and feeling.
Let's imagine that Armenia is this territory - Paradise on Earth.

Exhibition: Sona Abgaryan, Vahram Aghasyan, Karen Andreassyan, Narine
Aramyan, Arevik Arevshatyan and Rouben Grigoryan, Narek Avetisyan, Norayr
Ayvazyan, Vartan Azatyan, Mher Azatyan, Manvel Baghdasaryan, Samvel
Baghdasaryan, Anna Barseghyan, Catherine Beaugrand, Olaf Breuning, Gor
Chahal, Ivana Falconi, Arman Grigoryan, Diana Hakopyan, Sona Hasratyan,
David Kareyan, Grigor Khachatryan, Hovhannes Margaryan, Mkrtich Matevosyan,
Karine Matsakyan, Alexander Melkonyan, Nathalie Novarina and Marcel
Croubalian, Samvel Saghatelyan, Murat Sahinler, Gohar Sanoyan, Azat
Sargsyan, Haroutioun Simonyan
Symposium: Miguel Abensour, Ruben Arevshatyan, Hratchia Bayadyan, Catherine
Beaugrand, Paolo Colombo, Vartan Djaloyan, Lukrezia de Domizio Durini,
Nazareth Karoyan, Dimitri Konstantinidis, Stefan Kristensen, Hedwig
Saxenhuber, Roland Schaer, Georg Schoellhammer, Harald Szeemann.
Organisation: 
Anna Barseghian and Stefan Kristensen (curators),
Norayr Ayvazian (director), Ruben Arevshatian (artistic director)

This project is supported by 
Ghoukassiantz Bros. Foundation (Vaduz)
Pro Helvetia, Arts Council of Switzerland
Izmirlian Foundation (Geneva)
State of Geneva (Departement de l'instruction publique, Delegation aux
affaires culturelles)
Mr Aram Djambazian
AGBU - Switzerland

Thank's to:
Mr Jean Altounian 
Ms Elena Cogato Lanza 
Mr Paolo Colombo
Ms Fulya Erdemci 
Ms Ivana Falconi 
Mr Vahe Gabrache 
Mr Erik Grobet  
Mr Ara Hamazaspian 
Mr Nazareth Karoyan 
Mr Knud S. Kristensen 
Mrs Marie Melkonian 
Ms Emma Mkhitarian 
Mr Franco Paracchini 
Saberatours 
Mr Jacques Sarkissian
Mr Harald Szeemann 

The program of the symposium

Wednesday september 26
1300
Stefan Kristensen : Opening. Utopia as a Transitional State 
1330
Ruben Arevshatian : The Utopia of Barrels
1430
Harald Szeemann : Monte Verita or the Ethics beyond Art 
1630
Miguel Abensour : The New Utopian Spirit 
1730
Dimitri Konstantinidis : The Utopia of the Center and the Myth of Periphery 

Tuesday september 27
1300
Vartan Djaloyan : Utopia and Armenia in the Twenties and Thirties
1415
Lucrezia de Domizio Durini :  Joseph Beuys. Defense of Nature - Utopia of
the Earth
1600
Paolo Colombo : Art and Other Islands 
1700
Roland Schaer : Utopia science, religion. Some thoughts about the posterity
of the "New Atlantis" of Francis Bacon 

Friday september 28
1300
Catherine Beaugrand : Project Holbein
1500
Hratch Bayadian : The Gates of Cyberspace 
1600
Georg Schoellhammer and Hedwig Saxenhuber : The Council of Genova 
1715
Nazareth Karoyan : Dates in the Meadows 



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