2010-08-14
AICA Armenia invites you for the the summer art festival on August 18-21, 2010, in Ijevan, Armenia.


As their final work, the students of AICA-Armenia’s Art Criticism and Curatorial Training School have planned and  are implimenting Encounters on Borders Summer Festival of Community Art in Ijevan. The festival  represents the second section of  ongoing Summer School carried out under the Aesthetic Communities and Contextual Translation of Community Art title.

The festival program includes a variety of events:  exhibitions,  workshops, lectures, discussions, a retrospective panel discussion and presentation of archive materials on Ijevan International Symposium for Sculpture, as well as individual presentations and performative events. All of the projects presented are united by the interest towards the social and historical,  dimension, and  figurative aspects of urban environment.

The Festival focuses on temporal and spatial borders in general. Borders, which pass between historical-cultural heritage and present social-political context, between the city and the nature,  geopolitical centers and peripheries, between public and private sectors, the arts and other fields of activities. These are neutral places which lie beyond the hegemony of any rule or regime; here the socio-political, urban, environmental, cultural, linguistic and other tensions are accumulated. These limits emerge on every moment and each step. Is it somehow possible to avoid such cases or incidents, to refrain from wars and destructions by turning the borders into appointments of communication and benefit?  Unlike the representational art producing “author” and “spectator”, “Encounters on Borders” summer arts festival is promoting a community art overcoming borders.

The Festival is organized by AICA-Armenia’s faculty board and students.

Under the patronage of Administration of Tavush region and Ijevan Municipality.

It is supported by Ijevan branch of Yerevan State University, the Business and Tourism Information Center of Ijevan, Art gallery, AJZ Artist-run space. With support of European Commission within the Transkaukazjia 2011 Festival.





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