YARAT ACADEMY 2019: JOIN OUR UNIVERSE!

19 Sep - 29 Nov 19

YARAT ACADEMY 2019

(September – November)

YARAT Contemporary Art Space invites you to be a part of YARAT Academy – 7th block.

Description

YARAT Contemporary Art Space is launching the next fall session of YARAT Academy. This year the program comprises 3 months' period: September, October, November

Theme: Non-linear History

Skills: Creative research

Participants will:

Get introduced to multidisciplinary research methodologies and case studies
Meet with internationally and locally renowned artists, researchers and academics
Take part at meetings and panel discussions
Apply obtained skills on practice by completing the course assignment

Interpretation of lectures will be provided (all foreign lectures of YARAT Academy are interpreted into Azerbaijani language, simultaneously or consecutively).

First and last name
Name of the higher education institution, faculty
Contact number

For more information: +994 12 505 1414

Program:

19.09.2019 / 14:00

Topic: “Maiden Tower. To Be a Woman” / panel discussion

Curators, art professionals and institutional representatives from different countries of the world.

“Maiden Tower. To Be a Woman” contemporary art festival which topic is linked with the 100th anniversary of the liberation of Azerbaijani women and emphasizes the role of women in the Azerbaijani society and around the world.

The common aim of the organizers and participants of the "International Festival “Maiden Tower. To Be a Woman” is to use contemporary art and other forms of art to emphasize women empowerment in Azerbaijani society as well as over the world.

The project initiated and curated by Honored Artist of the Republic of Azerbaijan Sabina Shikhlinskaya.

23.09.2019 / 19:00

Kristina Cherniavskaia

Art manager

Topic: “Artistic Project Management”

Kristina Cherniavskaia works with artist Taus Makhacheva as an art project manager. She curated production of Taus' latest work “Charivari” at YARAT Contemporary Art Space and 'Quantitative Infinity of the Objective' for Future Generation Art Prize. She currently studies contemporary art in BAZA Institute in Moscow, has MA in arts management and BA in journalism. Kristina worked in public relations in Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow and Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center.

02.10.2019 / 16.10.2019 / 19:00

Sergei Nikonorov

Moscow State University Professor

Topic: “Methodological approaches and skills in conducting scientific research projects”

Sergei Nikonorov – Doctor of Economics, Professor of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov. He is also an expert on sustainable development and its management. Sergei Nikonorov is the author of more than 140 scientific papers.

12.10.2019 / 17:00

Thomas Irmer

Theatre critic, curator and writer

Topic: New drama (In the frame of MAP festival education programs)

Thomas Irmer – theatre critic, curator and writer. He has given lectures in different universities of Germany and the USA. During the 1998-2003 he was an editor-in-chief of “Theater der Zeit” magazine, which is still regularly published.

13.11.2019 / 19:00

Kamrooz Aram (contemporary artist) and Farah Piriye (curator)

Artist Talk

Topic: "(in)voluntary memory"

Kamrooz Aram (b.1978, Shiraz, Iran) received his BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2001 and MFA from Columbia University in 2003. Kamrooz Aram’s diverse practice often engages the complicated relationship between traditional non-Western art and Western Modernism. Through a variety of forms including painting, collage, drawing and installation, Aram has found the potential for image- making to function critically in its use as a tool for a certain renegotiation of history. Aram’s paintings reveal the essential role that ornament played in the development of Modern art in the West.

Farah Piriye is an independent curator and art critic based in London and Milan.

She earned her Master’s degree in History of Fine and Decorative Arts at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London, later receiving her second MA degree in Curation, Culture, and Criticism at Central Saint Martin’s in London. After working as an independent curator and consulting several galleries and auction houses in London, Farah Piriye co-founded a non-profit research led socio- cultural organization ZEITGEIST19 in 2019 in Milan, Italy. She also contributes to various publications and considers writing an integral part of her curatorial practice.

18.11.2019 / 19:00

Navid Nuur (Contemporary artist) and Suad Qarayeva-Maleki (curator)

Artist talk

Topic: “Hyped by History, Hipnotysed by Memory”

Navid Nuur – For his creations, Navid Nuur usually works with multiple media, from film and performance to sculpture and installation. He also likes to repurpose all kinds of materials, such as neon lights, iPhones and even piles of trash. Therefore, many his artworks have the feeling of found object assemblages, but still appear conceptual to the viewer.

Suad Garayeva-Maleki is the Artistic Director of YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan. She has worked on special commissions by artists such as Hannah Black, Oscar Murillo, Vajiko Chachkhiani, Taus Makhacheva, Babi Badalov, Aida Mahmudova, Pedro Gomez-Egaña, Ilkin Huseynov and various other solo and group exhibitions. She also curated "The Union of Fire and Water"- YARAT's critically acclaimed Collateral Event at the 56th Venice Biennale in Palazzo Barbaro with Almagul Menlibayeva and Rashad Alakbarov. Her curatorial activity include independent projects such as Mike Nelson's "Cloak" for Nouveau Musee National de Monaco (2016) and "It's OK to Change Your Mind: Contemporary Russian Art from the Gazprombank Collection" for MAMbo, Bologna (2018). Prior to joining YARAT in 2014, she was a specialist at Sotheby’s London where she curated groundbreaking exhibitions “At The Crossroads: Contemporary Art from Caucasus and Central Asia” (2013) and “At The Crossroads 2: Art from Istanbul to Kabul” (2014), as well as heading up the “Contemporary East” sales. She was a faculty member at Istituto Europeo di Design Venice in 2015-2016 and is a PhD candidate at the European Graduate School, Saas Fee.

20.11.2019 / 19:00

Sara Rahbar (Contemporary artist) , Gelare Khoshgozoran (Contemporary artist) and Anna Fech (curator)

Artist Talk

Topic: "Uncomfortable"

Sara Rahbar (b. 1976, Tehran, Iran) lives and works in New York, USA. She pursued an interdisciplinary study program in New York and also studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and design in London.

While her works had initially explored deeper concepts of nationalism and belonging, her overall artistic practice stems from her personal experience and is largely autobiographical - driven by central ideas of pain, violence and the complexity of the human condition. Rahbar's work employs various mediums - ranging from photography, sculpture and installation.

Gelare Khoshgozaran (Iran, USA) is an undisciplinary artist and writer who, in 2009 was transplanted from a city of four seasons to the windowless rooms of the University of Southern California where aesthetics and politics were discussed in endless summers. Her films, video essays, installations and performances have been presented in solo and group exhibitions at The New Museum, Queens Museum, Eyebeam, The Hammer Museum, LACE, LAXART, Human Resources, Articule (Montreal), Beursschouwburg (Brussels) and Pori Art Museum (Pori, Finland). Her essays and interviews on art and culture have been published and are forthcoming in Contemptorary (co-founder), The Brooklyn Rail, Parkett, X-TRA, Art Practical, The Enemy, Ajam Media Collective and Temporary Art Review, amongst others. The recipient of a Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2015) and an Art Matters Award (2017), she was recently the Art Council Visiting Assistant Professor at UCLA Design and Media Arts.

Anna Fech (b. 1985, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan) is a curator based in Baku/ Azerbaijan. Studied art history and economics in Erlangen-Nurnberg University/ Germany. In 2014 she graduated at the ZHdK Zürich in MAS Curating with a research focus on “Contemporary relevance of Postcolonial Discussion in Exhibition Practice related to Middle Eastern and Post-Soviet Countries”. Since 2016 she works as curator for YARAT Contemporary Art Space Baku, Azerbaijan, being responsible for the international Residency program and ARTIM Project Space directed at young artists with an intention to support and encourage emergent talent to grow.