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The essays collected in this volume tackle questions related to the possibility of critique, cultural agency as well as propose new ideological positions. They operate in the intersection between art, society and politics as well as on the crossroads of theory, practice and criticism. The texts intersected in a specific place, in Yerevan, within the framework of the Summer Seminars Program for Art Curators, throughout a period of five years. They all take a specific case study or case studies as that core through which they develop arguments or propose positions.
With the specificity of case studies, nevertheless, the essays ask questions that pertain to the global context of art education (its economies and ideologies) in the age of neoliberal capitalism; the changing status of cultural production in the conditions of immaterial labour; redefinitions of transnational and international curatorial practices; and critical positions related to the dominant ideologies shaping the ways of looking, global paradigms of value construction involving art in relation to human life and (im) possibility of a partisan position.
Edited by Angela Harutyunyan
Published by AICA-Armenia and the Institute for Contemporary Art Yerevan
2011
