Lexicon of Emergencies Part 2: A Proposal for a Mending Kit The exhibition project of the School of Emergencies initiated by Chto Delat collective.
2023
Lexicon of Emergencies Part 2:
A Proposal for a Mending Kit
A Proposal for a Mending Kit
16․12․2023
19։00 pm
The exhibition project of the School of Emergencies
initiated by Chto Delat collective.
Participants (at the final presentation):
Marianna Abovyan, Emili Allahbeigi, Mery Babayan, Handan Demir, Varvara Gevorgizova, Nasim Goli,
Kseniia Gribiniuk, Anri Nedolyan, Arthur Petrosyan, Shiva Yourdkhani, Maria Zhuravleva, Veronika
Zhuravleva
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In this exposition we share with public the process and results of the School of Emergencies which took
place at ICA Yerevan in two iterations – November/December 2023.
It was an exciting and inspiring process of a dialogue, which evolved within a newly formed community of
participants of the School from Armenia, Iran, Turkey and Russia. The structure of the exhibition and its
display was originally conceived by Chto Delat collective as an open form to be filled with statements suggested and elaborated by the current participants of the School of Emergencies.
At the end participants came up with the large number of different contributions. In the exposition you will see a map of entries to our lexicon of emergencies, the new constellations of our teachers and series of video portraits as a documentation of short performances in the spaces of ICA. The collective piece is realized as a performative practice where the whole group of participants is establishing direct, speculative and absurd links between notions and words from our lexicon.
Also, the composition of the show includes a several individual installations related to the concept of the
school. We invite you to experience this collective total installation and join our assembly at the opening, which
we hope, can help us to consider, criticize and appreciate this attempt to establish a new and fragile
platform for community, to care about each other and make certain sense out of our hard times.
17․12․2023
21։00
And on Sunday, our friends Les Magnifiques improvisers from Georgia will join the fem trip-punk band Red Dawns at Muha Bar.
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And on Sunday, our friends Les Magnifiques improvisers from Georgia will join the fem trip-punk band Red Dawns at Muha Bar.
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The School of Emergencies initiated by collective Chto Delat is a transdisciplinary and translocal school for artists, writers, researchers and activists, which deals with topics of catastrophes and survivals,
emergencies and miracles, last attempts and possibilities of repair. The urgency of the school was forced by the Russian invasion into Ukraine and waves of political refugees from Russia, and the
unfolding all-encompassing crisis affecting every area of our lives.
The school fellows together with the mentors and invited teachers are looking for a new artistic language which is capable of grasping the situation of a world, which turns more and more absurd and violent
The School of Emergencies initiated by collective Chto Delat is a transdisciplinary and translocal school for artists, writers, researchers and activists, which deals with topics of catastrophes and survivals,
emergencies and miracles, last attempts and possibilities of repair. The urgency of the school was forced by the Russian invasion into Ukraine and waves of political refugees from Russia, and the
unfolding all-encompassing crisis affecting every area of our lives.
The school fellows together with the mentors and invited teachers are looking for a new artistic language which is capable of grasping the situation of a world, which turns more and more absurd and violent