Angela Harutyunian is an MA student at Yerevan State University, and is a curator at the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art in Yerevan. She recenly curated the “Instinct to Create” exhibition of Tigran Khachatryan and “Crash # 60528” - a project of Hovhannes Margaryan. Her current research is on The Problem of Motion in Contemporary Sculpture.

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Politics Under 180'

In September, an exhibition titled “Politics Under 180 Degree” was organized at the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art (ACCEA), curated by art critic Vardan Azatyan. Political art originates and gets feedback directly from existing social conditions and relations. Local and global political atmosphere serves as incitement for it. Can politics-related art be a protest, a cry and reaction, or is it art serving totalitarian ideology? And lastly, which is the border that separates political art from politicized art, and allows viewing them on different poles?...

October 27, 2003 · Angela Harutyunian