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YARAT CENTRE

Bayil District (National Flag Square) Baku, Azerbaijan, AZ1003

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YARAT ACADEMY 2018: JOIN OUR UNIVERSE!

01 Oct - 03 Dec 18

YARAT ACADEMY 2018 

(October – December 2018)

YARAT Contemporary Art Space invites you to be a part of YARAT Academy 2018 – 5th block.


Description

The mission set forward by YARAT Academy is to educate wider audience about art with the help of the range of resources and opportunities. 

The fall session this year will be devoted to the topic of "Contemporary Art and its forms". Along with lectures and workshops of international and local experts in the field of art, participants will become get a of theatre performances.


Among experts:

October 1 / 7 pm

Artist talk

Karolina Falkholt – a diverse artist not afraid to look controversy straight in the face. 


October 8 / 7 pm

Topic: “I dance for you my edifice”

Evy Jokhova – art resident from Sweden of YARAT Contemporary Art Space.


October 17 / 7 pm

October 19 / 7 pm

October 22 / 7 pm

Topic: "Attitudes: choreography and daily-life situation"

Aurelien Lepetit – art resident from France of YARAT Contemporary Art Space.


October 24 / 7 pm

Topic: "Azerbaijani contemporary art (90s till today)"

Farah Alakbarli – art historian, junior curator and researcher at YARAT Contemporary Art Space.


October 26 / 7 pm

Topic: «Video-art»

Olga Shishko – art historian, curator, researcher, author and editor of catalogues, collections and thematic issues about art of new media, organizer of international events, festivals and exhibitions developing the questions of interaction between contemporary innovative culture and new technologies.


November 2 / 7 pm

Topic: «Objectivity/sculpture»

Pedro Gómez-Egaña – artist, currently a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Arts of Bergen University, Norway.


November 9 / 7 pm

Topic: "Theatre without borders"

Bartosz Zurowski is a theatre director and drama writer, Ph.D. candidate in European Graduate School (Division of Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought), holder of Young Poland Scholarship for artists with outstanding achievements.


November 12 / 7 pm

November 14 / 7 pm

Topic: "How does performance art shape the young art scene?"

Agil Abdullayev – artist and participants of the number of international art festivals and exhibitions.


November 19 / 7 pm

Topic: «How to set up idea?»

Farid Abdullaev has a Ph.D in art criticism and over 20 years of experience in the field of management of cultural and public organizations.


December 3 / 7 pm

Panel Discussions

Suad Garayeva-Maleki – art historian, curator and artistic director at YARAT Contemporary Art Space.

Vajiko Chachkhiani – an artist for whom the coexistence of objects and actions by people servers as a point of departure in creating his artworks. These actions often emerge in forms of original performances. 


Provision of YARAT:
- Access to free modern library and WI-FI (the books of the world's most prestigious art publishers are available for readers in Azerbaijani, English and Russian languages, which students can freely use the WI-FI service to carry out various study and research project)

- Audio and visual presentation materials (all audio and visual resources used during the YARAT Academy lectures and workshops will be shared with participants)

- Interpretation (all foreign lectures of YARAT Academy are always interpreted into Azerbaijani language, simultaneously or consecutively)

- Students who will actively attend all lectures and successfully complete final assignment will be awarded with a certificate of completion


Registration
Those who want to participate at YARAT Academy must register by sending an email with the subject of "YARAT Academy" and inlude the below mentioned information:
- First and last name
- Name of the higher education institution, faculty
- Contact number


Email address:helpdesk@yarat.az

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