Angela Harutyunyan: CV

Angela Harutyunyan: CV Angela Harutyunyan Assistant Professor of Art History, FAAH Department, American University of Beirut Editor of ARTMargins Journal (MIT Press) Research Foci: aesthetics and politics, art and autonomy, post-Socialist art, contemporary art in the Middle East, methods and theories of curating, critical theory and philosophy, Marxian art historiography Education PhD Awarded in July, 2009

Art History and Visual Studies, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Dissertation Title: On the Ruins of a Utopia: The Political Aesthetics of the Armenian Avant-Garde Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Amelia Jones

MA Humanities Division, International University Bremen, Germany, 2004-2006. Program: Humanities- Mapping Modernity Thesis: The Body Politics and The Politics of Bodily Representation in Armenian Contemporary Art Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ursula Anna Frohne

MA Department of Art History and Theory, Faculty of History, 2003-2005

Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia Thesis: Ancient and Medieval Image Theory: Byzantine Iconoclasm and Orthodoxy of the Armenian Church Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gevorg Ter-Vardanian

BA Department of Art History and Theory, Faculty of History, 1998-2003

Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia Graduated with Honor

Non-degree

The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, “Transit Spaces”, Post-graduate research program, Kolleg V, Dessau, Germany (2004 Jan-Aug). Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas, USA

FSA exchange student in the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, 2000-2001 Professional Membership 2011-present - College Arts Association, CAA, USA 2012-present –PSi, Performance Studies international 2008-2009 and 2014- AAH – Art Historians’ Association, UK 2007-2009- College Arts Association, CAA, USA 2007-2009- Utopiana cultural organization, Geneva-Yerevan 2006 –present, member of the Council, AICA, International Association of Art Critics

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Work Experience 2011-present- Assistant Professor in Art History, American University of Beirut 2009-2010- Visiting Assistant Professor, Art Program Director, American University in Cairo, Egypt May 2009- Visiting Lecturer, Adam Miczkiewicz University, Poznan, Poland 2009 - Adjunct lecturer, American University in Cairo, Egypt 2006-2007- Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Manchester, UK 2005-present- Co-organizer and co-director of the International Summer Seminars Program for

Contemporary Art Curators, Yerevan, Armenia 2003- 2004- Curator at the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia 2001- 2003- “Armenia TV, CNN in Armenia, translator and reporter, Yerevan, Armenia 2001- Radio “Shant”, FM 104.5, Editor-in-chief, DJ, Giumry, Armenia 1996-1998- “Shirak TV”, host and editor of the TV show “Bravo Baby”, Giumry, Armenia Book Publications 2015(forthcoming)- On the Ruins of a Utopia: The Political Aesthetics of the Armenian Avant-Garde.

(Manchester University Press, 300 pages). Contract signed. Edited Volumes 2015 (forthcoming) - [editor] ACT (1993-1996): Documents and Interviews (in Armenian, 150 pages),

AICA-Armenia, Print Info, Yerevan, Armenia.

2011 - Intersections: Practices of Curating, Education and Theory. AICA-Armenia: Print Info, Yerevan (bi-lingual edition, English and Armenian, 380 pages)

The Book of St. Ejneb. with Aras Ozgun, Commissioned by the 10th Sharjah Biennial, Norgunk Publishers, Istanbul, 2011.

2010 – Harutyunyan A. (2010), Towards Collaborative Curating: Curatorial Education

Redefined: Documentation of Activities: 1998-2009 (SCCA-Ljubljana: World of Art, School of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia and AICA-Armenia: Summer Seminars’ Program for Art Curators, Yerevan, Armenia). Tigran Mets: Yerevan. ISBN 978-99941-2-326-1

2008 – Public Spheres After Socialism, co-edited with Malcolm F. Miles and Katherin

Horschelmann, Intellect Books: Bristol. ISBN 9781841502120 Peer-Reviewed Publications in Academic Journals

2013 - “ACT”, Document. Translation and Introduction. ArtMargins, vol. 2, issue 1, 2013.

“Rethinking the Public Sphere: The Constitutional State and the ACT Group’s Political Aesthetics of Affirmation in Armenia” in Art and the Public Sphere, vol. 2, Intellect Press

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2012 - “The Real and/as Representation: Video, TV and Contemporary Art in Armenia”, Art Margins, issue 1, vol. 1. MIT Press.

“The Epistemology of Photographic Evidence: A Response” in Cairo Papers in Social Science, forthcoming volume 29, Sights of Knowledge: Debates about Visual Production in the Middle East.

2011 – “Event and Counter-Event: The Political Economy of the Istanbul Biennial and Its Excesses”, Aras Ozgun, Angela Harutyunyan, Eric Goodfield in Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture and Society, vol. 22, no.2 Routledge.

Non-Peer Reviewed Publications in Academic Journals 2013- “Three Sequences of Site-Writing”, in Serbian Architectural Journal, special issue

Contemporary Issues in Aesthetics and Visual Arts, ed. by Misko Suvakovic, issue 4, 2012 (http://saj.rs/index.php?page=issues)

2011- “Stammering as a (Non) Representational Paradigm: Shady El Noshakaty’s Stammer 2007-2010” in Contemporary Practices: Visual Arts from the Middle East, vol. VII

2008- “The Rhetoric of Growth and the Myth of Transition in Post-Soviet Armenia” in Khamsin: Reflections on the Social and Political, issue 2, Fall 2008, AUC, Cairo, Egypt.

“Coming to You Not to Be With You: the Dialectics of Rupture and Reunion as a Cornerstone for Subjectivization”, Feminist, issue 2, Women’s Resource Center, Yerevan, Armenia.

Contributions to Edited Volumes 2014- “Desire and Form: Transnational Art Events and Artistic Positions”, in Active

Withdrawal Weak Institutionalism and the Institutionalization of Art Practice. Ed.

Biljana Ciric and Nikita Yingqian Cai, Times Museum, Guangzhou

“Maqur estetikayi u maqur qaghakakanutyan areresumy. David Kareyani maqur steghtsagortsutyan gortsoghutyuny” (“Confronting ‘pure creativity’ with pure politics: The operation of ‘pure creativity in David Kareyan’s work’”), in Armenian, in Veradarnalov Hanrayin Volort (Returning to the Public Sphere), ed. by Vardan Azatyan, Yerevan: Utopiana

“Before and After the Event There Was the Artwork”. In M. Jankowicz, ed. 2014. PhotoCairo5: more out of curiosity than conviction. Cairo: Contemporary Image Collective, pp. 17-35.

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2012- “Apart We Are Together: Topographical Curating” in Dilemmas of Curatorial Practice, ed. Sasa Nabergoj and Barbara Borcic, SCCA-Ljubljana.

2011 - “Between Utopia and Nostalgia: two Strategies of Hope” in Temporary Status: A Book On Political Imagination, ed. Corina Oprea, Konsfack: Stockholm

“Redefining the Public Sphere through Artistic Practice in Armenia” in Researches in the Public Sphere. Ed. By Stefan Rusu, Chisinau

“Apart We Are Together: Live” in What is To Be Done With Centric Art. Queeringyerevan; Tigran Mets

“TimeLine of Socialist and Post-Socialist Body Art: Interstices of History” in Perform, Repeat, Record: A Critical Anthology of Live Art in History, ed. Amelia Jones and Adrian Heartfield, Routledge: London, New York

2010 “ Theorizing the Politics of Representation in Contemporary Art in Armenia”, Eric

Goodfield and Angela Harutyunyan, in Questioning Cultural Development: Cultural Production, Critique and Agency, ed. Malcolm Miles and Monica Degen, University of Plymouth Press

2008 - “State Icons and Narratives in the Symbolic Cityscape of Yerevan”, in Angela

Harutyunyan, Kathryn Horschelmann, Malcolm F. Miles, eds., Public Spheres After Socialism, Intellect Books: Bristol, ISBN 9781841502120

“On the Ruins of a Utopia: Armenian Avant-Garde and the Group Act” in Art and Theory After Socialism, ed. By Malcolm Miles and Mel Jordan, Intellect Press: Bristol, 2008, ISBN 9781841502113

‘Espaces de l'art contemporain arménien et utopies expansionistes’ in D' Arménie, ed. Nazareth Karoyan and Dominique Abensour, Quimper, France

2007 - “Importing the Curator: Politics of Representation and Recognition in Contemporary Armenian Art” in Strategies of Representation, Anthology, SCCA, Ljubljana

“Nermutselov “curator”: Chanachman u Nerkayatsman Qaghaqakanutyuny Haykakan Jamanakakic Arvestum (in Armenian), www.revisor.am

2006 – “Retreat into to the Leaving Room” in Transit Spaces/TransitRaume, ed. by Regina

Bittner, Kai Voeckler and Wilfred Hackenbroichm Jovis, Edition Bauhaus, 2006, ISBN: 3936314802

Publications and Reviews online, in Catalogues and Newspapers 2014- “Forms that Matter: Six Exerizes in Art Making. Mahmoud Khaled’s Exhibition in

Gypsum Gallery, Cairo”, Jadaliyya, May 15,

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http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/17707/forms-that-matter_six-exercises-in-art-making

2013- “Malevich: Korats Tun?” (Malevich, A Lost Home?)

http://arteria.am/hy/1386730504

“Arvestayin Zbosankner: Sharjayi 11-rd Biennalen” (Art Trips: The 11th Sharjah Art Biennial), review, http://arteria.am/hy/1364198005

2012- On The Stage Of The Event: The Cairo Seminar In Alexandria, Documenta (13),

http://www.ibraaz.org/news/32 “Zhamanakakic arvesti Scillayi u qaghaqakanutyan Qaribdayi mijev” (in Armenian) (Between the Scylla and Carbide of Contemporary Art) http://arteria.am/hy/1342618548 “Intervening Actions and Active Interventions: Conversation with Jasmina Metwaly”

Ibraaz.org 2011- “When Matter Becomes Cultural Politics: Traps of Liberalism in the 10th Sharjah

Biennial” Red Thread Journal, issue 3. http://www.red-thread.org/en/article.asp?a=48

“The Armenian Pavilion in Venice and Cultural Politics ”, Epress, Armeniana and English editions, http://www.epress.am/en/category/cultural-news

“Politics at the Pavilion in Venice”, Egypt Today, English Edition http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/468063

“Capitalizing on the revolution: Post-revolutionary knowledge economies”, Egypt Today, English Edition http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/336835

2010- “Pushing Buttons: 'DIY curating' at the Cairo Biennale”, Egypt Today, English edition,

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/pushing-buttons-diy-curating-cairo-biennale “Redefining the Public Sphere: The Constitutional State and the Group Act” (in Armenian), Hetq online http://old.hetq.am/am/culture/act/

2005- “Public Symbols and the Political Power in Minsk”, www.atmusephere.org 2004- “The Microrayons in Smolensk. From the Communal Utopia to “my house is my

castle”. Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Kolleg V, catalogue, 2004 Public_Media_Art, Media Art Festival booklet, ACCEA, 2004 2003- Concept of Hovhannes Margarian’s solo exhibition “Crash # 60528”, ACCEA, Yerevan “Politics under 180”, exhibition review, www.groong.com

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Concept of Tigran Khachatryan’s solo exhibition “Instinct to Create”, ACCEA, Yerevan

1998 - “Sergei Parajanov, the color of pomegranate”, Yerevan State University press, 09.1998 (in Armenian)

Editorial and Review Work 2011- Associate Editor for Art Margins, MIT Press. ISSN 2162-2574

Contributing Editor to Ibraaz: Contemporary Visual Culture in the Middle East & North Africa

2009/10- co-editor of the double issue of Revisor Journal of Art History (no. 2/3). Yerevan

Armenia 2010 - Member of the Editorial Board, Art & the Public Sphere Journal, Intellect Press, ISSN:

2042793X

Peer- reviewer for Manchester University Press and Borderlands Journal Published Translations 2014- (forthcoming) John Roberts, “Art After Deskilling”, in Historical Materialism 18

(2010) 77–96. Arteria.am (9000 words) “Timing Against Time: Lost Modernism of the 1920s”, by Vardan Azatyan. Catalogue

of the Armenian Pavilion, Venice Architectural Biennial. Ed. Ruben Arevshatyan and George Schollhammer (3500 words).

2013- “National Modernism” by Vardan Azatyan, Sweet Sixties: Specters and Spirits of a

Parallel Avant-garde, eds. George Schollhammer and Ruben Arevshatyan, Sternberg Press, Berlin/New York 2014 (4000 words)

“The Armenian book”, by Vardan Azatyan in When the Book finds the Artist Ed. by Vartan Karapetian. Voskan Yerevanci Publishing (7000 words)

2012 Van Eghyan: Space of Art and Time of Art. Catalogue, Institute of Contemporary Art,

Yerevan, Armenia. 2008- “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: Essay in Phenomenology and

Feminism Theory”, Judith Butler, translated from English into Armenian, for Revisor Journal of Art History, no. 2, Yerevan, Armenia

“New Social Order and Changing Media Landscape”, Hrach Bayadyan in Public Spheres After Socialism, Intellect Books, 2008. From Armenian into English.

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“Public Sphere as a Place for Gift: Social- Symbolic Characteristics of the City-Building of Post Soviet Yerevan”, Nazareth Karoyan in Public Spheres After Socialism, Intellect Books, 2008. From Armenian into English.

“Remote Control: Dangers and Delights of Armenian Surfing”, Vahram Martirossian, in Public Spheres After Socialism, Intellect Books, 2008. From Armenian into English, pp. 119-127.

2007- “The Originality of Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths”, Rosalind Krauss,

Revisor Journal of Art History, vol. 1, Yerevan, Armenia. From English into Armenian. Several dozen short texts for art catalogues. Courses Developed 2014- Proposal for a new MA Program in Art History and Curating, along with 12 new courses, American University of Beirut Fall 2013- FAAH 294 Theories, Methods and Practices of Curating (a new course requirement for Art History majors) Spring 2013- FAAH 238 (Completely redesigned an existing course)- Theories of Modern Art Spring 2012-FAAH 229E- Contemporary Art in the Middle East Fall 2011 –FAAH 229D (now FAAH 293) – Contemporary Art and Theory Fall 2010 (scheduled but not taught)–ARTV370 -“ The Body as Concept, Material and Representation” 2010 –Spring –ARTV 315 - “Contemporary Art and Theory” ARTV 310 - “Modern Art and Theory” 2009 Fall –ARTV 370 - “Representation, Documentation and Interpretation of Media Art” 2006-2007- Graduate Student Assistantship, Works in Focus, lecturer, University of Manchester, UK Workshops and Seminar Series 2013-present –Faculty and Graduate student reading group, “Discussing the Event”, Arts and Humanities Initiative, AUB Conceptualized and developed with Nadia Bou Ali 2012-present-Discussion group, “On the Image”, Arts and Humanities Initiative, AUB Conceptualized and developed with Walid Sadek and Sonja Mejcher-Attasi 2011- Reading Group in Various Locations in Yerevan

--Image/Text/Perception: Image in an Expanded Space” , Tbilisi Academy of Fine Arts, Georgia

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2010- Image-ining Words and Writing Images, MASS Alexandria 2009- Curating Video Art, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo 2008- Workshop series, “Techniques of Viewing: Representation and Interpretation of Video Art”, SCCA-Ljubljana, Slovenia 2007- Issues in Identity Politics and Contemporary Art, public seminars, Utopiana, Yerevan, Armenia Curated Exhibitions and Programs 2014- 2015 (forthcoming) This is the Time; This is the Record of the Time (tentative title), in collaboration with

Nat Muller, Global Collaborations Project, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, SMBA and AUB Art Galleries, Beirut, exhibition, public program and publication

2013- When Works Leave the Printed Page, an exhibition of ARTMargins’ project section, with

Media Farzin and Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck, Aras Ozgun, Honza Zamojski and Kasper Kovitz, 392RMEIL393, Beirut

2011- “You Tell Me”, curated video screening program, Ashkal Alwan, Workspace, Beirut “You Tell Me”, curated video screening program, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo

Accretions II in collaboration with Tevz Logar and Joanna Sokolowska, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lodz, Poland

2010- Accretions, in collaboration with Tevz Logar and Joanna Sokolowska, Gallery Skuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia

You Tell Me, video screening program curated for Art And Desire Seminars, Istanbul

Windows: Multichannel Video Exhibition, Rooftop Studios, Cairo, Egypt. Coordination and organization of the exhibition, project development, PR.

2008- Coming to You Not to Be With You, exhibition of eight queer women artists and writers,

Yerevan, Armenia. Conceptualization of the exhibition, organization of the exposition, publication of a text, PR, moderation of the follow-up public discussion.

2007- Photonic Moments: A Selection from Armenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Selection of three

women photographers from Armenia, conceptualization of the project, publication of the curatorial text

2004- 1st International Media Art Festival Public_Media_Space, ACCEA, Yerevan, an

interdisciplinary group show involving twenty Armenian and International artists. Conceptualization of the project, organization of the exposition, PR, production of the catalogue, publication of the curatorial text.

2003- “Instinct to Create: Solo Exhibition of Tigran Khachatryan”, ACCEA, Yerevan

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organization of the exposition, conceptualization of the project, moderation of the public discussion, publication of the curatorial statement.

“Crash # 6058” by Hovhannes Margaryan, ACCEA, Yerevan organization of the exposition, conceptualization of the project, moderation of the public discussion, publication of the curatorial statement

Academic/ Professional Awards, Scholarships and Grants 2013-2014- Arts and Humanities Initiative Fellow, Melon grant, AUB, Beirut 2013 – Funding from the FAAH Department, Arts and Humanities Initiative and OSLO to organize a

public event on the occasion of the ARTMargins journal’s editorial meeting in Beirut, 4000 USD 2012- Funding from AUB’s Provost and FAS Dean to organize the annual conference of the Association

of Modern and Contemporary Art in the Middle East and the Arab World, 5000 USD Funding from AUB’s Provost and FAS Dean to organize a series of panel discussions and artist talks on contemporary art practices in the Middle East,

2011- Foundation for the Art Initiative, Independent Research Grant, 5000 USD

Getty Travel Award to attend the 100th CAA conference 2010- Prince Claus Foundation, Grant for Culture and Development to publish an anthology on

curatorial theories, methods and practices. Amount 17.000 euros.

AUC Research Grant for Performing History, 5000 USD

2009- AUC conference grant. Istanbul, Turkey. Amount: 2200 USD. 2009-2012- Open Society Institute, Collaborative Partnership Project for organizing Summer Seminars

Program for Art Curators and an annual post-graduate program for art curators. Amount -70.000 USD

2008- European Cultural Foundation, Gulliver Grant for Temporary Work Allocation. Allocated to

Slovenia for three weeks in November. Amount 1500 euros OSI Global Supplementary Grant Program for PhD studies – 5000 USD Overseas Research Scholarship, University of Manchester, UK – 7000 GBP 2007- OSI Global Supplementary Grant Program –5000USD

European Cultural Foundation, Step Beyond Mobility Grant – 1000 EUR Partnership Thought Mobility Grant (within AICA-Armenia) from OSI/Soros Foundation for organizing a summer school for curators in Armenia – 20.000 USD Overseas Research Scholarship, University of Manchester, UK – 7000 GBP

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2006- Overseas Research Scholarship, University of Manchester, UK -7000 GBP

Partnership Thought Mobility Grant (within AICA-Armenia) from OSI/Soros Foundation for organizing a summer school for curators in Armenia – 25.000USD

Global Supplementary Grant Program, OSI – 4000 USD 2005- Grant from OSI/Soros Foundation (within AICA-Armenia) for organizing a summer school for

curators in Armenia – 25.000 USD 2005- Grant from the British Council (within AICA-Armenia) for organizing the conference “Public

Sphere-between Contestation and Reconciliation” in Armenia- 5000 GBP 2005 - International University Bremen, full scholarship and stipend for graduate studies – 27.000

EUR 2004- International University Bremen, full scholarship and stipend for graduate studies -27.000 EUR 2004- Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, scholarship for Transit Spaces program – 3000 EUR 2003- Yerevan State University, full scholarship and special stipend for graduate studies Conferences and Panels 2014 “New World Systems? Reassessing the Transnational Traffic in Art”, panel co-chair

with Anthony Gardner, Art Historians’ Association 40th Anniversary Conference, London

“Critical Pedagogies: Liberal Education at AUB”, co-chair and co-moderation with

Nadia Bou Ali, Arts and Humanities Initiative, AUB

“Critical Machines”, symposium with fifteen international and regional art publishers (October, e-flux, Bidoun, Ibraaz, Caminet, ARTMArgins, etc.), co-organizer with Octavian Esanu, AUB Art Galleries

“Towards a Theory of Form as Event”, paper presentation, Literature, Art and the Contemporary World: Narratives, History and Memory, USJ Colloquium, Graduate Program in Art Criticism and Curatorial Studies

2013 “Form and Event: Beyond a Critique of Representation”, invited lecture, Stedelijk

Museum, Amsterdam

Art Speak, Panel Discussion, 98weeks, Beirut,

Sites of Critique, Panel Discussion with ARTMargins Editors, Ghalya Saadawi and Jacque Aswad, 392Rmeil393, Beirut, Lebanon

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On the Fates of the Avant-Garde, Coffee With…Panel Discussion with John Roberts

and my students at Home Works 6 Exhibition, Beirut, Lebanon 2012- “Before and After the Event There Was the Artwork”, keynote speaker at the

PhotoCairo 5 symposium, Goethe Institute, Cairo, Egypt.

“DeTour: Documenta 13”. Lecture at the Open University in Armenia.

“The Exhibition as a Live Event: The 3rd Floor Movement in Armenia”, PSi, Performance Studies International, 18th Annual Conference, Leeds University, UK.

“Confronting Desire with Form”. Invited lecture at the University of Cologne, Department of Art history and Cultural Studies, Cologne, Germany.

“Four Sequences of Site-Writing”. Cairo-Documenta Seminars, Alexandria, Egypt.

“Historiography as a Weapon: the Case of Muhammed Al Anis” Longevity of Rupture, AMCA (Association of Modern and Contemporary Art in the Middle East the Arab World), 2nd Annual Conference, AUB, Beirut.

“What is To Be Done With Art Education?” A Panel Discussion involving Shady El

Noshokaty, Walid Sadek, Christine Tohme and Rijin Sahakian. Organizer and Moderator.

“trusted sources”, conversation with artist Hassan Khan, Praxis: Contenporary Art in the Middle East. Series of public talks and discussions sponsored by the FAS Dean and the University’s Provost. AUB, Beirut.

“Situating the Practice: Art and Value”—organizer and moderator, panel discussion involving Kasper Kovitz, Saleh Barakat, Sarah Rifky and Walid Sadek, AUB.

2011- “Geopolitics of Desire and Some Alternative Artistic Strategies”, launch of Red

Thread, issue 3, Istanbul, Turkey.

“Transnational Art Events and Their Cultural Operation: Engaging Art Practices”, in Co-Changing Maps, symposium developed by HaRaKa (Dance Development and Research in Cairo), Goethe Institute, Cairo

“The Armenian Avant-Garde Between Utopia and Progressive Nostalgia”, Post-Socialist Prospects and Contemporary Communisms, AAH 2011 conference, Warwick, UK

2010- “Women and Art: Politics of Representation”, guest lecture, American University in Cairo, delivered for ARTV 310 (Modern Art) students.

“Performative Memory: Timeline of Body Art and Performance Practices from the former East”, public lecture, Mardin Artuklu University, Mardin Turkey

“Rethinking the Public Sphere: ACT’s Political Aesthetics of Affirmation in Armenia”, Researches in the Public Sphere, conference, KSAK Center for Contemporary Arts, Chisinau, Moldova.

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“Interstices of History: Unofficial Timeline of Performance and Body Art Practices from Former Socialist Countries”, University College London, job talk.

“ACT/ivism: Political Aesthetics of Affirmation” in Art and Desire Seminars, Istanbul.

“Limits of the Paradise/Paradise”, Public Conversation with Marcin Łodyga, Jasmina Metwaly, Daniel Koniusz and Vladimir Umanets at Townhouse Gallery.

“Future Continuous Pasts: Unofficial Curatorial Education in Armenia”, Global Art Forum, Art Dubai, Doha.

“Epistemology of Photography”, panel discussant, Nineteenth Annual Symposium on Sights of Knowledge: Debates about Visual Production in the Middle East.

2009 - “Topographical Curating and Artistic Subjectivisation”, 4th Summer Seminars for Art Curators, Yerevan

“Between Recognition and Misrecognition: The Politics of Aesthetics in a Queer Community”, Adam Miczkiewicz University University, Poznan, Poland

“The Dialectic of Reunion and Partition in an Armenian Queer Community”, AAH Annual Conference, Panel “Intersectional Queer Visualities”, April 4-6, Manchester, UK.

2008- “Techniques of Viewing: Representation and Interpretation of Video Art”,

workshops and seminars conducted in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 5 sessions

“The ‘Real’ in/as Representation: TV, Video and Contemporray Art in Armenia”, paper presentation, CAA annual conference, Dallas, Fort Worth, USA

“History Writing and/as Curating”, Summer Seminars for Art Curators, Yerevan, Armenia

“The Body in Bits and Pieces: Technologies and Bodily Representation in

Contemporary Art in Armenia”, Gallery Lyudi, St. Pteresburg, Russia 2007 - “On the Ruins of a Utopia: Armenian Avant-Garde and the Group Act”, OSI GSGP2007

Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia

“The Body Politics and the Politics of Bodily Representation in Contemporary Armenian Art”, AHVS seminar, Manchester University

“The Power and Politics of Representation at ACCEA”, Critical Spaces Workshop, University pf Plymouth, Devon, UK

“Importing the “Curator”: Politics of Representation and Recognition in Contemporary Armenian Art”, SCCA-Ljubljana, Slovenia

2006 - “ Collective Memory Fragmented: Public Symbols and Political Power in Minsk”,

SocialEast Forum, seminar 2- Art and Documentary, Budapest, Hungary 2005- “The Rhetoric of Growth and the Myth of Transition in Post-Soviet Armenia”.

Conference Innovations and Reproductions in Cultures and Societies, Vienna, Austria

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“State Icons and Narratives in the Symbolic Cityscape of Yerevan”. Conference Public Sphere between Contestation and Reconciliation, Yerevan, Armenia

“Keith Moxey: Post structuralism and Art History”, Graduate Colloquium, (co-presented with Dr. Ursula Frohne), International University Bremen, Germany

2004- “The Interaction of the Contemporary Artist with the Society: the Armenian Context” Regional Art Cooperation seminar, ACCEA, Yerevan, Armenia

2000- The last Cry of the Apocalypse: Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl”, Armenian Center for

Contemporary Experimental Art, Festival of Alternative Art Civic Commotion, Yerevan, Armenia

Interviews: 2013 Art’s Difficult Social (Dis)function, ACTV, utopiana,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbYa1fcIxfE Towards a Critique of the Present, http://artlabyerevan.com/ 2012- “No Revolution Without the Masses ” (“Heghapoxutyan hamar anhrazhesht en

zangvatsner”). Interview for Zhamank Daily, 29.08.2012 (In Armenian). 2011- “Like an Armenian Family, Both the Ruling Power and the Official Opposition Are

Pyramid Structures”, interviewed by 1st News Agency (in Armenian), http://www.1in.am/arm/armenia_interview_22435.html, 08.06.2011

“Existence at the Expense of Immigration”, interviewed by Lragir Daily,

http://www.lragir.am/armsrc/interview44545.html, 24.02.2011 “A Political Game that Leaves the System in Tact”, interviewed by Lragir ,

http://lragir.am/armsrc/interview47636.html, 09.05.2011

“Insight from Cairo”, interviewed by 1st News Agency (in Armenian), http://www.1in.am/arm/armenia_interview_9405.html, 10.02.2011

2010 –

“Issues of Identity and National Liberation”, interviewed by Armenian daily Lragir, December 22nd, http://lragir.am/armsrc/interview42235.html

“The State Should be Left out From Politics”, interviewed by Armenian daily Lragir, 15th October, 2010. Also available online: http://www.lragir.am/armsrc/interview38432.html

“Don’t Insult the Young Writers: They Will Grow Up and Become Ministers”, interviewed by Armenian daily Zhamanak, 25.08.2010

2009- “Shaping an Alternative: Art and Politics in Armenia”, interview to newspaper

Lragir. Monday, September 8, 2009, Yerevan, Armenia

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“Curatorial Education Redefined”, press conference, together with Nazareth aroyan and Sari Stenczer, Yerevan, Armenia

2008- “Curating and History Writing”, interview to Radio Student in Ljubljana, Slovenia “Collaborative Curating”, interview to TV Slovenia 2, November 17, 2008 2006- “Summer Seminars Program for Art Curators”, TV interview to Young Wave,

together with Tevz Logar, Pelin Uran and Kata Adamek

Other Activities: Regular contributor to blogs; Head of the Art Theory Lab, Institute of Contemporary Art, Yerevan; Curator of ARTMargins’ artist’s project section; nominator and referee for the European Cultural Foundation, Prince Claus and New School’s Vera List Award in Art and POlitics

Academic Service 2012-2014 Member of the AUB Galleries’ Committee, Arts and Humanities Initiative’s

Committee, Graduate Studies Committee, Departmental Self-Assessment Committee, Studio Arts Search Committee, Curatorial Search Committee, Islamic Art History

Search Committee, English Department Search Committee for Creative Writing, Initiator of Art History curriculum changes with two new course proposals; Art History and Curating Graduate Program Proposal (approved by the Department and submitted to the Graduate Studies Committee); MA thesis advisor, MA tutorial

2011- As Assistant Professor at the FAAH Department, I regularly attend the departmental

and FAS meetings. I assisted the Chair and the Provost in drafting a document consisting policies and procedures for the newly established art galleries at AUB. I helped the Chair of FAAH to draft the job description for the curator’s/gallery director’s position. I have also served on two hiring committees.

2009-2010 --Art Program Director, AUC

--HUSS Academic Affairs Committee --Sharjah Art Gallery Committee -- Falaki Performing Art Center Committee-drafting a proposal to the AUC administration to turn the Falaki campus downtown Cairo into a performing arts center --Art Program Liaison for the Library – order relevant books for the Program --Art Program Liaison for the Library – order relevant books for the Program

Graduate Student Advising 2013-2014 Thesis advisory committee for Richard Kline (PSPA department) Thesis advisory committee for Alia Kalla (History department) MA Tutorial (SOAM 301)

Angela Harutyunyan: CV 15

2011- Local research adviser for Tammer El Sheikh’s PhD dissertation in Cairo, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

2010- Second reader for Rebecca Malcolm’s “Revolution: Identities of Transnational People Expressed Through Their Art and Its Significance” -- MA Thesis in Migration and Refugee Studies

Language Skills

Armenian (native), Russian (fluent), English (fluent), Italian (beginner), Arabic (beginner). -references available upon request: Dr. Amelia Jones Dr. Henry Frances Sven Spieker Grierson Chair in Visual Culture Associate Professor of Art History Executive Editor Department of Art History Department of Fine Arts ARTMargins Journal

and Art History MIT Press American University of Beirut University of California

& Communication Studies Faculty of Arts and Sciences Santa Barbara, CA 93106 McGill University p: 01-350000 Ext. 4350 USA 853 Sherbrooke Street West e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Arts Building, room W285 Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T6 CANADA p: w: 514-398-3268 e-mail: [email protected]