Sun Jun 28 2020

Weaving a Safety Net: How Embroidering Links Two Waves of Armenian Refugees

For Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, and for Syrian-Armenians in Yerevan, crafting served as a way of earning a living and as a process of rebuilding and reimagining a social world through the temporal markers that help them nurture a sense of “home.”

Fri May 21 2021

Rediscovering the Body: The Painful Birth of Post-Soviet Performance Art

With Vigen Galstyan

Although performance art has practically disappeared from the contemporary art scene as an autonomous medium, early practitioners had a profound impact in changing perceptions of the body in Armenia’s post-independence culture.