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Conversations in Contemporary Art Presents Haig Aivazian

Conversations in Contemporary Art is proud to partner with La Biennale de Montréal and the Sociéte des Artes Technologiques to present artist Haig Aivazian. His work will be presented in the 2016 edition of La Biennale de Montréal, Le Grand Balcon, on view from October 19, 2016 to January 15, 2017.

Date & time

Thursday, October 20, 2016
6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Cost

This event is free.

Contact

Tammer El-Sheikh

Where

S.A.T. – Société des Artes Technologiques
1201 Boulevard St-Laurent, Montréal

Haig Aivazian, Not Every Day Is Spring, 2016

Haig Aivazian is an artist and a writer. Born in 1980 in Beirut, Lebanon, Aivazian is currently based in Beirut.

Using performance, video, drawing, installation and sculpture, his work weaves together personal and geopolitical, micro and macro narratives in its search for ideological loopholes and short circuits.

His work has been exhibited internationally, including Wavy is the Sea of Bolis… performed at the Istanbul Biennial (2015), Hastayim Yaşiyorum (I am Sick but I am Living) exhibited in the Golden Lion winning Armenian National Pavilion of the Venice Biennale (2015). A part of FUGERE, was commissioned for Sharjah Biennial 9 (2009) while other parts were shown in the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2015), FRAC Aquitaine (2016). Aivazian’s video works have been included in several exhibitions and festivals including Mercer Union, Toronto (2011), Art Dubai (2012), FiDMarseille (2012), Videobrasil’s Southern Panoramas (2013) and the Los Angeles Municipal Museum [LAMAG] (2014). He has performed his lectures in Home Works, Beirut (2012), Akademie der Kunste der Welt, Cologne, Asia Society, New York (2015) and has had solo shows in Sfeir-Semler Gallery in Hamburg (2016 and 2013) and Parisian Laundry in Montreal (2011).

Among his curated exhibitions are: Roads Were Open /Roads Were Closed at The Third Line, Dubai (2008) and Plot for a Biennial, Sharjah Biennial 10 (2011), of which he was Associate Curator.

Aivazian has written for a number of publications including Afterall Journal, Manifesta Journal, FUSE, AdBusters, lbraaz, Bidoun, AMCA (Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey), Makhzin, and The Arab Studies journal as well as several exhibition catalogues. Aivazian has taught in the American University of Beirut and was the 2015-2016 Resident Artist at the Ashkal Alwan Home Works Programme.

PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO THE SPECIAL VENUE, THIS EVENT IS TICKETED. For more information visit http://www.bnlmtl2016.org/en/evenements/artists-talk-haig-aivazian/.

The lecture will be held in English.

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