NAIRY BAGHRAMIAN: SCULPTURE AS AN AESTHETIC TOOL AND THE DISPLACEMENT OF MEANINGS
from 13 SEP 2014 to 27 SEP 2014
This course aims to think about the notion of modes of artistic and social production and the manner in which their alterations determine new directions for artistic disciplines, in the awareness that such modes are, simultaneously, determined by economic, social, political and ecological contexts associated to a specific moment in the history of humanity. In particular it will refer to the work of artist, Nairy Baghramian, in order to try to understand a wider sense of production in contemporary art and its relationship with society. From Adorno to Rosalind Krauss, from Paul Ardenne to Michael Warner, the course will present, on the one hand, several perspectives in the history of relatively recent critical thinking that illuminate the diversity of possible approaches from the specific idea of the context. On the other hand, the course will present the work of some artists whose work questions the very notion of a material culture, i.e. the modes in which objects and their multiple displacements of meaning actually contribute to an exhaustive and inevitably complete mapping of the history of mankind.
Orientation: Gabriela Vaz Pinheiro, Head of the Art and Architecture Programme of Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture and lecturer at the Fine Arts Faculty of the University of Porto. Sessions: 13, 20 and 27 Sep (Sat) Course plan Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro Course plan Each session will be divided into two main stages: - presentation - collective analysis and discussion of the issues in question, In this manner it will seek to involve participants in critical and relational analysis, aiming to generate an active and shared knowledge production context.
13 SeptemberLooking at the work of Nairy Baghramian Material culture and critique of vision. Some critical assumptions for the construction (and deconstruction) of vision in the contemporary world, that could enable an approach to the work of Nairy Baghramian in function of dismantling of paradigms of sculptural practice and visuality. 20 September From the Artist as a producer to culture in (dis)contextContext and specificity. Basic notions of a site-specific practise, its radicalization and recent updates. Examples of artistic practices of a contextual nature, from "Institutional Critique" to relational practices, seeking to frame the exhibition space in its social and political dimensions.
27 SeptemberArcheology through contemporary art: on the instability of material culture Association and derivation: where do the things that we recognize originate from? The final session of discussion of the work of Nairy Baghramian and textual and / or visual experimentation around the topics that were addressed in the previous sessions looking for points of connection to critical questions associated to the image, sculptural work and meaning.
Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro graduated in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, of the University of Porto. She has a European Master’s degree in Set Design from Central St. Martins College and the Utrecht School of the Arts; a Master’s degree in the Theory and Practice of Public Art and Design from the Chelsea College of Art & Design, and a PhD for her project at the Chelsea College, with a thesis entitled: "Art from place: the expression of cultural memory in the urban environment and in place-specific art interventions". Between 1998 and 2006, she worked as guest professor at Central St. Martins College of Art & Design in London. She has received scholarships from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Ministry of Culture, the Contemporary Art Society and The London Institute, and as an artist has received supported from the Direcção Geral das Artes / Instituto das Artes (General Directorate of Arts / Arts Institute). In her work, she explores issues of identity and context, using artistic production as a means of questioning the concept of the individual and context. During a 2-year period, she worked with the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, including organization of conferences such as "Spaced Out", around the idea of interdisciplinarity between art and architecture. She has been continuously involved in interdisciplinary seminars and has published texts in national and international art magazines and art research magazines. She has also maintained regular editorial work and published many books and catalogue texts. She was the co-ordinator of the Art and Architecture programme for Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture, and since 2004 has been teaching in the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, where she is the co-ordinator of the Master’s degree course in Art and Design for Public Spaces. She regularly works with various academic institutions in Portugal and abroad.
Orientation: Gabriela Vaz Pinheiro, Head of the Art and Architecture Programme of Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture and lecturer at the Fine Arts Faculty of the University of Porto. Sessions: 13, 20 and 27 Sep (Sat) Course plan Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro Course plan Each session will be divided into two main stages: - presentation - collective analysis and discussion of the issues in question, In this manner it will seek to involve participants in critical and relational analysis, aiming to generate an active and shared knowledge production context.
13 SeptemberLooking at the work of Nairy Baghramian Material culture and critique of vision. Some critical assumptions for the construction (and deconstruction) of vision in the contemporary world, that could enable an approach to the work of Nairy Baghramian in function of dismantling of paradigms of sculptural practice and visuality. 20 September From the Artist as a producer to culture in (dis)contextContext and specificity. Basic notions of a site-specific practise, its radicalization and recent updates. Examples of artistic practices of a contextual nature, from "Institutional Critique" to relational practices, seeking to frame the exhibition space in its social and political dimensions.
27 SeptemberArcheology through contemporary art: on the instability of material culture Association and derivation: where do the things that we recognize originate from? The final session of discussion of the work of Nairy Baghramian and textual and / or visual experimentation around the topics that were addressed in the previous sessions looking for points of connection to critical questions associated to the image, sculptural work and meaning.
Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro graduated in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, of the University of Porto. She has a European Master’s degree in Set Design from Central St. Martins College and the Utrecht School of the Arts; a Master’s degree in the Theory and Practice of Public Art and Design from the Chelsea College of Art & Design, and a PhD for her project at the Chelsea College, with a thesis entitled: "Art from place: the expression of cultural memory in the urban environment and in place-specific art interventions". Between 1998 and 2006, she worked as guest professor at Central St. Martins College of Art & Design in London. She has received scholarships from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Ministry of Culture, the Contemporary Art Society and The London Institute, and as an artist has received supported from the Direcção Geral das Artes / Instituto das Artes (General Directorate of Arts / Arts Institute). In her work, she explores issues of identity and context, using artistic production as a means of questioning the concept of the individual and context. During a 2-year period, she worked with the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, including organization of conferences such as "Spaced Out", around the idea of interdisciplinarity between art and architecture. She has been continuously involved in interdisciplinary seminars and has published texts in national and international art magazines and art research magazines. She has also maintained regular editorial work and published many books and catalogue texts. She was the co-ordinator of the Art and Architecture programme for Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture, and since 2004 has been teaching in the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, where she is the co-ordinator of the Master’s degree course in Art and Design for Public Spaces. She regularly works with various academic institutions in Portugal and abroad.
