Join art historian and curator, Choghakate Kazarian, for a curated screening of landmark performances in Armenia from the 1970s through the early 1990s, featuring works drawn from newly uncovered archives. Each performance will be introduced with historical context.
This webinar is presented in conjunction with the Zimmerli Art Museum exhibition, Topographies of Dissent: Armenian Art from the Dodge Collection.
Choghakate Kazarian is an art historian and curator specializing in modern, contemporary, and outsider art. She holds degrees in art history (École du Louvre), philosophy (La Sorbonne), and a PhD from The Courtauld Institute of Art. A former curator at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris and pre-doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, she has curated exhibitions on Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Karel Appel, and Henry Darger. Her recent projects include Immersion. Les Origines: 1949–1969 (Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne), Mood of the Moment: Gaby Aghion and the House of Chloé (The Jewish Museum, New York), and New Matter: The Sergei Djavadian Collection of Armenian Abstraction (National Gallery of Armenia).
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