C A L E N D A R

Pariahs Summit: Presentation of project results

Online & in all project locations
10 January 2025
BY All partners

Showcase event: Visual arts exhibition

Music
Yerevan, Armenia
12 - 18 NOVEMBER 2024
BY TAI

Showcase event: Theatre performance

Performance
Eleusis, Greece
19-20 OCTOBER 2024
BY CHORUS

Showcase event: Dance performance

Dance
Mont-Dauphin, France
2 AUGUST 2024 - 5 p.m.
BY Ascen-Danse

Showcase event: Literary event

Literary event
Maribor, Slovenia
15 JUNE 2024
BY Jasa

Co-creation workshop: Movement, voice and improv

Performance
Eleusis, Greece
7 APRIL 2024
BY CHORUS

From Slovenia to Greece

Art Residency
Eleusis, Greece
05 - 09 APRIL 2024
BY CHORUS

Co-creation workshop: Dance

Dance
Embrun & Mont-Dauphin, France
23 - 25 FEBRUARY 2024
BY Ascen-Danse

From Armenia to France

Art Residency
Mont-Dauphin, France
23 – 25 FEBRUARY 2024
BY Ascen-Danse

Co-creation workshop: Dance in Mont Dauphin

Dance
Mont-Dauphin, France
18 - 19 NOVEMBER 2023
BY Ascen-Danse

Co-creation workshop: Writing & literature

Literary event
Yerevan, Armenia
27 OCTOBER 2023
BY TAI

Co-creation workshop: Dance in Armenia

Dance
Yerevan, Armenia
25 OCTOBER 2023
BY TAI

Co-creation workshop: Needlework

Visual Arts
Yerevan, Armenia
25 OCTOBER 2023
BY TAI

Co-creation workshop: Theatre

Theatre
Ayntab, Armenia
24 OCTOBER 2023
BY TAI

Co-creation workshop: Lace workshop

Visual Arts
Ayntab, Armenia
24 OCTOBER 2023
BY TAI

Residency in Armenia

Art Residency
Yerevan & Ayntab, Armenia
22 – 29 OCTOBER 2023
BY TAI

YEREVAN ARMENIA


The project unites a broad range of creative disciplines. The diversity of our project’s art formats ranges from performing arts, theatre, visual arts, video installations, music, literary arts, dance and kinesiology. Each organisation and participant in the project brings their unique voice, skills, knowledge and network. And they bring opportunities to each other – for learning, support and capacity building, as well as the potential for future artistic collaboration and professional mobility after the project.

Yerevan participates with a visual artist and musician, whose productions will be showcased in autumn 2024, while the music produced will be integrated to the dance performance of Mont Dauphin.

1. Showcase event: Visual arts exhibition

TAI presented a visual arts exhibition from the 12th – 18th of November 2024 at the Charents House-Museum in Yerevan, with artworks spanning from visual arts, needlework, sound installations, live sound performance and more.

Curated by Lilit Stepanyan, the exhibition reflected the memories of individuals who emigrated from Cilicia (Aintab, Marash, Urfa, etc.) in 1915, enduring the hardships of displacement while preserving distinctive forms of Cilician embroidery and lacework. Initially settling in places like Aleppo, they maintained, reproduced, and revitalised these crafts, ultimately passing them down to the next generation upon returning to Armenia.

The exhibition showcased new contemporary artworks by Alexey Manukyan, Armine Atoyan, Vardan Harutyunyan, Anush Ghukasyan, Anton Khlabov, Gohar Sargsyan, Inna Kulupaeva, Lilit Stepanyan, and Lizzy Vartanian. Created using various techniques, these works were inspired by stories of craftsmanship and migration shared during community sessions with Cilician Armenians.

Additionally, it included works from workshops held in Ayntap village in 2023, with participants from Aintab School No. 1 and the Marine Galstyan Studio. During the opening, there was a performance by Vardan Harutyunyan and Anahit Isunts.

Artworks:

Armine Atoyan , The Path to Immortality
Anush Ghukasyan, The softness
Anush Ghukasyan, The softness
Gohar Sargsyan, Embroidered Memory Video art
Alexey Manukyan, Earth. Cilicia. Metamorphosis.

Anton Khlabov, Fabric of memory
Inna Kulupaeva, Venus Planet & Grandmother (or Mother) speaks to me

Watch the animation by Gohar Sargsyan below:

Listen to Lilit Stepanyan’s sound art installation below:

https://on.soundcloud.com/sNjbqRjhK15Fss2T6

 

2. Co-creation workshops with the community

During the residency in Armenia, several co-creation workshops with the local community were organised, were artists from Armenia and the partner countries shared the artistic practices in a participatory way with the local Armenian community.