HayArt Cultural Centre
The post-Soviet changes in Yerevan are also taking place at the level of individual parts of the city. And not by simply changing the names of streets and squares but as a result of fundamental economic, social and cultural changes, for example, the spread of consumer culture. Freedom (Theatre) Square and Cascade are examined from […]
The speech discusses several stages of changes in the meaning of Yerevan as the capital of Soviet Armenia and then the Republic of Armenia. Yerevan’s master plan (1924) brings with it the idea of a modern city in contrast to “Eastern Yerevan”. It covers the modernizing society (the people). In the post-Stalin period and the […]
The speech is dedicated to the changes that took place in the street environment of Yerevan during the years of Armenia’s independence, the clash between public and private, the commercialization of urban areas and the discussion of the right to the city. The first half of the 1990s were the most chaotic times of the […]
“They came with joy: the revolution, the new man, the proletariat marching towards communism with a hardened tongue and a hammered body. Iron muscle was their seed. The sun was their food. And the thought was the action. They came to the working districts of Yerevan with the tram established in 1933 and connecting the […]
The speech is dedicated to the transformations that took place in the street life of Yerevan in the post-Soviet period, particularly the formation of the so-called “thief” subculture and the spread of its influence on the organization of human relationships on the street. In the second half of the 1950s, more than a million prisoners […]
The speech is dedicated to the presentation of the practices of everyday life in Yerevan in the 1960s-1980s and the features of their modernization. One of the exciting phenomena characteristic of late-Soviet Yerevan was that the modernization process here had formal-official and shadow dimensions, which were expressed through parallel manifestations of the Soviet and the […]
ALEXIS PAUL is a French composer, musician, and cultural player. His work is determined by a homogeneous form of poetic intentions. It focuses more particularly on music as a “tool”, and his main project revolves around using a street organ, through which he has collaborated in many countries with traditional singers and all kinds of […]
JENA JANG is a South Korean artist based in Prague, Czech Republic.She received a master’s degree in animation and film from the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague and is pursuing a PhD in visual communication at the time-based media atelier at the University of Jan Evangelista Ústí nad Labem.She has had an […]
Physical Theatre Workshop Gill Becher invited all those interested in Jacques Lecoq’s method to conduct a 2-day workshop around rituals for the different public spaces.The work method arounded the physical theatre – the body as the architecture of emotions. About the artistsGil Becher is an artist and artistic director from Israel that works and creates […]
Marie-Caroline Hominal lives and works in Geneva. She received her dance education at the Schweizerische Ballettberufschule (ZHDK TanzAkademie) in Zurich and at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in London, where she joined the National Youth Dance Company.Her personal research began in 2002. Her artistic practice includes text, drawing, dance, video, sculptures, and […]