About
Art Basis is an independent, artistic and curatorial platform founded by Mary Mikaelyan and Momik Vardanyan in 2014. It investigates art, technology, production, knowledge, alternative models, structures and spaces working with different public events, exhibitions and projects. Art basis stands for the starting point for ideas, processes, situations that make some things possible, and a mode for acting, a way or method of doing something.
Contact
13 Hrachya Kochar Str., Studio 20
0012, Yerevan, Armenia
info[at]artbasis.net
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Studio 20
Studio 20 is a collaborative and informal art space for gatherings, discussions, reflection, information exchange and production. Operating both as a private and public space simultaneously, the project engages with and acts in between these domains and imagines ways for creating spaces. Studio 20 periodically works with artists and curators, organizing exhibitions, performances, lectures and discussions on social, cultural and political issues.
Video Art Archive
Video Art Archive has been created with the aim to readdress the content presented through the moving images and to foster conversations based on that content. First of all it is a physical and online storage of video art and performances, then an opportunity to question the ways moving images produce paths of thinking.
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Screenings and Conversations
Video Art Archive’s program “Screenings and Conversations” aims to question in the context of contemporary art how the moving image produces ways of thinking and to foster the creation of the critical discourse on moving image. The aim of the program is to readdress the content to which the artists working in Armenia in recent 25 years have referred in their art practices.
2016
May 26 - Diana Hakobyan. The leap as the extreme movement
May 19 - Hovhannes Margaryan. New Political Art
May 12 - Harout Simonyan. Body in Movement
Art Schema
ArtSchema is a tool for creating websites with structured data and easy management of those websites. ArtSchema has developed a control management system (CMS) that makes the process of creating a website easy and less time consuming.
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Radio Antenna
Radio Antenna is made by artists and friends, created and dedicated to imagining and experimenting with communication through sound in between backyards, districts, cities, Neighborhood of Caucasus and the rest of the world.
Simultaneous radio streaming will give a possibility to listen and even mix different channels based on impromptu mixing idea, to create your own audio experience. Platform is open for collaboration with other initiatives from all over the world.
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Gyumri AIR
The community art space and residency project is located in a building in Mush-2 district in Gyumri which houses people who have been living in temporary constructions after the 1988 earthquake. The space is imagined as an opportunity to initiate collaborative processes between the community and the visiting artists and guests. This initiative will serve as a space to engage in collective practices, experiences, initiatives and projects, art production and research and other activities in collaboration with the neighborhood.