Exhibition/performance 58 ԹԱՂԱՄԱՍ 11 ՓՈՂՈՑ

Election 1 City: Gyumri – a platform of relationships where driving force is the circulation of thoughts and ideas. Artists: Alexey Manukyan – has fixed the 11th street Gyumri 58 District watchtrap as ground-art. Vahag Ghukasyan – has fixed the above mentioned ground-art through contemporary art museum 6.05.2012 11:00 The elected: a watchtrap – an open one: has been considered an area for combination of fobias, memories and fears; a cause of being endlessly watchful. In this case it is rather considered as an area of far much security, an entrance to a track with an exit of terminal bright-liberty. Inside the watchtrap: There is life.-Karen Avetisyan[1] I’m online.-Aleksey Manukyan[1] Hard to breath.-Aleksey Manukyan[1] Harder than our reality?- Gohar Smoyan[1] On one hand one can feel he’s in a trap and it’s hard to climb out, on the other hand above is the big and free sky. – Kristine Poghosyan[1] At least today it’s safe. –Arman Tadevosyan[1] 29.07.2012 The elector: A Mobile contemporary art museum, reminding a see-through cube. Opposing to traditional doctrine of history as something for freeze-preservation and archiving of art, it acts as a new artistic function which at present has an essential purpose to temporary support the preservation of the 11th Street 58 District performance through inner self-obvious artistry, i.e. by including “the elected” and “the elector” itself within the circle, to ATLEAST temporarily turn the latter inviolable. Gohar Smoyan Translated Meliqset Panosyan …