Haig Aivazian residency
Haig Aivazian is an artist and a writer. He is in residency at Kadist from March to June 2017. Born in 1980 in Beirut, Lebanon, Haig Aivazian is currently based in Beirut. Using performance, video, drawing, installation and sculpture, his work weaves together personal and geopolitical, micro and macro narratives in its search for ideological loopholes and short circuits. His work has been exhibited internationally, including Wavy is the Sea of Bolis… performed at the Istanbul Biennial (2015), Hastayim Yas?iyorum (I am Sick but I am Living) exhibited in the Golden Lion winning Armenian National Pavilion of the Venice Biennale (2015). A part of FUGERE, was commissioned for Sharjah Biennial 9 (2009) while other parts were shown in the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2015). Aivazian’s video works have been included in several exhibitions and festivals including Mercer Union, Toronto (2011), Art Dubai (2012), FiDMarseille (2012), Videobrasil’s Southern Panoramas (2013) and the Los Angeles Municipal Museum [LAMAG] (2014). He has performed his lectures in Home Works, Beirut (2012), Akademie der Kunste der Welt, Cologne, Asia Society, New York (2015) and has had solo shows in Sfeir-Semler Gallery in Hamburg (2016 and 2013) and Parisian Laundry in Montreal (2011). Among his curated exhibitions are: Roads Were Open /Roads Were Closed at The Third Line, Dubai (2008) and Plot for a Biennial, Sharjah Biennial 10 (2011), of which he was Associate Curator. Aivazian has written for a number of publications including Afterall Journal, Manifesta Journal, FUSE, AdBusters, lbraaz, Bidoun, AMCA (Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey), Makhzin, and The Arab Studies journal as well as several exhibition catalogues. Aivazian has taught in the American University of Beirut and was the 2015-2016 Resident Artist at the Ashkal Alwan Home Works Programme.