The strengthened educational  program of the AAF includes a serious of stimulating talks
and lectures by key players and experts in the art world and beyond 

– “Shifting Perspectives on Art from Local to Global”

Social, political and cultural artistic perspectives vs. powerful cultural institutions

Featuring visiting curator and writer Georg Schoelhammer, Susanna Gyulamiryan, curator, art critic and director of the Art and Cultural Studies Laboratory (ACSL) and the director of the Institute for Contemporary Art, Nazareth Karoyan. Moderator – Dr. Randall Rhodes, proctor at the American University of Armenia.

”The Slavs and Tatars” art collective

lecture – performance TRANSLITERATIVE TEASE

(In partnership with  of the Goethe-Institute)

The Tranny Tease explores the potential for transliteration–the conversion of scripts–as a strategy equally parsed between resistance and research into notions such as identity politics, colonialism, and faith.

The march of alphabets has always accompanied that of empires – Arabic with the rise of Islam, Latin with that of Roman Caholicism, and Cyrillic with the Orthodox Church and subsequently communism. This lecture-performance attempts not to emancipate peoples or nations but rather the sounds rolling off our tongues

– “New Art  New Markets” 

A lecture and presentation by  Dr. Iain Robertson,  Head of Art Business Studies at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London

about  the emergence of new art and art markets in Iran, India, China, South America, and Southeast Asia,  the ideological and cultural shift away from a global Western cultural consensus toward a multitude of new approaches. The   shift  which  has resulted in exceedingly high prices being paid by collectors in national markets for art that is very different from global art, and how it will have a significant impact on the future value of all art.