Public Lectures by Valerij Ledenev

  • The Library as a Piece of Art
    Public Lecture #1
    Valerij Ledenev (Moscow, RF)

    September 9, 2022
    Moderator: Susanna Gyulamiryan

    National Gallery of Armenia | 1 Arami Str., Yerevan
    poster | photo credit: Dmitri Lukinov

Armenian text here.

Many places today including libraries are infiltrated by art and an art show in a municipal reading room comes as no surprise. Nevertheless, can library become not only a venue for an art show but also a piece of art itself? Can reading become a life-long performance (why on the earth some artists actually read that much)? How do the books collected by an artist turn to an art installation or a social sculpture and the garbage gathered in a library’s dustbin – into something more than just everyday ephemera?

 

  • Artist’s Book: Reading the Object of Art
    Public Lecture #2

    Valerij Ledenev (Moscow, RF)
    September 10, 2022

    Moderator: Susanna Gyulamiryan
    Studio 20 | 13 Hrachya Kochar Str., Yerevan

Many places today including libraries are infiltrated by art and an art show in a municipal reading room comes as no surprise. Nevertheless, can library become not only a venue for an art show but also a piece of art itself? Can reading become a life-long performance (why on the earth some artists actually read that much)? How do the books collected by an artist turn to an art installation or a social sculpture and the garbage gathered in a library’s dustbin – into something more than just everyday ephemera?


Starting from 2008, Valerij Ledenev’s textual researches and analysis appeared on GiF.Ru and Colta.ru as well as in The Art Newspaper Russia, Harper’s Bazaar Art, Moscow Art Magazine, Art Criticism Magazine, etc. He participated in the professional seminars and conferences on art in Russia and abroad. Since 2017, Ledenev coordinates the collection of Artists’ Books in ‘Garage’ Library.

The public events are organized by the ‘Art and Cultural Studies Laboratory’ (ACSL) in collaboration with the ‘Art Basis’ platform, Armenia.