Արի չրթենքն – „Komm, lass uns Sonnenblumenkerne essen“

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Performance by Mischa Badasyan and lecture by the political theorist Dr. Veronika Zablotsky.

The event will explore the interplay of art and activism in the Armenian context through the example of Mischa Badasyan’s artistic practice.

Veronika Zablotsky
Veronika Zablotsky holds a postdoctoral appointment in the Department of Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin as a member of the interdisciplinary research consortium Transforming Solidarities. She was Visiting Professor of Gender Studies at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen and previously Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her scholarship explores postcolonial and feminist perspectives in political theory, critical migration studies, and diaspora studies with an emphasis on postsocialism in the SWANA region. At the University of Pennsylvania, she co-founded the Critical Armenian Studies Collective. She completed her dissertation in Feminist Studies with notations in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, Politics and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2019.

Mischa Badasyan
Mischa Badasyan was born in Rostov on Don, Russia. He studied Political Science at Rostov’s South University and has been working in social, human rights, LGBT and environmental protecting organizations since an early age. It has made a huge impact on him and his artwork. In 2008, he moved to Germany and eventually began studying social work in Dresden while staying active in social/AIDS/LGBT organizations.
In October 2011, he coincidentally started his career as a performance artist after working as a nude model at the art academy in Dresden. He strongly believes that the art exists only through our life experiences. There is no need to use physical objects to create; you become the artwork yourself. The art should be immaterial like you; feelings of deep love of the World, the Earth and of Humanity. In September 2013, he moved to Berlin which was the next stop in his artistic career where he started doing long duration performances that last days, months and years.

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