REMEMBERING MARCOS
Talks on the 15th anniversary of Marcos Grigorian’s death A collaboration with ARé Cultural Foundation.
Marcos Grigorian (1925 – 2007) was a notable Ira- nian-Armenian artist and a pioneer of Iranian modern art. http://www.artnet.com/artists/ marcos-grigorian/
Participants: Evet Tajaryan, Nazareth Karoyan, Vazgen Pahlavuni-Tadevosyan and all others Idea & moderation: Edik Boghossian
LIBERATED CHAIR
A live performance dedicated to Marcos Grigorian
The “Liberated Chair” performance / installation is in memory of Marcos Grigorian and on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of his death. It is inspired by his “Condemned Chair” installation in the 70s.
From the book Earth Works, NY, 1989
Identification with a brown, wooden, four-legged object with a straight back removes the human mind from knowing the pure essence of a chair. “The object we sit on” is wrong, or, at least, not right. We can stand on a chair, for example, to change the lamp. And we can sit on many things – on a table, on the stairs, on a stone, on a bench, even on our parents’ laps. But in order not to stray from the essence of the chair, we must realize that the chair is a non-living, inanimate material designed and produced for people to sit on it.
The chair is also politicized, again lifeless, but in this case without the opportunity to sit on. They get rid of the first type of chairs, and the second one must be kept.
Edik Boghosian
Coincidentally, chairs that have been found in different parts of the city, thrown away or being used for other means, are relieved of the burden of importance-non importance contradiction.
