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SUMMARY:Diana Markosian's FATHER
DESCRIPTION:Join Aperture and The Center for Armenian Arts for a conversation between photographer Diana Markosian and artist Ara Oshagan. They will discuss Markosian’s most recent publication\, Father (Aperture\, 2024)\, an intimate and engrossing diaristic portrayal of estrangement and reconnection\, recounted through documentary photographs\, family snapshots\, text\, and visual ephemera.  \nDiana Markosian: Father presents the Armenian photographer’s journey to another place and another time\, where she attempts to piece together an image of a familiar stranger—her long-lost father. The book explores her father’s absence\, her reconciliation with him\, and the shared emptiness of their prolonged estrangement after a separation during Markosian’s childhood. The images\, made over the course of a decade\, take place in her father’s home in Armenia. Father follows her first monograph\, Santa Barbara (Aperture\, 2020)\, in which Markosian recreates the story of her family’s journey from post–Soviet Russia to the US in the 1990s.  \n––  \nDiana Markosian (born in Moscow\, 1989) is among the leaders of a new generation of photographers and lens-based artists advancing documentary storytelling through image-making. In 1996\, she moved to the US from Russia with her brother and mother\, leaving behind her father\, who would eventually relocate back to the family’s home country of Armenia. Her photographs have been published in Vanity Fair\, Vogue\, and the New Yorker. Her work is represented by Galerie les filles du calvaire\, Paris. The artist’s acclaimed first monograph\, Santa Barbara (Aperture\, 2020)\, was selected as one of the top books of the year by Time and the Museum of Modern Art Magazine. She holds an MS from Columbia University in New York.  \nAra Oshagan (born in Beirut) is a multidisciplinary artist\, curator\, and cultural worker who explores histories of marginalization\, displacement\, and identity. A descendant of communities uprooted from their indigenous land by the Armenian Genocide\, he was born in Lebanon and displaced by war as a youth to the US. Oshagan has published four monographs and has exhibited his artwork internationally. His work has been featured in the LA Times\, NPR’s Morning Edition\, and Hyperallergic. His work is in the permanent collection of the Craft Contemporary Museum\, Southeast Museum of Photography\, Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts\, and Modern Art Museum of Yerevan. \nTuesday\, February 25 at 7:00 pm PST
URL:https://armenianarts.com/event/diana-markosians-father/
LOCATION:The Center for Armenian Arts\, Glendale\, California\, 250 N. Orange St.\, Glendale\, CA\, 91203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition Event,Book Presentation
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SUMMARY:Voices Unheard: Stories of Identity and Language
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for Armenian Arts for an evening of documentary and experimental short films that straddle the layered and overlapping spaces between image\, identity and language. The five filmmaker/artists—Carla Kekejian\, Mariam Meliksetyan\, Ara Oshagan\, Gazelle Samizay and Anahid Yahjian—tackle diverse themes from multiple perspectives as they meditate on what is a name\, return to diasporic language\, walk in spaces of incarceration\, consider memory on indigenous land and reflect on a hidden language. All works are interconnected and retain a deep-lying coherence as the filmmakers/artists look to the future to imagine new ways of being and thinking. \nThe screening will be followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers/artists. \nCarla Kekejian – Harsneren\, 16 mins\, 2019 \nMariam Meliksetyan – Say My Name\, 21 mins\, 2024 \nAra Oshagan – but for the happenstance of history II\, 4 mins\, 2020 \nGazelle Samizay — My Shadow is a Word Writing Itself Across Time\, 6 mins\, 2017 \nAnahid Yahjian – Hishé\, 5 mins\, 2021 \n– \nDr. Carla Kekejian is a licensed speech-language pathologist and founder of SoCal Speech-Language Therapy\, a private practice dedicated to supporting pediatric speech and language development. She earned her Ph.D. and M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Utah and her M.A. in Education with a focus on Human Development and Psychology from UCLA. Dr. Kekejian is a faculty member at both CSUN and CSULB\, where she instructs a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses in speech-language pathology.  \nMariam Meliksetyan is an Armenian-American actress and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She has been professionally trained at the prestigious UCLA School of Theater\, Film & Television\, Drama Centre London at Central Saint Martins\, and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Having worked as an actress in many independent films\, she longed to tell stories from behind the camera as well. Fueled by a lifelong love for cinema and a fascination with documenting the world around her from a young age\, she set out to make her directorial debut with the short experimental documentary “Say My Name” which she also produced. \nAra Oshagan is a diasporic multi-disciplinary artist and curator exploring dispossession\, identity\, and decolonization. Working in photography\, collage\, installation\, and film\, he has published four books and exhibited globally\, including in Los Angeles\, New York\, Armenia\, and South Korea. His work has been featured in NPR\, LA Times\, and Hyperallergic. Oshagan is an Artist-in-Residence at 18th Street Art Center and curator at Glendale’s ReflectSpace Gallery. \nGazelle Samizay\, born in Kabul and raised in rural Washington\, explores culture\, nationality\, and gender through her bicultural identity. Her photography and mixed media work has been exhibited globally and is in major museum collections. A published writer and vice president of the Afghan American Artists and Writers Association\, she has received numerous awards. She holds an MFA from the University of Arizona and is the gallery director at UC Berkeley’s Worth Ryder Art Gallery. \nAnahid Yahjian is a Los Angeles-based independent writer\, director and producer of experimental\, documentary and narrative cinema. Her work is driven by questioning and pursuit: of history\, of power\, of memory\, of liminality\, of the surreal and the sublime. Her commitment to telling true stories was shaped by an early love for visual storytelling that was formalized in college and took flight during her coming of age in Armenia. When not creating her own work\, she directs commercials\, branded content and music videos.  \nThursday\, February 27\, 2025 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
URL:https://armenianarts.com/event/voices-unheard-stories-of-identity-and-language/
LOCATION:The Center for Armenian Arts\, Glendale\, California\, 250 N. Orange St.\, Glendale\, CA\, 91203\, United States
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