tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15983007514117961992024-03-13T21:27:24.808+00:00Things Happen in Liminal Zones11 days in Armenia & Azerbaijan.paulabugnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07360865227094094428noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598300751411796199.post-91630286432258338392007-09-04T21:59:00.000+00:002008-12-11T12:58:55.858+00:00FOOTBALL IN BAKU<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWQxb8xUOAZKSdqMqlmAt3iL39nb1CH7lZhn3vwe6U-8WZLEUOJ6B6IiDt7RadV4WGj7YV-fBeG3cSy4E4-pn2TX75ILliLE1kxAZxiKsyswLqSIunjIj4KP2lmAWTW07ITfox_fulxfg/s1600-h/DSC_0142.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWQxb8xUOAZKSdqMqlmAt3iL39nb1CH7lZhn3vwe6U-8WZLEUOJ6B6IiDt7RadV4WGj7YV-fBeG3cSy4E4-pn2TX75ILliLE1kxAZxiKsyswLqSIunjIj4KP2lmAWTW07ITfox_fulxfg/s320/DSC_0142.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106473193681747970" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXlfFYXnp7F54Gf6Cf39GHLEeNyZyINJOy3IprBYrFo1m_gO1yqKH5TDaqM2UjKyBbQ8cp12G6ySXHzdK81IhzFPs40TFyrkldCo_b8qMVIfd_ogM6jRPktMHaGfq5CZlZ-3rqGfj7SzY/s1600-h/DSC_0132.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRRrOLtOCBOLpUGEmjop-ydmDtxrhbujjCj8nvwAeUE6rDaOeaMuD6ElLS-Q3TuSekfNpkcpKf0mqiMQpS7BgDEbJAoozDV26cBBwPkyDb9bW0NtheksG_vqoJZLGYE8pbxwcOc_PPofc/s320/voorastara.jpg" border="0" /></a></div></div><div></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRRrOLtOCBOLpUGEmjop-ydmDtxrhbujjCj8nvwAeUE6rDaOeaMuD6ElLS-Q3TuSekfNpkcpKf0mqiMQpS7BgDEbJAoozDV26cBBwPkyDb9bW0NtheksG_vqoJZLGYE8pbxwcOc_PPofc/s1600-h/voorastara.jpg"></a></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Kunstacademie/ Doordeolievelden/ VoorAstara </div>paulabugnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07360865227094094428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598300751411796199.post-77182512270673223642007-09-04T20:41:00.000+00:002008-12-11T12:58:57.433+00:00A Shared Passion<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXXFkC40hHTYYYGEVXyC_SPArtqcsRh-JhMzJS3gRq4qjH70W15AT9yAZtnjR_2JnklZu0ysYPaRe5a9HRiNt8KSuFahWFHScnAy32qUHq2ffaEtnv8aOk3dZZhJQ4c-aQe_eUTQ6A8-c/s1600-h/passion.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106455550598652610" style="DISPLAY: block; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsM220gZ9SlKHOrX3OlREGJhPqfyeavX61q1MXTrtZPlaQi6PXrTlwzdENLLdLsuqYtWp155Jup9t54UOLV901U89kmaaEEdFHsUGqciJQdqc53KzB26Mzfcq2qtSs5lpAqocIk5jbi4M/s320/last-supper.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaFMl8aOWxlXivg80WxY0-TStKHJDPxJP0zuRdVfjBs_euvXs8R_OjWabx4RaRR4qQbpauISHwMsceMa5nZ4wghPzn2mapjiw2tjqXJmJ6P4EOHMCwXNYQ57oe1JAC2kkHJl2Svzb7pHk/s1600-h/apartment.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106455559188587250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaFMl8aOWxlXivg80WxY0-TStKHJDPxJP0zuRdVfjBs_euvXs8R_OjWabx4RaRR4qQbpauISHwMsceMa5nZ4wghPzn2mapjiw2tjqXJmJ6P4EOHMCwXNYQ57oe1JAC2kkHJl2Svzb7pHk/s320/apartment.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><br /><br /><div>Already 14 days back in 'Good-Old-Amsterdam" and catching up with the (Art)-News in my morning paper, I saw an article that made me draw a parallel to what I experienced during my visit to the apartment c.q studio of Lyubov Mirjavadova.<br />Liuba is a modern artist, a painter, a poet, and a sincere individual.<br />As I climbed the stairs that smelled of cat-piss, I was thinking about what Rena Efendi had told me earlier that day about her most inspiring artist: Javad Mirjavad, now regarded as Azerbaijans most famous painter, who died in 1992 and had married Liuba when she was 16 years old..<br /><br />Most of his work is scattered all over the world, a great deal of his paintings is in the Henning Museum in Denmark but Liuba still has some of her husbands paintings and drawings stacked in her apartment.<br />Paintings where everywhere, so were the writings on the walls and the doors….it reminded me of the houses in Amsterdam that I visited, to see the works of students of the painting department in the eighties and nineties……<br />My romantic heart opened up when I recognized the same passion for paint and painting and made me question (again) about the significance of ART Education.<br />Because it is my believe that being an artist is NOT a profession – it is a vocation. It is predestined…….<br /><br />“Through painting I get nearer to understanding the sense of existence where omnipresent light gives birth to color, and I, enchanted and spellbound, wander in the painting of the world. An artist is both madness and will, which, at first sight seems incompatible.<br />An artist needs longevity, which does not make sense either, because artists embezzle their lives. They only learn something by giving up on themselves completely. Surrendering themselves wholly to art, they would live in their paintings.”<br />(words of Javad Mirjavadov)<br /><br />That is what I recognized in the paintings of JAVAD and LJUBA and I realized this is something you can’t learn or teach or judge.<br /><br /></div><br /><br /><div>Wim Vonk</div><br /><br /><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6by-q3SOBvohhW0s1sdoLgPN82GyaDHpvur1q_HJHt3RhCyBj_cWstC5vW3OVHnxtgKiMUYMpC-EvnqDyPltnQeQ2gbZ2T2gdEm9lEtihVyjJAXL2JQM2rVCeoMMKJg_2uDPArRqXA_g/s1600-h/passion.jpg"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvOpTEI1FmKS4Mm8h8YeBxZ2fbX4F-K8JLMFe8wUCpaG-TKtiyVUvGxJYAJGYTWgdsa0zuHJjorq24G0u1an9fjsESNOd2Zmkjm1zs8JBdIwg1Z7hk3wPG8cjfeN6epomNYpTZOjYfgAA/s1600-h/late-gift.jpg"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUmw2M0DC7U-Ms2zQtZKB7n9NWbZCRH75fZGRlNHi9sWKRqDOWCcTiaMomYU_FT7wwr33fKA1eSmeJ2kBWtkCi5UNgtv6zph00yX-GXYBclqRvaQeypJrd8EOK8RexDkLSpN1CaGHD-EM/s1600-h/last-supper.jpg"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge81dZm7pomnrj_h9XdAwhwHq45sCwDXevrRyZn7VnRtHdu8mB07F4QfTPVLsx1m8OIpqaS3Wt36dNiK8A6ts27J9ipVKbarwAhMUzALGOAcVHnDZQqp_ItgF5_zJShtOXMk9XqOYKLEQ/s1600-h/apartment.jpg"></a><br />Afbeeldingen:<br />Nr1 Javad, Passion, 1983, 160 x 200cm,.<br />Nr2 Ljuba Mirjavadov (Rubaba) Late Gift, 2005, 70 x 50 cm, black pen.<br />Nr3 Javad, The Last Supper, 160x220,1982.<br />Nr4 Apartment wall/door, Poem from Rubaba</div></div>paulabugnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07360865227094094428noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598300751411796199.post-50742827142402416862007-09-04T20:32:00.000+00:002007-09-04T21:01:22.146+00:00LINKS ABOUT ARMENIADear Fellow Travelers and everybody interested!<br /><br />Find below many interesting links about Armenia!<br /><br /> http://www.armeniainfo.am/<br /> <br />Armenian Phrases (Eastern Armenian using phonetic<br />transliteration system)<br /> http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Armenian_Phrases<br /><br />http://www.caucasusmedia.org/partners.php<br /><br /> http://www.armenianow.com/ Independent News Service (Armenia)<br /> <br /> http://groong.usc.edu/news/<br /> (Daily World News collected by/about Armenia/Armenians region arts, Armenia, Diaspora, politics, etc…) <br /> http://www.virtualani.org/citymap.htm historic Armenian Site on the border with Armenias 2nd Largest City Gyumri. \<br /><br /> Armenian Forum (Journal)<br /> http://www.gomidas.org/forum/about.htm \<br /> http://www.gomidas.org/forum/contents.htm (quick link to issues- last one was published in 2003)<br /> (Some recent Articles online: <br /> http://www.gomidas.org/forum/af10c1.pdf (Armenia and Its Diaspora: Is There Scope for a Stronger Economic Link?)<br /> <br /> http://www.gomidas.org/forum/af9dk.pdf (Review: Marc Nichanian Writers of Disaster: Armenian Literature in the Twentieth Century, volume 1, The National Revolution <br /><br /><br />http://www.gomidas.org/forum/af10c3.pdf (Caucasus Chronicles: Nation- Building and Diplomacy in Armenia, 1993–1994)<br /> <br /> http://www.humanistischeomroep.nl/human/hos/html/varia/news.jsp?news=46641<br />(New film by Dutch Filmmaker- Dorothee Forma - The Story of my Name- an Armenian History)<br /> <br />In the Shadow of "Heroes" 2nd Bishkek Int’l. Exhibition of Contemporary Art (Caucasus and Central Asian Artists)<br />` cut and paste:<br />http://universes-in <br />universe.org/eng/islamic_world/articles/2005/in_the_shadow_of_heroes<br /><br /> PARAJANOV INFO<br /> http://www.parajanov.com/maestro.html <br /><br />Adieu Parajanov - Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Armenien<br />7.11. - 11.12.2003<br /><br />Kunsthalle Wien (project space am Karlsplatz) (Museumsquartier) Vienna,<br />Austria<br />http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/exhibitionInfo/exhibition/13378<br /><br />A BOOK OF COLLECTED ARTICLES FROM CURATORS AND ART CRITICS OF ARMENIA,<br />AZERBAIJAN, EGYPT, GEORGIA, IRAN, LEBANON, PALESTINE, AND TURKEY<br />http://www.btmadra.com/books/books.html<br /><br />Contemporary Art In The Caucasus And The Region:<br />Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran and Turkey<br />Papers PresentedAt One-Day Seminar<br />on Issues and Problems of<br />Contemporary Art In Armenia<br />Held in Yerevan, Republic of Armenia<br />June 8, 2004<br />see;<br />http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:pHn51WVv73gJ:www.accea.info/SeminarPacket.doc+adieu+parajanov&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&client=safari<br />OR:<br />http://www.accea.info/SeminarPacket.doc.<br /> <br /> http://www.parajanov.com/maestro.html (Go immediately to Sergei Parajanaov Films and Bio… the link won’t go directly for some reason?) Scroll down for more links to all his films.<br /> http://www.cinemaseekers.com/Peleshian.html Peleshian info<br /> <br /> www.gaiff.am Golden Apricot International Film Festival- Yerevan<br /><br />ArteEast/CinemaEast Programme <br /> http://www.arteeast.org/cinemaeast/spring04/spring04-films/jagadakeer.html<br /> <br /> http://www.utopiana.am/ ‘Utopiana’ Art website<br /> http://www.accea.info/main.htm<br />LIZA Legal Gender Cultural Foundation foundation + film festival for women <br /> www.liza.am<br /> <br />HETQ -Investigative Journalists <br /> www.hetq.am<br /><br />(Year of Armenia - L’Année de l’Arménie- 2006/2007-France) <br />OFFICIAL WEBSITE AND A FEW LINKS… <br /> http://www.armenie-mon-amie.com/ <br />http://www.armenie-mon-amie.com/Installation-de-Sarkis-au-Musee-du.html<br /> http://www.armenie-mon-amie.com/Installation-de-Nora-Martirosyan.html<br /><br /><br />Regards Projetés – Arménie <br />expositions / projections / rencontres <br />du 13 mars au 20 mai 2007 <br />Strasbourg / Toulouse / Paris / Saint-Etienne<br />http://a360.typepad.com/a360/2007/03/regards_projets.html<br />also<br />Cut and paste:<br />http://www.apollonia-art exchanges.com/apollonia.php?idm=25&id=28&rub=1&type=2&idmGen=24#28<br /><br /> Taner Akcam talk from University of Amsterdam – 12/2006<br /> Armenian Genocide. Taner Akçam: A shameful Act<br /> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBNI4PcEp2I<br /><br /><br />Official site of Arto Tunçboyaciyan, percussionist and singer, was born in Turkey in 1957 of Armenian descent of the Anatolian root. Lives in Armenia. Look out if his band is playing when you are there (ARMENIAN NAVY BAND) <br />http://www.naregatsi.org/Artoistan/index_html.htm<br /><br /><br />BLUE MOSQUE 12 Mashtots Ave. <br />http://www.armeniainfo.am/sites/?section=religious_desc&page=4&site_id=125<br /><br />With warm thanks to Tina Bastajian<br />About the work of Tina Bastajian<br />http://www.kinostudio.org/<br /><br />Iris, Paula and Kristiinahttp://armenia-azerbaijan.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17688099589805705835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598300751411796199.post-19161974013215086702007-07-19T01:00:00.000+00:002007-07-19T01:21:09.982+00:00Binnenstebuiten<span style="font-family:courier new;"><strong><span style="font-size:78%;">door Janneke van der Putten</span> </strong></span><span style="font-family:courier new;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;">Het is hier als een binnenstebuiten gekeerde wereld, met de ongeborgen naaktheid van de achtergelaten fundamenten van huizen, de opengebroken straten en de straatwerkens in hun allerdaagse kleren. Alles is wat het is, en wat het was, zonder afgewerkte doekjes. Zonder enig uniform en oordopjes wordt er in de grond gegraven en gebroord, met de typische modieuze zwart puntige schoenen aan. Wanneer de werkers door en fototoerist worden aangesproken, komen de sigaretten weer uit de zakken en wordt de pauze ingeluid.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598300751411796199.post-82711011747705553512007-07-09T18:02:00.000+00:002007-07-19T01:17:53.441+00:00Waar rook is, is leven<span style="font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>Door Janneke van der Putten</strong><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;"><br />Na heel wat belevenissen belanden wij zondagavond op houten banken, in de hoek van een vochtig, grotachtig restaurant. Tv staat aan, piano ernaast, een grote witte koelkast tegen de stenen muur en de ouders achter een pan. Ik zou bijna vragen om te helpen mee koken.<br /><br />De kleine onopvallende ingang van het restaurant leidt ons door een donker gangetje, vol mysterie van wat er schuilt. Aan de rechterkant een lage opening, naar het keukentje toe, waar een vleessnijdende jongeman gebogen staat over zijn bloedige bezigheid.<br />Het is niet een restaurant waar alles vanzelfsprekend klaar staat. Nadat wij onze bestelling hebben gedaan, snelt de vader, terwijl hij zijn colbertje aan doet, naar buiten, misschien wel naar de groenteman.<br /><br />Later stromen er meer klanten binnen, en wordt er geserveerd. Feestelijkheid, muziek en rook hangt in de lucht. Daarbij vinden enkele komische momenten plaats, waarbij de zoon met een spuitbus door de ruimte, en over de banken heen zwaait.<br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598300751411796199.post-52531955140550633952007-07-09T17:50:00.000+00:002007-07-19T00:53:19.265+00:00Tussenruimte<span style="font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>Door Janneke van der Putten</strong></span><br /></span><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Zondagmorgen </span><span style="font-size:100%;">29 april 2007</span></strong>, nog in de nacht, staan wij op een stil en vreemd rustig gebied: de visa ruimte, een tussenruimte. De balies ervan zijn geel, de informatiebordjes, aan het plafond hangend, zijn groen en de marmeren vloer is beige gemengd met oranje.<br /><br />Dit is de eerste ruimte die we in het land der Zoroasters betreden. Het is een aangename eerste kennismaking. De maan ziet er hetzelfde uit als in Nederland en schijnt in de koele nacht hoog boven het vliegveld. Wanneer je een stap uit het vliegtuig zet, ruik je de olielucht, gemengd met de zeelucht van de Kaspische zee. Deze geurt toch niet zoals de lucht in Zandvoort, maar ik herken er een zeelucht in. Ik kan me voorstellen dat dit een echt moederland is, waar de geur je bij wederzien helemaal bedwelmd.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598300751411796199.post-90680073667223510052007-04-27T11:03:00.000+00:002007-04-27T11:04:38.888+00:00CHECK OUT; BLOG OF AN X-RIETVELD STUDENThttp://sophiatabatadze.blogspot.com<br /><br />SHE LIVES IN GEORGIA, BUT KNOWS THE CAUCASUS REGION QUITE WELL. SHE ALSO WRITES ABOUT IT!http://armenia-azerbaijan.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17688099589805705835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598300751411796199.post-62876196071099360752007-04-27T07:25:00.000+00:002007-04-27T07:44:49.030+00:00LIST OF FELLOWTRAVELLERSARMENIA & AZERBAIJAN: THINGS HAPPEN IN LIMINAL ZONES<br /><br />1. Thekla Ahrens<br />Student Rietveld Academie : basisjaar<br /><br />2. Eva Aussems<br />Student Rietveld Academie :basisjaar<br /><br />3. Carin Baeten<br />Student Rietveld Academie : Textile dept.<br /><br />4. Karim Bennamar<br />Philosopher/ Lecturer Higher Institute of Amsterdam<br /><br />5. Mariska vd Berg<br />Lecturer Design Academy Eindhoven/<br />Projectmanager SKOR(Organisation for Art in Public Space)<br /><br />6. Paul van den Berg<br />Architect / Lecturer Rietveld Academie<br /><br />7. Maria Blaisse<br />Artist/ designer<br /><br />8. Maaike Boorsma<br />Student Rietveld Academie : Theatre dept.<br /><br />9. Lucette ter Borg<br />Writer / Art critic<br /><br />10. Paula Bugni<br />Masterstudent MFA , Dutch Art Institute<br /><br />11. Sarah Charalambides<br />Student Rietveld Academie : Graphic Design<br /><br />12. Mrova Cieszynska<br />Student Rietveld Academie : Dogtime<br /><br />13. Sarah Gerats<br />Student Rietveld Academie : Fine Arts<br /><br />14.Jeron Halewijn<br />Director artists society in Amsterdam<br /><br />15.Aaf van van Halm - van Essen<br />Cultural producer connected to Rietveld Academie<br /><br />16. Naomi Hoogervorst<br />Trainee Rietveld Academie / design-engineer<br /><br />17. Wendela Hubrecht<br />Student Rietveld Academie<br /><br />18. Rini Hurkmans<br />Visual artist & lecturer Rietveld Academie<br /><br />19. Khalid Jamaludin<br />Civil engineer<br /><br />20. Klopper Heleen<br />Artist/designer - lecturer Rietveld Academie<br /><br />21. Korczak Kasia<br />Masterstudent Werkplaats Typografie<br /><br />22. Kristiina Koskentola<br />Masterstudent MFA, Dutch Art Institute<br /><br />23. Meijer Marjo<br />Visual artist / alumnus Rietveld Academie<br /><br />24. Navarro Martinez Eva<br />Student Rietveld Academie: Dogtime<br /><br />25. Femke Poppinga<br />Interior architect/ alumnus Rietveld Academie<br /><br />26. Janneke van der Putten<br />Student Rietveld Academie: Textile dept.<br /><br />27. Marja van Putten<br />Webdesigner/visual artist /alumnus Rietveld Academie<br /><br />28. Richtje Reintsma<br />Masterstudent MFA Sandberginstitute<br /><br />29. Keimpe Reitsma<br />Economist/ connected to the city council of Amsterdam<br /><br />30. Sophia Rohlig<br />Student Rietveld Academie : Theatre dept.<br /><br />31. Wilbert van Rossum<br />Personnel Dept. Rietveld Academie<br /><br />32. Gabriëlle Schleijpen<br />Head of the General Lecture programme Rietveld Academie/ Course director Dutch Art Institute, Enschede<br /><br />33. Scholten Hans<br />Visual artist/ lecturer Mastercourse Photography Breda<br /><br />34. Daphne de Sonneville<br />Student Rietveld Academie : Fine arts<br /><br />35. Su Tomesen<br />Visual artist/ director -alumnus Sandberginstituut<br /><br />36. Dragana Travas<br />Student Rietveld Academie<br /><br />37. Marijke de Valck<br />Lecturer Mediastudies University of Amsterdam/<br />Policy officer Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences<br /><br />38. Marion Verbruggen<br />Musician( recorder)<br /><br />39. Boy Vereecken<br />Masterstudent Werkplaats Typografie<br /><br />40. Anne Verhoijsen<br />Visual artist/ alumnus Sandberginstituut<br /><br />41. Arthur de Vries<br />Student Rietveld academie: ceramics<br /><br />42. Wim Vonk<br />webdesigner/visual artist-alumnus Gra<br /><br />43. Eelco Wagenaar<br />Student Rietveld Acadamie: Dogtime<br /><br />44. Terry Vreeburg<br />Student Rietveld Academiehttp://armenia-azerbaijan.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17688099589805705835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598300751411796199.post-42312677770155740562007-04-27T07:22:00.000+00:002007-04-27T11:12:33.879+00:00PROGRAM AZERBAIJAN, IRAN & ARMENIASaturday April 28<br /><br />Amsterdam 13.10 - Moscow 18.40<br />Arrival and departure in Moscow at/from Shermentevo 2<br />Moskow - Baku 22.55 - 03.15 ( April 29 )<br /><br /><br />*********************************<br /><br />Sunday April 29 <br /><br /> <br />Arrival in Baku at 03.15 Hour<br />Please prepare your payment for your entrance visa to Azerbaijan<br />60 euro for NL, Germany,Spain.<br />35 euro for Finland<br />46 dollar for Poland<br />50 dollar for Argentina<br />40 dollar for Croatia<br /><br />Transfer to<br />Consul Hotel<br />Baku, AZ1110, 92c, Hasan Aliyev Str.<br />Tel: 0099412-4986095, 4651282<br /><br /><br />Unfortunatedly we cannot enter our rooms before 3 pm.<br />There will be a breakfast for us at 7 am and<br />it will be possible to leave our luggage, and if people really feel EXHAUSTED there will be a couple of rooms available for a little nap.<br /><br /><br />This day the group will have time for a first exploration of the city.<br />It is recommended to visit some museums today because tomorrow the State Art Museum and the Maiden's Tower , and maybe other museums will be closed.<br /><br />There will be no further programme .<br /><br /><br />Suggestions for a hearty meal:<br />The restaurants Canaq Quala and next to it Shusha in Tabriz Kucasi .<br />Cheap and very local according to the Lonely Planet.<br /><br /><br />Tonight: Consul hotel, Baku<br /><br /><br /><br />**************************************<br /><br /><br />Monday April 30<br /><br />Breakfast at 8.30 local time<br /><br />Today the group will be split up in smaller groups and we hope to have meetings with<br />interesting collegues in galleries , art centers and other places most kindly put up for us by Jahangir Selimkhanov, who works for the Soros foundation in Baku .<br />(The Open Society Institute (OSI), a private operating and grantmaking foundation, aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. On a local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to support the rule of law, education, public health, and independent media. At the same time, OSI works to build alliances across borders and continents).<br /><br />Jahangir Selimkhanov will try to arrange for some translators since not everybody that we will meet is fluent in English. Detailed information will be given to you at breakfast- so please be there in time.<br /><br /><br />No evening programme.<br />Tonight: Consul hotel, Baku<br /><br /><br /><br />*************************<br /><br /><br />Tuesday May 1<br /><br />Breakfast at 7.30 am<br /><br />Today we have a bus available to make a tour with the whole group around the Abseron Peninsula. We will pay attention to both the Zoroastrian firetemples as well as to the post-industrial landscape and the social history connected to it.<br /><br /><br />Rietveld - dinner for the whole group in Baku in restaurant Beh Beh.<br />LOCATION TO BE CONFIRMED .<br /><br /><br />Tonight: Consul hotel, Baku<br /><br /><br /><br />*****************************<br /><br /><br />Wednesday May 2<br /><br />Breakfast at 7.30 am<br /><br />Another day for sightseeing in town and for some meetings with collegues ( preferably in small groups). .<br />Detailed information will be given to you at breakfast- so please be there in time.<br /><br /><br />In the evening we hope to offer the group a concert of Mugam - traditional Azerbaijanian music in the interiors of the XVth c. Shirvanshahs' Palace.<br />TO BE CONFIRMED<br /><br /><br />Tonight: Consul hotel, Baku<br /><br /><br />*********************************<br /><br /><br />Thursday May 3<br /><br />Breakfast at 5.30 am<br />Ladies please don't forget to put a headscarf in your handluggage<br /><br /><br />6.00 am Departure from Baku<br />to Astara in Iran.<br />We will make a stop in Qobustan, 60km south of Baku<br />and visits its Stone and Bronze age petroglyphs as well as<br />it's mud volcanoes.<br /><br />For the rest of the day we will be in the bus .<br /><br />Around 07.00 pm passport and custom check at the Astara Border<br />The border will close at 5 pm so the group should pass<br />the border by walking.<br /><br /><br />For the night we will stay in the Astara Inn<br />Iran, Astara Hakim Nezami Ave, in front of the Health offoce.<br />Tel: 0098-0185521-6063 to 4<br /><br /><br />According to Lonely Planet there are `kababis' around Shahrdari square<br />and if you wish , stylish dining at the Espinas Hotel's restaurant.<br /><br /><br />********************************<br /><br /><br />Friday May 4<br /><br />Breakfast at 6.30 am <br />Departure by bus at 7 am to Tabriz via Ardabil<br />where we will have two hours time to visit<br />the magnificent Sheik- Safi-oldin Ardabili Mausoleum . <br />In Tabriz we will be able to visit the Bazaar and<br />the fabulous Blue Mosque<br /><br /><br />For the night we will stay in<br />Tabriz international Hotel<br />Iran, Tabriz, Imam Khomeini Ave., Abresan crossroad, <br />Tel: 0098-411-3341081 to 9 <br />http://www.hoteltabriz.com/<br /><br /><br />**************************************<br /><br /><br />Saturday May 5<br /><br />Extremely Early Breakfast at 5 am<br />Departure at 5.30 am from Tabriz to Yerevan.<br />13 hours nonstop bus riding + 2 hours border checking.<br /><br />We hope to find time to visit the Tatev monastery in Armenia's southern region<br />(to be confirmed).<br /><br />But first we have to pass the Noordoz border. <br />Please have your visa payment of 20 dollar available<br />It has to be paid in Arminian " dram"<br />20 dollar is about 10.000 dram .<br /><br />We hope to arrive in<br /><br />Yerevan around 9 pm .<br />In Yerevan we will be accomodated in the<br />Areg Hotel <br />Armenia, Yerevan, 80, Burnazjan Ave. <br />Tel: 003741- 456-213<br />http://www.areg.am/<br /><br /><br />*************************************<br /><br /><br />Sunday May 6<br /><br />Breakfast at 8 am<br /><br />Excursion by bus to Holy Echmiadzin ( not far from Yerevan).<br />For Armenian Christians , Echmiadzin has unparalleled importance.<br /><br />We will try to include time for the Vernissage market (only in the week-end).<br /><br /><br />Tonight:<br />Areg Hotel in Yerevan<br />Some trendy cafes in Yerevan :<br />Artbridge Bookstore Cafe, Eastern Cuisine ( that's seems to be the name),<br />Sayat Nova ( nightclub as well).<br /><br /><br />***********************************<br /><br /><br />Monday May 7<br /><br />Breakfast at 8 am<br />Information on the programme will be delivered here, so be in time.<br /><br />- The artist Karen Andreassian ( video & photography) wrote :<br />“ I would be happy to meet you and maybe some of your colleagues who might be interested in my work on 7 May, at 11.00 at the Club, a cafe on 40 Toumanyan str. You can call me on my mobile (37493) “ .<br /><br />Yardan Azatyan will welcome the whole group at the Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts and talk about the artistic situation in Armenia .<br />Yardan Azatyan is Art Historian, vice-president of the NAAC, director of the Art History Department of Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art (ACCEA), and he teaches History of Contemporary Art in Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts. He graduated from Yerevan State Institute of Fine Arts. His Ph.D. thesis is The Historiography of World Art during the Cold War. Fluent in English, he is a translator of philosophy.<br /><br />Time and adress to be announced at breakfast.<br /><br />Rietveld as well as Rijksacdemie -alumnus, artist Nora Martirosan<br />(nowadays living in Montpellier)<br />wrote:<br />“You should definitely visit<br />-the central marker - Republic's prospect (former Lenin's)<br />-the memorial to the victims of the genocide of 1915, outside of the center, but you can take public transport or walk, it's called Tsitsirnakaberd. There is a museum on the spot and you can try to have a guide there.<br />- Sergej Paradjanov's museum<br />-manuscript museum<br />-national gallery<br />-historical gallery (in the same building)<br />- and just stall the streets.”<br /><br /><br /><br />Tonight:<br /><br />Areg Hotel in Yerevan<br /><br /><br />********************************************<br /><br /><br />Tuesday May 8<br /><br />Breakfast at 8 am<br />Detailed information will be given to you at breakfast- so please be there in time.<br /><br />Today we will be welcomed at Accea by Eva Kachatrian,<br />Co-Director of Department of Fine Arts of Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art. The exhibitions at Accea of the last years address feminist issues and the problems of women's art. Educated as a music critic, she graduated from Yerevan State Conservatory.<br />Eva Kachatrian will put up some meetings with a couple of artists for us as well.<br />a schedule for this will be presented to you.<br /><br /><br />Last meeting and Rietveld- dinner at Marco Polo, 1/3 Abovyan Poghots<br />Nora Martirosan suggested this place to us.<br />Time to be announced at breakfast.<br /><br /><br />Tonight:<br /><br />Areg Hotel in Yerevan<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />**********************************<br /><br /><br />Wednesday May 9<br /><br />Early breakfast - time to be announced<br />Transfer to Yerevan airport for <br />Depart by SU192<br />Don't forget to bring your DEPARTURE-TAX of 20 dollars in Armenian dram.<br />Yerevan - Moscow 07.10 - 09.05<br />Moskow - Amsterdam 10.40 - 12.10http://armenia-azerbaijan.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17688099589805705835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598300751411796199.post-82349282660090066532007-04-26T09:27:00.000+00:002007-04-26T09:30:31.591+00:00Website ContributionsDear Fellow Travelers,<br /><br />This is a remainder for the website contributions!<br />Please use your creativity and cameras, videocameras, sound recorders, pencils, during the travel!<br /><br /><br />Information for contributions website<br />Between 10 and 15 May you can send your contribution to one of our gmail addresses.<br />This can’t be too big meaning max of 5 photographs with a little text what they are about (max 500 words) , films (max 1.5 minutes), projects or sounds, what ever , as long as it fits the website. There will be a selection made of the contributed material, that will be put on the website. We are sorry about the small space that we have for everybody, but we are traveling in a big group, and selecting material from thousands and thousands of images and other things is not only taking too much time, it is also getting things out of focus. So, send your very best material!!<br /><br />Many Greetings<br />Iris, Paula and kristiinahttp://armenia-azerbaijan.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17688099589805705835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598300751411796199.post-35508600170781497212007-04-19T16:05:00.000+00:002008-12-11T12:58:57.761+00:00<span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art</strong><br /></span></span><a href="http://www.accea.info/main.htm"><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.accea.info/main.htm</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">1/3 Pavstos Biuzand Blvd., Yerevan, Armenia</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Tel: +3741 56.82.25, 56.83.25, 56.02.18</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Fax: +3741 56.02.16</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">E-mail: </span><a style="COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; text-underline: single" href="mailto:info@accea.info"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">info@accea.info</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Web:</span><a style="COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; text-underline: single" href="http://www.accea.info"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"> www.accea.info</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">81 Murray Street, New York, NY, 10007, USA</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Tel: +1212 732-3598</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Fax: +1212 732-1175</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>Pavilion of Republic of Armenia </strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>at 52nd Venice Biennale-2007</strong></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX8e1m1cfkm2x0IqXUe9dIr3yn9AxnfFux9TKY_8DjjKvc7I6jZOz_FkBKaFR6YdyNGMlDuGnJyP0kqZiG4FCdaGV0HwfYTrI5w8v-a95eehC2bKUpQZifHVWZGgYPa4L9Av8zd9dt7iE/s1600-h/1176930853efluximageJPG_web.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5055174802584625666" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX8e1m1cfkm2x0IqXUe9dIr3yn9AxnfFux9TKY_8DjjKvc7I6jZOz_FkBKaFR6YdyNGMlDuGnJyP0kqZiG4FCdaGV0HwfYTrI5w8v-a95eehC2bKUpQZifHVWZGgYPa4L9Av8zd9dt7iE/s400/1176930853efluximageJPG_web.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#666666;"><a href="http://www.accea.info/main.htm"></a></span></div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#666666;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#666666;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><strong>Sonia Balassanian-Who Is the Victim?</strong> War has changed. It has ceased to refer exclusively to war between nations, but involves more complex structures and dislocations. The information content the ubiquitous media images convey concerning specific conflicts is thin, they present an unchanging picture of misery as a universal constant of global crisis.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Memory assumes a central role in the lives of people who experience war and henceforth shift between two extremes, the collective necessity to remember and the individual desire to forget. For those who have experienced war or live in fear of one, or who live with memories of a war they actually took part in and survived, the question “who is the victim” is never far from the surface in depictions of war’s cruelty. But what is involved when a viewer of war images takes an interest in or empathizes with human suffering in far-off conflict zones? Not only those killed by war and their relatives are the victims, but all whom the fear of war afflicts. Compassion is an unstable emotion: “Our sympathy proclaims our innocence as well as our impotence” (Susan Sontag). In overcoming sympathy, a potential for action is released, a potential to lead-in to critical protest against an economy of global war. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Wars and crisis areas are a constant feature of Sonia Balassanian’s work. Her concern in her more recent video works are the ramifications of a general war (albeit never referred to as such) being waged against the individual. The images of Balassanian’s multipart video work “Who Is the Victim?” for the Pavilion of the Republic of Armenia at the 52nd Venice Biennale tap into this universalized misery and suffering of war.--Nina Möntmann</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Sonia Balassanian (b. 1942) is one of the most influential artists in Armenia, working in the fields of video, performance, photo-collage and writing. She lives in New York and Yerevan.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div></div>paulabugnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07360865227094094428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598300751411796199.post-5230712999041782822007-04-13T17:07:00.000+00:002008-12-11T12:58:58.222+00:00Alim Qasimov, mugam singer<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR0y7GWnb6_AsGWL3bIZpRq4lflnVuaKudIdMyiRJAKLVpUNw2bO7rUsFghjWSAnNJRGfh86qZLKS8xuR3OsstwL9zYZDgZilfIYdl0zjg8CSk17dRNdiKWFmQOLBZmzOA8ey96j7CxBE/s1600-h/_alim.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR0y7GWnb6_AsGWL3bIZpRq4lflnVuaKudIdMyiRJAKLVpUNw2bO7rUsFghjWSAnNJRGfh86qZLKS8xuR3OsstwL9zYZDgZilfIYdl0zjg8CSk17dRNdiKWFmQOLBZmzOA8ey96j7CxBE/s320/_alim.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052960831863756034" /></a><br />check out beautiful mugam concerts!<br /><br /><br />http://youtube.com/watch?v=avWqejE750U&mode=related&search=http://armenia-azerbaijan.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17688099589805705835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598300751411796199.post-86866666747910156422007-04-13T16:42:00.000+00:002007-04-13T16:46:59.991+00:00azeri foodThe national cuisine of Azerbaijan is heavy on meat - especially lamb, beef, mutton and poultry - and richly spiced. While having much in common with the cooking of its neighbours, Azeri food has a character all of its own and is surprisingly varied - each region, as a rule, having its own specialities. Meat dishes are flavoured with chestnuts, dried apricots, raisins, and green herbs.<br />Common items are pilaff / plov (rice fried with meat, fish, vegetables or even fruit) and fish. Not that you can't get your veggies - beets, cabbage, eggplants, spinach and others are common. Many dishes use saffron, though you'll often taste coriander, fennel, mint and parsley. Soup is a staple of Azerbaijani cuisine, often made with meat and sheep fat.<br /><br />There are about a hundred varieties of pilaff: instead of being cooked in oil in one pot as in Uzbekistan, the rice and the various seasonings of the Azeri pilaff are cooked in separate pots. At home they are served separately, with melted butter in a jug, and everyone helps himself. In restaurants it's usually served in a metal dish with a lid. <br /><br />Dolma is another common Azeri dish: minced lamb meat with rice is wrapped into grape leaves (Yarpag dolmasy) or occasionally in cabbage leaves (Kyalyam dolmasy). This dish is condimented with coriander, dill, mint, pepper, cinnamon and melted butter. Sometimmes chestnuts and peas are part of the mix. Sour milk is often used as a sauce. Aubergines, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, onions, quince and apples are also stuffed with lamb meat and also called dolma.<br /><br />Kebabs are a staple dish, try the liula-kebab grilled over an open fire. Stewed lamb, Bosartma, is another local favourite, the meat is stewed with vegetables and plums. Bosartma is served with lemon slices and cucumbers.<br /><br />In the northwest khingal is a favourite dish - a flour dish with meat, fried onion and kurut (a dried cottage cheese). In the Lenkoran region chicken is stuffed with nuts, onion and jelly and fried. Fish is also stuffed and baked in a tandoori oven. The Apsheron peninsula is famous for its dushpara - small meat dumplings and kutabs - meat patties made in a very thin dough.<br /><br />Other excellent dishes include: piti soup, made of mouton and peas, served in a earthenware pot; dogva pea with yoghurt soup, served with meatballs and herbs (served both cold and hot); kiufta-bosbash soup (a clear soup with meat balls, rice peas and potatoes); dooshbere soup with local ravioli; khamrachi (a noodle soup); kutabi pastries with various stuffings.<br /><br />Bread is served with most meals, the most common are the round loaves callled 'chorek'. Try also the wafer style 'lavash'. The traditional white wheat flour bread baked in a tandoori oven is usually still found in the countryside.<br /><br /><br />Caviar (kuru) is one of the Azeri luxuries, and you can taste it not only canned but also fresh. There's some sturgeon farming but most caviar comes from the dwindling stocks of the Caspian sea.<br /><br />In Baku the best place to find caviar is at the Taza bazaar, near the Circus. Beluga is rather rare in Baku - most production of Beluga is exported. Most caviar you find in Baku is Osetra and Sevruga. You should also be aware that most fresh caviar is fully authentic, but illegally poached.<br /><br />Beware that you are only allowed to take 600 g of caviar out of the country. Customs inspectors are skilled at checking for contraband in x-rayed luggage at the airport. The best way to smuggle Azeri caviar out of the country is via train to Russia, where it is not even checked for. From Moscow, it's easy to get the caviar out of the country. Unless you smuggle, you will find little cost advantage to buying caviar in Baku for export, versus buying in the West.<br /><br />In Azerbaijan besides some of the best caviar in the world, you will be able to taste the sturgeon itself (osetr). In fact Many second courses are prepared of fish. Sturgeon shashlik, kutum a la Azerbaijan, kuku of kutum, balyg chygyrtma, stuffed fish, boiled, fried and stew fish, fish-pilaff, starred sturgeon pilaff, balyg mutyanjan and sturgeon fillet with pomegranate sauce (Narsharab) are the most popular fish dishes. But not all fish is sturgeon, and the Caspian sea also provides herring, salmon and the more rare pike perch.<br /><br />A special place in the Azerbaijan cuisine belongs to salads prepared from fresh vegetables. When making salads of fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, capsicum, coriander and basil these ingredients are very finely cut. Salads are served together with the main course. Salads "Khazar", "Azerbaijan", "Bakhar", red caviar salad, salad a la Sheky, kuku of greens, kuku of kutum (kind of fish), kuku with nuts, fisinjan of beans, red beet etc; are the most common salads and cold dishes in the Azerbaijan cookery.<br /><br />If you like new things, and enjoy a little culinary adventure, have a typical local breakfast dish: "hash" - boiled hoof served with garlic-vinegar and a shot of vodka.<br /><br />The Azeri sweets shouldn't be missed. Often you'll will be offered some in business or social meetings. Worth special reference are: the shekerbura (pie of thin dough with nuts and sugar), the shekerlockum and pahlava (a diamond shaped layered sweet pastry with nuts) accompanied by sherbet or tea.<br /><br />Tea ('çay') is the drink of hospitality, it is central to all social, family and even a lot of business occasions. Tea, mainly black, is served in small pear shaped glasses - the glasses are called armuds, literally meaning pear. Tea is sometimes sweetened with jam, it starts and ends a grand meal. In the traditional chaykhanas (tea houses), you can linger over a pot all day if you like. Tea can be accompanied with various jams or nuts and raisins. Sometimes when brewing tea dried leaves or flowers of savory, clove, cardamom and other spices are added to give a special flavour. Special tea is also made of cinnamon (darchin) and ginger.<br /><br />Kvas, although totally unknown to most western Europeans, is one of the most refreshing things you can drink in a summer day. The word Kvas is Russian by origin and means “sour beverage". It's a non-alcoholic fermented drink, made from malt. As in Russia it is sold on the streets, from little yellow tankers.<br /><br />There are many recipes of kvas, but, in general, they have the same ingredients, just in different proportions: malt, rye or wheat flour, boiling water. This dense mass is blended until it acquires a sweet taste. Then it is put in a well heated oven for 24 hours. Finally it is dissolved in water and left in a room for 2-3 hours. That is the base of kvas making, but kvases differ by different types of flour, temperature of water; some people liked to add sugar, raisins, honey, mint or molasses. Kvas is notable for rich content of vitamin B, and historically was used to prevent scurvy.<br /><br />Sherbet is one of the most popular drinks in Azerbaijan. It is a refreshing infusion that come in many varities: sugar, milk, lemon, saffron, seeds of mint and basil and several fruits.http://armenia-azerbaijan.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17688099589805705835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598300751411796199.post-83820795810403404902007-04-13T16:38:00.000+00:002008-12-11T12:58:58.984+00:00azeri food<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFe8Hrm5L0ZxhhZKwCHhdPm6tYBDPbZOTjBM0tfWaNZelnB5wbwYTkKraTbL-vBKIHqhEDWRK3Z5KXj20guYEiQqI7HKdgr0x6UecebnV5vZQNhkUnSbroy8qdLKHAnIttY_uHKFsayZU/s1600-h/az-f-2.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFe8Hrm5L0ZxhhZKwCHhdPm6tYBDPbZOTjBM0tfWaNZelnB5wbwYTkKraTbL-vBKIHqhEDWRK3Z5KXj20guYEiQqI7HKdgr0x6UecebnV5vZQNhkUnSbroy8qdLKHAnIttY_uHKFsayZU/s320/az-f-2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052953285606216898" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNzLjKJ1zhdflrwSR0TezMNWRp0jJNmA6pYrEgBoDJcRANlAty6_dvj09wcPLex0pBDsEReGr5DVkBN908LWqsiQbVtycHta0KZbZSP1snbN9WUe1GyTUsbLDJTInUURFjMJQUnssjElE/s1600-h/az-food1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNzLjKJ1zhdflrwSR0TezMNWRp0jJNmA6pYrEgBoDJcRANlAty6_dvj09wcPLex0pBDsEReGr5DVkBN908LWqsiQbVtycHta0KZbZSP1snbN9WUe1GyTUsbLDJTInUURFjMJQUnssjElE/s320/az-food1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052953289901184210" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUC0WRFoLy1ISLYfcnw0YAq70K6zS82UEQGtDGcS9w3PHyPQ105d7f8PDSX0g2QVr0rEDtKX35nwIUIevRxjQs3EYyYYGpRMsuKxzf85vGFmqHNXK3z7dOowtYexHaWJM3DJ4pbmyprmg/s1600-h/101_372_restaurant2.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUC0WRFoLy1ISLYfcnw0YAq70K6zS82UEQGtDGcS9w3PHyPQ105d7f8PDSX0g2QVr0rEDtKX35nwIUIevRxjQs3EYyYYGpRMsuKxzf85vGFmqHNXK3z7dOowtYexHaWJM3DJ4pbmyprmg/s320/101_372_restaurant2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052953289901184226" /></a>http://armenia-azerbaijan.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17688099589805705835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598300751411796199.post-48080280526113942092007-04-13T10:39:00.000+00:002008-12-11T12:58:59.341+00:00Peleshian | beginning and the seasons<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpST_IG1mvDFQ7phdkauXQnh9-li4VLgYXynEzyBMz3thwKfxo4-LvAtd9T0L9dqPq9FyRtOxjkj1IrP1Iw2PRT5UlDQyC63iTIw94ln6tTK1s29lN5PPgBShZxhfFeks8L4vWFFmI5ug/s1600-h/men_sheep.gif"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;color:#333333;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052861550087748946" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpST_IG1mvDFQ7phdkauXQnh9-li4VLgYXynEzyBMz3thwKfxo4-LvAtd9T0L9dqPq9FyRtOxjkj1IrP1Iw2PRT5UlDQyC63iTIw94ln6tTK1s29lN5PPgBShZxhfFeks8L4vWFFmI5ug/s400/men_sheep.gif" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;color:#333333;"> below: link to Peleshian short film "Beginning"<br /></span><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff3j9d8K17c&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fkurupi%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F2007%2F02%2Fpeleshiancineasta%2Darmenio%2Ehtml"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;color:#333333;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff3j9d8K17c&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fkurupi%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F2007%2F02%2Fpeleshiancineasta%2Darmenio%2Ehtml</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;color:#333333;"><br /></span><br /><div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;">on the side: excerpt of "The Seasons" (in loop)</span><br /></span></div><div></div>paulabugnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07360865227094094428noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598300751411796199.post-69790426025516600292007-04-12T12:21:00.000+00:002007-04-12T13:24:58.836+00:00blog contributionsHello Fellow Travelers to Things Happen in Liminal Zones Armenia and Azerbaijan!<br /><br />If you want to contribute to this blog, send you gmail address, and tell us who you are (if you do not have a gmail, you can create one). Our gmails are paulabugni@gmail.com or kkoskentola@gmail.com. Then we can send you an invitation and you can start blogging. This blog is for everything you wish to share before, during and after the travel.<br />Looking forward to the trip and your contribution!<br /><br />As you know we are also working on a website, 11 Days in Armenia and Azerbaijan, that will be the official site. This will be on the air after the trip. We are also looking forward to your contributions to the website. <br />We will talk about this website shortly at the introduction meeting at he Rietveld 12 april. After the trip we will collect information, photo's, small films and stories etc. from the trip. <br /><br />Information for contributions website<br />Between 10 and 15 May you can send your contribution to one of our gmail addresses.<br />This can’t be too big meaning max of 5 photographs with a little text what they are about (max 500 words) , films (max 1.5 minutes), projects or sounds, what ever , as long as it fits the website. There will be a selection made of the contributed material, that will be put on the website. We are sorry about the small space that we have for everybody, but we are traveling in a big group, and selecting material from thousands and thousands of images and other things is not only taking too much time, it is also getting things out of focus. So, send your very best material!!<br /><br /><br />paulabugni@gmail.com kkoskentola@gmail.com<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Friendly Greetings<br />Iris, Paula and Kristiina<br />Dutch Art Institutehttp://armenia-azerbaijan.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17688099589805705835noreply@blogger.com0