Tigran Amiryan

Independent curator, contemporary culture researcher, Ph.D in Literary Studies. For years now, Tigran’s main interest revolves around the issue of narrativization of both individual and collective memory in contemporary culture. In 2013, he authored a monograph on the falsification of historical past, paranoidal mentality, and collective amnesia. His recent years have been devoted to self-narrative theory as applied to visually narrativized texts. In 2015-2018, Tigran developed and presented a course of lectures at different academic and art platforms in Morocco, Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, and Russia. Presently, Tigran’s research and curating projects are twofold: on the one hand he looks into narrativization of personal/individual experience, artistic (fictional) representation and history of the Self, biographies; on the other hand the emerging curator focuses on urban space and environment that keep the memory of people’s lives despite being constantly subjected to oblivion and destruction.