24 SEPTEMBER 2025 | FOOD&FOOTAGE | EMBODIED MEMORIES
Variations on Armenian Contemporary Art
with CSN Lab
@csn_lab
This edition of #FOODandFOOTAGE brings voices from Armenia exploring memory, bodies, and art as spaces of resistance and care.
The evening unfolds around the new book Memory of the Body (CSN Lab, 2025), presented by its co-authors Arsen Abrahamyan
@arsenique___ , Mariam Yeghiazaryan, and Tigran Amiryan
@l_oriental . The book examines the reflection and (non-)representation of the body in contemporary Armenian art and culture, exploring how bodies carry social and political memory — from the Soviet body to the queer body, from the body of pleasure to the body wounded by war. Using diverse methods — from archival research to art criticism and cultural anthropology — the authors investigate the “bodiless” aspects of Armenian culture and the traces left in embodied memories of visual arts.
Visual artists Amassia Niziblian
@iamveribizi and lucine talalyan
@lucinetalalyan share projects and stories that trace how feminist bodies remember what is erased from public space and media. Amassia will present the corpo-real project, exploring how the body bridges past and present, generations and memories. The program closes with lucine’s film postDiY — an intimate reflection on queer life and its resistance to brutality and patriarchy in post-socialist Armenia.
Together, the presentations show how contemporary art becomes a multi-layered record of the past and a container of memory: from Soviet collapse to war, from repression to revolution, from decolonial practices to migration. An evening of sharing, remembering, and imagining futures.
Armenian treats will be served by Café Arakil
@cafe_arakil .
CSN Lab is a Yerevan-based collective of researchers and cultural practitioners working at the intersection of memory and culture.
The event is free of charge, and the price for the menu is 15 euros per person (drinks not included). Tickets are available here 🔗/events/food-footage-embodied-memories-variations-on-armenian-contem-0/
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