<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Introduction</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">According to the theoretician of diasporas Khachig Tölölyan, Armenians make up a 'transnation', a term designating a totality formed by a country and its diasporan communities within which the state constitutes just one of the institutions that fabricate identity. 'Diasporas', Tölölyan says, 'are the model communities of the transnational moment'. How, concretely, is this 'moment' incarnated in the Armenian case.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">The exhibition brings together eight video films from fifteen to twenty-five minutes in length. They are condensations of the interviews we conducted. Six stage the world as it appears when viewed from certain highly symbolic places: Aleppo, Kessab, Beirut, Anjar, Istanbul and Yerevan. The other two offer a rostrum to leading Armenian intellectuals living in the West. These 'Views from the West' are intended to spawn others, to be gathered up on voyages to Los Angeles, New York, Montreal, Buenos Aires, and places still to be discovered. Finally, a space apart has been reserved for the projection of a haunted world, Eastern Anatolia, the mythical Old Country that Armenians have dreamt of for generations. Since the 1990s, more and more Armenians from all over the world are setting out on voyages to their ancestors' birthplace. What do they hope the experience will bring, and what do they actually find?</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><I>Armenography</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> means to do more than merely depict the scattered existence of a nation. It seeks to contribute to a quest of the sort that is crucially necessary if we are to find models for the development of an identity and a culture capable of reconciling three imperatives: active reworking of the past, rather than a rehashing of well-worn clichés; the development of collective structures, without which cultural production cannot be sustained; and the primacy of individual research over group values. Such are the conditions that must be met if a transnation is to become the germ of a resolutely contemporary culture.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Armenography is a coproduction of Utopiana and the Center for contemporary Image Saint Gervais Genčve, and was supported by the State and the City of Geneva, by Le Quartier Center for Contemporary Art of Quimper and the Thessaloniki Biennale.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; 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