Seminar. THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS. June 23-25, 2009.Moskow. Russia.
SPATIAL ICONS TEXTUALITY AND PERFORMATIVITY
Thursday 15 April 2010, by Icon Network
June 23-25, 2009
The opening ceremony and the first session will be held on June 23, 10 AM The Symposium takes place at the Presidium Hall of the Russian Academy of Arts: 21 Prechistenka str., Moscow
The RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS, invites you to attend an international symposium.
The Symposium takes place at the Presidium Hall of the Russian Academy of Arts: 21 Prechistenka str., Moscow
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SPATIAL ICONS TEXTUALITY AND PERFORMATIVITY
SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM
June 23 morning session
10:00 - 13:30
Greeting of the President of the Russian Academy of Arts
Alexei Lidov. Spatial Icons as a Performative Phenomenon
Anna Lazarova, Elka Bakalova (Bulgaria). Messages to the Saint. Communicative Aspects of Sacred Space
Danica Popovic (Serbia). Iconic and Performative in Sacred Landscape. The Cave Monastery of the Archangel Michael at Ras and its Imagery
Andreas Rhoby (Austria). Interactive Inscriptions: Byzantine Works of Art and Their Beholders
Bissera Pencheva (USA). The Descent of Grace: Art, Nature, and Religion in Hagia Sophia
Natalia Teteriatnikova (USA). Animated Icons in Interactive Display: Mosaic Deesis in Hagia Sophia, Constantinople
June 23 afternoon session
15:00 - 18:30
Shigebumi Tsuji (Japan). Creating the Iconic Space. The Transformation of Narrative Landscape
Michitaka Suzuki (Japan). Hibutsu (Hidden Buddha). Living Images in Japan and the Orthodox Icons
Akira Akiyama (Japan). Interrelationship of Relics and Images in Buddhist and Christian Traditions: Comparative and Performative Aspects
Vladimir Maliavin (Taiwan). Hierotopy in Taoism and the Iconic Image
Xenia Muratova (France). The Labyrinth as a Performative Icon in Christian Culture, East and West
Tatyana Yavorskaya (Lithuania). The Mountains of Crosses – a Phenomenon of Popular Hierotopy
June 24 morning session
10:00 -13:30
Gerhard Wolf (Germany). Iconotopia. Reconsidering the Performative Rituals of Holy Images in Medieval Rome
Michele Bacci (Italy). Performed Topographies and Topomimetic Piety
Alexandr Godovanets. The Hierarchy of Light in the Architectural Space of Hagia Sophia
Nicoletta Isar (Denmark). The Imperial Choros - A Comnenian Hierotopy
Maria Lidova. Polyptych as a Spatial Image of the Church. The Icons by Ioannes Tohabi from the Collection of St. Catherine’s Monastery at Sinai
Anna Ryndina. The Image of the Sacred Space in Byzantine Glyptics: Two Staurothekas of the 11th and 12th Century
June 24 afternoon session
15:00 - 18:30
Armen Kazarian. Performative Space of Eastern Christian Monasteries: General Principles and Regional Peculiarities
Jelena Trkulja (Serbia). The Facade Decoration of Byzantine Churches: Symbolic, Spatial and Performative Aspects
Thomas Leisten (USA). The Performance of Commemoration in Islamic Tradition: A Сase of the Mosque al-Aqmar in Cairo
Vladimir Sedov. Spatial Structures in Medieval Russia: Iconic and Performative
Alexandr Musin. The Litania and the Making of Sacred Space in Medieval Novgorod
June 25 morning session
10:00 - 13:30
Vladimir Sarabianov. Relics and the Images of Saints in the Sacred Space of Saint Sophia in Kiev
Vsevolod Rozhniatovsky. The Performative Iconography. The Effects of Light in the Space of Medieval Russian Churches
Aleksandr Melnik. The Dramaturgy of Fire in Russian Churches of the 16th and 17th Centuries
Lilia Evseeva, Lada Kondrashkova. Creating the Iconic Space: Text, Singing and Image in the Sixteenth-century Festive Liturgies
Nina Kvlividze. ‘Procession’. Iconography and Liturgical Performance in the Time of Ivan the Terrible
Olga Chumicheva. Iconic Performances of Ivan the Terrible. A Transformation of the Concept of the Royal Power
June 25 afternoon session
15:00 - 18:30
Tatiana Samoilova. Creating the Sacred Space of the Biblical History. The Programs of Medieval Russian Churches
Elena Saenkova. The Spatial Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy in the Moscow Kremlin
Galina Zelenskaya. Monumental Inscriptions in the Creation of Sacred Space of the New Jerusalem near Moscow
Svetlana Yavorskaya. Shumaev’s Cross as a Spatial Image of New Jerusalem: Textuality and Performativity
Oleg Tarasov. The Spatial Icon in the Culture of the Russian Old Believers
Leonid Beliaev. Creating a Sacred Space: a Case of the Zachatievskij Monastery in Moscow