Seminar. THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS. June 23-25, 2009.Moskow. Russia. SPATIAL ICONS TEXTUALITY AND PERFORMATIVITYThursday 15 April 2010, by Icon Network 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 http://en.rah.ruSPATIAL ICONS TEXTUALITY AND PERFORMATIVITYSYMPOSIUM PROGRAM June 23 morning session10:00 - 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 session15:00 - 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 session10:00 -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 session15:00 - 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 session10:00 - 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 session15:00 - 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 |