Haig Aivazian
Lebanon
b. 1980, Beirut, Lebanon
Lives and works in Beirut, Lebanon
Haig Aivazian’s practice grapples with the metamorphic nature of three technologies: artificial light, computation, and law. Working across diverse media and modes of address, his work is animated by research and chance discoveries, where history is an omnipresent hum that conjures and bumps up against degraded futures and the persistent efforts to survive them. More particularly, Aivazian examines ways in which the administration of light and darkness makes and unmakes persons, and transforms material conditions of architecture and geography.
Aivazian was Artistic Director of Beirut Art Center (BAC) from 2020 to 2022, where he founded and edited the derivative.org. He is currently a Doctoral Researcher at KASK & Conservatorium, the School of Arts of HOGENT and Howest, Belgium. He received an MFA from Northwestern University, Illinois (USA) and a BFA from Concordia University, Montreal (Canada).
You May Own the Lanterns but We Have the Light Ep 1 Home Alone 2022
Installation View of at Every Sunset, I Think of You. Not Because of Some Sense of Beauty, but Simply Because I Become Acutely Aware of How Much Time Has Passed Since I Last Saw You. 2013
Installation View of All of the Lights (2021) at the Renaissance Society