Datcha Project — A Zone of No Production

Partition of the presence in 4 acts of the Datcha Project at the Venice Biennial 2015


Started by Melik Ohanian in 2005, the Datcha Project is a place created by the artist in a village in Armenia where people from different cultures and background are invited to share a determined time. Declared as A Zone of No Production, every guest is asked here to experience the temporality of this space without any planning nor a scenario. Structured in four acts unfolding for the whole duration of the Biennial, the reality of this Zone of No Production in Armenia and the event represented by the Biennial will generate a peculiar resonance; an echo linking the West and the gates of the Near East.