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The idea of the project is to bring Armenian sound and video art to non professional public creating a new alternative space for contemporary local art. The goal of the project is to shorten the existing distance between artist and audience.

The project is taking place in the „Cheers!” Club in downtown Yerevan. It presents a happening which consists in presenting 4 selected videos and a performance by Tsomak – a young Armenian artist with whom we actively collaborate on that show.
Tsomak interacts with the vision adding especially composed music and improvising alife with the sound. The sound intervention offers a new approach to the vieo works providing them with a different meaning nuance.

The title „Stereo-Motion” is inspired by the process of puting together images and rhythm in a life happening. „Stereo” refers to music but also to the „doubleness” of the vision and sound mixture. „Motion” concerns the dynamics of the vision itself and the rhythm added. The video selection consists of 4 videos by young Armenian artists which are related to each other in their use of vision, rhythm and aesthetics.

1. Sona Abgaryan’s „Untitled” (6.05 min, 2004) presents a simple movement of the artist’s body without any sound. In that piece Tsomak’s intervention gives the motion a meaning of dance.
2. Tsomak’s video „Bolt” (1.54 min, 2005) presents a lyric impression simply zooming the constructive elements of a bridge. In this case she interacts with her own work adding sound rhythm which strenghtens the sense of dynamic.
3. Tigran Hachatryan’s „Untitled” (11.51 min, 2002) presents an intimate part of a human body within a black frame and accompanied by a fast sound rhythm which sugests some sexual associations. Tsomak reflects on this message adding human noises.
4. David Karayan video is called „Madeness paid for speech capabillity” uses direct ideological slogans and pop-aesthetics images. This work has its own outstanding soundtrack and Tsomak interaction is very delicate. The order in which the videos follow is defined according to their internal dynamics so that they create an increasing rhythm.
   

Postproduction: The happening is going to be copied on CD and presented on the „Last Týme Art” artists’ workshop in Sofia (July, 2006) as well as on the Real Presence VIII in Belgrade (August, 2006).

Curatorial project by Tsomak, Monika Yanski and Yana Kostova I Summer school for art curators, Yerevan, 2006

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