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When I woke up the sun
had moved

Robotic installation
2010
  Le Souffle (The Breath)
Audio installation
2010
  I was born on February 11th
Performance
2009
  Nos Histoires
Audio installation
2009
  The mountain comes to me
Robotic and video installation
2007
  When I woke up, robotic installation   LeSouffle, Audio installation   February11th, performance   NosHistoires, installation sonore   The mountain comes to me, installation  
  OurStories, sound installation   House on Wheels, installation, video   SelfPortrait, installation   Journey, installation   BoxCross, installation, performance  

 

Our Stories
Audio installation
2003-05
  House on Wheels
Mixed media video installation
2000
Self Portrait
Mixed media installation
1998
  Journey
Mixed media installation
1997
  Box/cross/dismemberment/
genocide

Mixed media installation and performance
1997

 

   


Creating conceptual art is like solving a jigsaw puzzle, except that the artist also creates the pieces of the puzzle. My art talks about issues that are important to me and I like to share them with an audience.
I also like to explore new possibilities and tell my stories in different ways. I try to create audio-visual atmospheres that the viewer can walk in and experience. In a complex interdisiplinary installation piece the components take various shapes and use different mediums. The viewer's interaction becomes more active. Pieces might have life size moving images or larger than life every-day documents. Pedestrian interviews become center of an art piece and the viewer's concentration point. Writing becomes visual imagery and spoken word becomes noise, or music, depending on the perception of the veiwer. The atmosphere becomes ephemeral, like life.

Alina Mnatsakanian

   

 

Self Portrait