🗓️November 13—December 1, 2024
HAYART CENTRE
YEREVAN BOTANICAL GARDEN
INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
MIZORYAN LIBRARY + VARPET
THE STATE PHILARMONIA OF ARMENIA + ARNO BABAJANYAN CONCERT HALL
Opening Program
November 13, 7 pm: Hammettlogue world premiere — an opera for video and voice by Phill Niblock and Katherine Liberovskaya, featuring mezzo-soprano Loré Lixenberg and bass-baritone Nicholas Isherwood at the State Philharmonia of Armenia.
November 14, 7 pm: Opening of Markos Grigorian’s Performative Metaphors at ICA Yerevan.
November 15, 7 pm: Tribute Concert for Phill Niblock (1933–2024), featuring Katherine Liberovskaya, Anna Clementi, Biliana Voutchkova, and Davide Aiden Capobianco at the State Philharmonia of Armenia.
November 16, 6 pm: Opening of CYFEST 16: Archive of Feelings. A Journey at HayArt Centre.
November 17, 6 pm: Opening of CYFEST 16: Archive of Feelings. A Journey at Yerevan Botanical Garden.
November 18, 6 pm: Presentation and screening of Voyage Video Program (curated by Gabriel V. Soucheyre) and Beyond Interfaces: Taiwanese Video Program (curated by Mu Tuan) at Mirzoyan Library.
November 19, 6 pm: Presentation and screening of the CYLAND Video Archive Program (curated by Victoria Ilyushkina) at Varpet.
CYFEST 16: Archive of Feelings. A Journey is an expansive audit of relationships between the intimate realm of emotions and memories and technological advancement. How do new technologies shape, mediate, and «archive» emotions? In what ways does technology influence our emotional experience and the way it is expressed and remembered? Can we work with technologies within larger artistic, social, and cultural frameworks? And how can contemporary art and culture contribute to a more diverse future and environments that are neither technocratically mastered nor reductionistic? Through the contribution of internationally renowned artists, curators, and theorists, CYFEST 16 will address these questions from various angles while transforming them into installations, multimedia objects, performances, video, concerts, educational events, and a new, intriguing visitors’ experience.