
🗓️April 4-6, 2025
WOODS CENTER
📍State Park, Garni Road, Jrvezh 2227, Yerevan, Armenia
◆Workshop CYLAND + SEC on Études Lab #1◆
This workshop explores sound as an artistic medium at the intersection of various disciplines. Depending on participants’ interests, we will examine case studies that highlight sound as a structurally significant element of an artwork, shaping perceptions of space, time, and narrative. We will also discuss how its perception is influenced by physical, institutional, and political contexts.
Études Lab #1 organized by hosq is an experimental laboratory for sound artists, choreographers, and visual artists to collaborate and create. Over three days, participants will develop an audio-visual performance. The lab focuses on the intersection of disciplines, encouraging experimentation and new approaches to collective creativity. Participants will bring their ideas to life through collaboration, with the final works combining into a single piece that will receive a grant for further development and touring.
Kurt Hentschläger, SUB, 2019 Kurt Hentschläger, Exhibition at KIKK Festival, 2024
Mo H. Zareei, Brutalist Noise Ensemble, 2015–2016 Mo H. Zareei, Material Prosody, 2017
Thomas Brinkmann, Fair Game, 2021–2022 Thomas Brinkmann, Fair Game (Soundtrack), 2022 Video documentation: Sound for the Alexandra Bircken Exhibition
Raija Malka & Kaija Saariaho, Blick, 2021
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, The Poetry Machine, 2017 Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Opera for a Small Room, 2005
Lap-See Lam, The Altersea Opera, 2024 Video documentation: The Altersea Opera (Venice Biennale)
John Cage & Merce Cunningham, Roaratorio, 1979 (composition), 1983 (choreography) Video excerpt: Roaratorio Documentation: MoMA Collection
Lisa Størseth Pettersen, EVERYONE LEANS TOWARDS SOMETHING, 2024 Video documentation: Reel on Instagram
Bruce Nauman, Good Boy Bad Boy B, 1985 Bruce Nauman, Get Out of My Mind, Get Out of This Room, 1968 Exhibition context: Palais de Tokyo
Alvin Lucier, Vespers, 1969 Additional context: Vespers Film Site Alvin Lucier, I am Sitting in a Room, 1969
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Walled Unwalled, 2018
Gordon Monahan, Speaker Swinging, 1982 Video documentation: Performance Video
Robert Morris, Hearing, 1972 Publication: Spector Books – Hearing
Steve Reich, Come Out, 1966 Contextual article: Art Journal Further reading: Pitchfork Feature Wikipedia: Come Out (Reich)
Yaniya Mikhalina, Appeal to All Western Countries, 2024