Exhibitions / Performances
– MACT/CACT (Bellinzona) - Traces du souffle performance October 17, 2020
Traces de souffle (Traces of breath)
Alina Mnatsakanian + Barbara Minder
Improvised live drawing and music
photos Zoé Lavanchy
In this collaborative project in the form of improvised performance, Alina Mnatsakanian intervenes with drawings that she creates live on a tablet while Barbara Minder plays on her augmented instruments.
The drawings in progress are projected on the walls to create ephemeral audio-visual atmospheres for the viewer.
Alina Mnatsakanian improvises on the basis of "Layers 8", a project in which she addresses the issue of mobility at the transgenerational level, these life experiences that affect not only the person, but also his/her descendants. Irregular shapes – interlaced boundaries – that create new forms and new identities based on the accumulation of experiences.
In response, Barbara Minder reflects on the sound tracks she carries in her. Places where she lived, family origins, places of today or yesterday that she carries in her heart, in her body. Her work includes eight original compositions, bases of improvisation.
8 Important Places for Alina Mnatsakanian - 8 Great Places to Barbara Minder. If these places have become important for them, it is at the mercy of the hazards of life. Private decisions, political changes, minor or fundamental turns that have brought these two artists here and now. To echo this fragile random story, couples of visual and sound locations are drawn at random and serve as a starting point for each performance.
8 Important Places for Alina Mnatsakanian - 8 Great Places to Barbara Minder. If these places have become important for them, it is at the mercy of the hazards of life. Private decisions, political changes, minor or fundamental turns that have brought these two artists here and now. To echo this fragile random story, couples of visual and sound locations are drawn at random and serve as a starting point for each performance.
Recent exhibitions
Galerie d'art Kaminska & Stocker, Yverdon-les-bains 29.08 - 26.09.2020
Grand-Cachot-du-Vent - 28.6-16.8.2020
1 - 23 novembre 2019
