Artist & Musician
High Desert Test Sites Winter Open House, Commissioned Performance and Graphic Score of Away From Towards and Outwards, December 2023
Los Angeles Art Book Fair participation, August 2023
rooted in exhibition, Heavy Manners, Los Angeles, CA, 2023
Collaboration with Aidan Koch, Composer for Paving the Pacific, featured in Exhibition: Wing Whistles at Paul Soto Gallery Los Angeles, CA — 2023
In with the Old: (Nearly) Six Years of Project Art Distribution, Yeh Art Gallery at St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY, September 8 - December 10, 2022
band\camp exhibition, Project Art Distribution, SoHo, July 16, 2022
High Desert Test Sites 2022 Biannual + Other Desert Radio Performance, The Palms in Wonder Valley, CA,April 9, 2022
High Desert Test Site Desert Research Library Acquisition Team, Joshua Tree, CA, 2021-2022
Art Quarter Budapest, Residency + Exhibition, Budapest, Hungary, October 2021
ISSUE Project Room performance, September 2021
SEANSE Residency, Norway, composition and performance, completed remotely in Brooklyn, NY due to COVID, July 2021
Collaboration with Aidan Koch, Composer for A Woman’s Face (it’s Spring), featured in Exhibition: Panorama, Destelheide, Dworp, Belgium — 2020-2021
Collaboration with Aidan Koch, Composer for A Woman’s Face (it’s Spring), featured in Exhibition: No Longer, Not Yet, Essex Flowers, New York, NY, November 28-December 20, 2020
A-Z West, HDTS Work-Trade Residency - postponed due to COVID, April 2020
BoxoPROJECTS Residency + Exhibition, Joshua Tree, CA, February 2020
A.I.R. Krems Residency, Austria, Winter 2019-2020
Endless Editions Copy Shop Residency + Publication, November 2019
Marfa Open Artist Residency + Exhibition, Marfa, TX, July-August 2019; produced exhibition with Ethan Primason: Marfa Sounds
Sonic Transmission Archive sculptural installation, Wassaic Project Summer Festival, Wassaic, NY Summer 2019
24-Hour Drone Festival at Basilica Hudson, Performance, Hudson, NY April 2019
Sonic Transmission Archive (current, ongoing), Artists in Vacancy residency in Newburgh, NY, collaboration with E. Primason, July 2018-September 2018
Taraz Yeraz, CRT Video, part of Talk to Me in Parsley and Tambourines with Armenian diasporic artists working in a digital medium, Babycastles, April 2018
Composer for Eva Dean Dance’s immersive dance trilogy Labyrinth, presented at Danspace at St. Mark’s Church, Judson Church, Grahamstown South Africa, and Prospect Park’s Vale of Cashmere, 2017-present
Man Who Sold the World: Stages of Grief, (a project about David Bowie and Wilhelm Reich), video projections, part of
Luminous Flux, at Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY, 2016
Butterbean, screened at Otion Front, 2015
Untitled Hand Movie (Flux Manifesto), CRT Video, part of Artists-in-Residence Show, at Flux, Factory, Long Island City, NY, 2015
Choreographer for music videos - Ty Segall (Drag City) “Goodbye Bread, ” 2011 and Hospitality (Merge Records) “I Miss your Bones,” 2014
Musical projects: Scully, The Splinters, Numerators, Habibi; classically trained classical guitarist and pianist
Curator
Planning Muscle Memory & the Telephone Network exhibition for 2018-2019, pending funding
See Weird Babes Zine under Published Material
Muscle Memory & the Moving Image: An Evening of Contemporary Armenian Filmmakers, Wythe Hotel, Brooklyn, NY, April 2016
Muscle Memory & the Consumption of Food, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY, Summer 2015 (during residency at Flux Factory)
Muscle Memory in the Middle East & the Caucasus, Freeman Space, Brooklyn, NY, Summer 2014
chef & curator for Freeman Space experiential dinner, 2014
artist resident consultant for BRUNO Design: reviewing artist residency submissions, 2014
Muscle Memory in Non-Ephemeral Art Forms, Tri-Lox woodshop, Brooklyn, NY, Fall 2013
curated & installed mobile art show in U-Haul truck at Oakland, CA Art Walk, 2010
Goodnight Brooklyn/Death By Audio Documentary, Archivist
Fall 2014 - Spring 2015
archived and organized digital videos and photographs for Director for use in post-production
The Punk Singer Documentary, Assistant to Layout Director & Archival Material Researcher
Jun 2011 - December 2012
assisted Art Director & Director of Photography on post-production archival shoot
PUBLISHED MATERIAL
Synths and Soups, Winter 2023
“hello beirut !,” in Armenian Creatives 02: a question makes a room for a collaboration, Summer 2023
“Editor’s Note,” in Those Words, that offer to us—Poetry + Literature, January 2023
“Three Zahrad Poems,” in Armenian Creatives 01: Translation—the Space Before Translation, Winter 2020-21
“Beyond hearing: Perception, notation, and expanding our senses,” Splice blog, February 2021
Weird Babes Digest Zines, self-published zines on artists showcasing unfinished ideas and works in progress, Issues 1 - 9, 2017-ongoing
Automatic Sound Drawings, published by Endless Editions, November 2019
“An Analysis of Yvonne Rainer’s Trio A, A Survival Through Repetition,” Independent Curators International, Oct 2011
“Marina Abramović, It’s the Real Thing,” YesYesYes, Spring 2013
AWARDS
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Grant, Lisbon, Portugal, 2022
Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Nomination, Washington, DC, 2021 and 2023
Desert X Artist Relief Fund, 2020
SYMPOSIUMS + CLASSES
Soundial - Graphic Score Workshop, December 2023
Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair - Sound Drawing Workshop, 2022
Brooklyn Art Book Fair - Sound Drawing Workshop, 2021
Art Quarter Budapest - Sound Drawing Workshop, 2021
TUMO Armenia, Yerevan and Gyumri - Sound Workshop, July 2023
TUMO Armenia - Sound Workshop (online), November 2020
Ear to Ear Workshop - Collective Transmission, Pioneer Works, July 2020
Sonic Transmission Archive Workshop, presented by BOMB Magazine + Red Hook Initiative at Pioneer Works, November 2018
Speaker at Society of American Archivist’s Performing Arts Roundtable to discuss role in preparing punk archives, as archivist on Punk Singer Documentary, Washington DC, August 2014
*for more details, please contact Caroline