Armenia 2021

Title: Hybridity: a machine for living together
Commissioner: Tina Chakarian, Republic of Armenia
Curator: Allen Sayegh (Vosguerichian)
Exhibitor: INVIVIA and Storaket Architectural Studio

As we ask, “how will we live together?”, Armenia has a long history of tackling this question, maintaining connections together through time and distance. Throughout the diaspora, millions of Armenians have spread out all over the world, adapting to new socio-cultural contexts and enriching the existing ones, while keeping strong relationships with to the mainland. The pavilion tries to translate this human need and capacity to interact with each other both as individuals and as a community, in an ever-evolving local and global context.

New types of human interactions are emerging, blending the digital and physical and disrupting territorial and cultural boundaries. After any forced spatial disturbances – from displacement due to wars and diaspora migrations, to the lockdowns spurred on by pandemics – people learn to live together in new ways, demonstrating remarkable adaptability and ingenuity. The Armenian Pavilion encourages visitors to explore these different facets of human interaction, through the digital and the physical, the local and the global, the individual and the multicultural.

Using both innovative and established technologies and methods, this architectural installation attempts to generate new formulas, spaces, and experiences for living and interacting together in the never-ending process of learning and transformation.