Performance, cab ride, cassette, 42′, 2023. Edition of 7 + 3 AP.

Armen is based on a personal collection of diasporic Armenian cassettes, vinyls, and VHS tapes of pop and disco records from the 1970s to the 1990s. The tracks are sampled at the points where the medium shows wear – scratches, cuts, indentations – and woven into a single recomposition, printed as a limited-edition cassette. During the performance, three or fewer passengers get into a cab and listen to the cassette through the car’s sound system while being driven along a predetermined route by a professional driver. It restages an arrival at Zvartnots Airport, Yerevan, where aged Mercedes-Benz taxis once greeted returning passengers with this same music at full volume.