augmented reality monuments/installations
A project in the undoing of absence and super(im)position of queer/feminist Armenian icons onto their home-landscapes of origin. It will install colossal AR monuments in locations from which they descend but may not have access to. Since 2020, Azerbaijani and Turkish dictatorships have unleashed a large-scale offensive against Nagorno-Karabakh and its indigenous Armenian population, and now an invasion of Armenia proper. Many felt the echoes of the Armenian Genocide, with large portions of our homelands lost, thousands buried and displaced. Accordingly, Flesh Immemorial will creatively restore the relationships of indigenous Armenians with their ancestral landscapes by leaning into the complexities of indigeneity, belonging, and self-determination. We will form a constellation of imprints that generate ancestral healing, diasporic futurism, and creative reclamation. This is especially poignant work for SWANA peoples, who continue to live through displacement, intergenerational trauma, and genocide.