ZaBell is an editorial-cultural inquiry platform operating through long-form conversations, audiovisual documentation, and archival development to examine how contemporary systems shape perception, meaning, memory, visibility, and lived reality.
ZaBell is developed and produced from Yerevan, Armenia, through long-form conversations with artists, writers, researchers, musicians, translators, filmmakers, curators, journalists, and cultural practitioners working across different international contexts.
ZaBell is approaches culture not as commentary surrounding society, but as one of the environments in which conditions of perception, memory, meaning, authority, and lived reality become visible.
Situated Position
ZaBell approaches Armenia not as a peripheral cultural location, but as a concentrated environment in which larger contemporary tensions become unusually visible.
Questions of memory, displacement, visibility, technological acceleration, fragmented realities, institutional instability, language, and cultural continuity often emerge here in compressed and highly legible forms.
Developed from Yerevan through conversations with participants working across different international contexts, ZaBeLL uses Armenia as a situated point of inquiry into broader contemporary conditions rather than as a bounded national framework.
Current Conversations
Cycle I
Instability of Reality
Conversation 01
Alexis Paul
Paris, France
Conversation 02
Tiruhi Gevorgyan
Yerevan, Armenia
Conversation 03
Paris, France
Conversation 04
Conversation 05
Mihran Gurunian
Beirut, Lebanon/ Yerevan, Armenia
Conversation 06
Ariga Torosian
Tehran, Iran/ Yerevan, Armenia