2016-2021
As I have mentioned before I love these years; while being engaged in HOME and PRESENCE projects, I found myself developing basic questions around a third project that for now I call it PERIPHERALITY project. In this extensive project which will be started in 2022, I will investigate the very act of observation and spectatorial postures while putting these notions in dialogue with prevailing visibility mechanisms.
Here is the amusing fun fact for me: my three fields of interest, Performing Arts, Architecture, and Quantum Mechanics will integrate into this project. Now I understand why, at the age of 18, I chose to study Performing Arts rather than Architecture or Physics. Considering this, in these years besides pursuing my ongoing projects, I tried to expand and upgrade my knowledge and understanding in two of the beloved fields that I have been apart from for around 15 years.
2017 : For Tuberculosis
Co-director / Stage designer
Tehran: New Wave Theatre Hall
2017-2019: HOW TO KNOW
Under supervision of Sohail Qandili
Collaborative research through practice and discussion within Architecture.
Tehran: StudioRe (Art and Architecture collaboration hub)
2018 : Coming Here (Part of the HOME project)
A duo performance with Yalda Pakzad
Tehran: StudioRE (Art and Architecture collaboration hub)
2019 : HOW TO PERFORM (part of PRESENCE project)
Applying the outcomes of the “PRESENCE” practice-based research project through performative practices with 20 Artists.
Tehran: New Media Society
2020 : HOW TO PERFORM HERE (part of PRESENCE project)
A lecture at Reconnect online Festival
Discussing the feasibility of perceiving and producing a sense of presence in online encounters through phenomenology, performance theory, and theory of place.
2022 : SHEER
A duo online performance with Saghar HosseinPour
Tehran: Reconnect online Festival/ Germany: Voices platform (in collaboration with PACT)
2021 : HOW TO PERFORM 2 (part of PRESENCE project)
An online workshop with “How To Perform” participants during the pandemic.
Discussing and digging in our lived experiences through the previous phase of “How To Perform” in a collaborative performative way and rapping up and documenting the PRESENCE Project: The final textual and multimedia output will be published in 2022.
Tehran: East Art Gallery
And the last thing to mention for now:
Since 2020 I started to establish the infrastructures of an online platform: Terrace-lab
Terrace-lab is an online platform for publishing and discussing the processes and outcomes of practice-based and artistic research.
The platform itself is considered as a practice-based research; “how can complex and ongoing cultural outputs be presented, reach their audiences, and negotiate their contents in a dynamic, sustainable way? And how can these contents live a life of their own?”
Since summer 2020, I have conducted more than fifty thorough interviews with students, artists, researchers, and teachers from all around the world and gathered a comprehensive list of demands and requisites that currently are being considered and studied by the artistic board and the production designers of the platform.
If you still do not understand why I love these years, here is another answer: in Terrace-lab all of my experiences as a performer, dancer, director, writer, designer, choreographer, researcher, and teacher will integrate into a whole to accommodate critical issues in the field of artistic research and production.
If you are interested in contributing to Terrace-lab in any possible way, I sincerely invite you to contact me to negotiate what we can all do to make things better.