Exhibition by Yousha Bashir “Limit. Limits. Limited. Explosion! Limit. Limits. Limited. Explosion! Red. Red. Rolling. Despise! Where white? This improper compilation. Boom. Explosion!” Yousha Bashir Yousha Bashir is a process-oriented artist, whose works are a […]
Workshop on interactive multimedia conducted by Frederick Rodrigues In this workshop, the participants covered how to create rich interactive multimedia tools for performance. They discussed various approaches and their pros and cons such as Isaodra, […]
Exhibition by Mahdiyar Jamshidi Curated by Shay Mazloom “I was born when there was still seven years left from the war. My childhood got stolen by the crash of the Good and the Evil. Many […]
Exhibition by Mahtab Mozayan “I’m afraid you’ll find out about what I’ve been hiding inside of me! Then chances are you’ll behead me to hold my head in front of your enemies, so they would […]
Root Canal – 2012, B&W, 60 min A film by Samira Eskandarfar A young girl who has just started a serious relationship tries to review her relationship in dialogue with a woman with extensive experience […]
Sazmanab hosted an official screening of the film “IRAN (is not the problem)”. This insightful 79-minute documentary featured Antonia Juhasz, author of Tyranny of Oil, and The Bu$h Agenda, Larry Everest, author of Oil, Power, […]
Sazmanab hosted a conversation with Iranian-born artist Abbas Akhavan in conjunction with his residency and exhibition at the Delfina Foundation in London. Born in Tehran, Abbas Akhavan has been living in Canada since 1992 where […]
An exhibition of drawings by Italian painter and musician Roberto Casiraghi, together with works by artists Saeed Ravanbakhsh, Homayoun Salimi, Yousef Sharif Kazemi, and Soheil Doaei. Organised by Charsoo Honar November 1 – November 3, […]
Anahita Razmi is a video and performance artist based in Berlin and London. Her previous works have dealt with issues concerning identity and gender, employing objects with a national and cultural significance or citing the […]
Anahita Razmi is a visual artist based in Berlin mainly working with video, installation, new media and performance. Her work reconsiders visual memory, stereotypes, and standards between Orient and Occident. Recent and upcoming exhibitions include: […]
Curated by Nesli Gül Works by Kardelen Fincancı and İsmail Egler Hidden Screenplays relates to the alternative movements against the obedience and it focuses on the cracks and seeps that occur within the communities. It […]
Sazmanab presented a screening of Neus Theater and Bühne, two films by German director and video artist Daniel Kötter, followed by a discussion panel and a Q&A with Kötter who is currently an artist-in-residence at […]
Daniel Kötter, born 1975, is a director and video artist with a particular interest in multi-channel video installations and alternative concert formats. Daniel takes on the role of director, filmmaker, researcher or composer to relate […]
Presentation by Richard Penn (artist-in-residence) Richard is a self-taught animator with a Masters Degree in Fine Arts (with distinction) from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 1997 he was awarded the […]
Rybon International Artists’ Workshop brought together artists from all around the world to create new works and explore long-term possibilities. Participating artists: Ali Cherri (Lebanon), Amin Davaie (Iran), Sarah Hatahet (Jordan), Katayoun Karami (Iran), Babak […]
S. Nesli Gül was born in 1986 and is based in Istanbul. Nesli graduated from the Faculty of Art and Design at the Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul and holds an MA in Museum Studies […]
İsmail Egler was born in 1983 in Istanbul. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Marmara University in Istanbul and holds an MA in Interactive Media Design from the Yıldız Technical University in […]
Kardelen Fincancı was born in 1985 in Istanbul. She graduated from the Plastic Arts Department at the Kocaeli University in Istanbul and holds an MA in Art and Design from the Yildiz Technical University in […]
Shirana Shahbazi discussed her diverse and iterative photographic practice, in conjunction with the upcoming exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, “New Photography 2012.” Employing the visual language of multiple genres—portraiture, […]
Exhibition by Samira Eskandarfar “Moments that it’s like you’re here and you’re not here. Everything seems obscure and vague. When you think hard, when you think real hard, you can’t remember your name. You remember […]
As a former Tehraner, Taghavi’s engagement with the city through materials and situations, atmospheres and activities that had once been neutral was vivified in discovering the ineptness permeating the public space. During her residency at […]
Workshop on performance conducted by Maryam Taghavi (artist-in-residence) Performance as an art practice has helped artists investigate ideas before they made objects since the early 1900s, and a strong medium experimented on countless formal, social, […]
Maryam Taghavi graduated from Emily Carr University, Vancouver in 2008 and since then has been experimenting across diverse mediums, ranging from drawing, performance, sculpture and site-specific installation; nonetheless, issues surrounding adaptation, displacement and collapse remain […]
The project ‘flüchtig’ [volatile/fugacious] aimed to explicitly follow the paths which were taken by previous visiting artists and curators on site. During the two-week residency at Sazmanab in Tehran Katharina Stadler walked those paths as […]
Workshop on sound conducted by Katharina Stadler (artist-in-residence) Every city has a unique soundscape(s). This is due to both the distinctiveness and diversity of a city, as well as to us as individuals perceiving our […]
Curated by Sandra Skurvida Mise en abyme is a stand-in for the void, a figure opening the subjective fissures of national states, and performatively destabilizing positions of power — the “I”s are focused on the […]
Katharina Stadler is a Vienna born conceptual artist, curator and founder of ‘Concept and Theory – Tbilisi’. She studied Music, Theater and Cultural Communication studies at Humboldt University in Berlin, graduating with a thesis on […]
Sandra Skurvida is an independent curator and scholar based in New York City. Her research and curatorial projects are determined by the specific socio-political conditions: OtherIS (2011-ongoing) is a curatorial platform of video art relating […]
Curated by Morehshin Allahyari and Alysse Stepanian Our perception of reality conforms to human-made logic while the construct of logic is defined by the limitations of our perceptions. The language of power is built upon […]
Exhibition by Tanaz Modabber (artist-in-residence) Terrain was a performative installation inspired by the uncanny correlation between the natural and the artificial environment in Tehran. As the boundary between these environments, natural and artificial, has grown […]
Iraqi Kurdish artist and Sazmanab artist-in-residence Hiwa K gave a talk on Tuesday June 26, 2012 at Sazmanab. Some of his projects presented were the outcome of his deliberations on the eight-years of Iran-Iraq War […]
Hiwa K was born in Kurdistan-Northern Iraq in 1975. His informal studies in his hometown Sulaymaniyah were focused on European literature and philosophy, learnt from available books translated into Arabic. After moving to Germany in […]
Tanaz Modabber was born in Tehran, Iran. She studied at University of California, Berkeley and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture and a Master’s degree in Architecture. She currently lives in Berlin where […]
Presentation by Mohammad Reza Shahrokhinejad “The world’s eighteenth largest city by population, twenty-seventh largest city by size, sixteenth largest city by density, seven hundred and thirty square-kilometres in size, with a population of eight million; […]
Exhibition by Omid Mehdizadeh “Urban geographers generally define the city as an artificial landscape consisting of different streets, buildings, machinery, and monuments which together make today’s urban life somewhat possible. Tehran is a surreal site […]
Lecture by Justin Clemens, presented by LuckyPDF at West Space, Melbourne and simulcast via Google Hangout to Sazmanab Writer, academic, translator and Lacanian, Justin Clemens teaches in the School of Culture and Communication at the […]
The talk explored the language of visual communication, perception and the implications of use in a global community. From only a few being able to produce and distribute visual images a century ago, technology has […]
Conflict Kitchen, founded in 2010 by Jon Rubin and Dawn Weleski, was a restaurant in Pittsburgh that served cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict. Each Conflict Kitchen iteration was augmented […]
Future Shorts Festival pops up in Tehran! The spring program, as hosted at Sazmanab, let the audience connect with a selection of international short films and filmmakers to access a large global audience for their […]
On April 18, 2012, Yuya Suzuki’s videos “On-and-on” and “Tehran Usual Seance” both of which he shot during his workshop in Tehran was screened and was followed by a presentation by Yuya himself. The event […]
Curated by Larry Caveney, in the spirit of John Cage Artists: Annah Anti-Palindrome, Wes Chester, Osvaldo Cibils, Mark Eden, Anthony Elliott, Alex Godbold, Josh Goldman, Fritz Horstman, Nathan Hubbard, Travis Janssen, Chris Jones, Tina La […]
A talk by Ava Ansari, Andrew Quitmeyer, and Michael Nitsche on Performance art and Technology, followed by participation by art students and artists Mohammad Amini, Mahsa Biglow, Hajar Naseri, Soraya Sharghi and other participants in […]
Exhibition by Negar Farajiani “I delete an image (her/his image), I try to get it back Before saving it I look for Undo File Edit View History Window Help Edit Undo It’s greyed out” Negar […]
We are Ava Ansari and Molly Kleiman of The Back Room — a curatorial and pedagogical project to facilitate exchanges between artists and writers in the United States and Iran. We’ve been collaborating with Sohrab […]
Imprisonment of The Speaker – 2011, 50 min A film by Mehran Afshar Naderi Imprisonment of The Speaker follows the story of a twenty-year-old criminal, who tries to investigate the causes and motives for choosing […]
Lecture by James Elkins The topic is fundamental for the current practice of art: it concerns the continuing hold of an old dichotomy. The anti-aesthetic was first defined by Hal Foster in 1980; it denotes […]