THE FLAG: Instruction Manual #2 ⧚ Carlos Noronha Feio, Daria Kirsanova, and Sohrab Kashani
19 Apr 2013 - 02 May 2013
Sazmanab presented THE FLAG: Instruction Manual #2, a collaboration between London based artist Carlos Noronha Feio, curator Daria Kirsanova, and Tehran based artist and curator Sohrab Kashani.
This exhibition was the second interpretation of a performance/event titled "Instruction Manual Number One: Washing the Flags for a Peaceful Revolution" taken place in Vienna in December 2011. Conceived by Carlos Noronha Feio, the work was a multimedia performance conducted via the Internet that also included an actual physical action/performance in the gallery space. The conceptual core of this project was constructed utilising the protest action ‘Lava la bandera’ (Wash the flag) by Colectivo Sociedad Civil, but it was also rooted in the proposal by the socialist American politician Norman Thomas who called for an alternative to the burning of the flag during the Vietnam War, a silent (non violent) protest - a washing of the flag.
The project presented a matrix, modular flexible conceptual construction that could be shaped according to specific concerns relevant to the place where it was performed. This unusual structure operated on multiple layers of meaning and references. The most obvious reading would be to look at the project in light of the notions of authority and authorship. Yet, it is much broader in its critique. The use of the Internet here, for example, was an attempt to construct multiple layers of detachment and separation within the cyberspace. This action aimed to create a distance, a conceptual detachment from the actual geographical locations of either participants of the action/performance.
THE FLAG: Instruction Manual #2 was the result of months of exchanging ideas, where the artist’s perspective and knowledge related to the previous event was transformed by all three intervenients. It was not just a one-off performance, but a two-week exhibition that included: sculptural objects – a flag and a bucket; a video – documentation of the process of making of the flag, and a series of video instructions in English, Portuguese, Russian, and Farsi.
Venue: Sazmanab (Sazman-e Ab St.)
April 19 – May 2, 2013 – 4-8 PM
Opening reception: Friday, April 19 – 4-9 PM
Sazmanab presented THE FLAG: Instruction Manual #2, a collaboration between London based artist Carlos Noronha Feio, curator Daria Kirsanova, and Tehran based artist and curator Sohrab Kashani. This exhibition was the second interpretation of a performance/event titled "Instruction Manual Number One: Washing the Flags for a Peaceful Revolution" taken place in Vienna in December 2011. Conceived by Carlos Noronha Feio, the work was a multimedia performance conducted via the Internet that also included an actual physical action/performance in the gallery space. The conceptual core of this project was constructed utilising the protest action ‘Lava la bandera’ (Wash the flag) by Colectivo Sociedad Civil, but it was also rooted in the proposal by the socialist American politician Norman Thomas who called for an alternative to the burning of the flag during the Vietnam War, a silent (non violent) protest - a washing of the flag. The project presented a matrix, modular flexible conceptual construction that could be shaped according to specific concerns relevant to the place where it was performed. This unusual structure operated on multiple layers of meaning and references. The most obvious reading would be to look at the project in light of the notions of authority and authorship. Yet, it is much broader in its critique. The use of the Internet here, for example, was an attempt to construct multiple layers of detachment and separation within the cyberspace. This action aimed to create a distance, a conceptual detachment from the actual geographical locations of either participants of the action/performance. THE FLAG: Instruction Manual #2 was the result of months of exchanging ideas, where the artist’s perspective and knowledge related to the previous event was transformed by all three intervenients. It was not just a one-off performance, but a two-week exhibition that included: sculptural objects – a flag and a bucket; a video – documentation of the process of making of the flag, and a series of video instructions in English, Portuguese, Russian, and Farsi. Venue: Sazmanab (Sazman-e Ab St.) April 19 – May 2, 2013 – 4-8 PM Opening reception: Friday, April 19 – 4-9 PM