Sazmanab ⧚ Water Dept.2019-2020
About
Sazmanab ⧚ Water Dept. was located simultaneously in artist-curator Sohrab Kashani’s home-apartment in downtown Tehran (Museum of Sohrab) and at the Mattress Factory Museum in Pittsburgh, United States. As part of a collaboration, called The Other Apartment, between Kashani and Pittsburgh-based artist Jon Rubin, The Mattress Factory Museum housed an exact replica of Kashani’s apartment and all of its contents built meticulously by a team of fabricators in Pittsburgh. Located in both Iran and United States, Sazmanab ⧚ Water Dept. produced exhibitions, programs, and events where every object, video, and performance that happened in one space was meticulously duplicated for the other. For the run of the project, what has historically been called Sazmanab was called Sazmanab ⧚ Water Dept. in a nod to the two versions of the same venue.
Front facade of Museum of Sohrab in Tehran and its replica at the Mattress Factory museum in Pittsburgh
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Sazmanab ⧚ Water Dept. was located simultaneously in Kashani’s apartment in downtown Tehran (Museum of Sohrab) and at the Mattress Factory Museum in Pittsburgh.
The Blue Room at the Museum of Sohrab in Tehran and its replica at the Mattress Factory museum in Pittsburgh
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Director: Sohrab Kashani and Jon Rubin
Curator: Sohrab Kashani and Jon Rubin
The Other Apartment:
Artists: Sohrab Kashani and Jon Rubin
Project Manager: Brittany Reilly
Tehran Team: Golnoosh Heshmati, Shirin Rezaee, Siavash Naghshbandi, and Yousha Bashir
Identity, Website: Sohrab Kashani
Translation: Golnar Yarmohammad Touski
Apartment Building Contractor: Tom Reynolds (Dovetail Home Improvements), Ben Wojtyna, and Kevin Clancy
Pittsburgh Fabrication Team: Adam Welsh (Director of Exhibitions), Jenna Arnold, Seth Davidson, Dig Divine, Evyn Dowd, Josh Ice, Shohei Katayama, Anthony Kovacs, Keith Loughrey, Alex Lukas, Erin Mallea, Ezra Nepo, Katherine Pirilla, David Rosenstraus, Lilah Rubin, Max Spitzer, and Jason Tracy
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Programs
Sazmanab ⧚ Water Dept. produced exhibitions, programs, and events where every object, video, and performance that happened in one space was meticulously duplicated for the other.
Voice-over (in three parts) (2019) simultaneously in Tehran and Pittsburgh, curated by Joseph Del Pesco and Sohrab Kashani - video still: Three, Rather Than Two (or One) (2019) by Arash Fayez (Iran)
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Hyperallergic
artnet News
Bloomberg CityLab
The Art Newspaper
Creative Capital
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Credits / Acknowledgements (2019-2020)
Photos courtesy of The Other Apartment and Sazmanab, taken by Sohrab Kashani, Tom Little, Siavash Naghshbandi, Shirin Rezaee, Jon Rubin, and others.
Identity & Art Direction: Sohrab Kashani
Web Development: Sohrab Kashani
The Other Apartment and Sazmanab ⧚ Water Dept. were made possible through support from Creative Capital.
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