Dal. Re. Dal
The Otherside Festival, Helsinki, Finland. 2025. Photo by Negin Aladdin The Otherside Festival, Helsinki, Finland. 2025. Photo by Negin Aladdin The Otherside Festival, Helsinki, Finland. 2025. Photo by Negin Aladdin The Otherside Festival, Helsinki, Finland. 2025. Photo by Negin Aladdin The Otherside Festival, Helsinki, Finland. 2025. Photo by Negin Aladdin The Otherside Festival, Helsinki, Finland. […]
The Missing Words
THE MISSING WORDS The performance is based on a collage poem. The pieces have been taken from the original scripts: ‘The Book of Jeremiah‘, the Quran, and ‘The Waste Land‘ (T.S. Eliot). Rachel is weeping for her children. (she asks), for what sin she was killed. She refuses to be comforted by her children because […]
An Attempt to Say Nothing
An Attempt to Say Nothing https://youtu.be/_0FhYAtrgMc This is an attempt to write. This is an attempt to think. It is an attempt to think in another language. It is an attempt to unlock thoughts exiled by language. It is an attempt to write the unsayable. This is an attempt to soothe the mind caught between […]
A Poem of Ten Words
A POEM OF TEN WORDS https://youtu.be/wvO_XnNcwws The first performance of the first version, Feb. 2025, Berlin Preface: In the performance-poetry series, each poem acts as an algorithm for a performance. The poem remains incomplete and meaningless without its execution. Therefore, a poem is composed or selected specifically for performance. Words are integral to the performance, […]
The Persian Red Tongue
The Persian Red Tongue The human tongue, Image: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. In this performance, the artist articulates random words from the dictionary, detached from their meanings, while balancing a blade on their tongue. The blade shifts with the movements of the tongue, creating a dynamic interplay where the spoken words influence the blade’s motion. Each […]
Displacement of Dividers Needle
DISPLACEMENT OF DIVIDER NEEDLE Exhibition space in Künstlerhaus Bethanian, berlin, April 2024 the video of the performance, colored, silent, 25 min, 2024, Camera: Amirali Ghasemi https://youtu.be/i2QJWNhXyQg An image for the poster generated by AI, 2024 “You are not to be taught that you have many enemies that know not why they are so but, like […]
Following the Yellow Lines
Following the yellow lines A sketch of the whole idea for the video, “It is only in an unbalanced state that you can achieve balance. Remain loyal to the pre-drawn lines. Balance is the law, and the law defines a ‘system.’ Therefore, nothing can exist beyond the boundaries of the law.” – from video texts […]
Alef-Alef Line
Five Theories for freedom1.ALEF-ALEF LINE “The leading character-you, Oleg lights a candle.It’s a thin, uncertain, weak flame, and you cover this flame with your hand, the hand of a strong, grown man. And you walk across the foul bed of the pool, trying not to slip or stumble, and all your will is concentrated on one […]