The Dispersion

The Dispersion

An exhibition by Hamed Sahihi and Samira Eskandarfar
Mah Art Gallery
Nov. 10-20, 2007
Visiting Hours: 3-7 pm
No 89, Golestan Blvd. , Africa Ave. ,Tehran
TeleFax: 22045879

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نمایشگاهی از حامد صحیحی و سمیرا اسکندرفر

نگارخانه ماه
نوزدهم تا بیست ونهم آبان
ساعات بازدید: سه تا هفت عصر
تهران، خیابان آفریقا (جردن)، شماره هشتاد و نه

طراح پوستر: امیرعلی قاسمی
Poster Designed by Amirali Ghasemi

NEVER BEEN TO TEHRAN

NEVER BEEN TO TEHRAN
October 19 - November 16, 2007

(photo credits clockwise from top left: Sal Randolph, USA; Heidi Hove Pedersen, Denmark; Greg Halpern and Ahndraya Parlato, USA; Otto Von Busch, Sweden and Turkey; France Martin Krusche, Austria; Jon Rubin, USA; Keiko Tsuji, Japan; Iyallola Tillieu, Belgium)

EXHIBITION VENUES: Parkingallery, Tehran, Iran; Caravansarai, Istanbul, Turkey; San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, USA; Media and Interdisciplinary Arts Center, Auckland, New Zealand; Koh-I-Noor, Copenhagen, Denmark; Mess Hall, Chicago, USA; Pittsburgh Cultural Trust (Downtown Electronic Jumbotron), Pittsburgh, USA; ; Embryosalon, Berlin, Germany; and live on the web at WWW.NeverBeenToTehran.COM

NEVER BEEN TO TEHRAN, organized by artist Jon Rubin and curator Andrea Grover, is a worldwide exhibition with 29 international participants who will be contributing photographs of what they imagine the city of Tehran to look like, to a universal photo-sharing website. The photographs will be streamed to each exhibition venue as a continuously evolving slideshow, with more photographs being uploaded daily throughout the exhibition. The participants will use a variety of research methods to imagine the culture, landscape, and people of Tehran, using only their primary city of residence as the location of their photographs.

Exhibition Description Imagine a city that you've only seen in reproductions or perhaps have merely heard about. A place, like many others, that only exists for you through indirect sources--the nightly news, hearsay, literature, magazines, movies, and the Internet. Using these secondhand clues as firsthand research materials, invited worldwide participants--who have Never Been to Tehran--will take photographs (from their home base) of what they imagine Tehran to look like. Contributors will upload their photos daily to an on-line photosharing site, which will be projected as a slideshow simultaneously in galleries and public spaces around the world (including Tehran). Anything that anyone might take a photograph of is fair game, just as long as it feels like Tehran.

For the international contributors to this exhibition, the task is to search through their daily lives for clues to a foreign place, for the possibility that somewhere else exists right under their noses and that, like some clunky form of astral projection, one can travel to other lands without leaving home. New information technologies are expanding the possibility of knowing a place to which you've never traveled. Hosts of amateur and commercial websites and podcasts about a given city, its economy, demographics, culture and subculture have opened the way for a new vernacular of representation.

As Tehran's image is regularly depicted in the dominant media, it is a compelling challenge for the participants in this exhibition to sift through the glut of images and information to cull out a personally constructed version of an unfamiliar place. For viewers in Tehran, the exhibition presents a chance to witness an unusual mirroring of their globally projected image, taken from the daily lives and environs of outsiders. Collectively, the artists and viewers of Never Been to Tehran will be charting a liminal space stuck somewhere between here and there that in our contemporary existence just might be home.

Participants: Dean Baldwin, Canada; Aideen Barry, Ireland; Cedric Bomford, Canada; Otto Von Busch, Sweden and Turkey; James Charlton, New Zealand; Sara Graham, Canada; Andrea Grover, USA; Deniz Gul, Turkey; Greg Halpern and Ahndraya Parlato, USA; Levin Haegele, England; Rumana Husain, Pakistan; Jun'ichiro Ishii, France; Martin Krusche, Austria; Rosie Lynch, Germany; Francesco Nonino, Italy; Elena Perlino, Italy; Heidi Hove Pedersen, Denmark; Sal Randolph, USA; Alia Rayya, Israel/Palestinian Territories; Jon Rubin, USA; Jakob Seibel, Germany; Iyallola Tillieu, Belgium; Keiko Tsuji, Japan; Lee Walton, USA; Lindsey White, USA; Christian Sievers, Germany; Zoe Strauss, USA

Parkingallery | screening : From the Fluxfilms Anthology (USA, 1966

Image: George Maciunas, Fluxmanifesto (1963)
Film screening: From the Fluxfilms Anthology (USA, 1966)
with an introduction by Ms. Media Farzin
Monday, 7-9 pm
at
Parkingallery
No.11, 4th Milad Alley,Milad street, Dadman Blvd. Farahzadi Blvd. Shahrak-e Gharb.Tehran
Tel: 88 57 97 27

Between 1965 and 1968, artist and designer George Maciunas put together
a collection of film loops that he called the "Fluxfilms Anthology." A
group of about 20 experimental shorts, they were intended to be
screened as films and as backgrounds to performances. Maciunas was the
organizer and driving force behind the artist collective known as
Fluxus. Their publications, performances, instruction works and
objects were mainly produced in the 1960s in New York, but included
events and collaborations in Europe and Japan.

"Fluxfilms, especially when taken in context with other Fluxus
performances, insisted on gradual deconstruction not only of the
various components of the cinematic apparatus, but of cinema itself.
After eliminating the projector, there is nothing left but the
screen.... With the traditional movie space eliminated, the viewer
'generates' his or her own screening situation.... Finally, the viewer
becomes producer."
- Tod Lippy, "Disappearing Act: the Radical Reductivism of Fluxus Film"

Treibsand DVD magazine launches officially in Tehran

The 1st issue of Treibsand DVD magazine: "[Analysing while Waiting (For Time To Pass)] contemporary art from Tehran" launches officially in Tehran on 17th of April.
Concept by Curator, Susann Wintsch & Artist, Parastou Forouhar

Venue: Azad Art Gallery, No 41 , Salmas sq., Golha sq., Tehran +(98)(21)88008676
Time and Date: 17-19 April , 408 pm

Featuring Artists :
Iman Afsarian| Nazgol Ansarinia| Mehraneh Atashi| Mahmoud Bakhshi-Moakhar| Shahrzad Darafsheh| Samira Eskandarfar| Farhad Fozouni| Nina Ghaffari| Amirali Ghasemi| Barbad Golshiri| Arash Hanaei| Ghazaleh Hedayat| Elahe Heidari| Behnam Kamrani| Simin Keramati| Khosro Khosravi/Farid Jafari| Mehran Mohajer| Ahmad Morshedlou| Neda Razavipour /Shahab Fotouhi| Hamed Sahihi| Rozita Sharaf Jahan| Jinoos Taghizadeh| Sadegh Tirafkan

Statements from:
Iman Afsarian| Haleh Anvari| Khosrow Hassanzadeh| Sohrab Mahdavi| Ruyin Pakbaz| Alireza Sami Azar| Soghra Zare Anaghezi|

Poster Designed by Farhad Fozouni

Analysing while Waiting (For Time To Pass)

Treibsand [Volume 01], contemporary video art from Teheran

04/26/07, 20:00

Curator Susann Wintsch presents the DVD Treibsand with contemporary video art from Teheran.
TREIBSAND [VOLUME 01] «Analysing while Waiting (For Time To Pass)» sheds light on contemporary and emerging art in Tehran, concentrating predominantly on an analytical stance in times of waiting. Waiting for the future may be expressed as yearning or depression, or it may appear as a long, protracted period in which past and present are analysed in depth from a personal and post-colonialist viewpoint. The concept has been drawn up in close collaboration with Parastou Forouhar (Frankfurt am Main/Tehran).

Artists
Iman Afsarian, Nazgol Ansarinia, Mehraneh Atashi, Mahmoud Bakhshi-Moakhar, Shahrzad Darafsheh, Samira Eskandarfar, Farhad Fozouni, Nina Ghaffari, Amirali Ghasemi, Barbad Golshiri, Arash Hanaei, Ghazaleh Hedayat, Elahe Heidari, Behnam Kamrani, Simin Keramati, Khosro Khosravi/Farid Jafari, Mehran Mohajer, Ahmad Morshedlou, Neda Razavipour /Shahab Fotouhi, Hamed Sahihi, Rozita Sharaf Jahan, Jinoos Taghizadeh, Sadegh Tirafkan

Statements
Iman Afsarian, artist and editor; Haleh Anvari, artist and journalist; Khosrow Hassanzadeh, artist; Sohrab Mahdavi, editor of TehranAvenue.com; Ruyin Pakbaz, art and art history professor; Alireza Sami Azar, curator; Soghra Zare Anaghezi, artist

Links: Treibsand DVD Magazin

See also: Susann Wintsch

Never Been to Houston

Never Been to Houston
March 9-April 14
Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
Curated by Aurora Picture Show and Jon Rubin

Imagine a city that you've only seen in reproductions or perhaps have merely heard about. A place, like many others, that exists only through rumors, stories, novels, the nightly news, magazines, movies, and the Internet. Using these secondhand clues as firsthand research material, invited worldwide contributors-who have Never Been to Houston- will photographically document (without leaving home) what they imagine Houston to look like. Contributors will upload their photos daily to an on-line Flickr site, which will be projected as a slideshow in Houston's Lawndale gallery. Anything that anyone might take a photograph of is fair game. Just as long as it feels like Houston.

For the contributors to this exhibition, the task is to search through their daily life for clues to a foreign place, for the possibility that somewhere else exists right under their nose and that, like some clunky form of astral projection, you can travel to other lands without leaving home. For viewers in Houston, it's a chance to witness an unusual mirroring of their globally projected image. In addition to the traditions of storytelling and travel guides, new information technologies are expanding the possibility of knowing a place to which you've never traveled. Three-dimensional electronic maps, 360 degree images, hosts of amateur and commercial websites and podcasts about a given city, its economy, demographics, culture and subculture have opened the way for a new vernacular of representation.

In the end, Never Been to Houston is an experimental, virtual travelogue to the city that the New York Times opines "refuses to assume a simply identity."

Amirali Ghasemi from parkingallery is also one of the invited contributers.

Limited Access in Tehran

Parkingallery with collaboration of Reloading Images Azad Art Gallery presents:
Limited access in Tehran
Video screening/Sound installation/ performance

As the world is becoming smaller and smaller for us, we still have limited access to each other, we merely understand the codes that make us able to read images, through a distance which seems very near but still so far.
Tehran would be a perfect destination for the project initiated by Parkingallery to exchange interesting examples of variety of responses to disconnection and connectivity at the same time.

Videos
Pooya Abbasian
Mania Akbari
Keyvan Azad
Carl Boutard/Magnus Thoren
Cedric Bomford
Ehsan Behmanesh
Ana Bezelga
Elham Doust Haghighi
Eva Drangensholt
Samira Eskandarfar
Farhad Fozouni
Amirali Ghasemi
M.R. Heydari
Jihaniro Ishie / Chihiro Akutsu
Fardi Jafari
Behnam Kamrani
Karri Kuoppala
Khosro Khosravi
Rokhshad Nourdeh
Mehdi Mirmohammadi
Hamed Sahihi
Behrang Samadzadegan
Rozita Sharafjahan
Jinoos Taghizadeh
Yasser raad

Performance:
Shervin Afshar

Makan Ashkewari
Sound installation
Erfan Abdi
Amirali Mohebbinejad

Special Screening*:
Maya Schweizer
Linda wallace
Sophie Hamacher
Daniel Urria
Chan-Sook-Choi
Jeannette Gaussi
Nike Arnold
Parisa Yousef Doust
Khaled Ramadan
Urania Fassoulidou

Video works from reloading Images archive.
Complied by Kaya Behkalam & Azin Feizabadi (Reloading Images, Berlin)

Venue: Azad art gallery,No 41, Salmas Sq., Golha Sq., Tehran
Opening: 8^th of March, 4-8 pm
For more information please check the project's website (available from 8^th of March)
www.parkingallery.com\limited
Info@parkingallery.com

Drawer ; visual snippets of "Chargoosh"

The "Chargoosh" group, an informal association of some young iranian graphic designers working independently has an exhibition at Laleh Art Gallery in Tehran :

Drawer - visual snippets of "Chargoosh"

240 works from Maryam Enayati, Farhad Fozouni, Behrad Javanbakht and Iman Raad are presented in this exhibition.

The presented collection is a complex variety of Chargoosh group (visual snippets), such as rough drafts, notes, photos illustration, typography and the details occur during completion of a graphical work from the ordering pointing through the final steps.

Exhibition poster by Amirali Ghasemi
Laleh Art Gallery
Fatemi Ave.,
Close to Laleh Hotel, Tehran, Iran

February 17 - 22, 2007
Opening February 17, 2007, from 16-20
Visiting hours 9-13 15-19

Upcoming show in Tehran; Limited Access

Parkingallery in cooperation with Azad Art Gallery presents:Limited Access | Video Screening, Audio installation and performance... March 2007, Tehran.