Saturday, June 09, 2007

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"

Sunday, April 15, 2007

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

Friday, April 06, 2007

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

Sunday, March 18, 2007

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.

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

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: 8th of March, 4-8 pm
For more information please check the project's website (available from 8th of March)
www.parkingallery.com\limited
Info@parkingallery.com

Thursday, February 15, 2007

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

Sunday, February 04, 2007

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.

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

untiteld (do not give your opinion)


untiteld (do not give your opinion)
an installation by nazgol ansarinia
30 Dec 2006- 11 Jan 2007(8-21 Day 1385)
13 vanak street, tehran
opening friday 29th Dec from 3-7 pm
Saturday-thursday 4-6 pm

To see Nazgol's page on parkingallery click here

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

[THE DARK ROOM] Digital photos by Pezhman Fizoozmand


[THE DARK ROOM]an exhibition of Digital photos by Pezhman Fizoozmand at cafe aks
Dec 9-23, 2006
Eskan shopping center, Mirdamad Blvd,Tehran.

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

I don't know what else to do with myself!*


I don't know what else to do with myself!*
9. December. 2006
Saturday / AK28
Krukmakargatan 28, Stockholm


Program
Video Screening 20:00
Artist Talk: 21:00
After Party: 22:00

artists: david blandy (uk), selim birsel (Belgium), amirali ghasemi
(tehran), unni gjertsen (norway), tsui kuang-yu (taiwan), adnan yildiz
(turkey)

curated by esther lu and adnan yildiz

Esther Lu and Adnan Yildiz invite us to a discussion around the
role-position of artist today in reference to the changing structures
of contemporary art. Today, artists are traveling a lot due to
residencies, biennials, grandiose exhibitions and etc. And they do not
like to be involved into these processes as "tourists" but they are
also somehow tourists in this game… In relation to their research in
Stockholm, Yildiz and Lu select inspirational videos in order to
trigger a discussion around how artist
deconstruct-fictionalize-establish-reproduce him/herself in/through
their works in this given traveling context. The curators introduce
the concept of 'universal traveler' and contextualize the issue around
the hot topics like ''new-internationalism", "mobile identities", "art
market-ing" and "globalization-alism".

AK28 is the venue of this show for its identity as being an artist-run space.
Supported by Cultural Division, Taipei Mission in Sweden

• a title of a song by white stripes is transformed.
• video screening is also the premiere of S.G.F.S. (survival guide for
stockholm), a research based curatorial project by Adnan Yildiz

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Conscious in Coma

Conscious in Coma is an art project initiated by NOMAD in collaboration with Goethe Institut, Istanbul and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center. The project is designed to be a long-term networking and archiving project. The name of the project indicates a simple and direct reference to the current unbalanced and devastated state of the globe accompanied by the collective silence and blindness. The project intends to collect, disseminate, and discuss the perspectives and realities of diverse positions in multiple formats. In this respect, the primary focus of the project is to trace, detect and comprehend art and cultural productions which render different cases, approaches and realities with multifaceted cultural, political and social situations.

Conscious in Coma is designed to be a collaborative process of nine curators: Elena Veljanovska (Macedonia), Stefan Rusu (Moldavia), Nat Muller (The Netherlands), Vera-Maria Glahn (Germany), Basak Senova (Turkey), Jack Persekian (Palestine), Clare Davies (Egypt), Christine Tohme (Lebanon), and Amirali Ghassemi (Iran).


LOST IN NO SPACE
curated by Amirali Ghassemi (IR)
Behrang Samadzadegan, Behnam Kamrani, Amirali Mohebbinejad, Negar Tahsili, Raha Faridi, Mohammad Reza Heydari, Ehsan Behmanesh, and Azin Feizabadi.

Video as a medium has been recognized as both an elevator and an escape route for the new generation of Iranian artists since the beginning. As they started their anxious, immature experiments; video became a popular medium although the lack of education and the big cultural gap beside the availability, transferability and ease of use made this journey quiet fragile, expect the few “successful” established artists who emphasize on the exotic face of their country of origin made them able to jump on the “train”, the rest are producing boring materials for the weak small scaled but good looking elitist! Art scene. But on the other hand there are others who are not well known, not board On the train, not famous but still eager to make a kind of art which is not only for export , not aimed at the cul-de-sac of Euro-American market. Most of these videos are chosen from parkingallery archive with no specific point of view or resemblance but the fact of being unseen and interesting.

For more details please check this page

Sunday, October 08, 2006

PHOTO EXHIBITION OF A PRECONCEIVED WAR




PHOTO EXHIBITION OF A PRECONCEIVED WAR
by Homayoun Askari Sirizi
October 13-19, 2006|5:00-7:00 P.M.
Location: 13, Vanak St. , Tehran , Iran
don't miss it!

Poster designed by Behrad Javanbakht

Friday, September 01, 2006

Sound installition exhbition in azad art gallery


Sound installation
by Mohamad Javad Safari & Kaveh Kateb
Sep 1-6,2006 - 4-8 pm
Azad art gallery
No 41, salmas sq, Golha sq, Tehran

Thursday, June 15, 2006

Invitation to a Deeper Depression


Parkingallery presents:
Deeper Depression
A contemporary Art Practice
New Media / Performance / Photography / Typography / Literature / Illustration / Painting

2nd round of parkingallery's deep depression project will launch in Tehran on 23rd of June, 2006 in four venues & with 247 Iranian & international participants.

Tarahan Azad Gallery/ June 23- July 5, 2006/ Opening: 4-8 pm/ Visiting hours: 4-8 pm/
No.41, Salmas Sq., Golha Sq., Tehran, Iran/ Tel.: + [9821]88008676
Atbin Gallery/ June 23- July 4, 2006/ Opening: 6-10 pm/ Visiting hours: 4-8 pm/
No.12+1, Khakzad St., Valiasr Ave. [Parkway Crossing], Tehran, Iran/ Tel.: + [9821]22017761
Zangar Gallery/ June 29 – July 5 2006/ Opening: 6-9 pm/ Visiting Hours: 4-9 pm/
Flat No.5, 1st Floor, No. 19, Mina Blvd., Africa Blvd., Tehran, Iran/
Tel.: + [9821]88771272
Tehran Gallery/ June 24 – July 5 2006/ Opening: 5-8 pm/ Sat. to Wed.: 2-8 pm/ Friday: 5-8 pm/
East Side of Tehran University , Ghods St., Enghelab Ave., Tehran, Iran/
Tel.: + [9821]66410959, 61112495

Curator: Amirali Ghasemi


In cooperation with Media Designer Consultant Co. & Shervin Book Series.
Posters designed by Behrad Javanbakht & Farhad Fozouni

www.parkingallery.com/deep
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Saturday, June 03, 2006

"Heaven & Hell" Digital Illustrations By Behrang Samadzadegan

"Heaven & Hell"
an exhibition of digital illustrations by
Behrang Samadzadegan

Jun.9 to 22 2006
Khordad 19 to Tir 1st 1385
5-7pm*
No.13 Vanak St.
Vanak Sq.
Ave Gallery

*openning: 4-8 pm

Monday, April 10, 2006

ETHNIC MARKETING


ETHNIC MARKETING
Tracing the Limits of Artworld Internationalism

Contemporary Art Exhibition

Artspace: 13 Vanak Street & Azad Gallery, 41 Salmas Square

Conference and Screening: Shahid Avini Auditorium, University of Tehran
Tehran, 14th – 27th of April 2006

This project raises the question of what is expected or demanded of an artist who attempts to penetrate the “international art circuit”. What does the European market, in particular, wish to buy, and why does it wish to do so. It is now plain to see that the West is not a mere observer of globalized cultural flows, but a consumer playing a decisive role. Just as any other demanding client, it actively defines the supply. Which strategies might be useful when facing such hegemonic structures? This theme was addressed at curator Tirdad Zolghadr’s 2004 exhibition “Ethnic Marketing: Art, Globalization and Intercultural Supply and Demand” (curated with M. Anderfuhren), and is now revisited in Tehran.

The event includes:

  • April 14th, 4 PM: opening of group exhibition with seven artists at 13, Vanak Street: Shirin Aliabadi, Bilal Khbeiz, Farhad Moshiri, Erkan Özgen, Sener Özmen, Natascha Sadr-Haghighian
  • April 14th, 6 PM: opening of group exhibition with eleven artists at Azad Gallery: Atlas Group, Ursula Biemann, David Blandy, Jakup Ferri, Shahab Fotouhi, Jens Haaning, IRWIN, San Keller, Ahmet Ögüt, Sener Özmen, Michael Snow, Peter Stoffel
  • April 18th, 5:30 PM: film screening at Shahid Avini Auditorium, Tehran University, with films by: Fikret Atay, COM & COM, Dirk Herzog, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Sener Özmen, Space Campaign, Hito Steyerl, Erik van Lieshout
  • April 19th, 4 PM: conference with Giovanni Carmine, San Keller, Farhad Moshiri, Natascha Sadr Hagighian, Solmaz Shahbazi, Tirdad Zolghadr et al
  • a catalogue in Farsi and in English
  • student workshops (on invitation only)

Saturday, April 08, 2006

Photo/video exhibition by Alireza Ghandchi


Photo/video exhibition by Alireza Ghandchi in
Asar Art Gallery
Opening: 14 April, 2006. 5-9 pm.
14-26 April, 2006. (25 Farvardin-6 Ordibehesht 1385)
Visiting hours: 11 am-8 pm
Gallrey is closed on Friday 21th of April (1st of Ordibehest)
Add: no 13, Barforoushan alley, Iranshahr St. Tehran

Saturday, April 01, 2006

Self timer an exhibition by Homayoun Askari Sirizi

Self timer an exhibition by Homayoun Askari Sirizi
7-13 April 2006 , Friday-Thursday 6-8 pm
Av Art Gallery no 13, vanak street, Tehran - Iran
Poster by Behrad Javanbakht

Sunday, March 12, 2006

Parkingallery postcards Vol. 1


March 2006: Parkingallery published a series of 9 Postcards by Amirali Ghasemi
For more informartion please Email us at info[at]parkingallery[dot]com