SHOW:  JOURNAL  CURATORIAL

MAY THE SNAKE BE WITH YOU | با مار باشید 03.31.25,Detroit Public TV (PBS),Kresge Art Detroit
with Toko Shiiki

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The video poem embodies the remedial spelling qualities of our Persian ancient tongues. "Ha | ها" form: snake, meaning in Persian: awe, plural signifier, "Tan | تن" body, "Tanha | تنها" in solitude. Co-presence is inherently present in an act of solitude. 
Tags:
Body Contracts, Bio-heterotopia, Underwater spellings, Poetic Legalities, Poetic-bio

G—RAY AREA
06.03.23-07.29.23,“For the Sake of Dancing in the Street,” Oxy Arts,03.13.21,”For Your Eyes Only,” University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities
The public performance celebrates our removed natures and unseen limbs, materializing the metastasized grayness of public-private.
tags:
public intervention, radical presence, celebratory heterotopia, sensual democracy, public release


TOUCHED : POETIC SOCIETIES 06.21.22, Trade School Festival, Philadelphia
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The Somalegal Hotline and Gardens facilitates sessions for writing body-conscious contracts, offering creative material on poetic legalities with Anna Andel, New York Public Defender and Staff Attorney at The Legal Aid Society, Sarms Jabra, Business Attorney and Program Analyst at The City of Detroit, and Zena Ozeir, Assistant Attorney General, Michigan State and Domestic Violence Attorney at Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS).
Tags:
Body Contracts, Healing Cities, Experimental Policies, Poetic Legalities 

TELEMATIC WATER PRAYER : REMOooOTE : POETIC SOCIETIES
3.14.22,REFEST Festival, CultureHub
9.23-25.22,JAM3A Festival, Arab American National Museum (AANM)

The layered ritual celebrated Abzohr with multilocation attemps for bending water with Saeid Shanbehzadeh.
tags:
darkplays, tribal rituals, remote embodiment


 THEY WILL CARRY US : FORGOTTEN NETWORKS : POETIC SOCIETIES
6.19.20, Downtown Variety, La Ma Ma
1.1-4.21, Radical Remedies, Detroit Narrative Agency, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

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The telepresence performance depicts Halima Afi Cassells’ journey through motherhood from home birth to Papai traveling seeds of the Mississippi River, over the waves of Rafael Leafar's saxophone. 

tags:
open journalism, telepresence rituals, radical care, healing justice, motherhood