SHOW:  JOURNAL  CURATORIAL

POETIC SOCIETIES: REMOooOTE : DETROIT-PALESTINE
9.23-25.21,JAM3A Music Festival
->video poem
The telepresence program aligned visceral sensations of belonging to water and land in Arabic, English, Farsi, and Anishinaabemowin with Dawn Ceballos, Checkpoint303, Will See (Owólabi Aboyade), Mary Hazboun, Sacramento Knoxx, Mohanad Samama, Saeid Shanbehzadeh, and Samaa Wakeem.


tags:
multilocation performance, space-specific, transcultural belonging, non-verbal vocalization, Body without organs, sensual digital, camera bodies


POETIC SOCIETIES
2017-Present,Submerge
->website
->vimeo
The video welcomes the audience to REMOooOTE program of Poetic Societies, a transmedia liberatory lab for poetic technologies and healing legislations that alleviates somatic, sonic, and scenic pressures, experimenting with body-conscious modes of expression and governance.
tags:
institutional critique, poetic governance, remote residencies, slow zones, ancestral bodies


THE BACK ROOM
2011-2014

->CTM Festival 2021
The performative presentation narrates the story of The Back Room curatorial and educational project and its incarnations for critical multilocation dialogue and composition of virtual poetics with artists,  writers, and organizers in Iran and the US. 
tags:
multilocation workshops, telepresence performance art, real-time interpretation,  participatory projects, public art