“Forgotten Networks” 2018-Present
FORGOTTEN NETWORKS is a transcultural Remedial TV and Record Label for Connecting Oppressed Bodies across the Globe (English/Persian). Defined as a transmedia participatory healing space for sharing liberating tactics and cultivating transnational celebratory memories of togetherness, "Forgotten Networks" provides educational, curatorial, artistic, therapeutic, and entertaining content to resist the exploitation of human bodies. Produced by POETIC SOCIETIES Transmedia Poetry and Healing Technologies Network in Detroit.
Poetic Societies, 2017-Present
POETIC SOCIETIES is a 501(C)(3) Transmedia Poetry & Healing Technologies Network for the Somatic, Sonic, and Scenic Liberation of the Oppressed Bodies. We receive poetry as a migrational art that travels chest to chest and heart to heart, carrying the history of the people and handing over immortal acts of social justice across temporal and spatial zones. We work with poetry in all forms for the ancestral and digital healing of self, land, and senses of belonging against the normalization of violence.
“Subway” 2011-Present
Subway is a Global Movement Campaign with a mobile application for creating continuous public acts by public bodies across cultural zones. Anonymous participants use Subway App for choreographing and sharing liberating acts of public movement. The first iteration of Subway was a collaboration with Andrew Quitmeyer, Michael Nitsche, and the members Digital World and Image Group of the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2011. Since then, Subway has been tested and presented at different spaces including Eyebeam (NY), Sazmanab (Tehran), ArtsIT2013 (Milan), and Artaud Forum (London), CultureHub (NY), Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge), and Riverside Art Center (Ypsilanti).“Conducting Studies” 2014-Present
“Conducting Studies” is an ongoing exploration of musical embodiment, a translation of the physical performance of an orchestra conductor to digital and robotic drawings representing the conductor's movements, as captured through the motion of the conductor's baton. Each individual piece represents a complete loop from the music score on paper to its embodiment by the conductor’s body and back again to screen and paper. “Conducting Studies” has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Santa Barbara, International Symposium on Electronic Arts (Dubai), and New Interfaces for Musical Expression (Baton Rouge).
“Writing SWANA Womxn into History (WSWANAW)” 2015
WSWANAW is a global community initiative for registering the legacies of SWANA Womxn cultural organizers into Wikipedia through telepresence real-time collective editing. The project come to life in collaboration with Art+Feminism.
“OshinAva: My Marriage in...” 2012
“OshinAva: My Marriage in Japanese” is a subversive performance situated in the Japanese reality TV show “Shittoko you should know!“ that was broadcasted live by MBC Japan in 2012. “OshinAva...” is a commentary on the portrayal of womxn in the national TVs of Iran and Japan, a memorial for Ava’s 20s, and a tribute to “Oshin,” the hero of the Japanese soap-opera “Years Away from Home” that was broadcasted in Iran in the 80s. “Oshin” was widely celebrated in Iran as a hardworking obedient wife. In Japan, TV judges tasted foods made based on Ava’s recipes for the reality TV Show and commented on her cooking skills. “OshinAva...” comments on the occupancy and regulation of content and command through the control of public TV. “The Back Room” 2010-14
“The Back Room” was a pedagogical and curatorial project that used telepresence technologies for connecting artists, curators, and writers in Iran and the US. Established in collaboration with Molly Kleiman, the project used telepresence spaces as a medium for direct conversations and material for artistic productions between the two countries.