Untitled by an Anonymous Artist (Sound Installation, 2009)

A six channel (and two headphone) sound installation soliciting the passive interaction of the listener/viewer. The listener/viewer can sit on one of the two chairs against the gallery wall, facing the rest of the space, and thus contemplating and viewing the other pieces, the white box, or the four walls of the (empty) gallery, while hearing a soundscape comprised of field recordings in various cities, speeches by an innovative presidential candidate, the reading of an excerpt Jacques Rancière's writing of the emancipated spectator, and the reading of various testimonies of political prisoners and torture victims from Iran's past.

 

Whitney Museum of American Art
Independent Study Program

Exhibited at

ART IN GENERAL
New York, NY

 

 

 

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Tehran Portraits (Video Installation, 2007)

TEHRAN PORTRAITS is an experimental diary; a contemplation on the details of a city of 14 million people. Despite the image of a country in turmoil, nothing “special” happens in the everyday life of this city. With video images shot with a small camera and music composed from ambient sounds recorded in the city, these short portraits take a brief instant to observe…

Exhibited at

Rencontres Paris-Berlin 2007

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TRANSFORM/NATION: CONTEMPORARY ART OF IRAN AND ITS DIASPORA
Ellipse Art Gallery, Washington DC
Nikzad Gallery, Tehran
2007