Paria Mohajerani - Blurring the Boundaries: Stories on a Revolution
What if we dream about the past and not the future?
Paria Mohajerani's performance installationBlurring the Boundaries: Stories on a Revolution is made up of fragments of real stories that unfold as the performance progresses. The fragments are part of artist Paria Mohajeran's personal story recalling her participation in the "Woman, Life, Freedom" revolution in Iran in 2022.
What if we could recreate the past?
Step into a labyrinth with transparent walls. Each participants will have their individual journey, while being aware that they are experiencing the performance together with others. You are free to choose which pathway you want to take, and the narrative will be different based on your decisions. In the labyrinth corridors you will encounter materials such as videos being projected on small screens, audio through headphones, images, and handwritten letters.
Blurring the Boundaries: Stories on a Revolution explores what it means to be an activist and how to participate as an individual within a collective. Where do the boundaries between collective action or individual decisions begin to blur? The performance fictionalises and creates alternative realities by asking "what if..."
Blurring the Boundaries: Stories on a Revolution is the artistic thesis of Paria Mohajerani, (Live Art and Performance Studies)
Video design by Homa Shokri (visitor)
Sound design by Logane Rime (visitor)
The work is a collaboration with the Master Programme in Live Art and Performance Studies (LAPS), Mad House Helsinki and Vapaan Taiteen Tila.
Paria Mohajerani is a performance artist based in Helsinki and originally from Iran. She has a background as an actor and director of stage performances, experimental, site-specific and online performances. Working on questions of audience responsibility and ethics in performance led her to question how to engage the audience to redefine power structures in performance art and events.
Paria Mohajeran's performance art is situated between the aesthetics of expose and installation that in turn forms a performance. She also works with concepts of alternative ways of storytelling, navigating historical gaps and challenging of memory. The portfolio spans across political, immersive, documentary and site-specific performances often intertwining with video installations and multimedia arts.
Photo by Paria Mohajerani
SCHEDULE
Thursday 3.4. at 18.00
Thursday 3.4. at 20.00
Friday 4.4. at 18.00
Friday 4.4. at 20.00
Saturday 5.4. at 18.00
Saturday 5.4. at 20.00
Admission to the work is free. Please reserve your place in advance via the links above.
TIME
1h