EXCUSES, A Group Effort at Villa Kuriosum Berlin

EXCUSES | Poster designed by Amirali Ghasemi / Parkingallery Studio

group exhibition and working residency
Video program and cooking nights and a mini market ..,

Excuses: A group effort
curated by Amirali Ghasemi / Parkingallery Projects – Tehran
Hamed Rashtian, Nastarn Safaei, Maede Jenab, Amirali Navaee, Saba
Moghadami, Amirali Ghasemi, Maryam Oskouei, Roham Fayazi,
Aliyar Rasti, Arash Fesharaki, Tara Ahmadi,  Martin Shamoonpour, Ramin Rahimi
and …

Exhibition, animation, sculpture, wall paintings, music, food, films and drinks!!

we are open to collaborations with artist at villa and from berlin
We will use old materials and found objects. …

 

Program:
Thursday
4th of July : Opening Studio/Exhibition/Performance

6pm Kirschenpflücken!
6pm Studio/Exhibition/Performance
Food, drinks and music
DU KANNST MICH SEHEN Performance by Saba Moghadami
22Uhr after Fusion Cabaret Hangar show!!!

Saturday
6th of July at 8pm: Wedding Party – Amirali and Maryam + food | Guests + music

Iranische Hochzeitsparty mit ceremony und Party!

Sunday 7th of July  | SCHIRINKARI | Sweet tricks | video program + sweets / cakes

from 2 pm Kaffee und kuchen | Ausstellung und Performances

Tuesday 9th of July : Artist talk / Presentation of works

Artist Talk presentation from Tehran: Hamed Rashtian, Nastaran Safaie, Saba Moghadami, Maede Janab, Amirali Ghasemi and  … will talk and show their works in an informal setting on Tuesday 9th of July 7pm Join us and we talk about their work and past activities and their plans for future

Thursday 11th of July: Finissage / Cabaret

Closing of the show and knuckle up TV


‘THE FOLD’ at CAB Contemporary Art, Brussels

 ‘THE FOLD’
ABSENCE, DISAPPEARANCE AND LOSS OF MEMORY IN WORKS OF 12 IRANIAN ARTISTS

AHMAD AALI, REZA ABDOH, CHOHREH FEYZDJOU, PARASTOU FOROUHAR, BARBAD GOLSHIRI, ARASH HANAEI, BAKTASH  SARANG JAVANBAKHT, MANI MANZINANI, SHIRIN SABAHI, MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN, KAMRAN SHIRDEL, HOMAYOUN SIRIZI.

Al Shaab Yourid …* / Barbad Golshiri / 2011-12
Pigment inkjet on canvas, correction pen on paper, book
Each canvas approx. 170 x 115 cm

The CAB is delighted to announce its new exhibition, ‘The Fold’, curated by Michel Dewilde and Azar Mahmoudian, which explores motifs such as absence, disappearance, amnesia and the importance of memory set against the background of modern and contemporary Iran.
Inspired by the French Philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s work ‘Le Pli’ (1988), the curators choose the fold as the leitmotif for the exhibition. The exhibition makes use of the concept of the fold in a variety of modalities including the psychological, historical and political levels.
The fold simultaneously combines the idea of an action as well as a covering. It can be opened or closed: it unfolds itself to the world or can fold up into itself. The fold can also imply the passing of time – it can suggest memory or the loss of it – the interval where time is suspended, while its cracks or fissures refer to the unseen dimensions. The term can open up a different understanding of one’s relationship to oneself, a world where the internal and external or past and present cannot be easily located.
The exhibition ‘The Fold’, favours an intergenerational approach, confronting different aesthetic positions, spanning four decades of art in Iran. Beginning in the 1960’s modernist era, the show combines internationally renowned artists such as Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian who started her career at a time of an imposed modernism, with others who were living abroad or in exile and emerged in the 80s and early 90s such as Chohreh Feyzdjou and Reza Abdoh.  These artists are put together with exponents of the most recent generations such as Shirin Sabahi or Mani Manzinani. The exhibition combines existing art works with site-specific creations by Parastou Forouhar, Homayoun Sirizi and Arash Hanaei.

Arash Hanaei / Behesht-e Zahra (From the Capital Series) / 2013
Diasec print, 250 x 88 x 3,3 cm, Edition of 3 (+2 ap)

Michel Dewilde is a curator and art historian based in Ghent (B).
He curated exhibitions for the MSK & SMAK museums (Ghent), the Art foundation Gynaika (Antwerp), the CC Bruges and worked freelance. Since 1996 he has initiated several projects with Iranian artists such as: Chohreh Feyzdjou, Shadi Ghadirian, BitaFayyazi, Neda Razavipour, SiminKeramati, Khosrow Hassanzadeh, Shirin Sabahi, Sona Safaei, Baktash Sarang Javanbakht, etc.

Azar Mahmoudian is a freelance art critic and curator based in Tehran and London. She was the recipient of the Chevening scholarship and graduated with an M.A. from Goldsmiths in 2009. Her research interests are mainly focused on transcultural circulations and the politics of display. In 2010 she co-curated the archive and documentary series portion of “Iran and co” at Burges, Belgium, which engaged with international representations of Iranian contemporary art. She has collaborated with Tehran based project spaces and works as a researcher, associate editor and university lecturer.

CAB Contemporary Art
www.cab.be
Rue Borrens 32-34  – 1050 Brussels

19 April – 15 June 2013

Opening : Thursday 18.04.2013, 6 – 10pm
Exhibition : 19.04.2013 – 15.06.2013
Open: Thursday, Friday and Saturday : 2 – 6pm
Information : For more information please contact Eleonore de Sadeleer
eleonore.desadeleer@cab.be
+32 477 88 39 46

Déjà Vu at Aun Gallery – Tehran

Group video Installation
Deja Vu – Group Video Installation – Poster Designed by Borna Ahmadi & Amirali Ghasemi

Déjà Vu is a group video installation show curated by Golzar Hassanzadeh for Aun Gallery. Participant Artists are Golzar Hassanzadeh, Abbas Kiarostami, Abtin Mozaffari,  Hessam Nourani, Shadi Noyani,  Hamed Safaee and Parham Taghioff, The show puts together various image makers/artists together around the theme in an unusual setting designed by Borna Amadi and Amirali Ghasemi.

Déjà Vu will be open this Friday March 8th, 2013 from 4 to 8 pm and will continue till March 13th.

Aun Gallery
40 Seoul Avenue, Vanak , Tehran – 19958, IRAN
Website: www.aungallery.com
Telephone:+98 21 88603050

One: The Forms, Two: The Plural Tense


One: The Forms, Two: The Plural Tense

One: The Forms, Two: The Plural Tense, is a combination of art works which look into contemporary forms of relating, theoretical trauma, part/whole relationships, change in time and duration. These notions will be explored through number of videos installations and physical art objects. There will be two bodies of artworks consisting of different parts that constantly refer to each other and the entirety. Lanie Chalmers attempts to analyze the shaping of unstable identities and Sona Safaei studies the relationship between parts of an incomplete whole questioning how existing parts are related to each other.

Lanie Chalmers & Sona Safaei
Opening: [March 8, 2013] 7 pm- 10 pm
Exhibition dates: [March 7 – 17, 2013]
Hours of Operation:
[Mon – Wed by appointment]
[Thurs – Sat 12-6pm]
[Sun 12-5pm]
NARWHAL Art Projects
2988 Dundas Street West
Toronto, Ontario M6P 1Z4
647.346.5317
Supported by OCAD University

Video-therapy, Session one: Recovery / one day screening at At Pratt, NYC

Video-therapy, Session one : RECOVERY - poster designed by Parkingallery studio
Programmed by Shahpour Pouyan (NYC) and Amirali Ghasemi (TEHRAN) from Parkingallery’s video archive “Video-therapy, Session one : Recovery” is an hour long video program which will be played in loop. The program features works by international artists living in Iran, United States, France, Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Malaysia and India .
Mehraneh Atashi | Ghazaleh Bahiraie | Amir Bastan | Friederike Berat | Golnaz Esmaili | Anahita Hekmat | Junichiro Ishii | Gelare Khoshgozaran | Shahrzad Malekian | Macklen Mayse | Golrokh Nafisi | Tara Najd Ahmadi | Dhanya Pilo | Bita Razavi and Jaakko Karhunen | Judith Shimer | Melanie Schlachter | Rambod Vala and Neda Razavipour
Time and Date: Nov 9th, 2012, 5-9 pm
Location: Stueben Gallery at Juliana Curran building,
Pratt Institute
200 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, 11205

My calm Town by Amirali Mohebbinejad


Amirali Mohebbinejad’s My Calm Town is a an experimental film realized in 2008.
It addresses a global issue, how the media can project certain images, distorting them to cast shadows of conflict, terror and the threat of war. Incidents which are subject to happen anywhere in world, whenever tensions are needed to arise. The moving images are appropriated from high definition footages from residential villas in an unknown city suburbs in Latin America,  shot by a cameraman which was sent there by the commission of an Iranian mega construction company. The brief was to shoot beautiful images which later can be shown to the engineers whom are being sent by the company, encouraging them to live and work in bilateral projects overseas. Mohebbinejad created a contradictory soundscape for these footages, while giving them a 8mm old movie look. Static and peaceful frames possibly shot from a tripod where actually not much happening in them.
He writes:

[this is about] Magnifying the contrast between real events and the deceiving, beautified and distorted output of reality, given by the media, by proposing contrast between sound and image.
This is about reproducing the reality and representing it as an original.
This is about not having trust on media.
This is to question the “Truth”.

Check more on Amirali Mohebbinejad here : ilarima.com/

INVISIBLE PRESENT at OSU, COLUMBUS

INVISIBLE PRESENT at OSU, COLUMBUS
Curator: Amirali Ghasemi
INVISIBLE-PRESENT | poster designed by Arash Khosronejad

Please join us on Monday, October 29th to watch  experimental video works from Iran. Invisible present is an ongoing curatorial project by Parkingallery Projects -Tehran, curated by Amirali Ghasemi. An evolving video program which transforms & manifest itself in various formats from screenings, collaborations, talks and installations wherever it roams. The invisible present tries to be a small introduction of a vibrant new wave in Iranian video art scene, and to highlight the use of various disciplines and different medias, from experimental films to animations and from performance to photography.

Artists included in Invisible Present, Columbus are Saba Alizadeh  | Golnaz Esmaili | Hadi Fallahpisheh | Omid Hashemi | Anahita Hekmat | Zeynab Izadyar | Allahyar Najafi | Shady Noyani | Amirali Mohebbinejad | Ali Momeni | Golrokh Nafisi | Tara Najd Ahmadi | Ramin Rahimi | Sona Safaei | Bahar Samadi | Zeinab Shahidi Marnani

The program has been shown in cultural Institutions and different cities in Brazil as a part of the exhibition Iranian Pulse and now is on tour in galleries & experimental spaces in North America. Invisible Present’s screening at Ohio State University is co- sponsored by Department of Art, Middle East Studies Department and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department.

Poster designed by Arash Khosronejad

Time: 6:45 pm – 8:15 pm
Location:

Hagerty Hall (Room 180)
Building 037
1775 College Rd
Columbus, OH 43210

THE INVISIBLE PRESENT + Special Musical Guest | San Francisco | Friday Oct 5th 2012

Poster designed by Parkingallery Studio

Free Form Film Festival presents:

THE INVISIBLE PRESENT – curated by Amirali Ghasemi – Parkingallery Projects, Tehran
with a special performance by musical guest, Cookie Tongue
Friday Oct. 5th, 2012 – 8 pm
$5 @ door
Artists’ Television Access
992 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 824-3890
The Invisible Present is an ongoing screening program selected from Parkingallery project’s video archive, The Tehran based video archive initiated since 2004 include emerging artists from Iran and elsewhere. 
 The series is conceptualized and curated by Amirali Ghasemi of Parkingallery in Tehran and it introduces the vibrant new wave video art scene in Iran. The San Francisco edition of the program highlights the use of various disciplines, such as narrative fiction, documentary, experimental, animation, performance and photography. The artists—most of who are younger than 35—work within Iran and across the globe. The Invisible Present sheds light on a generation that can not be plainly defined and is often harshly targeted internationally; a generation which seeks to be present and exercise their significant liberty to experiment, while being invisible to many.

The Invisible Present/San Francisco edition
Total Running time: Approximately 73 mins
Followed by Q&A with Curator
Continue reading THE INVISIBLE PRESENT + Special Musical Guest | San Francisco | Friday Oct 5th 2012

“John Cage is happening” 12 performances at East Art Gallery Tehran

John Cage is one of the most influential artists in various fields of arts in the twentieth and the present century. Who he was, what he has done and his place in art history is no secret to art lovers, although we should mention that the fifth of September 2012(14th Shahrivar 1391) is the centenary of his birthday and a good excuse for events all over the world taking place in his honour. It is also the reason for “John Cage is happening”. This project is based on a book called “Song Books” which was published in 1970.It is a collection of ninety instructions for music, performance, movement, etc. in three volumes. In this book, Cage experiments with various innovative ideas and different objects. The audience of these pieces is as active as the artist in the process of realisation of the artwork while experiencing transformation in the conventional definitions of the functions of everyday elements. At the same time, Cage creates a platform in which the artist is not the predominant creator and the determiner who is obeying ordinary rules but, with attention to the characteristics of the elements in hand, he establishes regulations for creating a specific structure in which the artistic happening occurs. “John Cage is happening” is a collection of 12 performances based on “Song books” created by 18 artists. Some of the performances are based on one piece, some are based on a few and some are inspired by John Cage’s general idea in this book.
Pouya Ehsaei & Amir Rad

Part of Me: mise en abyme, Cité international des Arts, Paris

Part of Me: mise en abyme, video program poster designed by Amirali Ghasemi/ parkingallery studio

Part of Me: mise en abyme, a video program in two parts curated by Amirali Ghasemi and Sandra Skurvida for the Iranian Arts Now festival and exhibition, June 23 – July 24, 2012

Cité international des Arts, Paris
Opening reception: Saturday June 23, 6 – 9 PM
Exhibition open 2 – 7 PM daily except Sundays and July 14th

More info about the Program www.otheris.com and the Festival www.iranianartsnow.com

Part of Me is performance, part of me is poetry, and part of me is pain, pain that may not have visible symptoms. My part here is to deliver nothing spectacular, but something delicate enough to be rendered in Turbulence mode we are in. There are things that cannot be said aloud — no manifesto can handle the light weight of the message — the message cannot be broadcast nor encoded to be safe; and sound is the void…. The part curated by Amirali Ghasemi includes works by
Mohammad Abbasi, Erfan Abdi, Makan Ashgvari, Ghazaleh Bahiraie, Amir Bastan, Pouya Ehsaei, Golnaz Esmaili, Bahar Fattahi, Arvin H. Kamal, Tala Madani, Mahan Moalemi, Amirali Mohebbinejad, Photomat, Bita Razavi & Jaakko Karhunen, Sona Safaei, Mohsen Saghafi, Ali Samadpour, Mamali Shafahi, Melika Shafahi, Melodie Zad, Zoha Zokaei, and Niloufar Zolfaghari.

Mise en abyme is a stand-in for the void, a figure opening the subjective fissures of national states, and performatively destabilizing positions of power — the “I”s are focused on the potentialities of arousals and upheavals. The program curated by Sandra Skurvida features works conditioned by the aporias of recent social, political, and ideological insurrections around the world and with reflection on Iran:

Morehshin Allahyari, Mehraneh Atashi, Maneli Aygani, Bahar Behbahani, Negar Behbahani, caraballo-farman, Samira Eskandarfar, Nooshin Farhid, Barbad Golshiri, Anahita Hekmat, Zeynab Izadyar, Nosrat Nosratian, Amitis Motevalli, Neda Razavipour, Hamed Sahihi, Bahar Samadi, Farkhondeh Shahroudi, Negar Tahsili, and Kianoosh Vahabi. 

But not all parts are those of art. As Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri suggested in their recent Declaration, engaged practice “allows us to turn our attention away from the video screens and break the spell the media hold over us. It supports us to get out from under the yoke of the security regime and become invisible to the regime’s all-seeing eye. It also demystifies the structures of representation that cripple our powers of political action.”

Independent art space for new media | Tehran | Iran