Welcome to Performance LAB XV
"This is an invitation for solidarity and peace through life experiences, dreams, and wishes. I will show 100 pieces of memorable objects from my homeland with their stories. Are you interested to exchange one of yours (with its history)? This tale is exhibited around the world and I do the same in each country. This process may continue to infinity and perhaps one day after a long journey, your traveler's memory will come back to you with a new life experience, like a black box full of human sounds, images, and memories. Imagine that the memories, dreams, and regrets of people will traverse the borders and start a new life far from their homes to make a new history of the people that matter to the deep feelings of mankind."
– Maryam Kouhestani
Maryam Kouhestani's performance will be followed by the 'LAB - a working space open to the public for experimentation, ideation, discussion, and feedback'. Performers will present short work-in-progress ideas and concepts to co-develop and concretise them through audience participation and feedback.
Maryam Kouhestani (b.1982) in Zahedan, Iran. She has been teaching in Tehran and Esfahan Art Universities of Iran since 2011, and Afghanistan in 2015. She has held 11 solo exhibitions in Tehran and Paris and group exhibitions in Washington, Homburg, and Koln. She is the Head of Administration and Curator of the first Contemporary Art Exhibition of Afghanistan in Iran 'Nimrouz' (est. 2017). Maryam is the founder of the First Pottery Entrepreneurship Center for Destitute and Unprotected Girls in Tehran.
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The Performance will be followed by the LAB: a working space open to the public for experimentation, ideation, discussion, and feedback. Performers will present short work-in-progress ideas and concepts and hope to co-develop and concretize them through audience participation and feedback.
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’Performance LAB’ is a part of the Museum of Impossible Forms and is a platform for Experimental Performance and performative practices. The Performance LAB continues its second year under the theme of ‘Bodies‘, and is currently curated by Vishnu Vardhani Rajan.
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