Event overview
Performance Research Forum (PRF) hosts another excellent line-up of talks and events. These free events will take place on Zoom, and can be booked through Eventbrite.
In 2021, Tara Fatehi Irani was the first ever resident artist at the United Nations Archives at Geneva: researching, thinking and making at the archives, specifically looking at the documents and photographs related to Palestine – letters, memoranda, reports, petitions, requests and demands from the time of the British Mandate for Palestine and photographs of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation (several men looking through binoculars, pointing at maps, holding microphones) various committees discussing Palestine (people sitting behind desks), cityscapes, a girls school in Gaza (girls pointing at blackboards signalling that they know the solution to the problem), a clinic, and destroyed buildings – thinking of ways documents and sites can be embodied, and the experience of sitting with these at times deeply disturbing documents and photographs can be shared through the body, not as text-based research but as a mode of being, moving, and speaking up without words.
Tara Fatehi Irani is an artist, performer and writer. Made in Iran, based in London. Using performance, text, video, movement, voice and mediums-in-between, Tara’s work forefronts mistranslation, ambiguity, disjunction, playfulness and unfinishedness. Tara has performed at the Royal Academy of Arts, United Nations Office at Geneva, SPILL Festival, Battersea Arts Centre, Nuffield Theatre, RichMix, Chapter and Molavi Theatre as well as in houses, museums, galleries, parks, streets, a gym, a police station, journals and books. Tara’s doctoral thesis (University of Roehampton, LADA, 2019) explores mishandling archives as a way of taking care of and engaging with archives. Mishandled Archive, Tara’s yearlong daily series of 365 performances, is published as a book by LADA (2020) and tours as an immersive performance.
Dates & times
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| 25 Jan 2022 | 6:15pm - 7:30pm |
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