Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations 2023 Presentation — Performing freedom: when WOMEN’S attitudes become form by Helia Hamedani

Synopsis

A marginalised body is not just an individual body as it can become the witness to make visible connections/intersections between all historical and systematic discriminations. This piece is about women in different stories that intertwine. This story is about re-invention of creative strategies, it’s about voices, silences, images, dreams, gestures, fires and actions towards life, love and nonviolent support. It’s about collective mourning, It’s about joyful militancy. It’s also about us, here and now, everywhere and every day, hand in hand cuddled in the sisterhood circle; dancing and singing: woman, life, freedom.

About Helia Hamedani

An independent curator and writer, Helia is particularly interested in the intercultural field and collaborates with non-profit cultural associations. She has co-curated projects for inclusion and education through art for disadvantaged public schools in Rome. She is a PhD student of Art History at the Sapienza University of Rome and has held courses of contemporary art history in Tehran. Her doctoral research of the studies and visions of Ruyin Pakbaz, intends to shed light on the internationally overlooked research and accounts about the state of Iranian historiography of art. Hamedani writes for magazines on contemporary visual arts in Iran and abroad.