Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations 2023 Presentation — What to do with this politicised body? And with all these bodies on the street? by Tara Fatehi

Synopsis

In this lecture performance, Tara talks, walks, dances, and sings through some of her recent performance projects, asking: what does it mean to mishandle an archive, to repeat an action for 365 days, to dance a not-dance, to poesy a non-poem, to find a home in homelessness, to live with uncertainty and trust disjunction, to question, to question the question. 

About Tara Fatehi

A performance maker, multidisciplinary artist, writer and performer, Tara’s works engage with ambiguity, playfulness, mistranslation, disjunction, and unfinishedness. She has performed at the Royal Academy of Arts, Nuffield Theatre, Nottdance, Chapter, Julidans, and Montpellier Danse, among others. Focusing on the interrelations of archives and performance, she has created the project and book “Mishandled Archive”, dispersing 365 fragments of family documents through performance and photography. She was the first ever resident artist at United Nations Archives in Geneva (2021). With Pouya Ehsaei, she holds the regular experimental music and poetry night “From the Lips to the Moon” in London.

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