untiteld (do not give your opinion)

untiteld (do not give your opinion)
an installation by nazgol ansarinia
30 Dec 2006- 11 Jan 2007(8-21 Day 1385)
13 vanak street, tehran
opening friday 29th Dec from 3-7 pm
Saturday-thursday 4-6 pm

To see Nazgol's page on parkingallery click here

[THE DARK ROOM] Digital photos by Pezhman Fizoozmand

[THE DARK ROOM]an exhibition of Digital photos by Pezhman Fizoozmand at cafe aks
Dec 9-23, 2006
Eskan shopping center, Mirdamad Blvd,Tehran.

I don't know what else to do with myself!*

I don't know what else to do with myself!*
9. December. 2006
Saturday / AK28
Krukmakargatan 28, Stockholm


Program
Video Screening 20:00
Artist Talk: 21:00
After Party: 22:00

artists: david blandy (uk), selim birsel (Belgium), amirali ghasemi
(tehran), unni gjertsen (norway), tsui kuang-yu (taiwan), adnan yildiz
(turkey)

curated by esther lu and adnan yildiz

Esther Lu and Adnan Yildiz invite us to a discussion around the
role-position of artist today in reference to the changing structures
of contemporary art. Today, artists are traveling a lot due to
residencies, biennials, grandiose exhibitions and etc. And they do not
like to be involved into these processes as "tourists" but they are
also somehow tourists in this game… In relation to their research in
Stockholm, Yildiz and Lu select inspirational videos in order to
trigger a discussion around how artist
deconstruct-fictionalize-establish-reproduce him/herself in/through
their works in this given traveling context. The curators introduce
the concept of 'universal traveler' and contextualize the issue around
the hot topics like ''new-internationalism", "mobile identities", "art
market-ing" and "globalization-alism".

AK28 is the venue of this show for its identity as being an artist-run space.
Supported by Cultural Division, Taipei Mission in Sweden

• a title of a song by white stripes is transformed.
• video screening is also the premiere of S.G.F.S. (survival guide for
stockholm), a research based curatorial project by Adnan Yildiz

Conscious in Coma

Conscious in Coma is an art project initiated by NOMAD in collaboration with Goethe Institut, Istanbul and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center. The project is designed to be a long-term networking and archiving project. The name of the project indicates a simple and direct reference to the current unbalanced and devastated state of the globe accompanied by the collective silence and blindness. The project intends to collect, disseminate, and discuss the perspectives and realities of diverse positions in multiple formats. In this respect, the primary focus of the project is to trace, detect and comprehend art and cultural productions which render different cases, approaches and realities with multifaceted cultural, political and social situations.

Conscious in Coma is designed to be a collaborative process of nine curators: Elena Veljanovska (Macedonia), Stefan Rusu (Moldavia), Nat Muller (The Netherlands), Vera-Maria Glahn (Germany), Basak Senova (Turkey), Jack Persekian (Palestine), Clare Davies (Egypt), Christine Tohme (Lebanon), and Amirali Ghassemi (Iran).


LOST IN NO SPACE
curated by Amirali Ghassemi (IR)
Behrang Samadzadegan, Behnam Kamrani, Amirali Mohebbinejad, Negar Tahsili, Raha Faridi, Mohammad Reza Heydari, Ehsan Behmanesh, and Azin Feizabadi.

Video as a medium has been recognized as both an elevator and an escape route for the new generation of Iranian artists since the beginning. As they started their anxious, immature experiments; video became a popular medium although the lack of education and the big cultural gap beside the availability, transferability and ease of use made this journey quiet fragile, expect the few “successful” established artists who emphasize on the exotic face of their country of origin made them able to jump on the “train”, the rest are producing boring materials for the weak small scaled but good looking elitist! Art scene. But on the other hand there are others who are not well known, not board On the train, not famous but still eager to make a kind of art which is not only for export , not aimed at the cul-de-sac of Euro-American market. Most of these videos are chosen from parkingallery archive with no specific point of view or resemblance but the fact of being unseen and interesting.

For more details please check this page

Amirali's video diaries

you can chick here for more info

PHOTO EXHIBITION OF A PRECONCEIVED WAR

PHOTO EXHIBITION OF A PRECONCEIVED WAR
by Homayoun Askari Sirizi
October 13-19, 2006|5:00-7:00 P.M.
Location: 13, Vanak St. , Tehran , Iran
don't miss it!

Poster designed by Behrad Javanbakht

Sound installition exhbition in azad art gallery

Sound installation
by Mohamad Javad Safari & Kaveh Kateb
Sep 1-6,2006 - 4-8 pm
Azad art gallery
No 41, salmas sq, Golha sq, Tehran