Iran

Power & Gender Performance Lab in Iran

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Power and Gender Performance lab in Iran

Details

Concept: ‘Power and Gender’ performance lab in Iran
Format: 5 days labratory, one presentation.
Laboratory format: Sharing and learning from each other’s idea and practice in relation to the concept. Working toward a collective piece for a presentation in the end of the laboratory.
When: End of July, beginning of August.
Where: Bon-Gah No.7, Zanbagh St., Keresht, Tehran-Pardis Hwy.
For Whom: For invited performance artists only.

Documentation

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Concept: ‘Power and Gender’ Performance

Proposal for a performative lab about ‘Power and Gender’: Practices and trainings to counter repression and oppression.
Understanding the oppressors subjectivity and physicality: How does authority create subjectivities and physical practices to exercise their power? How do they personify and become the agent of state power in the moments of giving commands and choreographing civilians, consequenting in fines, arrestments and deaths?
The exercises are performed in a studio so as to study and scrutinize how these operations are created.

Understanding few tools of oppressive practices:

During the lab we like to focus on the issue of gender in power relations: For this project the counter-training will focus on structuring / inventing gender through social performances of bio-power in public and private spaces that perpetuate the male / female binarity. Harassment, for example, more than a violent expression of desire, is in fact a social message given by patriarchy that presents a dangerous world for women who are then persuaded to remain in the very condition of domination to survive, respecting by fear gender hierarchy and never challenging those who speak for them and who directly influence their choices. The technologies analyzed here will be silencing policy and sexual harassment that operate so that women and members of LGBTQI community can’t denounce their harassers and are always in doubt about the legitimacy of their suffering since gender violence is socially normalized in the most part of the world.

Definition of what is a lab:

it is not a space for vertical learning
it is not a space of hierarchic knowledge production
it does not aim at an end product
it is a space where we study together
it is a time where we share with each other what we found
it is where we play
it is in nature entangled and messy
it has no beginning and no end

Participants:

Laboratory by: Kaloyá, Raoni Shokh and Ehsan Fardjadniya

Performers: …