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When she lived in her homeland, her culture was a very connected and meaningful part of her life. She is leaving the country, but she still wants to claim its culture and have the power to recognize who she is. She recognizes her nationality, but when looking back at her homeland, she feels it is difficult to interact with her once vibrant culture in the same way. She feels unbalanced as she is now sunned and overlooked by the former country that brought her this rich culture.

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Shirin Neshat uses her artistic abilities and an outlet to confront the was the US impacted the corrupt Iranian government as well as to spread her culture to the west. Although she is against many Iranian boundaries, she embraces her culture and claims her historicity as an Iranian woman. Because of this, she takes it in her hands to fight back against the oppression and censorship that many others in her country face, specifically women. She fights against the bindings set by her culture that hold her back while still displaying a connection with her identity, to herself and viewers of her work.

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In Shirin Neshat's podcast, she makes the assertion that she wants to participate in her home culture, but the borders, figuratively, closed to her due to the politics and legislation stemming from the Iranian Revolution. She also makes the assertion that there is a cultural disconnect between Iran and the West. She says this as people don't know the true meaning of her work as they don't understand the cultural implications.

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Shirin Neshat makes assertions to the borders and boundaries regarding the treatment and rights of women in her culture. She critiques Iranian culture and government when she reflects on it.

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The assertions that Shirin Neshat expressed in her TED TALK was that even though she is an Iranian woman residing in Iraq, she wants to be active in her country and community yet she is still bound by politics and legislation that censors her. The government in Iran is corrupt and involves crime to stay in power. Women are suppressed and viewed as inferior submissible people. She goes about claiming her own historicity by taking on her social responsibility to empower women and spark change to a more progressive standpoint. She takes an artistic approach through film making and adapting to spread her message to the people. She attempts to vocalize her opinion through art and showcasing resistance. Not only did Neshat empower herself, but she also managed to spark change with the Green Movement to mobilize others. Taking on both a political and feminine stance, empowering women and wanting change, democracy, and improvement on human rights.

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Shirin Neshat claims that she is both trying to express the Iranian culture to the western world, and confront the Iranian government’s actions, specifically those towards women and women’s rights. She says that she found Iran unrecognizable when she had returned after the Islamic Revolution and found herself becoming more critical of it as she learned more about its affects on Iranian women.

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In the ted talk, Neshat talks about her exile from the country of iran. She states that depsite others beliefs, politics does play an importance in Iran. This is conveyed through the highlighting of issues occuring in the country. Though she is exiled and therefore detached from the country, she still feels the need to fight for a change. This want for change and defiance against country is seen through her art as it inspires for the need to change. Her art also highlights the manny issues occuring within the country, destabilizing the standard narrative of Irans history.

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Her culture was a very connected and large part of her life when she lived in her country. She leaves the country but is still wanting to assert that culture and have that power of knowing who she is. She understands her identity, but when looking back at her country she feels it hard to connect in the same way to her culture that was once lively. She feels unbalanced as the once country who gave her this rich culture has now sunned and forgot about her.

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The assertions that Neshat makes regarding the borders and boundaries of her culture are that there is a boundary between Western culture and her own, as well as the boundary between culture and politics. In claiming her own historicity, she goes back on how historically that women reflect the current culture of Iran. In that context, she describes that Iranian women weren't always repressed as they are today, but that Iran had its own democracy before the US and Britain intervene for their own interests.

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Shirin Neshat asserts that even though she's far away from her country and restricted from it because of what she does from a living, she still embraces her country's culture through paintings, and directing movies that incorporate the events that occurred and happening in Iran. The speaker's film portrays how the United States government affected the Iranian government and ultimately lead it into a terrible path by not having democracy present. This affected women by not having basic rights that everybody should have, also the use of women in the Iranian revolution showed violence which is something the speaker wants to be abolished in her country.

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Even though she has been restricted form being within her home country she still accepts and embraces that very culture. She claims her own historicity through her gaining of a sense of power and identity through her acceptance of who she is and of what culture .She even comes to identify as a leading voice for Iran through her art and their representation throughout the world

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Neshat makes assertions to do with the treatment of women in her country and the transfer of this knowledge to the West. She uses her artworks to advance the conversation about the role of women and, in her TED talk, she spoke about the effect of this on the movement.

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Assertions that Shirin Neshat said was her exile her coming to the west and retiring to Iran. When she came west and show how Iran looked she was devastated and wished for a better future. She talks about the history of Iran and how in the current state that Iran is in she is fighting two battles because she is an Iranian women. She mentions going back to Iran after 12 years of exile and when she does return she is looking at a whole new Iran. A lot of the pictures portrayed in her Ted talk were of women in the military for Iran. With the tone of voice we can infer that she was concerned and very shocked at this place she once called home. Her purpose of her art is to portray Iranian society and also bring the light the actions of the Iranian government. Even though she was in exile she still wants to show her roots and where she is form even though it seems she is in disbelief of the Iranian government

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The assertions she makes are that borders and boundaries of her country and culture had given people only a glimpse as to what her culture is. She explains people are suffering in Iran and even though she was exiled, she still wants to be a part of that culture and wants to fight for it and understand the actions of the people in Iran as well. She creates art to depict the circumstances in Iran while sharing her feelings and how these situations have altered her own identity.

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She describes a situation where she is not able to directly interact with her culture as she is exiled, yet she is still able to assert that she has a connection to her culture despite being on opposite sides of a border. She is able to understand and explain what is going on in the country while she was not there, which shows that despite spiritually or in this case physically being separated, culture and need can not be stopped.

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Shirin Neshat approaches the history of Iran prior to the Islamic Revolution and after the revolution without boundaries in her art. She sees art as her form of resistance against the current Iranian government, and wants her pieces to remind Iranians and the rest of society (particularly the West) about how they struggled for democracy and human rights.

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The assertions that Shirin Neshat makes are that her culture is separated from other cultures in the west and even though she is exiled, she still wants to show the importance of representing her culture and her country. She also asserts the difference between the boundaries pre and post-revolution. She claims her own historicity by taking responsibility to uplift women in her country and around the world. She does this through her use of art. At the same time she destabilizes the standard narratives of Iran's history by showing events through her art.

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Shirin Neshat makes the assertion that although she has been exiled, she carries a duty to her people to share and revitalize her culture through art. The culture prior to the Islamic take over in Iran. Although she notes that after her exile, in returning to her country she felt disconnected, highlighting what borders / boundaries could do. She wants to make clear to the world that prior to the current Islamic culture, Iran had a culture that is not like what it is today. A culture which strived for democracy and equality. Contrary to the beliefs that the West have of the Iranian people.

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Some boundaries are that those who have been separated from the change in culture and have remained tied to the Persian culture before 1979 experience a culture shock.

She claims her own historocity by creating her artworks while being in exile from Iran while also developing her artworks to be more political against the ideas of the Iranian governemnt.

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The assertons Shirin Neshat makes regarding the boders and boundaries of her culture is that the revolution that took place in Iran seperated the previous culture from the new culture. This caused her to become an artist in exile. She tells us about Iran's culture previously compared to the culture after the revolution. She also outlines the importance of her film and how it provided as an inspiration for the new movement. This, as a result, destabilizes the standard narratives Iran makes about it's history.

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The assertion that Shirin Neshat is making is how the borders and boundaries of Iran changed before and after the Islamic revolution. She asserts that Iran has become more ideological in nature. She claims her own historicity through art as she and other Iranian artists use art as both creating art and making a political statement to criticize their government while celebratingthe good aspects of Iran. Neshat also tackles the way women look and act, both after and prior to the Islamic revolution which Neshat points out how the lives of women give perfect insight into the political climate of Iran. Neshat also tackles the role that foreign countries played in Iran such as the CIA kicking out the democratically elected leader of Iran which shows Neshat along with other Iranian artists are critical of the western world.

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She states that the culture of Iran is misrepresented I the west and how the country's own doings led to the feminist movement and made it an art. She made these claims about her borders while she was exiled.

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She asserts that the borders are caused by Iranian politics being inescapable while creating art and that she faces exile for using culture as a subject. She also faces the issue of being an outsider to the ideological state that Iran has become. Despite this, she challenges the western perception of culture being merely a form of entertainment by proving through her art, the ideas of feminism are changing.

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Although exiled, Neshat claims her own historicity by making her art a representation of her Iranian culture and nomadically traveling around the world to share her feelings about her culture and how it relates to her identity.

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Shirin explored the ideas of borders and boundaries in her reexploration of culture and quotidian life in Iran, namely the change of a Persian to secular Islamic government. She characterizes thus change by using her art as amedium to bridge the gap between the restrictions or borders placed by the Iranian government. The claims she makes are initially hindered by her disconnect from the culture and she is unavle to be critical, however, the explorsrion is changed when she understands the importance of women in the characterization of change.

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She depicts it as being a two pronged attack. One front addresses the  injustices in her country and the revitalized feminist movement, while the second front serves to inform westerners and share  theses issues with the world exposing the country that shunned her.

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The assertions that she made regarding the borders and boundaries of her culture relate to women and how she portrays the Iranian culture through women. She was in exile and only returned after 12 long years. She felt left out and wanted to be let in. She wanted to feel apart of her culture and she wanted to feel that empowerment that those women living in Iran were giving off. She begins to say that the government was a democracy and it did work for the people but that western powers stole that from Iran and left them where they are now. She claims her own history and its power through art.

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The assertions that Shirin Neshat make regarding the borders and boundaries of her culture are that her culture was changed by the regime (she claims that the culture of Iran went from being Persian culture to Islamic culture), and that its often misinterpreted by people from the west who make the mistake of only recognizing Iran after the Islamic revolution and not for the democratic country it once was. She even goes ahead and points the blame at the United States and Britain for intervening with their politics in the 1950s, which she claims lead to the Iran that we see nowadays. Lastly, Shirin Neshat feels as though even though she wants to protect her culture in the face of Westeners, she has her own objections to it, which are mainly based on the regime, which she blames on the Western powers anyway. She goes about claiming her own historicity by explaining the history of Iran as it is reflected by the Iranian woman. She sees women as the embodiment of the changes that came upon Iran after the revolution. Aside from that, she also goes into the past to point at what Iran truly was before Western intervention and to the near present to show how the change in women's attitude towards the government symbolizes change the imminent change that is due in Iran.