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A life performance in which the audience enters a interactive instagram live performance. In the video they are presented with a set of instructions : "Comment 'WHIP' to whip the performer, only one allowed per person".
As each person comments the motorised whip will whip the performer.

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A work in progress, this is part 1 of a 2 part piece. The work is a 5.1 surround sound audio piece which I have created using found footage from anti-regime protests in Iran. Specifically, the audio comprises 2 different clips recorded at an event in Tehran’s Azadi Street on the 11/01/20.

The methodology of this project shares many similarities with the work of Eyal Weizman’s Forensic Architecture team at Goldsmiths - mining for data to construct a more thorough, overarching narrative of an event. Specifically Lawrence Abu hamdans studies on the politics of sound became heavily considered during the making of this piece. The soundpiece provides a first-person perspective of the shooting of a woman at the protest.

The area that I’ll be exploring in this project is the subconscious construction of the invisible images that humans create, and how this imagery is determined by our individual cultural influences; hence the removal of the video footage from this piece.

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CFVDsXfheDg/

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CEry296hAHi/

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Close your eyes and think of home (2020)

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Close your eyes and think of home (2020)

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This artwork consists of a series of portraits taken at an underground party in Shiraz, Iran (March, 2019). The portraits are accompanied by a text based work that quotes the penal code of Iran, in which it states various laws that enforce lashes. The document has been printed using a traditional letterpress process.  Each portrait is stamped with the number of lashes that the subjects within them owe, and the title is the total amount of lashes owed within the 6 portraits, and the remainder is the amount of lashings I am owed. All of the pictures have been censored using an analog method in the darkroom, they've been censored to maintain the political security of the people involved.

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The number of lashes I’m owed as stated in the Iranian penal code is 154, the catalyst for this new artwork. On the letterpressed print I’ve presented the laws I broke the night I attended the party in Shiraz, Iran. The document acts as a reminder to myself, that I am free of the threat I faced at the night of the party, a reminder of my privilege as an individual living in the UK.

The acrylic and chalk treated paper is marked with a motorised whip I constructed. The chalk marked paper acts as an artefact that represents my privilege, it visualised the markings that were never made on my body. A disengagement that can also be identified in the motorised whip, a separation of the act of whipping from human agency and my symbolic recreation of an act I have not directly experienced due to my freedom from Iranian Law.

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CLAA4fuhoK2/