What underlies the descriptions and scene instructions in the plays? In this research-based performance, performers enact and intervene series of selected instructions from the Iranian plays to practically investigate the desired movements, tasks, and labors embedded in the texts as scores for women.

Starting from a play as a cultural text, the Ongoing Archive for Endless Performances reread the plays written in different eras to form an archive of women's bodily narratives, physical activities, manners, and gestures. The "posed actions" that subsequently unfold the "deprived actions"; the acts that have been withheld from women's corporeal presence, their agency, mobility and visibility not only in theater space but also in a broader sociocultural context.

Language Texts & Projections: English & Farsi

About the artists

Azade Shahmiri is a theater and performance artist based in Tehran and Berlin. Her artistic practices and processes move between forms of theater, performance, lecture, and video installation. Her works are closely interwoven with personal narratives and readings from the past exploring the constructions of reality(s) through documents, materials and records.

Azade's artistic works have been shown in theaters and festivals in Asia and Europe. These include Voicelessness (2017), Unperforming (2018), Museum (2019), Tempor(e)ality (2021), Quasi (2021), and Immemorial (2022). She has received fellowships at various institutions, including PACT Zollverein, Saari Residence Finland, and Literarisches Colloquium Berlin.

Team

Saba Kasmaei, Ava Darvishi, Pooyesh Frozandeh, Isar Aboumahboub

 On residency and showing

Azade Shahmiri text, dirction, performance

Ava Darvishi performance

Saba Kasmaei light and technic

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