COOK, EAT & CLEAN – Ritual of Disobedience 

SAT 21 NOV

Block R1066L

Artist: Roya Keshavarz

Format: Performance

Duration: 60 min

Short description

Block R1066L is an artistic research project developed in collaboration with scientist Dr. Alison Forrester, whose research focuses on protein trafficking and cellular homeostasis. The project takes its name from R1066L, a CFTR mutation that I carry and that my son inherited. Our ongoing exchange around cellular processes, mutation, and methods of scientific observation became the starting point for exploring how living systems respond when their established pathways are disrupted. Moving between scientific research and lived experience, the project asks how adaptation, repetition, and reorganisation can become artistic methods, and how the body can function as a site for observing change.

BIO

Roya Keshavarz (b. 1988, Tehran) is a visual artist working with performance, sculpture, film, and text. Her practice focuses on the body, disability, and the ways political and social structures shape how bodies are seen, supported, or excluded. Today, her work moves between sculptural installation and live performance. Through intimate, collaborative performances, she invites audiences to participate in processes of repetition, reorganisation, and transformation.

Credits

Research collaborator: Alison Forrester/ Dramaturgy: Angela Rabaglio & Micaël Florentz