COOK, EAT & CLEAN – Ritual of Disobedience 

SAT 28 NOV

Mehmani Preloaded 

Artist: Masoumeh Jalalieh, Samuel Weber, Victor Duran, Daniel Zimmermann

Format: Performance

Duration: 30 min

Short description

Mehmani Preloaded is the space between the thoughts. It is a search for connection, in times of liminality, it travels through resonances of emotional distance, belonging, and ephemerality, and the fragile border between presence and absence. It is a land that stirs, shivers, and resounds. Rooted in gestures of adaptation, the traces they leave behind, it asks how dance can hold loss while making room for hope, transforming mourning into an act of resistance and celebration, and affirming the courage to be present, to remain connected, and to keep moving forward.

BIO

Masoumeh Jalalieh is an Iranian choreographer, performer, and dancer based in Vienna. Her artistic practice explores the intersections of movement, ritual, and embodied knowledge, engaging with themes of cultural memory and political resistance. Her works, including B-or der, Time Paranoia, Decline, Bish az pish, and Carpet of Time, have been presented at venues such as Sophiensæle Berlin, STUK Leuven, Kaaistudios, Les Brigittines Brussels, Pasinger Fabrik Munich, and WUK Vienna. She has received grants including the Arbeitsstipendium Darstellende Kunst und Performance (City of Vienna) 2026, the Startstipendium (City of Vienna) 2024, and Danceweb 2021, among others. In 2023, she founded the association Carpet of Time and began curating the festival Cook, Eat, and Clean, which takes place yearly at eindorf Kunstraum in Vienna.

Credits: Performance: Masoumeh Jalalieh & Daniel Zimmermann I   Music: Samuel Weber                      Dramaturgy & Scenography: Daniel Zimmermann I  Light: Victor Duran                                                                                                              Movement and research support: Laura Vilar Dolç  Support: Im_flieger, ALDES!SPAM