COOK, EAT & CLEAN – Ritual of Disobedience 

SAT 21 NOV

PROJECT NO.5 METRO/DRESSAGE

Artist: Aryan Zolfaghari

Format: Video performance

Duration: 8:03 min

Short description

Dressage is a technique through which spaces of power are produced in urban environments, imposing the rhythms of everyday life onto bodies through repetition. For Henri Lefebvre, dressage involves pressure, repetition, and automaticity, inscribing gestures into the body. Responding to this process of producing and reproducing existing spatial orders, the performing group and I created four related performances in the Tehran Metro. Through minimal gestures and everyday movements, the performances attempt to produce temporary anti-spaces within the regulated rhythms of the city.

BIO

Aryan Zolfaghari is an Iranian choreographer and video artist. He holds an MA in Theatre Directing from the Art University of Tehran and an MA in Choreography from ICI-CCN / Agora Montpellier. His site-specific practice explores the relationship between body, movement, architecture, and power.

Credits

Videographer and Choreographer: Aryan Zolfaghari

Sound Designers: Farbod Maeen, Deniz Tafaghodi

Performers: Negar Roshani, Moslem Amjadi, Sima Tajik, Mona Sohrab Haghighat, Arash Amjadi

Camera: Hataw Khishkar

Color Grading: Sadegh Eskordi

Credits: Mehri Shahmansouri