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The 3rd session of Iran Etc. (Iran Vs.) guided by Amirali Ghasemi took place yesterday 24th of Feb 2010 at PiST///.

The program includes works by Iranian artists and Filmmaker living in Iran and abroad.

Sona Safaie (IR/CA) | Alef | 2009 | 2’36”
Tala Madani (US/IR/NL) | The Apple Tree | 2008 | 2’36”
Nassrin Nasser (UK/IR) | Exile Paranoia | 2009 | 10’30”
Elham Doust Haghighi (IR) | One Stupid Idea | 5’22” | 2007-2008
Samira Eskandarfar (IR) | Comode | 2008 | 5’22”
Payam Mofidi (FR/IR)| SHÂER KOSHI (Poeticide) | 2009 | 11′
Parisa Yousof Doust (NL/IR) | A Story of the Flying Carpet in the City of Zwolle | 2005 | 8′

amberPlatform opens

A new place on the intersection of art and technology, amberPlatform, will open its doors to artists and art followers on February 26th, 2010 at 7.30pm.

amberPlatform aims to become a permenant center for research, production and sharing of art and technology and will provide a space for seminars, workshops, artist presentations, exhibitions, and performances. The center also initiated a residency program, which will compose a backdrop for international communion and partnerships with projects of cultural exchange and collaboration including artists and initiatives which do not partake on the widespread artistic circulation networks.

BIS – Body Process Arts Association is an Istanbul based initiative that aims to explore artistic forms of expression at the conjuction of the body and the digital process. amberPlatform is established by BIS in partnership with Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency. BIS has been organizing amberFestival and amberConference, also established amberNetwork, an international network of people who work on Arts and Technology, and continues to work on the field.

amberPlatform will be opening on February 26th, 2010 at 7 : 30 pm with a performance by Korhan Erel and Sevket Akinci and will be hosting its first exhibition in the following week which will include Candle Lights and Its Side Effects by Payman Abbasian, Future Kiss by Lenka Klimesava and Blow In by Ekmel Ertan.

AMBIGUITY

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نمایشگاه عکس های میشامیرمومن- نوید صنعتی- 30 بهمن تا 7 اسفند – ساعت 16 تا 20
اتاق مالتی مدیا گالری محسن
خ ظفر – خ ناجی – ک نوربخش بلوار مینای شرقی – پ 42

Mohsen Gallery, multimedia room, NO.24, eastern mina blvd., Zafar st.
19Feb-24Feb –
visiting hour 16-20

Two young artists are showing their photographs in this exhibition. Misha.mirmomen and Navid.sanati are introducing themselves by some speechless portraits in their first group exhibition. The portraits represent a piece of Man everyday life the man who just can’t imagine living such a life.

The exhibition which starts on 19 Feb includes some black and white photos (75.75 printed on luster photo paper) and it is on view till 26 Feb.

He writes, I write, we record, record what? We don’t know; we don’t know what is going on and maybe what goes on is not important at all. I only see what is there and that is what counts in this suffocating darkness. Tomorrow, when we grow up, we shall learn how to get used to life. It is up to us whether to use this disgusting learnt fact or not… If the problem of being or not being is to be solved somehow, it is easier for me to live. Everybody knows how to be not and yet, they keep on doing it. It is stupid not to be.

When my eyes are opened, it takes a while before I remember why I have to open them here. In the morning, we take out of the bed bodies which have lost themselves. We sit in front of teachers and professors and we are busy till night with our studies and simple dreams. We photograph life this way and the three of us are pleased! Although every other line of notebook pages are bound to infected wounds, I understand one must learn all this simplicity and we love pages in general although it is as though no page understands nothing.

Sometimes I wish to hug the world, to squeeze the shit out of it. Have you ever noticed the extent of your power? What would happen if the world resembled for a second our portraits?

Tehran, Undated
تهران، بدون تاریخ

An exhibition by Mehran Mohajer
Azad Art Gallery
نمایشگاه مهران مهاجر
نگارخانه طراحان آزاد

دوم تا چهاردم بهمن ماه هزار و سیصد و هشتاد و هشت
ساعت چهار تا هشت
نگارخانه طراحان آزاد
میدان فاطمی، میدان گلها، میدان سلماس شماره پنج

22th Jan – Feb 3rd 2010
Daily Visiting Hours: Fri – Wed 4-8 pm
Azad Art Gallery
No 5, Salmas Square, Golha Square, Tehran

Azad Art Gallery – Tehran, Presents CLOWNS CAN’T HAVE BABIES  Paintings by Samira Eskandarfar, the exhibition opens on Friday, 08 of January 2010. The exhibition will be on till Saturday, 23 January 2010,from 16:00 to 20:00.

…Talking about the subjects of the “Clowns can’t have babies” series is really difficult, since any attempt to decode the artworks will only result in a very personal understanding of the works in regards of one’s own personal experiences. The subjects of the artworks are based on common human feelings with emphasis on the sexuality factor. The only difference is that it tends to narrate deeper and more subconscious layers. Sexuality as a factor that generates a broad spectrum of all kinds of relations gets more focus and manages to form a considerable part of the meaning which often is accompanied with a dark humor. A chaotic world that all the creatures, objects and humans are put together, mixed or related to each other in a maniac and an apparent irrelevant way which eventually produce a new meaning and space in the artworks. All these events together tend to convert the artworks to a poetic phenomenon which the artworks themselves get the chance to introduce their poetic standards to the audience, while the writings on the artworks get to finalize its poetic mystery….

An extract from the introduction note by Hamed Sahihi from the Exhibition Catalog