There Are Many Ways of Remembering: Visual Correspondence,
12-Month Project

(Collaboration with Forough Jalilian)

“ Dear Forough,
What do we remember but the tables around which we drank together?
This letter is for all the moments we had around that green table in your home…"

“There are many ways of remembering : Visual Correspondence” is a daily documentation of life as communicated from a distance between myself and Forough Jalilian. These exchanges are reactions to the reality of being apart. Despite being geographically distant, we still have the desire to share ideas and reflections about anything and everything that stimulates our life. Moments have been recorded in varied places and reveal the situation of being affected (practice of translating the impulses). Our process is a way of archiving moments through video recording to create a shared living memory. For us, the footage acts as the temporality pendulum swinging between Tehran and Gent.

The State Of Experience

"Friendship" can be about how we can be committed to life.

"Friendship" would open a door to "alliance" and "possibilities".

A more radical form of friendship helps us to imagine a new experience of freedom, equality and moment.

Involvement with each other's ideas can be the celebration of friendship.

In friendship we can think about creating a common ground for imagination; imagination of a common future
which could be better than previous possibilities.

My life-ideas is tied to other's life-ideas.

These fragments are the material which this lecture performance tried to observe.

(created by Dally Schwarz)

(Collaboration with Forough Jalilian)

There Was A Moment

A visual letter from our home studio where we remember 2 years of working together and practicing Real Time Composition (established by João Fiadeiro) which shifted our way of thinking and our way of being “WE."
It is an archival video of our “moments”. Moments of remembering and moments of making.

(Collaboration with Forough Jalilian)

Let’s Call It Dance

Screened at the Fair Saturday Festival (LISBON).

Out Here, In There

Screened at the Untimely Dance Festival, "Out Here, In There" was the product of a process in which we questioned "objecthood" and the subjectivity of the performing body. It was also an experiment through RTC in which we explored the operation of the method.

Imaginary View

In this piece, we created movement out of a task derived from a simple daily act in a specific location (our campus).

(Collaboration with Forough Jalilian)

(Collaboration with Nastaran Khanbabaee)

University of the Underground:
"If I can't Dance, I don't want to be part of your Revolution"

(Research Bureau Exhibition)