All standpoints are partial, 2020, 20 min
Join us on Sunday, October 4th, 4pm for a performance by Kalaktive collaborative duo (Bahareh Khoshooee & Sareh Imani) via Zoom.
All standpoints are partial is a live Zoom performance accompanied by pre recorded media that will be broadcasted online. Utilizing the cyberspace, this collaborative piece explores the immigration process during quarantine as it relates to technology, physical and digital screens, screenings, personal data collection, biased data profiling, machinic decision making and the subsequent lack of empathy.
ASL Interpreting and Closed Captioning will be made available. Please contact us with any accessibility needs – projectspace@efanyc.org.
About the Artists
Sareh Imani is an Iranian-born, multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Imani received an MFA in Painting from the University of Tehran and an MFA from the Parsons School of Design in New York. In her practice, Imani explores the ways of achieving resourcefulness, through care, mending, and healing in times of inadequacy. For the past 2 years, she has been making a series of videos that study the relation between virtual and visceral, borrowing from medical methodologies and exploring the reparative potentials of art and science, intimacy and distance, instructions and poetics. Imani has been exhibiting her work in group shows both in the US (New York, Austin), Europe (Venice, Gothenburg), and the Middle East (Tehran, Dubai). She is the recipient of the one-year A.I.R fellowship (2020), and the Skowhegan School of painting and sculpture scholarship in 2018. In addition, she participated in the MASS MoCA residency (2018), AIM program at the Bronx Museum (2018), BRIC Workspace Residency (2019), BRIC Media fellowship (2020), and NARS foundation (2020).
Bahareh Khoshooee was born in Tehran, Iran. Khoshooee had three solo exhibitions in 2019 at Elijah Wheat Showroom (New York), Tikhonova Wintner Gallery (New York), and Coco Hunday (Tampa). She recently exhibited an installation at NADA MIAMI 2018 and Orlando Museum of Art (Orlando), a solo exhibition at Elsewhere (New York), and a two-person show with Aruni Dharmakirthi at Housing (New York). Khoshooee has been included in group exhibitions at C24 Gallery (New York), Museum of Photography (Stockholm), 2018 Taiwan Annual, Fajr International Film Festival 2018 (Tehran), and Untitled Art Fair 2017 (Miami). Khoshooee served as an artist-in-residence at Skowhegan School of Art and Painting 2018, Triangle 2018, Ox-Bow 2017, and ACRE Residency 2016. Through her practice Khoshooee explores the concept of self and other, technology and its imperfection, diaspora and fragmentation.
About TIAB
*The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB) 2020: Here Together! 2020 is an inaugural multi-site project presenting works by 60+ US-based immigrant artists in September–December 2020. TIAB is Fiscally sponsored by NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts). EFA Project Space is presenter of TIAB’s central exhibition, made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by LMCC (the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council). Project Space programming is made possible through the generous support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Performance events are supported by the women & performance: a journal of feminist theory public programs fund. www.theimmigrantartistbiennial.com