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Table of contents :
Contents
INTRODUCTION. The Different Senses of the Alternative
1. Invisibility
2. Escapism
3. Ephemerality
4. Improvisation
EPILOGUE. Alternative Iran
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Alternative Iran

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Alternative Iran Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice

Pamela Karimi

Stanford University Press Stanford, California

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Sta n for d U n i v ersit y Pr ess Stanford, California © 2022 by Pamela Karimi. All rights reserved. Publication of this book has been aided by grants from the Millard Meiss Publication Fund of CAA and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Karimi, Z. Pamela (Zahra Pamela), author. Title: Alternative Iran : contemporary art and critical spatial practice / Pamela Karimi. Description: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021051790 (print) | LCCN 2021051791 (ebook) | ISBN 9781503630017 (cloth) | ISBN 9781503631809 (paper) | ISBN 9781503631816 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Dissident arts—Iran. | Arts—Political aspects—Iran. | Arts, Iranian—21st century. Classification: LCC NX574.A1 K37 2022 (print) | LCC NX574.A1 (ebook) | DDC 700.955/09051— dc23/eng/20220517 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021051790 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021051791 Cover design: Rob Ehle Cover image: Av Theatre Group, Melpomene,

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Krupa Art Foundation, Wrocław (PL)
My Memory Isn’t Mine
Curated by Natalia Barczynska
Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat – Performance Measuring Narrative with Water
Feb 27, 2025

ongoing

Krupa Art Foundation, Wrocław (PL)
My Memory Isn’t Mine
Curated by Natalia Barczynska
Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat – Group exhibition
Nov 22, 2024 – Mar 02, 2025

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e-flux Screening Room, New York (US)
e-flux Film Award presents: Special Screenings
Curated by Lukas Brasiskis, Dmitry Frolov, and Steff Hui Ci Ling
Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat – Screening Vents Violents
Jan 25, 2025

Media City Film Festival (CA), online edition
International Program
Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat – Screening Un Âne
Dec 9 – 30, 2024

Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (AT)
Living Apart Together
Curated by elephy
Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat – Group exhibition presenting Is it a knife because…
Nov 14 – Dec 14, 2024

Labocine (UK), online program
Mountain Panorama
Daniel Mann and Eitan Efrat – Presenting The Magic Mountain
Nov 2024

KAAP, Oostende (BE)
Fort Beau – Een Korte Geschiedenis Van Een Lange Eeuwwisseling
Curated by Pieter Van Bogaert
Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat – Screening Orientation, Nude Descending a Staircase and Miroir Séb Fragile !
Oct 26, 2024

HilbertRaum, Berlin (DE)
Drift #1 – Belgium-Based Artists
Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat – Screening Is it a knife because…
Oct 18 – 27, 2024

Doclisboa, Lisbon (PT)
New Visions: Looking the Past in the Eye
Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitran Efrat – Screening Un Âne and Is it a knife because…
Oct 17 – 27, 2024

Doclisboa, Lisbon (PT)
International Competition
Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitran Efrat – Screening [anan]
Oct 17 – 27, 2024

Doclisboa, Lisbon (PT)
New Visions: The Possibility of Light
Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitran Efrat – Screening Un Âne and Is it a knife because…
Oct 17 – 27, 2024

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Survival is a common practice. We cannot do it alone; we need each other. We need tools and practices that help us to connect, to understand to build, to survive in this age of climate crisis, technological upheaval, existential pain. We need words and values and ideas that extend beyond the human space. We need to learn; and we need to unlearn. We need a Manual for Survival.Ways of surviving together in an experimental and solidarity-based manner - this book wants to make other world designs accessible through and beyond artistic practice. The art in this book reflects on the nature, the planetary, transcendental questions of global connectivity as well as on community, a sense of playfulness, togetherness, shared experiences through culture. A high quality and richly illustrated book with innovative texts following the idea that we have to learn to live and think in contradictions without losing ourselves.Artists include: Panteha Abareshi, Yalda Afsah, Abbas Akhavan, Assemble, Mohammed Bourouissa, Andrea Bowers, James Bridle, Sam Chermayeff, Edith Dekyndt, Simon Denny, Cao Fei, Liam Gillick, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lubiana Himid, Leon Kahane, Kablusiak, Paul Kolling, Carolyn Lazard, Sharon Lockhart, Taus Makhacheva, Shaun Motsi, Goshka Macuga, Jota Mombaca, New Red Order (NRO), Olaf Nicolai, Christelle Oyiri, Celine Pages & Christine Marchal, Trevor Paglen, Grayson Perry, Bruno Serralongue, Jeremy Shaw, Charles Stankievech, Ron Terada, Syrus Marcus Ware, Emmanuel Van der Auwera, et al. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.