Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Frieze: Anahita Razmi

The 2011 Emdash Award winner and video/performance artist discusses roof top demos in Tehran, censorship and the celebrated choreographer and visual artist Trisha Brown

Anahita Razmi holds up a veil to her eye; the video is entitled ‘How your veil can help you in the case of an earthquake’. It's lesson six where you are so shocked or surprised at the tremors that you use a veil to wipe away tears you cry. Political yet humorous, it sums up the half German, half Iranian artists trip through her cultural heritage cut with a pinch of Stuttgart logic. In this interview Dazed talks to Razmi about her Emdash award commission for Frieze Art Fair, an exploration of roof top demonstrations in Tehran’s 2009 election protests. A video installation that re... article continues »
        
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