After artists dealt with the specificity of certain places and the emergence of (social) space in “AKT I - sie / loro / them” and in “AKT II - wir / noi / us” with interpersonal relationships and (inter)human behaviour, AKT III - ich / io/ me shows works by artists who deal with the questioning and meaning of space and the position of an individual in society.

- Who am I and, if so, how many? the question of the self is the key consideration of this sixth part of the exhibition project “1+1=3 or The (De)Construction of a Space in 3 Acts”.

Michael Dlugosch, 1985, (D) www.michael-dlugosch.de
Mara Lea Hohn, 1989, (D) www.2016.newtalents-cologne.de/en/talents/kunst/mara-lea-hohn
Janina Lange, 1986, (D) www.janinalange.com
Bianca Mann, 1991, (RO) www.facebook.com/biancamann25
Celeste Rojas Mugica, 1987, (ARG) www.celestrip.com
Zoya Sardashti, 1982, (USA) homesoil.org/artists/zoya-sardashti
Zohar Gotesman, 1979, (ISR) www.facebook.com/zohar.gotesman » “The Dream of the Moving Sculpture“ by Zohar Gotesman, curated by Kathrin Oberrauch, Eau & Gaz

WAKING UP IRANIAN AMERICAN
Opening Performance by Zoya Sardashti

WAKING UP IRANIAN AMERICAN is an autoethnographic work and series of performative interventions focused on the ways cultural exchange develops between a performer and a participant. These performances create a space where people are invited to participate in discussions and actions about being between cultures, nationalism and Islamophobia, so that we might move beyond antiquated notions of free and oppressed. In this sense, the dialogical framework of the performances is a form of collaboration and, in its broadest sense, a key to changing power relationships between performers and participants. In WAKING UP IRANIAN AMERICAN, intimacy is used as a strategy to counteract the positioning cultures of fear intend to create. To Be Seen & Unseen ~ one-to-one public participatory performance & installation: What if you could be in the world without directly receiving the gaze of others? Through various modes of theatricality the performance confronts ideas of exposure, empowerment and in/visibility. You will be invited to take a journey with a performer. You will be invited to wear a costume, a traveler’s garment, and mask. Similar to masks worn in Venetian culture, this mask will liberate you from social codes and markers of identity. We will walk hand in hand wherever you wish. At certain points during our journey we might sit in silence, we might talk to other people or we might just talk to each other. When we decide our journey has reached a midway point ,we will retrace our steps. We will walk back to the place of our departure separately on opposite sides of the path.