With Tanasgol Sabbagh
Who writes the history and how?
Jina's Revolution in Iran has already started in September. Since then many things have changed: Protest Strikes and the civil disobedience of the last months changed not only the power structures but also the living reality of the people so much that from this point, there is no return.
And while experiencing the current protests, we are as well constantly in the process of collectively narrating the presence, while re-remembering the past.
If we consider history as a hegemonic distortion of the “occurred” events, then the “narrations” can be understood as tools with which we can intervene and rewrite the history over and over again. And with that we can take steps through breaking down the established historical discourse while re-remembering and re-writing the past and the presence in a new and different way. Every narrative of the “occurred” offers a possibility to create different versions over the past and the future.The embodied experiences, the written words can be the weapons in this war of narratives.
In this series of lecture performances, we would like to discover and understand the first 100 days of the Jinas Revolution through these narratives.The Narratives and the literature that has been produced during these 100 days. The text has been gathered through different channels: in both oral and written ways.
Tanasgol Sabbagh writes stage literature and poetry. For ten years she has performed spoken word texts on numerous stages in German-speaking countries, including Volksbühne Berlin, Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Elbphilharmonie. Her texts have appeared in anthologies and magazines and have been staged in various stage and video formats (most recently Solothurn Literature Days, Hellerau - European Center for the Arts, Zeit Online). She is a founding member of the artists' collective
parallelgesellschaft and the event series of the same name in Berlin. She is also committed to promoting young literary talent and leads writing workshops for young people and school students. Tanasgol lives in Berlin.
Sanaz Azimipour is an activist, author, speaker and co-founder of the campaign for voting rights for all "Not Without Us 14 Percent" and ''MigLoom e.V''. Her work focuses on transnational movements, political participation and social injustices.
Saba Bageri is a visual artist and activist born and raised in Tehran who is currently practicing art in Berlin. She graduated last year in liberal arts from Bauhaus University Weimar. She focuses on interdisciplinary art and multimedia installations.
Mahtab Sabetara is an activist and freelance musician. She is part of the Woman* Life Freedom collective and has experience with project management.
Baharan Eghbalzadeh is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher from Iran. Baharan is focused on the intersection of art, literature and technology. She recently graduated in MA for New Media Design. She studied BA and MA in Dramatic Literature and Performing Arts.
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