In this workshop, Tara Fatehi will introduce her project Mishandled Archive and discuss her methods of engaging with a collection of family photographs and documents through a 365-day artwork, which has led to the creation of a performance and a book.
Through movement exercises, you will be offered the opportunity to rethink your own personal or family archives and histories and the ways you might engage with long-kept photographs, letters or other ephemera through your body. Working with the flaws of memory, remembering, retelling and forgetting, we will transform individual life stories into collective actions.
Suitable for ages 18 and over.
This event is part of the Conflicts and Displacements season at Pushkin House.
Image credits: Jemima Yong
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Tara Fatehi (from Tehran, based in London) works with performance, writing, movement, video and voice. Her work engages with ambiguity, playfulness, mistranslation, disjunction, fragmentation and unfinishedness. Her recent works include Mishandled Archive, dispersing 365 fragments of family documents through dance and photography; Always Already, an 8-hour duet performance with Karen Christopher; and From the Lips to the Moon, a night of experimental music and poetry in London with Pouya Ehsaei. She has recently performed at the Royal Academy of Arts, Nuffield Theatre, Chapter, Juli Danse and Montpelier Danse. Her book Mishandled Archive was published in 2020 (London, LADA). In 2021, Tara was the first ever resident artist at the United Nations Archives at Geneva.