Ghana ThinkTank (Netherlands Edition)

Sazmanab participates in the 2020 Bon-gah Art Book Fair with publications, editions, and merchandise connected to its programming and to The Silence, developed through The Other Apartment.

A virtual conversation with Jon Rubin and Sohrab Kashani on collaboration across Tehran and Pittsburgh, distance, process, and parallel spaces.

Where Shall We Go Today? unfolds as a series of remote encounters between a part-time superhero in Tehran and invited experts in Pittsburgh, using humour and vulnerability to reflect on care, resilience, and parallel realities.

Sazmanab took part again in the Ghana ThinkTank project, this time by proposing solutions to problems submitted by residents of Amsterdam. The Sazmanab ThinkTank included Sohrab Kashani, Golnoosh Heshmati, and Siavash Naghshbandi. Ghana ThinkTank operates as an international collective that reverse conventional power dynamics by inviting perspectives from the so-called “third world” to intervene in social, political, and everyday issues in the “developed” world.

The Silence is an exhibition developed from a single found cassette tape, activating musicians in Tehran and Pittsburgh to reinterpret its songs through site-specific performances across Sazmanab’s dual sites.

Sohrab Kashani took part in The Superhero Summit at the Centre Pompidou in 2019, organised by Kadist. As part of the programme, he gave a talk reflecting on Sazmanab’s latest edition, Sazmanab ⧚ Water Dept. and The Other Apartment.

Sazmanab took part in Grand Tour d’Italia 2019 as a featured international curatorial platform based in Tehran. The project positioned Sazmanab within a network of ten international institutions engaging with thirty Italian artists, highlighting its long-term role in supporting artistic practice through exhibitions, residencies, and public programmes, and in fostering cultural exchange across borders. Grand Tour d’Italia 2019 was promoted by DG Contemporary Creativity and Urban Regeneration of MiBACT and curated by NOS, and included studio visits and programme activities in Italy, notably at MAMbo Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna and the Accademia di Belle Arti L’Aquila.

Live discussion on The Other Apartment and Voice-over connecting Tehran and Pittsburgh, with Sohrab Kashani, Jon Rubin, and Joseph Del Pesco.

Six video works curated by Joseph Del Pesco and Sohrab Kashani explore voice-over as a space for interpretation and reflection, pairing artists from Iran and the United States to examine memory, language, and poetic narration across image and sound.