Sazmanab

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.

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.

The Room: First Phase is the inaugural online exhibition of The Room, presenting 27 video works from the Sazmanab Video Library, streamed one per day for 24 hours on Pejman Foundation’s website.

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.

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.

Sazmanab presents works and video pieces by Iranian artists at the 2018 Taiwan Annual, drawing from its Video Library and broader programme.

Sazmanab at Electric Room is an archival installation that revisits ten years of Sazmanab through objects, publications, and fragmented video documentation, unfolding a non-linear portrait of the platform’s history and presence.

Wiki-Women-Middle East activates a translocal editing network to write Middle Eastern women cultural practitioners into Wikipedia, using collective authorship as a feminist intervention in historical visibility.

Shattered Frames foregrounds experimental video as a lens through which artists articulate fractured realities, lived contradictions, and subjective experiences within contemporary Iran.

A performance presentation examining the relationship between everyday life and artistic practice, developed through dialogue with local contexts and realised collectively at Sazmanab.

A public conversation reflecting on Metaphor and Politics: The Tehran Retrospective of Harun Farocki, examining Farocki’s work through questions of image-making, power, and political representation.

A retrospective of Harun Farocki’s film and video works, examining images, labour, warfare, and the politics of representation, marking the final exhibition at Sazmanab’s Khaghani venue.

An artist talk reflecting on Freund’s recent exhibition at Sazmanab, addressing historical memory, testimony, and the role of fiction within documentary and video practice.

A presentation of three video works by Peter Freund examining translation, testimony, and historical memory through entangled narratives of Iran and the United States.

An artist talk by Stephen Young reflecting on the exhibition Macro or Micro? Misinterpreting the Unfamiliar, exploring scale, perception, and the consequences of mistaking individual details for broader cultural truths.

An exhibition combining satellite imagery and electron microscopy to explore how patterns repeat across scales, examining perception, misinterpretation, and the ways unfamiliar details are mistaken for broader truths.

A screening of Bart Van Dijck’s film The weather was good, examining folk traditions and cultural identity in Belgium through rituals, festivals, and collective practices.

Public screenings and discussions from the 2015 Creative Time Summit at La Biennale di Venezia, exploring expanded notions of curriculum, knowledge production, and the role of artists and activists in shaping social and political discourse.

A solo exhibition by Dejan Kaludjerović presenting a multi-channel sound installation based on interviews with children, using play and dialogue to examine social values, identity formation, and the ways societies construct difference and belonging.

A lecture by Jeroen Gerrits examining Werner Herzog’s documentary practice, focusing on docufiction, digital media, and the ways extreme environments and recording technologies reshape cinematic representations of reality.