HEKLER ASSEMBLY: Infrastructures of Care 
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Session #4: Intervention in Public Space

When: Sat. October 23, 2021 12-3pm ET 
Where: ZOOM

Hosts: Farideh Sakhaeifar, Mandana Mansouri

Over the course of two workshops, we will explore our regency to public space, and the visual representations around us. What do you imagine if you had full power over the neighborhood, city, or the world you live in? Is there anything you like to change, eliminate, or save? Participants will share experiences through writing, visual responses and image-making. 

This is a participatory workshop, be ready to share and create with other folks present in the space. 

Material to prepare for the workshop:

•  bring pen/pencil and paper to write and draw
  
  

Session #5: Intervention in Public Space

When: Sat. October 30, 2021 12- 3pm ET
Where: ZOOM

Hosts: Poupeh Missaghi, Mandana Mansouri, Farideh Sakhaeifar

In an intersection with what we have started together in session #4, we invited Poupeh Missaghi -  writer/ translator - to share her artistic process with us. Poupeh has been working with the subject matters that we discussed in our previous session together: the city, public space, and political life. In her recent experimental book, trans(re)lating house one, she uses archival material, personal narrative, memory, theory, and dreams to intervene and manipulate facts about a historical moment in the contemporary event in Iran. It is a privilege to have her share her process with us. She will be sharing excerpts from her book, followed by Q & A.  

HOSTS

Mandana Mansouri is an interdisciplinary artist working with still and moving images, language, performance, and site-specific installations. Her work is concerned with image-making, language, space, displacement, power, and visibility. Mansouri has collaborated with art collectives such as Hekler, Photocopy, New Media Society, and Architecture Urbanism Circle in Tehran. Prior to her work as an artist, Mansouri worked as an architect, urban designer, community organizer, translator and writer.

Poupeh Missaghi is a writer, a translator into and out of Persian, and an editor. She holds a PhD in English and literary arts from the University of Denver and teaches at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. Her debut novel trans(re)lating house one was released in 2020.

Farideh Sakhaeifar is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in New York City. Sakhaeifar’s work investigates the politics of conflict, collective history, and personal accounts. Website.