How is it being here
Through the leaves of the olive tree in the burning sun or in the white reflection of the snow, from somewhere so quiet and calm or somewhere on the fire, with all the distances we have built and broken and rebuilt in our history. Even if We are here.
Even if we are drawn in this vast hole, to the bottom of the tongue to the bottom of the throat to the bottom of the screaming point to the bottom of the silence. To the end of being compressed, crushed, compressed, and point. How can be coincided?
Coincide/spread.
منطبق شدن/پخش شدن
تقسیم کرده/تقسیم شده
Even if we are here
How do we resist?
Even if we are here.
Even if we
We
We
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In the past few years, it has become important for me to work with the spaces where lived experiences occur and to invite the audience to be a part of my real space. I share parts of my experience of being at home and in private spaces, investigating intimate moments. Transforming a space into a place through living, presence, and the conscious choice of connection with the space.
The questions I am exploring in this project:
What if “creativity” is the way of encountering other people, places, objects, moments, subjects, and, in general, situations and anything that makes up our surrounding environment? Could this encountering be our way of presence in our surrounding environment as part of it? How can we find creativity in the spontaneous connections and choices of connection? Does spontaneous connection open different layers of creative choices in the moment? How could embodied presence help this connection? How could an embodied way of connection bring authenticity? How can the authenticity of presence be connected to creativity? How can intimate situations open an authentic connection with our atmosphere? How can we find intimate situations between our bodies and our environment, including all objects and bodies? How can being here mean being in your body? What does it mean to be here? Is your body more aware and creative in intimate situations? How can creativity be body-oriented, not just mind-centered?
How could a playful mindset contribute to this kind of presence? How can playful situations be connected to creativity? How can these intimate situations with the authenticity of presence help our resistence? How can we be here with our body?
What is here between us even if we are far but connected?
How could Here be a space?
I am investigating situations that invite the audience to feel more connected to their bodies, receiving a bodily experience through the visual sense. This involves overlapping the senses of the body with images of memories that come to mind due to the coincidence of images that remind them of their embodied, intimate memories.
Yalda Pakzad Afshar
Yalda Pakzad Afshar is a performance artist and pastry maker who was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1984. She currently lives in Rome and works between Rome and Tehran. She graduated with a degree in music from Tehran University. She began her artistic journey with puppet performance and theater music and has over ten years of experience in contemporary dance and performances, which started in the underground network in Iran. She is an independent artist, particularly focused on site-specific performances in recent years. Her latest projects are based on themes of home, hospitality, connection, and the phenomena of intimacy. She was chosen by the Impulstanz Vienna festival of contemporary dance in 2017 and has had performances in Iran, Bucharest, Vienna, Zagreb, and Rome.
