Re-Figuring and Fabulation — Portfolio - Morehshin Allahyari

Re-Figuring and Fabulation (2017)

Re-figuring (an intimate conversation in the format of un-panelling and reclaiming time, the past, and the future).
May 27, 2017 at Eyebeam with Morehshin Allahyari, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Nooshin Rostami, Ida Momennejad, and Maryam Darvishi.

This event focused on “re-figuring” and fabulation as an activist, feminist practice of reimagining the past in order to create multiple alternative worlds and futures.

For Re-figuring, Eyebeam Resident Morehshin Allahyari invited four artists, activists, and scientists (Gelare Khoshgozaran, Nooshin Rostami, Ida Momennejad, and Maryam Darvishi) to create ‘Fabulation Stations’—spaces where they will perform poetic, mythical, and speculative stories that mesh past, present and future forms of colonialism. These stories are examples of oral storytelling that resist being written out as new grand narratives.

Morehshin Allahyari hosting Ha’m Neshini, Re-figuring, Eyebeam Research Residency Event, 2017.

Gelare Khoshgozaran performing, Re-figuring, Eyebeam Research Residency Event, 2017.

Gelare Khoshgozaran performance, Re-figuring, Eyebeam Research Residency Event, 2017.

Ida Momennejad explaining a graph, Re-figuring, Eyebeam Research Residency Event, 2017.

Re-figuring, Eyebeam Research Residency Event, 2017.

Audience participation, Re-figuring, Eyebeam Research Residency Event, 2017.

Morehshin Allahyari, Ha’m Neshini, Re-figuring, Eyebeam Research Residency Event, 2017.

Re-figuring, Eyebeam Research Residency Event, 2017.