setareh fatehi’s parallaxing (i): a story of practice, where the artist invites us for a walk in this microcosm of a practice of remote hosting. fatehi’s is a practice that tends to shifting the geographies of distance for intimacies of many kinds; in their words, parallaxing is a way of overexposing ‘the void that exists between the images of two locations, two bodies, two actualities that are distanced by the forces that make wars’. Parallaxing contends with moving from and with places deemed to be ‘unlivable motherlands’, asking, where is my body? Where can my body be? How can we fight to not have to decide where our bodies should be?
setareh fatehi (او) is an artist-researcher NoT based in Tehran or London. setareh looks at the formation of trans-local collaborative bodies among ‘distanced’ localities by conducting the practice of Parallaxing (i). This practice explores the ethics of hosting remote bodies that are dealing with the debilitating effect of limiting the notion of ‘presence’ to its colonial definition where the differences between (i) and the other was used to legitimize the existence of the borders that have been brutally separating them. setareh has finished her MA in choreography at the Amsterdam School for the Arts and is currently a PhD candidate for the collaborative doctoral award offered by RCSSD and performingborders.
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