WORK/THE WORK
Aman Askarizad
19 - 24.10.2021
Photo: Parsa Kamehkhosh
✖✖ Opening Monday 18th
Time: 17:00 - 20:00
During the opening the artist will do a live performance.
✖✖ Exhibition period
19th - 24th October 2021
The exhibition is open everyday between 16:00 - 19:00 except Saturday 12:00-15:00
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Time: 17:00 - 20:00
During the opening the artist will do a live performance.
✖✖ Exhibition period
19th - 24th October 2021
The exhibition is open everyday between 16:00 - 19:00 except Saturday 12:00-15:00
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WORK/THE WORK is a video documentation of a performance by Aman Askarizad that happened in September 2020 in Helsinki public space and Kiasma. The performance was developed when Aman was involved in the Performance Lab program in the Museum of Impossible Forms, led by the artist duo VariaLambo. Askarizad worked with his long hair as his primary material, cleaning and sweeping the public space and then cutting it in the Museum of contemporary art Kiasma.
The performance attempted to explore the relation of body, labor, and art by drawing a fine line between acting in public and an institution. It intended to bring attention to the role of institutions in designating meanings and interpretations to the working body and their power in granting recognition.
The irony of an artist producing artwork while losing the ability to work is an unstable and vaporizing utopia that collapses and reverses itself into a wretched condition in which an artist is working a day job and is unable to produce artwork. In both cases, what sustains itself is the system that sees the gear wheels of its production line running uninterruptedly.
Special thanks to visual artist Zahra Ehsan for the role of hair artist.
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Aman Askarizad is an Iranian-born multidisciplinary artist, photographer, and musician based in Helsinki. He is interested in using different mediums in organizing and creating conversations and situations which unravel power dynamics and highlight the ethics of encountering others. In his works, he intends to create a dialogue between lived experience in socio-political contexts, representational realities and dismantle its politics. Since 2019, Aman has been mainly working in the transition between music research and visual art.
www.amanaskarizad.com
https://www.instagram.com/aman.askarizad
The project is supported by The Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
*** The exhibition is also part of Third Space open call selected projects for the year 2021 with the theme "Vulnerability, collaboration, exchanges", supported by Taike.
www.amanaskarizad.com
https://www.instagram.com/aman.askarizad
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✖ Accessibility information:
The entrance is 70cm wide and on street level, but there are three steps leading down to the space, measuring 20 cm each. No railing. Toilet is small and narrow, door measuring 60cm. Nearest accessible public toilet is located a few hundred meters away at Johanneksenpuisto.
The performance attempted to explore the relation of body, labor, and art by drawing a fine line between acting in public and an institution. It intended to bring attention to the role of institutions in designating meanings and interpretations to the working body and their power in granting recognition.
The irony of an artist producing artwork while losing the ability to work is an unstable and vaporizing utopia that collapses and reverses itself into a wretched condition in which an artist is working a day job and is unable to produce artwork. In both cases, what sustains itself is the system that sees the gear wheels of its production line running uninterruptedly.
Special thanks to visual artist Zahra Ehsan for the role of hair artist.
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Aman Askarizad is an Iranian-born multidisciplinary artist, photographer, and musician based in Helsinki. He is interested in using different mediums in organizing and creating conversations and situations which unravel power dynamics and highlight the ethics of encountering others. In his works, he intends to create a dialogue between lived experience in socio-political contexts, representational realities and dismantle its politics. Since 2019, Aman has been mainly working in the transition between music research and visual art.
www.amanaskarizad.com
https://www.instagram.com/aman.askarizad
The project is supported by The Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
*** The exhibition is also part of Third Space open call selected projects for the year 2021 with the theme "Vulnerability, collaboration, exchanges", supported by Taike.
www.amanaskarizad.com
https://www.instagram.com/aman.askarizad
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✖ Accessibility information:
The entrance is 70cm wide and on street level, but there are three steps leading down to the space, measuring 20 cm each. No railing. Toilet is small and narrow, door measuring 60cm. Nearest accessible public toilet is located a few hundred meters away at Johanneksenpuisto.
