Samstag, 18.11.2023
20.00–21.00 Uhr

Pages Magazine 11: Stage So Near So Far

The latest issue of Pages magazine presents various plays and performance texts by Iranian women writers based in Iran or in the Iranian diaspora. The featured authors, Nasim Ahmadpour, Nil (Alista) Aghaee, Naghmeh Manavi, Athena Farrokhzad, Nazanin Sanatkar, Azade Shahmiri, Zahra Mohseni and Naghmeh Samini, place their writing in performative relation to the specific historical and sociopolitical conditions in which they live and work. Whether based on actual personal experience, archives or fiction, in one way or another they all deal with the subject of the stage. They create a contested space of performance that is intrinsically linked to each performer’s body. Artists Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi, editors of Pages, will be joined by the author Nazanin Sanatkar to present a reading of her play Studying Wavelength of Silence Before Metamorphosis. The play is a performance in the form of a public trial about her silence during a real incident in a hospital where she worked.

The text of Nazanin Sanatkarwill be read by the actor Martha Benedic.

Language: English / Farsi فارسی / Deutsch

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Babak Afrassiabi

The artists Babak Afrassiabi and Nasrin Tabatabai have collaborated since 2004 on various joint projects, using video, sound and sculptural objects in their work. They also publish a bilingual (Farsi and English) magazine called Pages, the first issue of which was launched in February 2004. Since then, their works and the magazine's editorial themes have been closely linked, often evolving around the question of geopolitics and its technologies in reshaping conditions of practice. In 2018, they launched Pages' online platform (pagesmagazine.net), which expands the magazine's editorial focus. Their works has been regularly exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions, including the Tapies Foundation (Barcelona), HKW (Berlin), Taipei Biennial (Taiwan), Lahore Biennial, Art Jameel (Dubai), MUHKA (Antwerp), Riga Centre for Contemporary Art, Kunst Instituut Melly (Rotterdam), Sharjah Biennial, Chisenhale gallery (London), Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona.

(Stand: Oktober 2023)

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Nasrin Tabatabai

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Nazanin Sanatkar

Nazanin Sanatkar is a writer, director, actor and theatre dramaturg. She began working in the field of performing arts at a theatre centre in Tehran while studying to become a surgical technologist at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. She studied acting and theatre directing at the university of Tehran starting in 2014 and directed the play War, written by Laresh Noren, in 2018. After completing a course in documentary theatre at Tajrobeh Festival, she staged her performance Studying the Wavelength of Silence Before Metamorphosis as a performer, writer and director at the festival’s program First-Person Pronoun Repertoire. Among other plays, she has directed Cyanoz, by Arghavan Ghasemnezhad, Rakhneh and has written and directed A Deep, Big and New Research About Predicates Without Subjects or Subjects without Predicates. She lives and works in Tehran.

(Stand: Oktober 2023)

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Martha Benedict

Martha Benedict (*1999 in Basel) studiert seit Februar 2020 Schauspiel an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. Aufgewachsen in Basel und England, besuchte sie 2019 the preliminary acting course an der Guildhall, London. Martha Benedict war lange im Junges Theater Basel tätig. Dieses Engagement hat ihren künstlerischen Werdegang stark beeinflusst. In ihrer Arbeit geht sie über das instrumentale Schauspiel hinaus, denn der Fokus ihrer künstlerischen Praxis sind Narrative mit gesellschaftlicher Relevanz. Martha Benedict interessiert sich für menschliches Erleben. So geht sie auch selber gerne ins Theater um zu erleben, wie Menschen Leben spielen.

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