Parking Video Library

Sleep Cycle

چرخه‌ی خواب

A video loop programmed for Kottishop’s Window
Parking video Library

Opening: 16/03/2025
19:00 – 21:00

Date: 16-23/03/2025

Playtime: 19:00-24:00

Journeys to the unknown and back, Sleep Cycle calls on various positions in Moving Images, inviting passersby in residential courtyard facing a playground to contemplate about sleep, dreams and nightmares among other transitions. In this automated evening loop, we travel with Jaleh Nesari, Nazgol Kashani, Niyaz Saghari, Faezeh Nikoozad, Nebras Hoveizavi, Amirali Ghasemi, Simin Yaqubi and Sin Seeni.

Parking Video Library (Tehran-Berlin)

Established in 2004 after the mega project ‘Deep Depression’, Parking Video Library collects, preserves, and updates works by Iranian and international artists in new media, sound, performance, and interactive art. Dedicated to education and noncommercial promotion, it showcases works through screenings, expert talks, and domestic and international exhibitions. Despite the closure of the connected Parkingallery Projects’ gallery space in 2014 (founded in 1998 by art students in Tehran) the video archive and independent platform and project space Parking Video Library remains active. The founders continue to sustain the archive by collaborating with institutions and collections worldwide.
https://archive.parkingallery.org/

16-23/03/2025: TVTV_On Display #5: Sleep Cycle

The Other Side & Room For Doubt present
Altering Tensions
Performances from Parving Video Library’s Archive
as a part of RUPTURE/RAPTURE Program
15-17 NOV 2024

Works by Alireza Abbasi | Chupan Atashi | Sina Babu | Mina Eftekhari | Forough Fami | Mahdieh Farjoo, Amirhossein Shiralee | Kuesti Fraun | Parastou Ghorbani / Sahand Sarhaddi | Mona Kakanj | Nogol Mazloumi | Zohreh Solati | Toktam Tajafari Sahebi | Studio 51 (Bahar Samadi/Navid Salajegheh) | Elma Riza | Mohsen Xedri | Elmira Yousefi |
Curated by Amirali Ghasemi

"Altering Tensions" is a program putting together intriguing and evocative pieces focused on body, space, and trauma. The idea of shifting dynamics or pressures, which resonates well with the themes. Trauma often involves shifts or disruptions in the body and space—whether physical, psychological, or emotional—and "tensions" hints at conflict or strain. "Altering" adds a layer of transformation, which could reflect the way trauma reshapes one's relationship to space and the body over time.
While “Altering Tensions” leaves space open to interpretation yet inviting us to a deeper engagement with a certain tension within the language itself, which mirrors the dilemma of the screening video performances and documentations instead of the presenting the actions themselves. “Altering tensions” wishes to strikes a good challenge between being suggestive without being overly explicit, while allowing each work to speak for itself within this conceptual frame, offer an optional and less visible thread, linking various instances which mindscapes, maps, urban interactions dissolves into bodies in contrast with nature, architecture in the very peculiar way, a journey from personal to public and reverse.

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New Media Society & Parking Video Library: International Open Call for Video Performance / Documentation of Performance Final Submission: October 15, 2024 The Parking Video Library and the New Media Society, with members globally, are initiating an International Open Call for Video Performance / Documentation of Performance. We are interested in receiving submissions from artists who incorporate moving images in thei...

Simin Yaqubi  (IR)

Simin Yaqubi (*1982, Iran). With an early academic background in economical science and social activities, she has gradually shifted her vocation to the fine arts. Theater is another practice which she began to explore since 2011 in parallel to her visual experimentations.

As a visual artist, she has worked within a diverse range of media, including video, sculpture, collage, painting and performance. She is engaged in a posture-based area of visual communication. Subjects of her work often explore dichotomies: tensions between the polished and the rough, the physical and the emotional, and distant and the passionate. Specifically, through experiments in video, she searches for new ways to explore conceptual/visual forms common for non-narrative formats. In her body of works she addresses themes like family structures, communications, identity, integrating/shattered images, peculiar situations such as memory loss, and expired memories.

Simin has exhibited her works internationally both in Iran and abroad.

Unsettled
Galleri CC

6/10 - 5/11 2023

Nebras Hoveizavi
Vida Kashani and Johan Delétang
Soode Karimi
Simin Yaqubi

Curator: Bahareh Mirhadinezhadfard and Amirali Ghasemi

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