Collaborations

Classically trained ballet dancer and choreographer Kataneh Karimian, collaborated with me to dance to each letter of Persian alphabet and then with her dance movement to build a spatial experience of the words, love, peace and flower as my three ecologies for mental, social and ecological ecologies by Felix Guattari. Her dance echoed the flow and the free form movement of ink.

In Russell Cotes art gallery museum I found a felt hat with Persian calligraphy script and this hat represented an architectural space in a small scale with a message that travelled across continents almost 200 years ago to reach UK from Iran and this was an inspiration to make a hat with Lyndsey Pook, a final year Costume and Performance Design Student at AUB. This hat represents moveable, transportable pods for art as workshop and performance venue to share art and culture across boundaries.

Ferdinand Wehr a third year model-making AUB student and I collaborated together to create 3D digital models also a 3D object resin printed model for my proposed Persian Peace Pavilion. This was to be an answer and proposal for my temporary transportable structures to be made of aluminum and ETFE film foil and alternatively with timber frame to be more close to nature.

Other ongoing collaboration is with Oliver Knights, a third year model-making AUB Student whilst working with Ferdinand. He was working on a full size multi faceted tiger with triangular shapes. Number three and triangles were significant to my project thus a collaboration came out of a passion for this shape for both of us. This has been the foundation for creating the permanent Art based structures at Pine walk zone as permanent hobs for artists throughout all seasons to support the outdoors exhibition area. These thee triangulated multifaceted venues are made in timber structure with partially polished copper cladding, to reflect the surrounding environment from including the sky, the trees and the people. Reflecting the buzz of life and the tranquil immediate nature. The proposal was to create a living art with copper so that with age and in time it keeps its beauty as a ruin.

Mental vision transfers through ink of a pen on a liquid canvas. Dancing calligraphic forms, the glow of moving lanterns gliding through the gardens at night creates a spatial definition through light, colour and form.

This is a spatial intervention experienced with the community.

The project was about creating space and architecture with Persian calligraphy. Acrylic laser cut alphabets transformed to words and became the three words of ‘love’ for mental ecology, ‘Peace’ for social ecology and ‘Flower’ for environmental ecology influenced by “the three ecologies” book written by Guattari. These words symbolize the essence of a healthy society and environment allowing growth and harmony. The choreographer Kataneh danced to each letter and work as being written with her body movement. The process was filmed and this process was superimposed on our ink flow experiment to create a short movie as the design process.