
The Ferris wheel turns when the wind blows
Residencies
- 07.11 > 19.11.2022
- 19.07 > 25.07.2021
My research is practice-based and focuses on the relationships between urban infrastructures in their actuality and the sociopolitical history they carry within their structure. With each project within this research I put a particular architectural element at the center of a narrative performance. In these performances I try to make a narrative compound based on both historic documentation accessible in archives and the ongoing flow of the infrastructure’s space in contemporary, everyday life.
I work a lot with archives, old photos of the city, blue prints, maps, local testimonies, etc. I then allow the data to get modified as the stories are being shaped. Blurring the line between fact and fiction is what enables me to draw new narratives from this urban fabric.
It’s about questioning the relationships between and within historical events, and about discovering small actions that can shake the stability of architectural elements that favour oppression. These subtle counter-actions are rather developed through poetry and imagination than through analysis of institutionalised.
In ‘The Ferris wheel turns when the wind blows’ I want to introduce you to the private property of a historical figure. This particular plot of land is located in the Evin neighborhood that stretches from the northwest of Tehran to the foot of the Alborz mountains.
Dramaturgical advice: Maarten Van den Bussche
With special thanks to: Myriam Van Imschoot, Samah Hijawi