Parisa Ghaderi: For Dancing in the Streets
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$12 Adults // $10 Seniors/Students // $6 Youth (Children 5 and under free)
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Recurring Event (Weekly)
About This Event
For dancing in the streets (2023) is an immersive, multi-channel video work by artist Parisa Ghaderi. For this installation, Ghaderi collaged hundreds of found images and video from the ongoing Woman, Life, Freedom protests that began in Iran in 2022. The work explores the female body and how it has long been a contested site of struggle around the world, specifically among Iranian women.
Dance has been used as a form of protest and resistance in Iran for decades, where modesty laws forbid women from dancing in public. Both men and women have used dancing to protest Iran’s compulsory veiling laws, resulting in their imprisonment and even death because of their peaceful protests. For dancing in the streets is a testament to how shared suffering can foster resistance.
About the artist
Parisa Ghaderi is a visual artist, curator, educator, and filmmaker. She earned her BA in Visual Communications from Art & Architecture University (Tehran, Iran) and her MFA at the University of Michigan Stamps School in 2014. She served as Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Michigan State University and is now Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Technology at Shoreline Community College.
Parisa Ghaderi (born 1983, Tehran, Iran). Installation view of For Dancing in the Streets,2023. Multi-channel video. Courtesy of the Artist. Photography by Rebecca Cook and Michigan Photography
