[...]rous work is ="trms">situated in a larger ="trms">trajectory of creative investigations, which i have been busy with under “="trms">storytelling,” are dealing with the ="trms">questions of conditions in which non-antagonistic critical encounters between ordered conventions of knowing and chaotic textuality/="trms">imagination is possible. to take the mind where it does not belong. to the rogue arsenals of middle eastern reservoir of ="trms">imagination and its locatable mimicries. to its repetitive scaf="trms">foldings, fugitive ="trms">trajectories, its performances of fatal experience of the text. to unload its corrosive textualities and let them run their acids across one another. this project is ="trms">interested in both the unleashing and the pleasure of watching the text die.

part of the dis="trms">position of this proposal is also the sug="trms">gestion that the two collaborators of this project, ="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Foad, are invested in those notions in their practice. ="frds scrmbld">Foad Farahani's ="trms">poem “farar” enacting contemporary artistic formations and ="trms">past-compound-mask, and ="frds scrmbld">Jassem Hindi transnational ="trms">poetic ="trms">agency, are both artists with acute appetite for chaotic ="trms">imagination. Their instinct for the fusion of nothingness and ="trms">excess, appearance and disappearance, creation and destruction, is at once carved and unpacked in the ="trms">literary-="trms">poetic mosaics of their work='lgc'>: ="frds scrmbld">Foad's use of middle-persian mystic sensibilities and ="frds scrmbld">Jassem's combination of intensive encounter with the ="trms">poetics of apocalypse and acid textuality.

My work has been about='lgc'>: learning/training in the ="trms">crafts of noticing little ="trms">traps of ="trms">semiotic and ="trms">material trans-="trms">species cohabiting, ="trms">mutual coproduction of economics, ="trms">ecology, ="trms">affect-studies, ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical household studies, and understanding of the orders of the ="trms">natural and human ="trms">world, in the particular ="trms">history/="trms">story of the East. in my projects i take ="trms">history as the overlapping tracks and traces and many tranjectories of ="trms">world-making, human and nonhuman. the textual performance of this project is in the effects of ='mywrk'>my research and practice with the ="trms">questions of globalism and in="trms">heritance='lgc'>: difficult ="trms">translational spaces, ="trms">communicative nonunderstanding, ="trms">relational ="trms">aesthetics, and the ="trms">differential sites of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading. and i use performative ="trms">lectures='lgc'>: a ="trms">material practice, hybrid in digital manual tactile operations of speaking.

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“Four Masks of an Eastern Post="trms">modernism”

insurgent, ="trms">poet, mystic, sectarian
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chaos, violence, illusion, silence

="lsts lst1">•(sectarianism) apocalyptic ="trms">writing
="lsts lst1">•(="trms">poetic) will to chaos
="lsts lst1">•(mystic) exile space
="lsts lst1">•(insurgent's) otherless subjectivity


یاغی
شاعر
نوچه
زاهد


='lgc'>[performative ="trms">methodology='lgc'>]
for the collaborative part of sharjah project, i like to propose four “masks” (or “rotational avatars”) of subjective anarchy, that are few among many existential prototypes and subjectivity constellations of eastern post="trms">modernism, as collaborative sites of encounter with four (or less and not necessarily individual) artists/participants.

="lsts lst1">•collaborators’ masks='lgc'>: chaos, violence, illusion, silence / (yaghi یاغی, sha'er شاعر, noche نوچه, zahed زاهد)='lgc'>--each endeavoring to discern the ="trms">ontological possibilities and ="trms">aesthetic ="trms">imaginations of four theoretically-worked dis="trms">positions that ="ppl">Jason Bahbak ="ppl">Mohaghegh puts forward='lgc'>: insurgent, ="trms">poetic, mystical, sectarian modes of consciousness, operating within multiple terrains of human and inhuman experiences of the middle east.
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> masks (the above mentioned four masks are accompanied by four “performative epitomes”)='lgc'>: the exile, the ="trms">animal, the shadow, the machine, (the ="trms">monster, the thing, the contagion, the mirror image)

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installation='lgc'>:
speculative objects (='lgc'>~/= ="trms">anthropological objects) ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> quasi objects
between research, ="trms">social critique, speculative theory, and artistic production ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> politics of re="trms">presentation

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='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]insurgent='lgc'>:
resistance to ="trms">modernism, and revolutionary ="trms">agency
='lgc'><='lgc'>== exhaustive dis="trms">integration of belief-structures in ="trms">modernity
otherless individuation
eternal war
killer's freedom
(="trms">affective) overreaction


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">poet='lgc'>:
will to chaos (='lgc'>--a type of consciousness that perceive the catastrophic-apocalyptic hint at each turn)
='lgc'><='lgc'>== cataclysmic time of ="trms">modernism (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- great ="trms">social disorder='lgc'>: prison, exile, censorship, etc. ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> Hedayat, ="ppl">Shamlu, Forough, Nima's tone of aggression ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a proto-sectarian space='lgc'>: secret ="trms">societies, iconoclastic ="trms">trajectories, ='strcls'>*the compartmentalized and esoteric ="nms">iranian avant-garde with ="trms">aesthetic devices of='lgc'>: unity, isolation, subversion='lgc'>])
fugitive post="trms">modern map of escape from the grasp of the experience of the ="trms">modernist ="trms">phenomenon
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="trms">responses to ="trms">historical events of atrocity and ="trms">transition
mystical, criminal, mercenary, revolutionary edifice
a="trms">morphous, obscure, versatile (thinker/="trms">writers)
conceptual axes/="trms"nttrm="search">archetypes of='lgc'>: power, hostility, banishment, solitude, desire, sacrifice


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]mystic='lgc'>:
sunken tranquility, relaxed self-annihilation, ascetic r="trms">enunciation of ="trms">material (='lgc'>=/= post="trms">modernism's obsession with speed, with ="trms">narcissistic ="trms">technologies, hyper-="trms">materialism)
neomystial ="trms">trajectories of new-wave ="nms">iranian cinema filmic style ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hypnotic effect ='lgc'>=/= audition, dialogue, ="trms">narrative
& exile space


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]sectarian='lgc'>:
will to extremity
(apocalyptic ="trms">writing)
breakaway modality
نوچه پروری noche-parvary's effective radars and tactics of attunement, detection, ="trms">narration
(annihilatic temptation to) convert the text into a closed circle
(sect's threats of) forbidden power, moral ambiguity, collective ="trms">density(/destiny)

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='lgc'>[this project works with:='lgc'>]

='lgc'>[='lgc'>]
contributions/="trms">responses of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•radical leaders (Jala Al Ahmad, ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali Shariati, Khomeini) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ideological suspicion towards models of machinism and ="trms">cosmopolitanism in the ="trms">modern age
="lsts lst1">•intellectual forerunners (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sectarian)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">literary icons (textual innovations of Hedayat, ="ppl">Shamlu, Akhavan, Baraheni) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">poetic violence='strcls'>* and its apocalyptic tendencies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that the declared east is plunged into a catastrophic epoch ='lgc'>==freed='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a “will to chaos”
="lsts lst1">•artistic visionaries (Naderi, Forough, ="nms">iranian new-wave cinema neomystical) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> strategies of withdrawal, aims of disappearance, ="trms">situated in obscure elsewheres of auditory and visual landscape
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#ideology ='at'>#="trms">literature ='at'>#mysticism ='at'>#sectarianism
(from the middle eastern front) to (the issues of)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦post-="trms">historical instant
="lsts lst2">◦catastrophic resistance
="lsts lst2">◦creative ="trms">imagination
 ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> issues of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst3">◾="trms">technology
="lsts lst3">◾re="trms">presentation
="lsts lst3">◾globalization
="lsts lst3">◾colonialism
  ='lgc'>+='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> drastic re="trms">interpretations of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst4">◽time and being
="lsts lst4">◽death
="lsts lst4">◽pain
="lsts lst4">◽transcendence
="lsts lst4">◽victory
="lsts lst4">◽blood

='lgc'>~~(="trms">modernity is an extremist epoch)='lgc'>='lgc'>==> mithridatic approaches
anticultural visionaries
extreme ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> resistance-fighter/ideological ="trms">dictator, artistic forerunner/experimental thinker, ="trms">different constellations of desire
='strcls'>***mithridatism مهردارو mehr-daru='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*="trms">internalization of toxicity='strcls'>* (the gradual in="trms">gestion of lethal substances so as to gain immunity) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an archaic protective tactic, an ancient model of defense, (subterranean practice of pirates, alchemists, cult leaders, shamans, guerrilla columns, spies, ="trms">paranoid kings's ='strcls'>*logic of encounter='strcls'>*)
(="trms">poetic extremism ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) mithridatic='lgc'>: dispensing fragmented verses, aphorisms, and engravings of the atrocity; invitation and unleashing of the malevolence itself, to seduce ob="trms">literation;
="prgrph">-affliction, existence thriving in the wound
(assumptions of) inevitability ='lgc'>+ anticipation ='lgc'>+ projection ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> mithridatic remedy (in ideological ='and'>& ="trms">literary ="trms">apparatuses)='lgc'>: “swallowing partial glances of the extinction of ="trms">society, actuality, and being itself” (="ppl">Mohaghegh) ='lgc'>[a form of training='qstn'>? for continuation='qstn'>?='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">poet asking us to fasten our reeling gazes to the objects of damage and derangement (='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali ) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (extremist='lgc'>:) thought and expression have taken the shape of a ='strcls'>*meteorological device='strcls'>*, forecasting seasons of pestilence and mutilation ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- my whole work has been against that='lgc'>]

fanatical ="trms">responses to the evolving storm ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= the fool (the one whose cognitive defend-="trms">system is down), the ="trms">joker (figure of the always problematic, with its speculative sense for potent tie between meaning and bodies), the cheerleader (porpoising ="trms">socially deviant, corruptin[...]