The work was open for viewing only during the Summer Screenings 2024.
SHOUT IN SILENCE (فریاد در سکوت) by Nima Nikakhlagh Iran (2012)
Performance film orchestrated by Nima Nikakhlagh.
Nima Nikakhlagh is a multidisciplinary artist, native to Iran, who arrived in the United States in 2014. Nima’s practice concerns itself with socio-political power dynamics and political resistance approached in a poetic manner. Most of his works are performance-based, and he perceives performance art as not only a form of visual art but much more, a social-political art form and a social-political art practice. His work frequently uses situation orchestration and some provocation – interruption of daily life – as mechanisms of audience internalization of his concepts – the real action takes place within the consciousness of the viewer. In his words, “the togetherness that public/street performance art establishes is something truly necessary.” Nima’s works have appeared/been performed in Iran, Europe, Canada, and the United States. He has published two literary-performative books: Bodies, Languages, Truths and This Is Not a Book. Nima is a 2023-2024 Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art recipient.
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