2019-2021
Faraz Anoushahpour (Iran/Canada) is an artist, filmmaker, and programmer originally from Tehran and currently based in Toronto. He holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the Architectural Association (London, UK), and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from OCAD University (Toronto). He was Programmer at Images Festival (2014-2017), and participant in the Belligerent Eyes residency at the Prada Foundation (Venice, Italy), among others. His collaborative film and installation work with Parastoo Anoushahpour, and Ryan Ferko employs various performative structures that operate in relation to specific sites. Their collective projects explore collaboration as a way to upset the authority of a singular narrator or position. His work has been screened and exhibited at the New York Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Experimenta (Bangalore), ZK/U Centre for Art and Urbanistics (Berlin) Media City Film Festival, Mercer Union and Gallery 44 (Toronto).
To be a thing at all – a rock, a lizard, a human – is to be in a twist. Tongue twisters inclined towards nonsense.
Logic includes nonsense as long as it can tell the truth.
The logic of nonsense.
The needle skipped the groove of the present.
Into this dark forest you have already turned.
I take the present to mean for the last twelve thousand years.–Timothy Morton
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