How can we, as cultural agents, with similar socio-political and aesthetic concerns create new forms of resistance? How can artists’ moving image perform a political role within this crisis of democracy and civil society?
As our program’s highlight, Anahita Norouzi’s video, Tehran, the Apocalypse, speaks to her complicated relationship to violence, and raises critical questions about the dual role of an artist, as both ‘participant’ and ‘provocateur’.