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Art DVD No V3
"Looking Like a God"
(In English)
This is recording of an installation
work and audiovisual performance. Photographic images are projected, diagonally,
by four projectors on several layers of semi transparent screens, creating
a three dimensional illusion.
The theme of this work is the
dilemma that Iranian girls/women have to deal with in forming their identities,
living in today’s cross-cultural societies.
The fanatical tradition of their
own culture on the one hand, and the western influences that are based on
commercialism and moral decay on the other, is creating an unhealthy and damaging
environment for the development of young characters.
The performance begins with
calm music, and a narrator (a male voice) begins with: “In the beginning
was the word...” and carries on reading until the creation of woman “…
she shall be called woman”. At this point the music changes to “Carmina Burana” and a female narrator
reads a few verses of a poem, “It is me who is missing”, during which images
of eastern women in traditional costume are projected. The music changes,
yet again, to soft music before some sensual 1940s music begins to accompany
images of culturally confused eastern women trying to identify with Hollywood icons.
Photography & Design: Parvaneh
Farid
Reading: Verses from the Gospel according
to St. John, and a poem by Parvaneh Farid, “It
is me who is missing ”
Narrators: Raymond Whorley & Parvaneh Farid
Music: Parvaneh Farid, Carl
Orff, Songs from the 1940s
The Hampshire Chronicle:
"Parvaneh Farid's audio-visual piece, Looking
Like a God, provokes all senses. Inside an unlit cubic room hangs, drapes
of black tulle, partially concealing a few manikins dressed in Eastern costume.
The show begins with a recitation of the first few verses of the Gospel according
to St. John before 1940s wartime music
is played. During this images of women through the ages are projected on to
the many layers of netting. They range from Marilyn Monroe to traditionally-dressed
Muslim women... The piece is about East meeting West and the cultural influences
faced by eastern women who live in the West.”
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Art DVD No V4
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"Neghab"
(Persian)
"I Mask, Therefore I Am"
(English)
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To
watch this video ("Neghab"
in Persian) please click on this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPcshWcKkgE&feature=user
To
watch this video ("I mask,
therefore I am" in English)
please click on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi12O0gAe9s&feature=user
This is an audio-visual DVD of
still photographic images that are animated to a poem by Parvaneh Farid, called
“It is me
who is missing* ”.
The theme of the poem refers to
the emotional challenges and identity crises that an Eastern refugee girl
faces within the western culture of her hosting country. Although this DVD
was initially made as a study for an installation work, “Looking Like a God”, but it managed to establish itself as an independent
piece of work.
Photography & Video Making,
Poetry, Voiceover: Parvaneh Farid
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Art DVD No V5
This is a recording of performance
art that involves a number of life size figurative sculptures. During the
course of the performance, as a symbolic gesture, the sculptural figures that
represent the guardians of the meaning of life and death are burned to ashes.
Performance, Music and Sculpture
by Parvaneh Farid
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Art DVD No V6
"A Silence to be Heard"
To
watch this video please click on
the following links:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=b7J1M7NdkR4&feature=user
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This is a recording of a performance
to specially composed music within the setting of
an installation work.
The performance took place inside
an art installation work that marked the execution of 10 Baha'i women in the
county of Shiraz in Iran in 1983. The installation space represents a prison
environment, where most of the Bahá’í scriptures were revealed in the late
19th century.
The theme of this work is based
on some principles of the Bahá’í faith ( http://www.bahai.org
) which forms a set of practical steps towards unity in diversity and global
peace, the core belief of this faith. These
principles are translated to English sign
language, before being choreographed in the style of Rudolf Steiner's dance
and movements; “Eurythmy”. The sign language
is taken as a metaphor for the silence, ignorance and denial of the breach
of human rights of the Baha'is in Iran.
The music is an experimental composition
which is drawn from the graphic form of the hand gestures and then orchestrated.
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Installation, Design, Photography,
Music, Performance by Parvaneh Farid
“The art of Parvaneh Farid celebrates the unity
of religion as expressed by Bahá’u’lláh, the all-embracing religion in which
Parvaneh firmly believes.
This notion of the unity of religion finds expression
in the unifying elements of her work in both a formal and spiritual sense.
In a formal sense, creativity ignores boundaries.
Thus photography, music, dance, performance, together with any material that
can be usefully employed, are all used as one to make powerful art not easily
forgotten.
The belief in the unity of religion
grows, of course, out of a belief in the unity of God and extend in
a notion of the unity of mankind in all its diversity.
The spiritual content in Parvaneh Farid’s work is universal, yet it finds its home and, in deed,
ruthless suppression in Parvaneh’s native Iran.
In that ancient and historically tolerant country,
followers of Bahá’u’lláh have been systematically persecuted for believing
in, among other things, the equality of men and women and the elimination
of prejudice.
Parvaneh Farid’s recent
statements are an impassioned and articulate rebuke to her religion’s persecutors,
in the form of eloquent and original works of art.”
“Prof. Vaughan Grylls”
"This
room size painting and sculpture must be the biggest and most dramatic work
on show. Parvaneh Farid is from Iran. She uses herself as a woman, imprisoned by the
regime, which reminds us of the persecution for power."
“Meridian TV”
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Art DVD No V7
"Táhirih"
To
watch this video please click on
this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQbemtuU16M
This is a stylised art DVD by Parvaneh Farid
on the theme of Táhirih’s historic gesture,
appearing unveiled in public in late 19th century Iran.
Táhirih ("The
Pure One" or Qurratu'l-`Ayn, "Comfort
of the Eyes") are both titles of Fátimih
Baraghání (b. 1814-1820, d. 1852).
This event marked the dawn of the
Babi and later the Bahá’í era, which introduced a radical set
of social and religious principles with the long term view of establishing
universal peace and harmony.
Táhirih is renowned as a pioneer, speaking
out for the social rights and equality of women. Consequently, Táhirih was executed in 1852 in Tehran. She Proclaimed: “You can kill
me as soon as you like, but you cannot stop the emancipation of women”
Video Making, Design and Performance: Parvaneh
Farid
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Parvaneh Farid as “Ruth”
in “Pirates of Penzance” by “Gilbert and Sullivan”
To watch these videos please click
on the links below:
1.
"Ruth"
2.
"Paradox"
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Parvaneh Farid as “Princess
Kelly” in “Mort” by “Terry Pratchett”
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Parvaneh Farid in “The King
& I” by Rodgers & Hammerstein
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Parvaneh Farid in “Patience”
by “Gilbert and Sullivan”
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Parvaneh Farid in “Merry Widow”
by Franz Lehár
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Parvaneh Farid as “Charlie Chaplin”
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Parvaneh Farid as “Marlene Dietrich”
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Parvaneh Farid as “Marilyn Monroe”
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