Performance Projects Series

"Life is a medium form of art, but art is a performance of practicing life's discipline." Leila

Performance-Projects Series

Ghasempor's work from Practicing Art and Life series, San Diego, CA.

PERFORMANCE PROJECT SERIES

The following projects are mostly my solo projects from a few series, How To Become A Flower, How To Become A Tree, Practicing Art and Life, and Architectural dance movements.

Practicing Art and Life Series

The following projects are my works in the same series, some of their titles are chronological and some does have their own title but are part of the same work series..

Sweeping Out the Silence

Sweeeeeeeping out,
the silence, Kiiiiiiiiiissing out, the righteous,
Leaning down,
the lightness,
Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiipping oooooooooooooooooout,
the dddddddddarkness,
and,
step,
step,
step,
sweep,
sweep,
sweep,
pain is still sinking into voices of distance…

Still Counting

…seconds count,
……minutes counts,
………hours count,
…………days count,
……………weeks count,
………………months count,
…………………years count, ……………………decades counts,
…………………………centuries count,
and
we are still counting…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Breathe Waiting

Waiting, next breath is coming,
Waiting, next dread is humming,
Waiting, next morning is downing,
Waiting, next home is coming
Waiting, next room is bombing,
Waiting, next door is a closed circle,
Waiting, next doorknob is a two-way street,
Waiting, next lock is embodied by a sneeze,
Waiting, next key is an eye drop in rain,
Waiting, next push is forward,
Waiting, next stretch is backward,
Waiting, next dead hands are not yours
Waiting, next time is coming
Waiting, next time is numbing…

Displacing The Places Series

This work was created in response to immigration unwelcoming in some countries.

Ghasempor's lecture performance, Present Perfect, at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago.

Present Perfect

Everyone Has a Door Series

Ghasempor's performance, Everyone Has a Door at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago.

Everyone Has a Door Works Series

This work was created in response to immigration unwelcoming in some countries.

My Displaced Steps

Performative Clay Series

Performative Clay

This work was created in response to bringing the real life's pains into the immateriality of clay that we believe our human essence is made of into the displacement and disembodiment of immigrants.

Disform

Chair Series

This work was created in response to the real-life's abandonment that I saw in the chair situation; a device we use for comfort was abandoned in many garbage areas that I confronted in my daily walk.

Chair President