April 11 - 25, 2019
Teheran - Chambers d’amis
Exhibiting in friends' homes
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In 1986 jan Hoet, director the the art museum in Gent curated a show with over 50 (mostly male) well known artists throughout the city of Gent in 58 private residencies of mostly collectors with the telling name chambers d’amis that translates as a friends’room, This was a novum because unlike the 1970s famous APTART exhibitions that took place for reasons of censorship and political repression in Soviet time Moscow, Gent had no ideological problems with art. the city filled with Museums and cultural institutions open to contemporary art also had no logistical problems for the many celebrity artists it showed including Bruce Nauman. ,Laurende Wiener, Paul Thek , Mario Merz, Dan Grsham and many more.
For a next installment of my strange teaching projects afteR Mexico City, I propose TEHERAN - Chambers d’amis / Exhibiting in friends homes with students from various friends’ art students from various art academies and those who study with me. ( NOTICE - the historical dates Mexico CitY 1968 and Teheran 1979 concerning STUDENtS AND THE MAKING OF HISTORY) Given the fact that the US president has broken off a stabilizing international non-nuclear adams deal with Irtan and has substantially re-isolated Iran’s international standing that has already suffered self-isolation since the Iran revolution of 1979 that has brought a repressive and authoritarian fundamentalist regime to rule thst has no problems to crack down on its protesting students with lethal force as it did only in recent years the spirit of our projected exhibition will resemble more the secretive exhibitions of the APTART period in Soviet Moscow than to the celebration of the greatest of a generation of artists throughout a city in some of the wealthy residences of the Belgian capital of the art of that moment ? There for it is absence of any financial or institutional support thot we have to literally rely on local friends that will host each of our participants which i want to complement with Iranian artists we can hopefully convince to participate.
This chambres d’amis concept speaks of friendship and thus will also be our artistic goal - to connect with local people, independent of art related or not. .The task of everybody participating will consist in it only make a new work during our two weeks stay but also to find a host for a final three day exhibition that should go unnoticed by the local authorities. Like in Mexico City where works were made in concrete and placed illegal indefinitely without specific indication along a specific path on central roads and avenues and made available for viewing only on line and in a forthcoming publication, the splintered up Teheran show too will not be traceable by anybody except by those who know and reassembled on line and later in publication.
asked (not confirmed yet) participant artists / student-artist: i will invite friend-artist professors to invite a few of thseir students ( Heimo Zobernick, Academy of fine arts, Vienna) Jutta Koether,Hamubrg Academy of fine arts); Olaf Nicolai (Munich Academy of fine arts), Gregor Schneider,( Duesseldort Academie of fine arts) -
reference:
“Chambres d’amis”
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, but hosted in 58 private houses in Ghent
21th June – 21th September, 1986
Curator: Jan Hoet
Artists: Carla Accardi, Christian Boltanski, Raf Buedts, Daniel Buren, Michael Buthe, Jacques Charlier, Nicola de Maria, Luciano Fabro, Günther Förg, Jef Geys, Dan Graham, Milan Grygar, François Hers, Kazuo Katase, Niek Kemps, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, Bertrand Lavier, Sol Lewitt, Danny Matthys, Gerhard Merz, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Helmut Middendorf, Juan Muñoz, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Bruce Nauman, Maria Nordman, Oswald Oberhuber, Heike Pallanca, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, Royden Rabinowitch, Norbert Radermacher, Roger Raveel, Wolfgang Robbe, Claude Rutault, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Remo Salvadori, Rob Scholte, Ettore Spalletti, Paul Thek, Niele Toroni, Charles Vandenhove, Philip Van Isacker, Jan Vercruysse, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Martin Walde, Lawrence Weiner, Robin Winters, Gilberto Zorio.
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TEHRAN, DAY 1 - APRIL 12h 2019
first day landing at 2 am, arriving, checking in, FIENDING A FRIEND
i found a friend, Milad outside this cafe .... and we partied all night with his friends.
TEHRAN, DAY 2 - APRIL 13th 2019
first visit
TEHRAN UNIVERSITY
directly on the right hand side of the famous University one encounters the art academy Tehran.
note: the Itanian revolution took off and become a world wide affair to a good part due to A March from the University to the former US embassszy that was taken over
and ended with a hostage crisis that changed the world. (INCLUDING the US election - bye bye Carter )
The near 2 kg heavy book I cattird to all events.
n Iran, private space is politically charged and courtains are paramount - fences and gates are cruxial
very first Chambres d'Amis event by me, with my contribution - A Stormy Daniels film and feast club dinner
Chambres d'Amis event 1 :
Chambres d'Amis, Rainer Ganahl, hosted by Milad Heidari, April 13, 2019
artists presented from the original Jan Hoet show in Ghent, 1986: Carla Accardi, Paul Thek,
after party
TEHRAN, - APRIL 14th 2019 - QUITE UNFAIRLY, THIS DAY WAS NOT COUNTED
jet lag or so - I never got out of bed - everybody esle was finding friends
TEHRAN, DAY 3 - APRIL 15th 2019
meetings:
Strange teaching, artist talk, Fereydoun Ave, Aaran Gallery, April 15, 2019
Strange teaching, Nazila Nobashari, Aaran Gallery, April 15, 2019
Strange teaching, artist talk, Nastaran Safaei, Aaran Gallery, April 15, 2019
Strange teaching, artist talk, Aylar Shahbazi, Aaran Gallery, April 15, 2019
Chambres d'Amis event 2 :
Chambres d'Amis, Hiva Sedaghat, Mitra Ziaeikia, hosted by Sina Karabasssian, April 15, 2019
artists presented from the original Jan Hoet show in Ghent, 1986: Maria Norman, Laurence Wiener (performed by Rainer Ganahl)
TEHRAN, DAY 4 - APRIL 16h 2019
skiing first, meetings later
Chambres d'Amis event 3 :
Chambres d'Amis, Katharina Goeppert, hosted by Deutsche Ausdruecke, April 16, 2019
artists presented from the original Jan Hoet show in Ghent, 1986: Heike Pallanca and Luciano Fabro
deutsche Ausdruecke was a pseudonym for a re-partriated Iranian couple who spent 40 years in Germany and prefered not to be named
TEHRAN, DAY 5 - APRIL 17h 2019
vistit to the museum of then still alive Iranian legend artist MONIR - she passed away only a few days later
meetings followed (some years earlier I had to chance to meet her in person for her Guggenheim show in New York)
Strange Teaching, Amirali Ali Ghassemi, A brief history of Tehran Art and Media, New Media Society, April 17, 2019
Strange Teaching, Alireza Mohammad, artist talk, New Media Society, April 17, 2019
Strange Teaching, Sepehr Khalili, art writer talk, New Media Society, April 17, 2019
Chambres d'Amis event 4
Chambres d'Amis, Marcela Majchrzak and Surja Ahmed hosted by Navid, April 17, 2019
artists presented from the original Jan Hoet show in Ghent, 1986: Marisa Merz and Mario Merz
TEHRAN, DAY 6 - APRIL 18h 2019
shopping
Chambres d'Amis event 5
Chambres d'Amis, Kai Krämer, hosted by Mahyar and Dorsa, April 18, 2019
artists presented from the original Jan Hoet show in Ghent, 1986: Jef Geys and Helmut Middendorf
Chambres d'Amis event 6
Chambres d'Amis, Afshin Chizari, hosted by Mahyar and Dorsa, April 18, 2019
artists presented from the original Jan Hoet show in Ghent, 1986: Norbert Radermacher
TEHRAN, DAY 7 - APRIL 19h 2019
skiing again, gallery visits, meetings
Sttrange Teaching Tehran, gallery visits, Tehran, April 19, 2019
Chambres d'Amis event 7
Chambres d'Amis, Giorgos Kazakis hosted by Meysam, April 19, 2019
artists presented from the original Jan Hoet show in Ghent, 1986: Roger Raveel, Norbert Tradermacher
tattood person: Mahammad
TEHRAN, DAY 8 - APRIL 20th 2019
Strange Teaching Tehran, Visit of Shah Museum, Tehran, April 20, 2019
Chambres d'Amis event 8
Chambres d'Amis, Ruxin Liu hosted by Armin Zamani, April 20, 2019
artists presented from the original Jan Hoet show in Ghent, 1986: Niele Toroni, Kazuo Katase
Chambres d'Amis event 9
Chambres d'Amis, Aylar Shahbazi hosted by Nastar Ansafaei, April 20, 2019
artists presented from the original Jan Hoet show in Ghent, 1986: Giulio Paolini
Strange Teaching Tehran, Artist Presentation, Nastar Ansafaei, Tehran, April 20, 2019
TEHRAN, DAY 9 - APRIL 21st 2019
Strange Teaching Tehran, Visiting the Monir Shahroudy Darmanfarma musum, Tehran, April 21, 2019
Chambres d'Amis event 10
Chambres d'Amis, Yabu Holla Mohamadi, collected by Hadi Alijanii, April 21, 2019
Strange Teaching Tehran, Artist Lecture, Hadi Alijanii, Tehran, April 21, 2019
Chambres d'Amis event 11
Chambres d'Amis, Elmira Mirmiran, hosted by Maryam Farshad, Tehran, April 21, 2019
artists presented from the original Jan Hoet show in Ghent, 1986:
Chambres d'Amis event 12
Chambres d'Amis, Leila Dendic hosted by Elmira Mirmiran and Maryam Farshad, Tehran, April 21, 2019
artists presented from the original Jan Hoet show in Ghent, 1986: Rob Scholte, Robin Winters
TEHRAN, DAY 10 - APRIL 22nd 2019
Strange Teaching Tehran, Artist presentation Alireza Mohammadi, parking garage Tehran, April 22, 2019
Chambres d'Amis event 13
Chambres d'Amis, Maryam Farshad, hosted by Elmira Mirmiran, Tehran, April 22, 2019
artists presented from the original Jan Hoet show in Ghent, 1986:
Chambres d'Amis event 14
Chambres d'Amis, Anne Schmidt,hosted by Elmira Mirmiran, Tehran, April 22, 2019
artists presented from the original Jan Hoet show in Ghent, 1986:
Chambres d'Amis event 15
Chambres d'Amis, Julia Zhoj, hosted by Elmira Mirmiran, Tehran, April 22, 2019
artists presented from the original Jan Hoet show in Ghent, 1986:
TEHRAN, DAY 11 - APRIL 23rd 2019
Chambres d'Amis event 16
Chambres d'Amis, Nogol Mazaloumi, hosted by Behjoo Khazaei, Tehran, April 23, 2019
artists presented from the original Jan Hoet show in Ghent, 1986: Nicola de Maria, Panamarenko
Strange Teaching Tehran, Behjoo Khazaei, film maker talk, Film making in Iran, Tehran, April 23, 2019,
Chambres d'Amis, event 17
Chambres d'Amis, Alexander Grieß, Janis Eckhardt, hosted by Amir Fasijan, Tehran, April 23, 2019
The work consists of a group show with Amir Farsiljani, Sharzadi Rayaghi and Roya Emami and a presentation by Amir Farsilijani
Chambres d'Amis, event 18
Chambres d'Amis, Amir Farsilijani, hosted by Amir Fasijan, Tehran, April 23, 2019
artists presented from the original Jan Hoet show in Ghent, 1986: Rohdes Rabinowitch, Oswald Oberhuber
TEHRAN, DAY 12 - APRIL 24th 2019
Strange Teaching Tehran, Artist name ???, Tehran, April 24, 2019
Strange teaching Tehran, Artist lecutre Rene Saheb, Tehran, April 24th, 2019
Chambres d'Amis event 18
Chambres d'Amis, Lea Lenk, hosted by Hiva Sedagat, Tehran, April 23, 2019
artists presented from the original Jan Hoet show in Ghent, 1986: Martin Walde
Chambres d'Amis event 19
Chambres d'Amis, Mustafa Shabkhan, hosted by Hiva Sedagat, Tehran, April 24, 2019
artists presented from the original Jan Hoet show in Ghent, 1986: Juan Munoz, Jan Vercrusysse
