“Even if we are here”
Performance (45 min) by Yalda Pakzad

Through the leaves of the olive tree in the burning sun or in the white reflection of the snow, from somewhere so quiet and calm or somewhere on the fire, with all the distances we have built and broken and rebuilt in our history. Even if We are here. Even if we are drawn in this vast hole, to the bottom of the tongue to the bottom of the throat to the bottom of the screaming point to the bottom of the silence. To the end of being compressed, crushed, compressed, and pointed. How can it be coincided?

Coincide/spread.
منطبق شدن/پخش شدن
تقسیم کرده/تقسیم شده
Even if we are here
How do we resist?

Even if we are here.
Even if we
We
We
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How can this gathering of our body, Hosting of our breath, and feeling of home be our resistance? we are investigating the authenticity of our intimate presence.

BIO
Yalda Pakzad

Yalda Pakzad Afshar is a performance artist and pastry maker who was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1984. She currently lives in Rome and works between Rome and Tehran. She graduated with a degree in music from Tehran University. She began her artistic journey with puppet
performance and theater music and has over ten years of experience in contemporary dance and performances, which started in the underground network in Iran. She is an independent artist, particularly focused on site-specific performances in recent years. Her latest projects
are based on themes of home, hospitality, connection, and the phenomena of intimacy. She was chosen by the Impulstanz Vienna Festival of Contemporary Dance in 2017 and has had performances in Iran, Bucharest, Vienna, Zagreb, and Rome.

Image credits: Camillo Pasquarelli, Lorenzo Piacevol