Obviously in a workshop setting the artists don’t need to be coordinated, as opposed to some selection methods. Thoseare not dissimilar to cleaning fish – you first hold the fish under cold water to wash off the slimy secretions; you scrape the scales with the back of the knife; you turn the fish over and look for a tiny hole close to the fin to poke the tip in and tear the underbelly from tail to grills for disembowelment before washing the fish again with cold water.
However, in a workshop each participant enters the process of production through a theme. At times, and by accident, some of the products follow parallel courses; but, in general, nothing happens, save that objects and parts slowly find their place next to each other. It is not that these final products establish a reassuring relationship with each other.
Or, that they pretend to be formally part of something bigger or that they come as one single collection, but over time an extraordinary order comes out of chaos and this may perhaps be an ideal exhibit without an exhibitor.
Arash Hanaei
Artists:
Hedieh Ahmadi, 1987, Tehran
Rasoul Ashtari, 1991, Tehran
Mahmoud Bakhshi, 1977, Tehran
Olivia Dunbar, 1988, Vancouver
Alex Farrar, 1986, Leeds
Arash Hanaei, 1978, Tehran
Benedikt Hipp, 1977, Munich
Jaki Irvine, 1966, Dublin
Christine Moldrickx, 1984, Münster
Alireza Mohammadi, 1987, Tehran
Nastaran Shahbazi, 1982, Kerman
Nickel van Duijvenboden, 1981, Amsterdam
Aysa Rashid, 1986, Tehran
Elnaz Salehi, 1987, Tehran
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