Bidoun.org Website Review

as a child in tehran, the artist shirin sabahi took weekly painting clas*es not far from park-e laleh, or tulip park, in the city center.. in the stillness of the house at aït oumghar there are ghosts of cats.. book of judges: larry david and the war on the war on comedy. sweet talk: a conversation with thuraya al-basqsami and monira al qadiri. i feel like there’s a forest inside me, full of vegetation. like a bowl of tabbouleh.. soft dramaturgy: a conversation with lukas duwenhögger, part ii. precluding the indifferent, eradicating void and uninspiring vastness of, for instance, sunsets.. soft dramaturgy: a conversation with lukas duwenhögger, part i. love and romance, dating and friendship, loneliness and community, all set against the terror of aging. reza abdoh: radical visions screening series at the museum of modern art a polymath and self-described member of “a tv generation,” pioneering iranian-american theater artist reza abdoh voraciously incorporated varied references to music videos, variety shows, film, dance, clas*ical texts, bdsm, and more into his work, with equal parts poetry and rigor. moving images played an essential role in the artist’s large-scale, interdisciplinary productions beginning in the mid-1980s. in his final working years he also turned to the cinematic form; his second feature remained unfinished at the time of his 1995 death from aids-related complications. in conjunction with the retrospective reza abdoh, currently on view at moma ps1, this series offers insight into the artist’s profound creative energy—films he directed and videos created collaboratively for productions—along across disciplines, abdoh confronted themes of transgression, violence, and abjection to speak to social and political upheaval and marginalization in america and around the world—with a demanding yet transcendent effect on cast members, audiences, and future scholars and followers of his work. while his media output was largely envisioned in the context of theatrical mise en scène, experiencing