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The Walk with Tara Fatehi

Join artist and writer Tara Fatehi on an audio journey through The Artists’ Fair, as she weaves her way through the space, interacting with and observing the people, objects, materials and sounds that surround her. Working across performance, theatre, spoken word, dance and writing, Fatehi explores the ephemeral interactions between memory, bodies and site, using the fair itself as a space of live exploration

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‘My Knees’, part 17/365 of Mishandled Archive by Tara Fatehi Irani

Biography

Tara Fatehi

Tara Fatehi (b. Tehran, 1987) is an artist, writer and performer. She has been working across performance, theatre, video, music, spoken word, dance and writing since 2006. Her work is at the intersection of the sociopolitical and the poetic and is primarily concerned with the ephemeral interactions between memories, words, bodies and sites. She has performed at the Royal Academy of Arts, United Nations Office at Geneva, V&A,  Stadtgarten Köln, SPILL Festival, Nuffield Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, Toynbee Studios, Chelsea Theatre, HighFest and Molavi Theatre amongst other international sites. She enjoys unfinishedness, mistranslation, multivocality (as in having multiple voices), ambiguity and playfulness. 

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