Hasht Peykar هشت پیکر

Hasht Peykar / هشت پیکر (eight bodies) An Immersive Experience A collaborative work of: Hengameh Fallah, Lead Artist | Video Art | Visual Design Art Kopischke | Technical Design Jesse McFadden | Sound Design Hasht Peykar explores various factors of body suppression in an immersive environment. The formation of communities around religions and ethics, structural oppression by the governments, or racism can cause individuals to impose certain restrictions on the human body. The piece mainly focuses on Iranian/Afghan women and queer bodies, based on the artist’s living experience. The Persian-language title Hasht Peykar (هشت پیکر) can be translated as eight bodies/figures/portraits. The body can be divided into seven parts: Head and Neck, Chest, Abdomen, Pelvis, Thigh, Shank, and Foot. In this piece, “the soul” is added as another part of the body. The name of the piece also refers to Haft Peykar, a romantic epic by Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi written in 1197. • Special Thanks to: Darlane Litaay | Movement Consultation Tala Salman | Illustration David Grubbs | Supervisor Sadah Espii Proctor | Supervisor • Monday, May 9th, 7-8 pm Bed-Stuy Art House 198 Lewis Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11221 • Hang-out and drink: 8-8:30 pm *Contains nudity* ** Please provide the COVID-19 proof of vaccination** • Pay as you wish Suggested Donation: $10 Biographies: Hengameh Fallah (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, based in Brooklyn, NY. She is an MFA candidate in Performance and Interactive Media Arts at the City University of New York. Hengameh’s works mainly focus on human communications, experiences, and emotions, as individuals and in communities. She created experimental performances Ingress (2019), hCG in quarantine (2020) at the Emruz Festival, and Ramz (2021), at the Reconnect Festival. She is also exploring experimental films, moving images, and video art. She collaborated as a video designer in Lula 19/85 at the New Works Festival, the Brick Theater. She is the founder of Aasoo Performing Arts, a dynamic platform that brings different communities together with the mission of cultural exchange and social change. Art Kopischke (they/them) is a multi-media artist and theater maker whose work has been presented at LinoKino, I Don’t Wanna See That, Anchoress Syndicate, FEAST, ApartmentPARTY, NOTHEME Festival, and Am I Write Ladies. Their plays have been read by Skeleton Rep, the Bechdel Group, Egg & Spoon Theatre, Invited Dress, and the Artistic Co-op and they have done video work for Nerdist through UCB’s Don’t Think Productions, The New Ohio Theatre, Expand the Canon, and American Realness. Art is an editor, producer, guest, and performer on podcasts Random by Catherine Bloom and AP Studio Files. They are a founder of MA’AM Comedy and a proud member of Smear Campaign. Art is a Futuress Coding Resistance Fellow and the Artist in Residence at Try-Try Again. Jesse McFadden is a producer, composer, and performer of music, as well as a sound designer and audio engineer, and music technology educator. He has worked in these roles for musicians and bands, artists, brands, startups, music festivals, schools, parks, and more. As a sound designer, Jesse collaborated with Rafay Rashid’s musical performance of Jungle Badtameez, which occupied the space of Asad Raza’s installation work for the 2017 Whitney Biennial, Root sequence. Mother tongue (2017). His recent focus lies in performing his own electronic music using hardware electronic instruments such as modular and vintage synthesizers, sequencers, and samplers. Using the modular synthesizer system he designed, Jesse pushes the limits of traditional synthesized sounds to the extreme, creating scenarios in which the sounds of electronic music are swiftly destroyed, exposed, and unraveled into clicks, blips, distortion, feedback, and chaos at the twist of a knob. A new focus for Jesse is now also developing systems for interactive sound art and music experiences and installations, also using modular synthesis and sampling.