On the Notion of Return
Earlier in the day, a workshop will offer a more intimate setting for reading excerpts from Fanny Söderbäck’s ‘Revolutionary Time: Revolt as Temporal Return’ and Harry Harootunian’s ‘The Future of Fascism’. Through these texts, and through shared architectural examples, the workshop will consider how return unfolds across time, politics and space, touching on revolt, accumulation, uneven development, nationalism and the persistence of unresolved histories. The workshop is limited to 12 participants and requires registration. About Aria & Azadeh Aria Farajnezhad (b. 1989) is a multidisciplinary artist working across video, sound, ceramics, installation, and essayistic writing. His research-based practice examines the political and historical dimensions of infrastructure, public space, and representation. In his project series Beyond Undoing a Rediscovery, he engages with the colonial imagery of the Brinkmann mural at Bremen Central Station and its persistence in public space situating it in dialogue with diverse local contexts and interconnected causes. He studied at the University of the Arts Bremen, where he completed the Meisterschüler program in 2022. From 2020 to 2022, he co-ran the artist-run space Circa 106 in Bremen. He is currently a Villa Minimo fellow at Kunstverein Hannover. Azadeh Sarjoughian (b.1979) is a curator and researcher whose work engages contemporary art practices, decolonising art histories, feminist art historiography and the politics of exhibition-making, with a focus on Iran, the wider SWANA region and their diasporas. She holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Birmingham and is co-editor of the Third Text special issue Polyphony: Voice, Method, Archive (2024). She is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Brighton, where her project Curating Unrest: Political Graphics from Street to Gallery examines the ethical challenges of researching, archiving and re-presenting graphic expressions of dissent from Iran’s Women, Life, Freedom uprising. ?Registration via Mail: aria.farajnejad@gmail.com