21:00 / Body Memory - Body Frontiers
Parisa Karimi (b. 1981 in Berlin) is a media artist, film- and theater maker, VJ and workshop instructor. Her interdisciplinary works explore innovative methods of self-expression and communication, combining storytelling with documentary elements, animation, site-specific performances and installations, along with interactive interfaces and possibilities for participation. Parisa Karimi studied at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. Her work focuses on the human subject, the body and its memories, as well as encounters with the body and its stories. Here, a key role is often played by diasporic perspectives and identity. Who are we? What shapes us, and how can we break through the boundaries of ostensibly fixed histories and spaces? Her works have been shown at various international festivals, including: FiraTàrrega (Spain), VISIO (Brazil), European Short Film Festival at MIT (USA), Environmental Art Festival (Iran). Parisa Karimi is the founder and a co-curator of the HeimatlosGrenzenlos (“HomelessBorderless”) network and studio space. She lives and works in Cologne.
The media artist Parisa Karimi presents excerpts from her current research, along with others from her portfolio, in order to discuss her fields of exploration. Her following performance will combine elements of expanded cinema, poetry and sound; found footages and personal recordings, animations, her own texts and borrowed ones, woven into a single focal point: the body.
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