postgraduate program
Sina Seifee A talk with Gary Farrelly
interview
This video is part of a series of conversations by Sina Seifee with the current artists in a.pass postgraduate program Summer of 2021.
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hi, why am i concerned with the complaint of my friends? this is about checking my own infrastructural concerns about zones of encounter and redirecting oversized libidinal aggressions, [and pain-relief? {is my work all about (philosophical/artistic) pain-relief?}] ... Iran-centrism ... ([let's start with] the materially textured poetics of) ajayeb --> descriptive practices of poetics and natural history --> (active capacities of) description --> [getting interested in] *description* (and my own diffractive descriptive acts) --> it is about many different forms that something can take and does take + the things that can be perceived and thought with those things --> (عجایب المخلوقات / عجایب نامه) [*]ajayeb: a once percepted thing on the threshold of sense in the prisma of social poesis producing a cartography of what might be happening in a world as an object of composition an alternative perspective on temporality (of anthropocene, or whatever your bad object is,) involves developing a poetics of description as a mode of affective and aesthetic amplification ... technology is anything describable as a technology ...
postgraduate program, reading session, workshop
Not in the Mood
3 May-31 July 2021
Isabel Burr Raty, Adrijana Gvozdenović, Antye Guenther, Sara Manente, Rob Ritzen, Sina Seifee
notinthemood
a.pass Block 2021 II curated by Isabel Burr Raty, Adrijana Gvozdenović, Antye Guenther, Sara Manente, Rob Ritzen, Sina Seifee –
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Adrijana Gvozdenović archiving artistic anxieties
archiving artistic anxieties
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performative publishing, research center
Sina Seifee ZOOLOGICAL VANDALISM
7 euro
1 February 2020
Sina Seifee
ZOOLOGICAL VANDALISM by Sina Seifee
ZOOLOGICAL VANDALISM by Sina Seifee in collaboration with editor Renan Lauran and designer Foad Farahani, is immersion in the compiling and composing of Seifee’s notes on medieval bestiaries, and placing them in sequential order. It is the first chapter of a series that creates context and opens small descriptive steps towards (what Latour might call) “knowing interestingly” about bestiaries. It is a speculative adventure in bio-techno tales and old styles of knowing. As an “ecology of obligation” with Iranian sensuality and its ardent materiality, somewhere in the menagerie of found and feral animal videos on Whatsapp and Telegram, is Seifee’s undisciplined grounding in visual crafts.
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performative publishing
RRadio Triton Data Retrieval Interface
1 July 2018 / online: https://rradiotriton.apass.be
frontispiece of RRadio Triton Data Retrieval Interface
RRadio Triton is an experimental radio project aiming at producing collective audio documents gathered in and disseminated by the ad hoc fictional radio label/station, recording, editing, sampling, remixing and releasing audio and soundscapes. The audio publications of RRadio Triton are the recomposition of the outcomes of the voluntary contributions from all the actors of the 2017 a.pass seminar, BLOCK 17/I TROUBLE ON RADIO TRITON_ ((((((( CHANGING (THE) WORLD (S) )))))) curated by Pierre Rubio.
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Parallel Parasite Timeline Repository – Web Publication
Research Center Document
Parallel Parasite Timeline Repository
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research portfolio
Sina Seifee a.pass dossier
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Research portfolio for finishing a.pass:
Download here: Sina Seifee dossier for a.pass end-communication.pdf
postgraduate program, project
A looming score – we share your politics of damage
2 September-1 December 2019
Block 2019/III curators Lilia Mestre and Sina Seiffee
titanus scylla by ladalbarran2000
Why loom? We were thinking about the loom’s invocation of the closeness of the textile sense, fabrics that bind our desires and bodies. The loom means also the threatening feeling of an inevitable terrible thing as it approaches. And the possibility of b-looming, from the rest, waste, residue, remainders of the storm. Furthermore, loom echoes a gendered practice of writing textile; in the making of fabric like Arachné, that talented mortal weaver who challenged the god of wisdom, as well as Penelope, who weaved and weaved (a mournful making and unmaking fabrics) to postpone her arranged marriage. The loom is a metaphor that invites us to think of reality as something deeply embedded within context, like “the weaver’s loom that is discerned within the cloth it weaves” (Veena Das). That means, modes of knowing constitute the objects of knowing in a manner that profoundly affects how one comes to inhabit a new reality.
That is just the conceptual backdrop for us. In this block we want to focus on a support structure that will help each other research and continue what has been initiated in the past block, ‘Troubled Gardens.’ We transport what has been found out there and elsewhere into looming (transposed into weaving + feeling the darkness of it). That is to sustain being immersed in the subjects of ecology, feminism and their possible political agency in this unpredictable and precarious world we are living in. In the coming block, we’ll take these lines thought while going back “home” (we will land somewhere in a.pass studios hosting three scenographies from Laura, Maurice and Caterina for their End-Communication). We would take the movement of going inside as the one to prepare for winter: gather, digest, tell stories, imagine futures. As a curatorial approach we are not interested in obsessing on these concepts per se, but working in and through the particular challenges of our researches.
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Monday Readings Databases
16 April 2018 / a.pass, 3rd floor
Stickyness, stopping points, consistency, routines, mnemosyne
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This Monday Reading prepared with Sina Seifee will be dedicated to the intricate structures of the ubiquitous database. Browsing the tables and rows of this very website, we will try to graps the affordances and limits of organising the world as a collection of digital data.
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Monday Readings
15 January-16 April 2018
Reading across technical tools and theoretical devices
Keyboard
In cultural institutions like a.pass, digital tools are used for communication, archiving, administration and production. These computational infrastructures depend more often than not on the services of tech giants and are put to use without too much space for reflection on how they actually work. If we want to bring technology within reach of interrogation and critique, how to break the spell of those paralysing regimes? How to shift the relationship from efficiency to curiosity; from scarcity to multiplicity and from solution to possibility?
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Sina Seifee Little Fables of Practice Workshop
24-25 July 2017 / a.pass 4th floor
Sina Seifee - Moon index in Sa'di world refraction poetics
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performative publishing, postgraduate program
THE MEDIUM SCORE / Sina Seifee
ajayeb popup book
There has been a shift in humanities scholarship:
(feminist science studies, the post humanities, the ecological humanities, animal studies, queer theory,) humanities scholars have represented their matters of care with an aesthetic (and therefore political) commitment to narrating stories with an emphasis on the relationality among agencies, forces, phenomena, and entities usually kept separate, in the background, or out of the story altogether
–> redistribution of agencies
political stake ==> aesthetic tactics
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Book club #7bis An Animal Escape Case
10 March 2017 / a.pass
Book club series special event / Sina Seifee
Tessa Farmer - 2010 A Darker Shade of Grey
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