Fariborz Karimi

Fariborz Karimi - Oh, wild gazelle, where are you?

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‘Oh, wild gazelle, where are you?’’ is a collective creation that creates a shared reality of friendship and care, which offers comfort and resilience. The performance challenges the issues of exotification, censorship, and self-censorship in both public and private spaces across various contexts. By exploring the intersections between overlapping spaces, and realities, and meanings of presence and absence, this performance aims to create a collaborative space that avoids the Western tendency to exoticize non-Western art.

The title of the show is taken from a line in Hafiz's poem, ‘The Wild Gazelle’, which will be sung during the performance. 'Oh, wild gazelle, where are you?’ is an invitation to dream together and find solace from the surveillance of our current reality.

Fariborz Karimi (Tehran, 1990) is an Iranian theatre director and maker, currently based in Amsterdam. His practice is engaged with political questions, specifically exploring the intersections of overlapping spaces, imagination and dreaming within oppressive structures. He is researching self-censorship in different contexts and reflecting on how public structures control people, and how these structures impact the artistic process.

He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in theatre directing and acting from the University of Tehran in 2011. Since then, he has created performances as a member of the ‘Bohemi Theatre Collective’, organized workshops and residencies between 2011 and 2020 in Iran in the public and underground scene. His works have been presented in BOZAR institute Brussels (2018), the ACT Festival Bilbao (2017), the ITFoK Festival Kerala(2016), and ITS Festival Amsterdam (2015).

Credits

Concept and Direction: Fariborz Karimi; Text: Negar Esmaeili, Fariborz Karimi; Creation process and Performance: Saman Mahdavi, Negar Esmaeili, Fariborz Karimi, Amin Banitaba; Set and Costumes: Jan Tomsa; Video performance and technical management: Amin Banitaba; Composer: Amirhossein Sadeghzadeh; Light: Fariborz Karimi; Individual tutor: Lara Staal; Advisors: Nienke Scholts, Keerthi Basavarajaiah, Mehraneh Atashi

Residency support by workspacebrussels; 'Made possible with a financial contribution from the ATD-Aart Janszen Fund'; Supported by ‘AHK-Cross Academy Fund’;

Thanks to: David Weber-Krebs, Baharan Eghbalzadeh, Rajni Shah, Konstantina Georgelou, Natasja West, Setareh Fatehi, Nynke Joustra, Mahsa Koochak, Navid Fayaz, Parnaz Karimi, Bohemi Collective, all peers at DAS Theatre and my parents.