Hybrid Calls
For Small Demonstrations:
#2 Bremen-Teheran
Audio-Walk by Farhan Sonboldel
A performance taking place in two realities: in the actual streets of a city and the cyberspace of Google Maps. The project »Hybrid Calls For Small Demonstrations« consists in a series of audio walks in different cities that are to take place live, both online and on location, in order to connect two places and create a short, hybrid demonstration. During the performance, the audience hears a narration from the streets of different places and cities. The voice seeks to guide one audience based on the place and the direction of the story, while another audience follows it in a different city. »Hybrid Calls For Small Demonstrations: #2 Bremen-Tehran« seeks to merge German and Iranian reality with the help of maps and voice guidance. The audience/the demonstrators can conduct a very short and quick demonstration to change the everyday order, reclaim public space, and project marginalized voices and bodies onto other places.
Farhan Sonboldel
Farhan Sonboldel is a performance and media artist, dramaturg, and researcher based in Germany. He holds a BA in Drama from the University of Tehran and MA in International Media Cultural Work at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. His artistic and theoretical practice operates at the intersection of performing arts, new media, and political activism. Through his works, he explores the relationship between physical and virtual spaces, hybrid bodies, and the possibilities of resistance and political expression within digital and cyber environments.
His artistic and research practice often addresses themes of political resistance, digital identity, and the use of online spaces as platforms for performance and protest. In his recent projects, he focuses on the concept of »Cyber-Guerrilla Theater« — a performative approach that merges the principles of guerrilla theatre with digital tools and networked spaces to create new forms of artistic and political action.
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