Publications | Tara Fatehi

Texts. Books.

In between words and image.

Or is it poetry, performance, essay, research.

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I regularly write new poetry and performative text for From the Lips to the Moon and other live performances, but below are the 'official' published works:

Conscious Delirium of a Traveling Body: The Poetics and Politics of a Creative Practice (2024)

The question of political economy in the arts offers a way into a creative-critical reflection on the challenges associated with navigating identity labels and living a freelance artist’s life.

Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association

Mishandled Archive (2020)

Book

This book is a coming together of 365 documents, dance scores and essays from my yearlong daily performance series. With contributions by Shahram Khosravi, Giulia Palladini, Joe Kelleher and several other performance scholars and artists.

Published by the Live Art Development Agency, London.

In Times of Darkness (2024)

lipstomoon press

Co-editor and poet.

NOISE COMPLAINT

(2025)

lipstomoon press

Co-editor and poet.

UNOG reading room still from video (c) Tara Fatehi

In Observance: Staying with the body, with Palestine at the United Nations (2023)

"Tara Fatehi interferes with the rhythm by bringing movement and attention into the archive." Part of Out of Focus, a series exploring ways to traverse the fog of unknowingness and indeterminacy on Asia Art Archives.

In Other Words (2022)

A piece titled 'Joggling' as part of this collection of urgent reflections, created by artists exploring their hopes and fears at a time of global crisis. Co-curated by Kate Marsh, Xavier de Sousa and Harold Offeh.

Bodies of Knowledge: Three Conversations on Movement, Communication and Identity (2021)

Edited by Laura Purseglove, this publication reflects on Bodies of Knowledge, a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary project exploring the human body as a site for the production, retention and transformation of knowledge.

Unbound Guest Editor (2021)

We say, ‘What the hell is going to happen?’, ‘What the hell are we to do?’. They say, …

Dabbling in live art books with Hafez and taking fal.

Paper leaves and other constructions

a reading companion to Always Already

compiled and edited by Karen Christopher & Tara Fatehi Irani

Introducing the themes and content of the project, with writing by Karen, Tara and other contributors responding to many of the questions that have arisen in the creative process.