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 more 'official' published works:
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.
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.
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.
No pressure, but find me a bed out there.
I wrote a photo-essay exploring untranslatability in everyday life and the traces of journeys on our bodies via the use of family photographs.
Performance Research, Volume 21, 2016 - Issue 5
Edited by Amelia Jones
LADA’s Study Room A case study in five parts.
Co-authored with: Lois Keidan, Marco Pustianaz, Mary Paterson.
Performance Research, Volume 22, 2017 - Issue 1: On Libraries
Edited by Misha Myers & Deirdre Heddon
Step in Time, Step in Time: in dialogue with The Mirror by People Like Us (Vicki Bennett)
In On Time: Spill Reader
Edited by Diana Damian Martin
Published by Pacitti Company, 2018.
Feature on Exeunt (2018)
A diary of Mishandled Archive performances and interactions
The Artist's Borderpanic Compendium
Book Chapter
Performance scores for artists in borderpanic times.
Edited by Helen Paris and Leslie Hill
Published by Pacitti Company, 2018.