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Pori Biennale 2020- three days in Pori- Video-40 s Pori Biennale 2020- three days in Pori- Video-40 sec- https://porinkulttuurisaato.org/ I was shocked once I counted my father’s lifetime by days. He lived for 25593 days before he passed away. This unconventional means of referring to age could alter the concept of a lifetime for me. Since I have a more precise understanding of how long a day is, I could get a more tangible conception of 25593 days as my father’s lifetime. This click triggered an idea that is now known as Today Might Be The Last Day. Today Might Be The Last Day, is a life-long project about celebrating life through death-awareness and learning about the quiddity of this event. The plan is to post a video on an Instagram handle every single day and until the last day of my life on earth. In each video, I announce the date of the day, the number of days I have lived by that day, and the fact that “today might be that last day.” I recorded the first video on October 3, 2018, and now, by the day I am writing this text, more than 580 videos have been uploaded and archived on this platform. This project can be considered to be accomplished when, finally, what I say in the video, comes true. Looking through the archive, I understood that since the beginning of this piece, I have been to 11 different cities, including Pori, where I spent the 12166th, 12167th, and 12168th days of my life. The significance of the notion of location might become more apparent for the audience only when the final day of my life actually comes, and the piece ends. Then, that location will be where the earth would devour the sticky and soulless mass of my body and, more importantly, it would be where my true self, the spirit, gets liberated and steps in actual liveliness. Accordingly, this point is potentially embedded in each new video I upload since it might turn out to be the last video of this series.
Pastel on paper 2020 | Pastel on paper 2020 |
Two Kilos of Honey for Four Euros and Ninety Cents Two Kilos of Honey for Four Euros and Ninety Cents | Video Performance | 20 min and 34 sec | Thing(-ing) Collection | Espoo 2019 | Photo by @aman.askarizad
Photo: Zahrah Ehsan Photo: Zahrah Ehsan
Pastel on paper | 2020 | Pastel on paper | 2020 |
Congratulations Project | Project Presentation | J Congratulations Project | Project Presentation | June 2020 | In spring 2018, I started a project called Congratulations. The general idea of this project revolves around the notion of death as a turning point of life and the importance of maintaining awareness about this matter. The reason behind choosing this title for the project stems from my understanding of death as a wonderful and yet misunderstood blessing that helps us to better experience life. I firmly believe that one who goes through this journey deserves to be congratulated. Accordingly, one of the primary goals of this project is to present a promising and positive conception of death. This understanding stands against the prevailing attitudes that either think about death as a strangling burden that should be dragged on for an entire lifetime with anxiety, or that is inattentive and indifferent towards death like it is never going to happen. Under the umbrella of the Congratulations project stand two ideas, one of which is called One Hour Contemplation, commenced on the 20th of May, 2018, and the other one which is known as Today Might Be The Last Day, which I started a few months later, in October of the same year. Both ideas are a series of practices/performances that I plan to carry on until the last day of my life on earth.
| تنها چند دقیقه خیره شدن بتو کافی بود تا همه آگاهی جهان سهم من شود |
🔊Today, 09-06-2020 is the 12733rd day of my lif 🔊Today, 09-06-2020 is the 12733rd day of my life | today might be the last day
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