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On November 20th, from 7 pm at the CAC Reading Room join us for the event Goodbye Party: A Final Evening of Lecture Performances by the participants of SODAS 2123 Festivity Residency programme Ollie Hermansson and Afrang Nordlöf Malekian.
Name Party performance lecture by Ollie Hermansson
Identity. Community. Party. Celebration. Sharing stories. Internet. Trans people. Coming out. Food. Drinks. Rituals. E-mails. Text messages. Images. Words. Hugs. Breakup. Pain. Goodbye. Recover. Move on. Fail. Therapy. Movies. TV series. Tea. Chocolate. Blanket. Crush. Swimming. Sun. Crying. Calls. Help. Future. Climate. Instagram. Disasters. Violence. Trans day of remembrance. Togetherness. Memories. Coming out. Healing.
Welcome to the NAME PARTY. A performance lecture, where the artist, Ollie Hermansson will present their research on the topic of changing name, starting with their own personal experience.
The Lion’s Tail by Afrang Nordlöf Malekian
Afrang Nordlöf Malekian always keeps a passport in his suitcase but is never quite sure how to pose in the passport photo to reach the destination of his dreams.
When I renewed my passport in Karaj over a decade ago, the photographer decided I looked “too feminine” for an official document – and yet, somehow, his retouching made me look even more feminine. – Afrang Nordlöf Malekian.
Years later, as an intern at the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut, he stumbled upon portraits from the 1940s to the ’80s, filled with saturated shades of magenta, blue, and red. Each face was meticulously crafted to fit a particular aesthetic that oddly reminded him of his overly retouched passport photo. Nordlöf Malekian came to understand that these beauty standards trace back to a magnificent sun, both female and male, shining alongside a lion – an ancient pair from the depths of the universe: the sun in the house of Leo.
In “The Lion’s Tail”, Afrang Nordlöf Malekian is on a mission to figure out the perfect pose for his next passport photo by tracing the cosmic world of the (fe)male sun and Leo, and who knows where he will end up next.
The event will be held in English and is free of charge.
More about the artists:
https://sodas2123.lt/en/ollie-hermansson/
https://sodas2123.lt/en/afrang-nordlof-malekian/
Event partner: CAC Reading Room
This event is funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture.
The SODAS 2123 Festivity Residency is organised by the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association. Residency curators: Aušra Vismantaitė-Silva, Monika Kalinauskaitė and Edvinas Grinkevičius.
The activities of the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association are funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
SODAS 2123’s activities are supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius city municipality.
