Pre-late Corrupted Abstraction

Audiovisual lecture performance — 2026

Photo: Paria Moraghebi
Photo: Paria Moraghebi
Photo: Parlote Muzlijaj
Photo: Parlote Muzlijaj
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Pre-late Corrupted Abstraction is an audiovisual lecture performance by Farzad Golghasemi and Abd Tammaa. It starts from the lion as a symbol of authority and territory which draws on nostalgia for a glorified dynastic past. The performance treats abstraction, as it operates in mathematics, topology, and 3D software, as the procedure through which such a symbol is produced, and asks what that procedure leaves out. The text is written in dialogue: Farzad speaks from abstraction and the figure of the lion, while Abd responds from corruption, understood as what abstraction excludes and what returns to disturb the abstracted form.

  • 3D modeling, Reading: Farzad Golghasemi
  • Live electronics, Reading: Abd Tammaa
  • 30:00 minutes
  • Exhibition: Sonic Tactics - Spedition Bremen, Germany
  • September 2026