Endless Twist

Mixed-media webpage, Publication, Installation, Performances — 2023

Endless Twist is a critical autoethnographic research on Bremen Überseestadt, a former colonial harbor under neoliberal renewal since the early 2000s. Golghasemi’s analysis takes place through a drift across a local site, affected by three entangled global apparatuses: Google Maps and the platform-capitalist conditioning of urban inhabitation; the masterplan entangled with planners, owners, and cultural institutions, converting colonial pasts into contemporary capital; and a patented modeling software homogenizing the built environment through a contagious algorithmic reductivism. Taking getting lost as both subject and method, Endless Twist folds biography into spatial argument, narrating from the position of an architect later displaced into wayfinding in the spaces the discipline itself is producing.

  • Script, Web programming, 3D: Farzad Golghasemi
  • Sound, Dramaturgy: Gabriela Valdespino
  • Duration ca. 18:00 minutes
  • Access the interactive mixed-media webpage on endlesstwist.xyz

Endless Twist: A critical autoethnographic approach to the current state of urban development, exists as both a printed volume and an online publication.

Jahresausstellung 2023

Endless Twist installation at the Universty of the Arts Bremen 2023 Graduate Show which received special commendation (besondere Belobigungen) from the jury members of Frese-Design-Award which was composed of Marie du Chastel, Simon Busse, and Serge Rompza.

  • Video projection, stereo audio, construction banner, steel scaffold tubes, cast iron couplers, wireless mouse and keyboard
  • 250 x 400 x 100 cm
  • 18:00 minutes loop
  • Exhibition: Jahresausstellung – Speicher XI A Bremen, Germany
  • November 2023

Open rehearsal at RAUM PRO

As an audiovisual performance, Endless Twist was invited by Felix Dreesen and Lucas Kalmus to be part of the exhibition AG Felgentaube in RAUM PRO Bremen.

  • Reading, 3D modeling and navigation: Farzad Golghasemi
  • Live electronics: Gabriela Valdespino and Ap0teke
  • 45:00 minutes
  • Exhibition: RAUM PRO Bremen, Germany
  • July 2023

as everything repeats and doubles itself, the ground moves under the feet

as everything repeats and doubles itself, the ground moves under the feet is an audiovisual performance developed during Tender Absence online residency: A Glocal Class for Digital Performance.

  • 3D modeling: Farzad Golghasemi, Live electronics: Gabriela Valdespino
  • 30:00 minutes
  • Venue: Schwankhalle Bremen, Germany
  • March 2023
  • Recorded streaming on YouTube