ENDLESS TWIST

Interactive mixed-media WebGL website (2023)
Concept, script, web and 3D development: Farzad Golghasemi
Sound, dramaturgy: Gabriela Valdespino
Partially developed during Tender Absence 2023 online residency

Endless Twist is a guided walk through a 3D space that is constructed by urban fragments and personal memories. It is a multimedia web installation and audiovisual performance presenting the artist's critical perspective regarding the agency of the human and non-human, and by extension of architects, planners, and owners. While reflecting on the role of architecture as an apparatus that produces power dynamics, Farzad Golghasemi examines the corporeality associated with physical and digital spaces, through a techno-poetical interpretation of the contemporary state of political economy.

For the mixed-media webpage visit endlesstwist.xyz and the open access publication can be reached at endlesstwist.xyz/publication.

Previously shows and performances

— Exhibition @ HfK Bremen Graduate Show (Jahresausstellung 2023) ⬎
— Audiovisual performance @ RAUM PRO Bremen ⬎
— Audiovisual performance @ Schwankhalle Bremen ⬎

Exhibition at Jahresausstellung 2023

1–channel projection of endlesstwist.xyz on a worn-out advertising banner belonging to a construction site in Bremen Überseestadt, 2-channel audio composition
Steel scaffold tubes, cast iron scaffolding couplers, wireless mouse and keyboard
18:00 minutes loop
Exhibition: Jahresausstellung, Speicher XI A, Bremen Germany
17 – 22 November 2023

The installation at the 2023 HfK Bremen Graduate Show (Jahresausstellung) consisted of collected construction site artifacts assembled to function as a screen for the projection of the Endless Twist mixed-media webpage. The visitors were invited to use a wireless mouse to look around the virtual environment of the web page which is a reconstruction of the urban area where the newly built exhibition building exists which is a reflection on the storyline that involves the author's past experiences associated with urban renewal narratives.

Farzad Golghasemi 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.

Open rehearsal at RAUM PRO

Reading, live electronics, live 3D-modelling performance projected on the exhibition wall, projection of endlesstwist.xyz on construction banner
50:00 minutes
Sound: Gabriela Valdespino, ap0teke
Performance: AG Felgentaube, RAUM PRO Bremen Germany
27. July 2023

As a situation and performance Endless Twist was invited by Felix Dreesen and Lucas Kalmus to be part of AG Felgentaube in RAUMPRO Bremen. In addition to the live 3D navigation of the project's webpage, the performance consisted of reading and 3D modeling by Farzad Golghasemi and live electronic by Gabriela Valdespino and ap0teke.

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

4–channel audio composition, 1-channel video projection, live electronics, live 3D modeling
30:00 minutes
Performance: Schwankhalle Bremen
18. March 2023

Participation of Farzad Golghasemi and Gabriela Valdespino during Tender Ansence online residency A Glocal Class for Digital Performance, supported the development of this project which resulted in duo's audiovisual performance as everything repeats and doubles itself, the ground moves under the feet. Special thanks to Peira collective for their support.

Publication

Endless Twist: A critical autoethnographic approach to the current state of urban development as the M.A. thesis ...