RESTORE_

RESTORE_ is a series of projects and performances that took place through the temporary occupation of empty stores in the the west side of Bremen. Through [temporal] practices of place-making; 11 artist where selected via open call to investigate human and non-human interaction with sites through employing performance, dance, and bodily practices in conjunction with sound, visuals, technology, and new modes of communication and collaboration. By questioning the materiality of the spaces and the entities filling them, the project considered ways to relocate the theater to vacant stores in neighborhoods outside the Kulturmeile Bremen.

Farzad took part in the curation of three performances in colloboration with Gabriela Valdespino and Neus Ledesma Vidal.

• date June 2022
• artists Vicc Repasi, Karl Rummel, Carlotta von Haebler, Vivian Hernandez, Stina Hinrichs, Daria Sazanonich, Yuliya Tsviatkova, Liesl Lindeque, Robert Coellen, Toni Erhardt
• locations Findorff, Walle, Gröpelingen
• website restore-bremen.space
• instagram @restore_bremen

In the age of excessive information and spaces—and on account of the pandemic—it seems that abandoned local shops are becoming more frequent. Are they “local” places as before or in the process of becoming non-places? It is hard to answer this question due to their local yet uninhabited qualities. In contrast to localities that come to existence because of being historical and intimately connected to both social and individual identities, non-places are spaces where residues from human practices do not accumulate. Do spaces devoid of habitation by entities become nonsensical spaces of excess or waste? What is their function in the absence of people? Or, is emptiness only so because it is characterized via the absence of physical bodies and humans? Do entities such as sound, radio waves, and wireless data fill them?

RESTORE_ open call