{"uid":"yjI0KbrmiA6n0GRw","type":"artist","tags":["videoinstallation"],"group":"no","group_name":null,"project_title":"It Looks Nice from a Distance","summary":"My project is a three-channel video incorporating text, video, and sound. Inspired by the COVID-19 outbreak, it tackles the issues of systematic \u201cothering\u201d that control and restrict people's movements. While travels bans and border closures are being issued in the context of the current pandemic, as an Iranian immigrant holding a Middle Eastern passport, I cannot help but wonder: who was able to travel freely and seamlessly cross borders in the first place?\n\nThe videos show online reports of refugee camps and border crossings that I screen recorded during the refugee crisis in 2016. Quite \u201clongue dur\u00e9e,\u201d these videos became a part of my own life at the time, as I spent hours watching them live. The sound component that accompanies these videos is a text that I wrote, narrated as voice-over by myself, mixed with an audio track of sparrows singing in the background. Sparrows are considered an \" non-native, invasive species.\"\n\nThe text employs the vocabulary of a guided meditation, and reminds us that we are all, ultimately, migrants. \"Stillness\" and \"statelessness\" are key terms in mindfulness meditation. Re-appropriated and recontextualized, here, the terms represent the de facto condition of the hundreds of people that we see in the videos, trapped behind borders. This paradox is central to reading and experiencing \u201cIt Looks Nice from a Distance.\u201d","space":"Ideally the videos will be projected on three walls that surround the viewers, in a darkened space.","artists_proposal":null,"members":[],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/426772106","audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"fileCount":3,"names":"Anahita","surname":"Norouzi","email":"anahita.norouzi@gmail.com","dni_type":"PASAPORTE","dni":"K96710874","address":"7592 Rue Saint-Denis","city":"Montreal","nacionality":"Iran","country_id":"41","birthdate":"1983-04-06T04:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1983-04-06T04:00:00.000Z","telephone":"+1 (438) 828-6285","web":"www.anahitanorouzi.com"}