Theory of Survival

Taraneh Hemami, Site Specific installation at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, BAN 5, 2008

Theory of Survival project has collected historical archives from local communities and the web through residencies and collective actions since 2007. The collections include decades of otherwise banned and censored print matter belonging to the Iranian Students Association of Northern California active from 1964-1984, that reflects the political sensibilities of the Iranian student organizations worldwide in books, periodicals, newspapers, analytical essays, theoretical discourse, documentations and translations, published both inside and outside of Iran. The project is presented as an evolving laboratory for creative exchange and collaborations as residencies in educational and cultural institutions, and gallery settings, inviting artists and audiences to become active participants engaging with the material production of the layered archive.EXHIBITIONSFabrications at Southern Exposure Gallery, Spring 2014

Resistance at Luggage Store Gallery, Jan 18- Feb 23, 2013

Theory of Survival, California Institute for Integral Studies , Residency, 2013-2014

Theory of Survival, at Ban 5, YBCA, Summer 2008 with Reza Aramesh, Gita Hashemi, Taraneh Hemami and Leila Pazooki

Theory of Survival, Artist in Residency at The Lab, San Francisco, April 2008 with Ala Ebtekar, Ali Dadgar, Afshean Hessam, Termeh Yeghiazarian,Shadi Yousefian