idlearts, a collective based in Tehran and Anywhere else
  • Mourners Project / Music Album

    Mourners Project / Music Album

    On a melancholic evening in a house in central Tehran, we performed an hour and fifteen minutes of improvisation with two synthesizers, the Korg Minilogue and the Korg Opsix. This album is the raw outcome of that session, only lightly edited, with some sections left behind.

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  • Bouger mes bras et mes jambes | (working title)

    Bouger mes bras et mes jambes | (working title)

    Depuis que je suis ici, j’ai lu des lettres d’artistes partis à l’étranger à leurs amis. Il y a quelque temps, j’ai lu une lettre d’un écrivain iranien Gholamhossein Saadi, à son amoureuse. ça a été comme si je l’avais écrite moi-même :

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  • While we’re here, they’re already dead | (working title)

    While we’re here, they’re already dead | (working title)

    for performer, ghosts, objects, audience, and space  -While we’re here, they’re already dead- consists of five main materials: a light table, a camera, several artificial hands, and objects. Each of these materials comes from different places.

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  • May I show you?

    May I show you?

    A self-portrait The starting point of this piece began a few years ago. When many different incidents, images, and events began to penetrate my mind. Some stayed, some got transformed and some made changes in me.

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  • WARM-UP

    WARM-UP

    [:en]What do you learn from the shape and technique of the anti-protesters police?

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  • Instrument of Unification

    Instrument of Unification

    [:en]In 2016, filming Tehran began. We freely filmed the city. In every step the aim of the project was reaching an amateur production and it still is.

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  • The Light Desk

    The Light Desk

    [:en]The Light Desk is an one-audience performance that is trying to represent the systems that we encounter in our everyday life.

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  • Live Coverage

    Live Coverage

    Report on “Live coverage” “Live Coverage” was performed by Amateur Community from November 23th 2018 to March 29th 2019 in the basement and some part of the courtyard of the Rooberoo Mansion in Tehran, Iran. There was a glass box in the basement with porterhouse in it, that was connected to the second glass box…

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  • Radio City

    Radio City

    Radio city, is a documentary performance, based on life and work of a theater group in 40th decade of Iran.

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  • AMIR

    AMIR

    Report on “Amir” Amir was a 5 day event occurring in the basement of the Rooberoo Mansion from December 24th to 28th, 2018. The chamber was a 9 meters square and its entrance was closed with glass and only half a meter below was open. In the center of the room was a pylon strip…

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  • Rehearsal-Performance

    Rehearsal-Performance

    This event explores the theories behind idlearts and demonstrates short rehearsals and performance pieces on them.

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  • ORGAN SOLO

    ORGAN SOLO

    [:en] ORGAN SOLO is a trial and error about: – processed from represent to present.

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  • ÉPÉE

    ÉPÉE

    ÉPÉE Éepée was an experiment to see the bodies of two fencer, in the context of a performance.

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  • Asylum

    Asylum

    Asylum is the product of our insignificance. The language of the play, continuing the way of our previous play “Forti”, is a made-up language.

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  • Red Riding Hood

    Red Riding Hood

    The Red Riding Hood is a free adaptation of a folk tale named Little red riding hood. (in Iran this story is known as SHENEL GHERMEZI).

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  • 16 AZAR

    16 AZAR

    16 AZAR, Student Day is the anniversary of the murder of three students of University of Tehran on December 7, 1953 by Iranian police.

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  • IT

    IT

    IT/ Performance by Ehsan Shayanfard/ Rooberoo Mansion Open Space/

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  • FORTI

    FORTI

    FORTI is a story of a family which we see their dine in five different night. The Language spoken in this play isn’t Persian or any known language for that matter; But a unique language designed for FORTI.

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  • The Tragic Changes of Sir SAAD`s Life

    The Tragic Changes of Sir SAAD`s Life

    It has a story about a mental ill (Schizophrenia) who is keeping in an old house as a private psychiatric house. Most of the story is in stating motionless with the patient’s long monologue explaining the things around him.

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