IF NEED BE by Pejvak

ロシア人映像作家でありパフォーマンス・アーティストのフェリックス・カルメンソン(Felix Kalmenson)とイラン人アーティストであり人文地理学者のルーズベ・アフバリ(Rouzbeh Akhbari)によるコラボレーションプロジェクト「Pejvak」による作品集。ベルギー・ハッセルトの美術館「Z33」にて2021年6月から8月まで開催された展覧会に伴い刊行された。

中央アジア、古代ペルシャ、アメリカの大平原などの乾燥地帯における水不足についての物語をまとめた一作。人工氷河やダムなど、水をコントロール下に置こうとする人間の試みにまつわる一連の幻覚的な出来事を紐解く。ゴシップ、伝説、歴史的事実に等しい重みを与えながら、作者らは「信頼に値しない語り手」の役割を担い、水を巡る闘いを歴史的記録をめぐる闘争の中に位置づけている。

If Need Be
presents a constellation of stories about water scarcity in the arid regions of Central Asia, ancient Persia, and the American Great Plains. Artist duo Pejvak strings together a series of hallucinatory events involving artificial glaciers, dams and other human attempts to bring water under control. Giving equal weight to gossip, legend and historical fact, Pejvak takes the role of an unreliable narrator, situating the struggle for water within the struggle for the historical record.

This publication was made as a continuation of If Need Be, an exhibition by Pejvak at Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design & Architecture, Hasselt, Belgium (12.06. – 22.08.2021). The exhibition was curated by Tim Roerig.

Pejvak is the long-term collaboration between Felix Kalmenson and Rouzbeh Akhbari since 2014. Through their multivalent, intuitive approach to research and living they find themselves in a convergence and entanglement with like-minded collaborators, histories and various geographies.

Authors: Anisa Sabiri, Distributed Cognition Cooperative (Anna Engelhardt & Sasha Shestakova), Benjamin Filler, Irakli Qolbaia, Dina Cheraghvand, Farshad Tavakoli, Masoud Borbor and Pejvak

Research assistants: Dina Cheraghvand, Hamid Ghezlou, Lisa Vetkhova

Illuminator: Mojtaba Abu Talebi

Calligrapher: Javad Azari

by Pejvak

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softcover
316 pages
230 x 300 mm    
color, black and white
limited edition of 500 copies
2024

published by BUILDING FICTIONS