Golrokh Nafisi on Rethinking Geography, towards a new Internationalism in the arts
Golrokh Nafisi
Broadening the conversation about ‘Working Internationally Sustainably’: Crossed perspectives from India, Bulgaria, the UK, Iran and the Gaza Strip. This is a series of conversations between Jumana Al-Yasiri, artists and art leaders from different contexts and continents.
Kunstenpunt | Flanders Arts Institute offers this podcast series as part of our trajectory A Fair New World?! in which we explore how to shape the new reality in a fair and inclusive way. In it, we connect our work around fair practices, sustainability, digitization and inclusive work.
In this conversation, Golrokh Nafisi talks about the local dimension of internationalism in art, the current politics of the art market and the urgent need for a new economy in art based on greater solidarity between artists and institutions. She points to the huge gaps and growing inequality that govern the practice of thousands of artists in Iran and around the world, but also to the hope that can be brought by community and collectivity.
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About Golrokh Nafisi
Golrokh Nafisi is an illustrator, animator and puppet maker born in Isfahan, Iran. She studied at Tehran Art University and at Gerrit Rietveld Academy in the Netherlands. Golrokh experiments with performances in public spaces and is interested in exploring new forms of collective action involving bodies and human ideologies. She has often exhibited her work as interventions and performances in galleries and festivals, including Ar
This conversation was conducted online by Jumana Al-Yasiri on the 2nd of August 2022. Commissioned by Flanders Arts Institute as part of A Fair New Idea?! on the theme: ‘sustainability and international collaborations in the arts’.
Talks compiled and conducted by Jumana Al-Yasiri
Editing and sound design by Jérôme Devanne
Commissioned by Flanders Arts Institute
