Alternative Iran: Radical Interventions in Art, Design, and Performance

Examining a variety of case studies across several decades, Dr. Pamela Karimi (Associate Professor of Art History at UMass Dartmouth) illuminates the economic, social, intellectual, and visceral forces that have derived Iran’s creative agents toward increasingly original forms of artmaking that are played out in pop-up venues, covert homes, temporary counter-institutions, escapist sites, underground scenes, and other defiant spaces. Free