Statement: 

"Immediate and Remote" is a multimedia exhibition by 12 artists developing their projects around the Industrial Heritage and Living Archive in HerMap Art Residency. The pandemic affected the project and transformed it to an online residency.  The inevitable change made the role of collaborators and facilitators more critical in advancing the project. Hence, various teams joined the program as project collaborators. They provided the artists with the essential knowledge and first-hand experiences they couldn't access any longer. The results of these endeavors and extensive networked efforts are presented through seven multifaceted art projects, interactive pieces, archival installations, and film.///

The threads of environmental concerns, future, history, literature & poetry, oral narrative, audio-visual landscapes, and the relation between space and objects each will unearth new connections with one another as they provoke actions, narratives, and imagined archives speculating for alternative answers. On another level, the exhibition also redefines intercultural relations by de-familiarizing "the immediate" and "the remote" and expanding them in various directions. Due to the COVID-19 situation in Iran and Europe, the 'remote collaborations' substituted the 'immediate presence of the artists in residence' to better grasp their projects’ objects.

In May 2021, the launch of the digital exhibition of the program sided with a brief presentation of HerMaP art projects and a two-day webinar were hosted by the Centre for Fine Arts Brussels – BOZAR (Belgium).

Read More : "Immediate and Remote" at Aaran Projects