Gut Feelings 2.0
Grand Union, Birmingham
2025
Supported by: Jerwood Arts New Work Fund, Arts Council England Project Grant, Level Centre, Grand Union
Gut Feelings 2.0 is an investigation of the rituals within homosocial spaces created by and for women and gender marginalised people in 19th Century Iran. It explores the potential for religion and superstition as safe havens for queerness to thrive, a possibility lost to Iranian culture due to the modernisation and westernisation of the country. The histories of homosocial activity become a window to imagining what queerness may have looked like, and how these segregated communities allowed spaces for queerness to exist. Working with an anti-archive and anti-history approach, Gut Feelings 2.0 plays with the concept of time, merging the past, present and the future.
Project Website:
gutfeelings.live
Press:
Frieze, Review by Donna Marcus Duke
Art Monthly, Review by Cherry Smyth, July Issue
Dazed Mena, A History Felt in the Gut, Maya Abuali
a-n, Must See Exhibitions
Creative Collaborators: Sorour Darabi , Priscillia Kounkou-Hoveyda, Sevin Shabankareh
Voice Actor for Untitled poem: Shaya Goldooust
Bust Animation: Xuan Liu
Object Animation: Lydia Pourmand
Soundscape: The Silver Field
Soundtrack for Tahirih: Gisou Golshani
Producer: Phoebe Wagner
Studio Assistant: Chloe Willis
Farsi Translation: Golnoosh Nour
Sculpture Fabrication: Ossomas Studio
Graphics and Website Design: Studio Basic
Audio Description: Chloe Page
Audio Caption Voice: Leah hickey
Audio Captioning Support: Quiplash
Tech team: MJM Bespoke
Photographer: Patrick Dandy
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