Azade Shahmiri: You and I have Seen the Garden from That Cold Sullen Crack – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Azade Shahmiri:
You and I have Seen the Garden from That Cold Sullen Crack
In her research-based cinematic performance, Azade Shahmiri, theater and performance artist, revisits the garden as a Living Archive of collective resistance within transformative moments of Iranian society. Wandering around the invisible or documented, repurposed or erased gardens, You and I Have Seen the Garden from That Cold Sullen Crack reclaims the peripheries, reassembling the ruptured narratives buried beneath vegetation and soil, flowing through dying water channels—qanats. It maps and tracks the layered agency and performativity of gardens by interweaving visual archives, found footage, and soundscapes with woman-to-woman letters, fragmented biographies, the performer’s ambivalent presence, and a self-reflective voice.
Gardens, bound to land and labor, remain contested. The performance, likewise unfinished and growing, stands as testimony to internal struggles and to Western interventions and orientalist framings embedded within and through them—grounds of grief and loss, and of resilience and hope.
The information on accessibility is still in progress and will be updated as soon as possible. If any questions remain unanswered until then, please feel free to contact the communication department at barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35. Please note that details may change by the day of the event. Therefore, if you find out after you have purchased your ticket that the performance is no longer accessible to you, you can contact us for a ticket return at ticketing@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 45 until 5 business days after the event (Monday through Friday between 10am and 6pm).
Early boarding
If, for artistic reasons, the door to the auditorium does not open until very shortly before the performance begins, there is the option of early boarding.
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Research, text, film, performance: Azade Shahmiri
Sound design, composition: Mahtab Sabetara
Research, dramaturgy: Leila Ahmadi Abadeh
A production by Azade Shamiri in co-production with Festival Belluard Bollwerk. Media partners: Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.
Azade Shahmiri (Tehran/Berlin) is a theater and performance artist, writer and researcher. Her processual practice intertwines narrative forms with personal experiences, memory, testimony, and fictional intervention. Through theater plays, lecture-performances and film essays, she explores marginalized voices embedded in documents, found materials and archives, while reflecting on layered lives within contemporary Iranian hi/stories. Azade Shamiri’s works have been presented at various theaters and festivals, such as Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Wiener Festwochen, Kaserne Basel, Belluard Bolwerk, Edinburgh Festival, Kyoto Experiment, Asian Arts Theatre Gwangju, Theater Festival of Kerala, Sophiensæle and SAVVY Contemporary.
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