Work / index

The form follows
what the story needs.

Current works, followed by an earlier period of theatre practice. The index is provisional as the body of work grows.

Selected work by Hodjat Salimi across performance, installation, sound, moving image, archives, writing, participatory systems, and software.

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01

Bye-Gones

File 01: Encountering Reza Abdoh.

Bye-Gones poster: a halftone figure reaching forward on a black ground, with the title in Persian and English, File 01: Encountering Reza Abdoh, a series of events by Saye Theatre Group, curated by Hodjat Salimi and Maryam Lashkari, 20–21 August, Farvardin Art House, Tehran.
02

Can You S…?

Sound installation and limited audio-zine editions.

The Can You S…? sonotube installation.
Installation view of To Share a Stomach. Photo by Ruben Diaz.
03

Performance as a Political Fantasy

Can a performance, while it lasts, show the reality an ideological state has built for what it is: a fiction?

Seminar poster in Persian: the seminar title and the dates 9 to 12 Tir 1403 in blue, black and grey type, beside a monochrome figure leaping over red rectangles, its head covered in black scribbles.
04

Home

A multimedia playful exploration of forced migration through dark comedy.

Poster for Home: a figure's legs standing on a suitcase against red stage curtains, with the title in English and Persian.

Collection / period

Earlier theatre work

  1. King Lear

    Playwright, Director

  2. Just Space

    Playwright, Director

  3. Ants

    Actor

  4. Proposal

    Playwright, Director

  5. Uncle Shelby’s Workshop of Life

    Actor

  6. God of War

    Actor

  7. Mr Foster’s Weird Dream

    Actor

  8. Shah KajKolah

    Actor, Singer

  9. Hallucination

    Actor