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Howling Old Woman


2023

site specific performative reading
agave wood, ropes, fabric, rugs

in collaboration with ehsan ghoreishi



By exploring the ancient traditions of intuitive storytelling, 
I invited the participants of the performance to be part of 
a journey within. In collaboration with an artist and musician ehsan ghoreishi, we attempted to retell what can be found 
in the time–frame of the tent in the middle of the desert. During the live performance, we simultaneously connected to radio stations worldwide using the shortwave radio and told stories inspired by the ghosts of the desert in southern Spain.

The visitors were invited to the tent constructed from material found on the side – old fabric and wood from the Agave plant which is considered an invasive species in the Almeria region of Spain. The plant was brought there in the 20th century and shortly took over large portions of land in the region.
We invited the participants to consider the condition of a contemporary human – being at the end of an impossible line, traced over thousands of years by the lives of those who came before us. It’s an inevitable condition – once children, we had to be born, survive the dangers, disasters, diseases, epidemics that awaited us, and mature to the time when we could conceive or give birth to a child. And this child had to travel the same route. It is impossible to count all those who died along the way.

Even if we know little about the lives of our ancestors, we can feel them. We carry within us the story of the first people, those who came before humans and thanks to whom humans came into existence.