About the performance

An emotive, shady experience based on a true story of the artist having to live in a car after being forced to flee her home at the height of the Iranian revolution of 1979, aged just nine, and the events leading up to her family being exiled to the UK. An audio-visual installation in a car exploring duality, displacement and home.

Key Personnel

Shabnam Shabazi - Artist

Production Information

Running time at full length: Durational (2- 24 hours)

Suitable for all ages

Use of medium text

Use of recorded music

Touring Information

Setting flexible, must be able to accomodate a car

Number of people on tour: 3

Number of performers on stage: 1

Touring availability: upon request

Suitable for rural touring

Outreach and Educational Work

Offering residency packages to venues, including:
1) audience development and outreach by driving the car into different community locations;
2) a participatory project, a minimum of 3 sessions or a maximum of 12 sessions involving participants partaking in a series of activities inspired by personal memories, resulting in excavating their own personal histories and identities towards a public presentation;
3) inspired by Speakers' Corner, Hyde Park, developing a mobile 'Speakers' Corner, giving participants a voice on issues that are important to them, leading to site specific or venue based platform event; 4) post show discussions and chat backs.

Company History

A Live Artist, making my own work & freelance Creative Producer with a strong background in theatre. Since 2004 I have been leading my own development in Live Art, receiving support & guidance from Lois Keidan, Live Art Development Agency & Manick Govinda, Artsadmin.

I have also been participating in landmark workshops & events with eminent Live Artists: Janine Antoni, & Oreet Ashery, performing in: Guillermo Gomez-Pena’s ‘Mapa Corpo’,
Franko B’s ‘I’m Thinking Of You’, & Ron Athey’s ‘Automatic Writing’.

Recent projects include: ‘Speaker’s Corner’ - a performative audio-visual installation in a car, & ‘There Ain’t No Black In The Union Jack’. * ‘Speaker’s Corner’ led to a successful GFA for R&D.

Recent Productions / Tours

Speaker's Corner presented, in May 2007 @ Artsadmin, & Area 10 -‘Destination Peckham’.

‘Hazard’ - Green Room, Manchester (August 2007). National Review of Live Art (February 2008).