*Fresh Azan* Shahram Entekhabi, London, Berlin, Tehran ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ shahram entekhabi active in the fields of video art, huma mulji photography, painting, drawings, installation, performance, sculptures and para-architectural and community art, urban setting and inspired by Charles Bauderlaire’s, concept of the Flaneur, variety of performative practices using digital media, architecture and drawings. In particular, self-ghettoization, urban domain, migrant communities from the Middle East and their diaspora. The question of visibility and invisibility, creating informal structures migrant prototypes Islamic fundamentalist Islamic Star, Kurdish activist, Mehmet, Guerilla-guy , Miguel, criminal from the Balkans, Mladen, auto-aggression, guest-worker contributing to German reconstruction. sculptures and para-architectural installations, informal architecture, paraarchitechtur. (sharam entekabi scharam entecabi entkhabi entekhabi )

	Fresh Azan

	© Shahram Entekhabi 2003
	also part of mixed media installation "How to Perform Prayers" 2002-03	download a compressed version, fragment, ca. 90 sec. video, 3:04 min, colour/sound


	“Azan” is the Muslim call to prayer, cried several times a day by the muezzin of the minaret, beckoning believers to prayer in the mosque. The Azan is also used by devout Muslims when celebrating birth, in which case the call is whispered – as a rule, through a mullah – three times into the right and left ear. From that moment on, the newborn child belongs to the religious community. In the work Fresh Azan, a woman shrouded in a tschador appears on the balcony of a multistory apartment building, and sings a German-language version of the Azan. While her cries echo over the rooftops of the surrounding houses, catching the attention of passers-by, her call to prayer is accompanied by a male voice that whispers the Azan in Arabic.
	"Azan" ist der Gebetsruf der Muslime, der mehrmals am Tag durch den Muezzin vom Minarett aus die Gläubigen zum Gebet in die Moschee ruft. Außerdem wird Azan nach der Geburt jedem Neugeborenen durch einen frommen Muslimen – in der Regel durch einen Mullah – dreimal in das rechte und dreimal in das linke Ohr geflüstert. Von diesem Moment an gehört das Neugeborene zur Religionsgemeinschaft. In der Arbeit Fresh Azan tritt eine durch einen Tschador verhüllte Frau auf den Balkon eines mehrstöckigen Wohngebäudes und singt den Azan in deutscher Sprache. Weit schallt ihr Rufen über die Dächer der sie umgebenden Häuser, Passanten vor dem Haus werden auf sie aufmerksam. Ihr Gebetsruf wird begleitet von einer männlichen Stimme, die den Azan in arabischer Sprache flüstert. Entekhabi.com, www.Entekhabi.com, http://www.Entekhabi.com, sara , ava bee