shahram entekhabi video forward to death ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- phillip entekhabi 2006 berlin iran new work "looking forward to death" that shows two young guys of a migratory background. the Iranian music - a type of religious estatic singing - is mixed with elements from the song "looking forward to death" by dead kennedys. there is some focus of a stereotype of the guys as potential islamic terrorist, Shahram Entekhabi, London, Berlin, Tehran, active in the fields of video art, 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 )

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forward to death
HD video 02:28 min., color/sound

video 2006, HD, color sound 2:28 min, (video still)

forward to death

he new work "looking forward to death" shows two young guys of a migratory background. the Iranian music - a type of religious estatic singing - is mixed with elements from the song "looking forward to death" by dead kennedys. there is some focus of a stereotype of the guys as potential Islamic terrorist....

Die einkanalige Videoarbeit "Forward to death" zeigt Aufnahmen zweier juner Männer migrantischer Herkunft. Auf der Tonebene kombiniert sie - in Reflex auf die Wnedung vom "KRieg der Kulturen" Elemente islamisch-shiitischer Gesänge mit extatischem Charakter mit Fragmenten des Songs "Looking forward to death" der US-amerikanischen Punkband "Dead Kennedys".

written, directed by Shahram Entekhabi