Urban Jealousy, the 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran was an itinerant multimedia art exhibition presented in

Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...

(Hafriyat Karaköy, May 30 - June 6, 2008),

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

(various spaces, November 20 - December 7, 2008) and

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(April 3 Apr - April 10, 2009). The Biennial was curated and organised by Amir Ali Ghassemi and Serhat Köksal.

The Exhibition

Amir Ali Ghassemi and Serhat Köksal had the idea of organizing a low-cost itinerant biennial as a critique of the art situation in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

at the time as well as questioning the politics of the "biennalization" process which was happening at an international level.

We dreamed of traveling like nomads, carrying artworks, objects, video projectors, and texts in a package no bigger than a medium-sized suitcase.Karimi, Pamela (Spring 2010) "When global art meanders on a magic carpet: A Conversation on Tehran’s Roaming Biennial", in ''The Arab Studies Journal''. Washington, D.C.: Vol.18, No.1. p. 291

The theme of the exhibition was "

Urban Urban means "related to a city". In that sense, the term may refer to: * Urban area, geographical area distinct from rural areas * Urban culture, the culture of towns and cities Urban may also refer to: General * Urban (name), a list of people ...

Jealousy Jealousy generally refers to the thoughts or feelings of insecurity, fear, and concern over a relative lack of possessions or safety. Jealousy can consist of one or more emotions such as anger, resentment, inadequacy, helplessness or disgust. ...

". A

Jalousie window A jalousie window (, ) or louvered window (Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Southeast Asia, United Kingdom) is a window composed of parallel glass, acrylic, or wooden louvres set in a frame. The louvres are joined onto a track so that ...

, derived from the Arabic, ‘’mashrabiyya’’ () is a kind of window where you can see without being seen. The title represented, from the curators’ perception, the condition of many

artists who could observe the world from within Iran without being involved with the outside. In this way, Iranian artists try to give us a metaphor of how the world appears through a very particular Iranian "window" of the national, ethnical and political context of

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. The exhibition project was announced in February 2008 through an open submission call to the internet art community. Out of 600 applications, 300 artists from over 20 countries were selected to participate. The exhibition was organized into sections including:

painting Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ...

graphic Graphics () are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone, to inform, illustrate, or entertain. In contemporary usage, it includes a pictorial representation of data, as in design and manufacture, ...

poster A poster is a large sheet that is placed either on a public space to promote something or on a wall as decoration. Typically, posters include both typography, textual and graphic elements, although a poster may be either wholly graphical or w ...

video Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) syste ...

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed ...

installation Installation may refer to: * Installation (computer programs) * Installation, work of installation art * Installation, military base * Installation, into an office, especially a religious (Installation (Christianity) Installation is a Christian li ...

, sound, objects, featuring both established and emerging artists. Artists who participated in the First Tehran Roaming Biennial included:

Gustavo Aguerre Gustavo Aguerre (born 1953 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an artist, photographer, curator, writer, and theatre designer.http://www.artfortune.com/gustavo-aguerre/artist-198613/ Career Aguerre studied at the Munich Art Academy between 1974 and ...

Caterina Davinio Caterina Davinio (born Maria Caterina Invidia; 25 November 1957, Foggia) is an Italian poet, novelist and new media artist. She is the author of works of digital art, net.art, video art and was the creator of Italian Net-poetry in 1998. Biogr ...

, Clara Diebler, Gary Farrelly,

Genco Gulan Genco Gulan ( (born 1969 in Turkey) is a contemporary conceptual artist and theorist, who lives and works in Istanbul. His transmedia contextual work involves painting, found objects, new media, drawings, sculpture, photography, performance and ...

, Troy Henriksen, Stefano Pasquini, Kristy Perez,

Pipilotti Rist Pipilotti Elisabeth Rist (born 21 June 1962) is a Swiss visual artist best known for creating experimental video art and installation art. Her work is often described as surreal, intimate, abstract art, having a preoccupation with the female bo ...

, and

Ala Younis Ala Younis is a research-based artist and curator, based in Amman. Younis initiates journeys in archives and narratives, and reinterprets collective experiences that have collapsed into personal ones. Through research, she builds collections of ...

.all information from www.biennialtehran.com

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{{List of Biennales Iranian contemporary art Art biennials

The Exhibition

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