My «Creating the Third Space» workshop, combined various forms of art to create an encounter: Traveling on a passenger ship on the Lake of Zurich she will relate Farsi poems, which will then be written down on prints depicting Persian motives. In the end the sheets will be transformed into folded paper boats, which symbolically connect two distant places: Zurich and Isfahan (Iran). Undoubtedly, language is as a data base of cultural identity.
The project aims at exploring the complexity of language in a globalized world and it nego0ates hybrid, multi-cultural identities. The past and the present are dynamically recombined in order to create an abstract space, in which language plays a crucial role and in which concepts of place, home, memory, identity, territory, and geography overlap.
“I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming.”
― Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
