Eyn Eyn Eyn is the name of the eccentric storyteller of a series of interconnected fables created by visual artist and writer Alireza Abbasy. Eyn Eyn Eyn tells you the story of a fantastical world inhabited by characters ranging from humans to anthropomorphised animals, plants, body parts and inanimate objects, and critically explores the landscapes of the art world, political activism, unconventional knowledge, queerness, drugs and wisdom.
In this fable, Eyn Eyn Eyn talks with his 3 snail friends; Shangool, Mangool and Habeye Angoor, and they enlighten him about why so many snails come out of the bushes after the rain.
In this fable, Eyn Eyn Eyn shares his findings about snail tentacles (known as "eye-necks" among snails), which he acquired from 3 different snail scientists: a snail biologist, a snail sociologist and a snail linguist.
In this fable, we talk to a cloud, or The Cloud, and he/she/it/they/you/we/I argues that in order to talk meaningfully about clouds, you will have to come up with a language in which there is no distinction between first, second and third person.
In this fable, Eyn Eyn Eyn talks with Ankaboot, "a brown, hairy, mid-size spider who lives in the corner of the ceiling in his kitchen." As a master of stillness, of doing-nothing, Ankaboot talks about labor in general and productivity and achievements in particular.
Dr. Crow is an accomplished artist with a PhD from Goldsmiths, working on the so-called postcolonial discourse. He has curated an exhibition with three international interdisciplinary artists: Bird (a sound artist), Squirrel (visual artist) and Sloth (a performance artist).
Cat, who you got to know in the first episode, has a goldfish in her apartment whom she adores. Goldie's 68-second memory seems to be the secret to their harmonic relationship.
Listen to the story of Tit, a sophisticated pot-smoking architect, whose trauma of the office life brings her endless nightmares.
"Once upon a time, three very good friends lived in a big city: Cat, Dog and Ass." The three characters in this first episode are your gateway to Eyn Eyn Eyn Stories.