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episode 23: Taraneh Hemami In this episode, we talk with artist, educator, curator, and cultural organizer Taraneh Hemami about building an archive as a collective creative practice, the complex history of the Iranian Student Association, and linking generations in the Iranian diaspora. You can follow her work at taranehhemami.com and on Instagram @taranehhemami.

Art is a form of remembrance. This episode features two artists, both born in Iran, discussing the very different ways their practices have been influenced by the country’s turbulent history. They consider how this legacy, whether inherited or experienced firsthand, is impossible to ignore. Photo: Arash Fayez. Photo by Geraldine Ah-Sue.
 Artists featured in this episode: Taraneh Hemami and Arash Fayez.

Hillary vs. Trump? Should feminists even bother? Writer and rebel Sue Katz says she isn't giving up on Bernie Sanders just yet, and talks about Hillary's feminism of privilege.  Katz is the author of Thanks But No Thanks: The voter's guide to Sarah Palin and Lillian's Last Affair. Then Golden Thread Productions artistic director Torange Yeghiazarian and Rana Mroue, vocal trainer for the Aswat Women's Ensemble, preview this year's “What Do The Women Say,” showcasing Bay Area Middle Eastern women artists building community through art.  What Do the Women Say is Saturday, March 12 at La Pena Cultural Center and features performance and discussion with visual artist Taraneh Hemami; musician Nabila Mango; dancer/choreographer Sharlyn Sawyer; and playwright Betty Shamieh. Comedian Gina Yashere, the only British comic to ever be on Def Comedy Jam, and four-time winner of Best Comedian at the UK Black Entertainment Awards, talks about how she got into comedy and why she loves it. Yashere will be at the Punch Line in SF for four nights March 9-12. The post Womens Magazine – March 7, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

Iranian-born painter, installation and conceptual artist Taraneh Hemami has two homes -- and she also has none. When Hemami came to the United States in 1978 to attend the University of Oregon at Eugene, she had little idea of what the future held. Within a year of her arrival in this country, the Iranian Revolution had changed her homeland forever and prevented her from visiting for more than a decade. Spark follows Hemami as she gathers footage, photographs and stories from a Castro Valley Iranian woman named Nosrat, who is known as "Mommy" and whose life is the cornerstone of Hemami's multimedia display exploring the layers of history and connected stories within a family home. The finished product is an exhibit she titled "Homes," which was displayed at ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge and the Thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art in August 2006.

Spark spends time with Taraneh Hemami as she helps to preserve the memories of Iranian-Americans. Original air date: July 2006.

In tonight's program, Khalil Bendidb will have a conversation with Ali Abunimah, co-Founder of Electronic Intifada, http://electronicintifada.net  and Middle East analyst and activist Jeff Blankfort in which they will each comment on an interview we first taped and aired last month with Professor Noam Chomsky of MIT on the subject of the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign as well as the role of Israeli lobby in influencing the U.S. foreign policy with respect to Israel/Palestine. Later in the program, Shuka Kalantari will talk to Bay Area-based artist Taraneh Hemami about an exhibit she has curated titled “One Day: A Collective Narrative of Tehran,” currently showing at the Intersection for the Arts gallery in San Francisco.   You can visit our blog http://vomena.org/blog/ to listen to past programs and share your thoughts with us. We look forward to reading your comments.     The post Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – Abunimah & Blankfort on Israel; also, A Collective Narrative of Tehran appeared first on KPFA.

This week, Patricia and Brian present the work from the Telling Stories class at CAA. The class was run by Taraneh Hemami, who invited the west coast Bad at Sports team to guest lecture and guide the students on an project interviewing community artists. The works edited for this podcast were of surprising content and quality, so we decided to share them with the Bad at Sports community. The students involved wih the project are Kim Ciabattari, Janet Lai, Jamie Lee, Fumi Nakamura, Johann Pascual, Jaron Stokes, Michelle Yee , Shen Yequin, Alexandra Styc, Alex Langeberg, Jamie Lee, Kristina Grindle, Amy Kelly, Taylor Ward, and Madeline Ward.

This week Brian and Patricia head over to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to check out Bay Area Now 5, a triennial of local contemporary art. Joining the round table discussion are curators Berin Golonu, Valerie Imus, and Taraneh Hemami, as well as participating artists Ian McDonalnd, Edmundo de Marcheno, and Jonn Herschend. YBCA's fifth triennial exhibition of Bay Area art explores questions around how to re-imagine a regional survey in the midst of globalization. What continues to draw artists here and makes the Bay Area a unique place to live and work when more and more of us are traversing the globe and becoming international citizens? How does the physical geography of the Bay, both natural and constructed, influence the Bay Area as a site of artistic production? How does the history of this region, including its legacy of social activism, shape Bay Area residents' understanding of themselves and the rest of the world's notion of this place? What are the contrasts between the myths, ideals and realities of the Bay Area and the aspirations of its residents? The Bay Area Now 5 survey exhibition asks these questions to explore the many ways artists are influenced by their experiences both inside and outside of the Bay Area.