Tara Fatehi Irani: Mishandled Archive Book Launch and Celebration

The Live Art Development Agency (LADA) is delighted to invite you to this online event with talks and performances to celebrate the launch of artist Tara Fatehi Irani's new publication Mishandled Archive.

 Every day for a year, Fatehi Irani dispersed fragments of family photographs and documents in public places around the world. She made a photograph, an annotation, a dance and an Instagram post on each site. The book, elegantly designed by David Caines, features all 365 photographs and dance scores from the project alongside essays and other contributions by theatre and performance scholars, artists and writers.

"It’s a compelling project that celebrates the fragility, tenaciousness and fecundity of memory and the extraordinary capacity of images to summon narratives as they interact with landscape, casting a spell of connection between strangers in locations around the world, from London to Tehran, Newcastle to Zurich.” Tim Etchells, Artist and Director of Forced Entertainment

Hosted by Rachel Mars, the launch event features an exclusive excerpt of an artist’s performance with Pouya Ehsaei and special performances and appearances by book contributors Giulia Palladini, Joe Kelleher, Diana Damian Martin, Mary Paterson, Jemima Yong, Maddy Costa and Holly Revell.

Bring your drinks, dress up, make up or just turn up.

Project producer: Lorenza Peragine

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