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MANNA from below

MANNA from below is a lecture performance series which was initiated at the Diaspora Pavilion, Venice, 2017. It has since been adapted to various formats and continues to evolve in response to different exhibition and performance commissions.

Selected editions include:

Belmacz, London, 2019

  • Installation view, B, Belmacz, 2019, London, Credit: Belmacz
Installation view, B, Belmacz, 2019, London, Credit: Polly Staple

Outset Grant Ceremony
Royal Academy of Arts, 2019

Documentation of MANNA from below, a lecture performance by Abbas Zahedi, Outset Grant Ceremony 2019, Royal Academy of Arts, Image courtesy of Outset Art Fund.
Video excerpt of MANNA from below, a lecture performance by Abbas Zahedi, Outset Grant Ceremony 2019, Royal Academy of Arts, Image courtesy of Abbas Zahedi, Photo Credit: Samboleap Tol.

BLOCK UNIVERSE
Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2019

Documentation of MANNA from below, a lecture performance by Abbas Zahedi, Block Universe 2019, Whitechapel Gallery, Image courtesy of Block Universe.

Event copy:

An afternoon of poetry readings by artists and writers whose work reveals the performativity of language, as part of Block Universe, London’s leading international performance art festival.

The playful relationship between experimental writing practices and performance is enacted as words are transposed across formats, from the page, through the digital and in live utterances. Current Whitechapel Gallery Writer in Residence Rachel Pimm is joined by writers Iphgenia Baal, Himali Singh Soin and Abbas Zahedi.

In collaboration with Block Universe.

Source: https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/words-share-performance-poetry/