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- 1970 - 2024 (Creation)
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0.05m of textual material
10 DVDs
47 artworks
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Series consists of textual material, artworks and audio-visual recordings that document artistic projects that Dr. Mojab has been involved in, including dance productions, exhibitions, and documentaries. Material documents her work with Shahrzad Arshadi, Bethany J, Osborne, and others.
Material primarily comprises mixed media and audio-visual content related to Dr. Mojab’s Toronto Arts Council and Ontario Arts Council funded project, Words, Movement and Colour: Remembering and Learning Through Narrative and Visual Art.
The material includes plasticine artworks and paintings created by anonymous participants who were former political prisoners or were affected by violence in the Islamic Republic of Iran and other oppressive states through the Words, Colour, Movement workshops.
This series also includes items B2024-0029/001P– 011P, /042 – /047, original paintings independently created by an anonymous Iranian women and former political prisoners and gifted to Dr. Mojab.
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Researchers interested in Dr. Mojab’s Words, Colour, Movement project and workshops as well as her project documenting artistic productions created during the Iranian uprising resulting from the murder of Mahsa Amini are encouraged to consult Political Prisoners: The Art of Resistance in the Middle East and Woman, Life, Freedom: Archive of Defiance websites in Series 10: Archived websites.