Identifier
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Title
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Level of description
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Date
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Digital object |
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B2023-0005/007(05) |
"Lines of resistance, Prison Art from the Middle East", Beit Zatoun Gallery |
File |
2011 |
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B2023-0005/006M |
Samjana "Memories and Resistance" |
File |
2007 |
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B2024-0029/001M |
Talking prison, creating art and making justice. University of Toronto, June 19, 2010, Hart House Theatre. Based on the project: Words, Colour and Movement by Shahrzad Mojab and Bethany J. Osborne |
File |
2010 |
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B2024-0029/001P |
[Untitled, original work by Soudabeh Ardavan] |
File |
[between 2000 and 2015] |
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B2024-0029/004P |
[Untitled 3, original work by anonymous Iranian woman and former political prisoner] |
File |
[between 1970 and 2024] |
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B2024-0029/005P |
[Untitled 4, original work by anonymous Iranian woman and former political prisoner] |
File |
[between 1970 and 2024] |
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B2024-0029/012P |
Human rights violations in Iran have been sacrificed by the debate of the nuclear weapons in Iran. However, the Iranian people and their desire for freedom, democracy and human rights is vividly present and represented by the green branch growing in the top right corner.' Words, Colour, Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2024-0029/024P |
While in prison, the Islamic regime tried to pressure us into taking their belief system. Sometimes it felt like my body and mind were being penetrated by their thoughts and beliefs. It was so much pressure that I felt like my body was being severed." Words, Colour, Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2024-0029/028P |
In prison, the prisoners were often treated like animals. The prison officials experimented on them, trying to see if they could break them. The challenge for the prisoners was to keep their identity and their beliefs strong.' Words, Colour, Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2024-0029/030P |
While we were in prison, we threw nothing away. We made use of every little thing. This is a picture of female prisoners in the prison yard. We could go and walk in the yard for a few minutes every day. The plant in the picture is a plant that grew from a pistachio nut.' Words, Colour, Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2024-0029/037P |
Dark single woman' Words, Colour Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2024-0029/040P |
[Untitled 5] Words, Colour, Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2023-0005/007(02) |
[Publicity material for various events and publications] |
File |
[199-] [201-] |
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B2023-0005/003M |
The Ghost: This is simply a memory of the mountains Kurdistan! |
File |
2006 |
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B2023-0005/004M |
One Hundred Years: "A Portrait" by Shahrzad Arshadi |
File |
2006 |
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B2023-0005/007M |
Behind the Stained Wall, choreographed by Roshanak Jaberi [part of Words, Colour, Movement project, 2 copies] |
File |
2010 |
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B2024-0029/002P |
[Untitled 1, original work by anonymous Iranian woman and former political prisoner] |
File |
[between 1970 and 2024] |
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B2024-0029/007P |
[Untitled 6, original work by anonymous Iranian woman and former political prisoner] |
File |
[between 1970 and 2024] |
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B2024-0029/011P |
[Untitled 10, original work by anonymous Iranian woman and former political prisoner] |
File |
[between 1970 and 2024] |
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B2024-0029/017P |
The prison was like a factory with the mullahs trying to create into people that obeyed the regime. They were not successful in doing this. We learned to resist even in prison.' Words, Colour, Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2024-0029/019P |
[Untitled 2] Words, Colour, Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2024-0029/023P |
When I was a child, my aunt was put in jail for activities that they said were against the regime. After many months, they allowed me to visit my aunt. While she was in prison, she made me a doll. She gave it to me on that day.' Words, Colour, Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2024-0029/029P |
This picture represents the kind of pressure that prisoners felt while in prison. They needed to keep their minds separate from the experiences that they were having. In their minds, they could have growth even though their bodies were violated and tortured.' Words, Colour, Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2024-0029/031 |
In prison, they tried to reprogram us, to break our will and our beliefs. This was difficult but as you can from the light in the corner of the picture, there was always hope. This is what kept us alive.' Words, Colour, Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2024-0029/036P |
[Untitled 4] Words, Colour, Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2024-0029/038P |
Losing Yourself for Freedom - "In order to understand something outside of our own understand, you need to be willing to sacrifice."' Words, Colour, Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2024-0029/002(17) |
['No Woman's Land' pamphlets, material in English] |
File |
2018 - 2019 |
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B2024-0029_df003 |
The Art of Resistance in the Middle East, archived website |
File |
ca. 2012 |
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B2023-0005/005M |
Women: "A Portrait" by Shahrzad Arshadi |
File |
2007 |
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B2023-0005/008M |
Talking prison, creating art and making justice. University of Toronto, June 19, 2010, Hart House Theatre. Based on the project: Words, Colour and Movement by Shahrzad Mojab and Bethany J. Osborne |
File |
2010 |
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B2024-0029/006P |
[Untitled 5, original work by anonymous Iranian woman and former political prisoner] |
File |
[between 1970 and 2024] |
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B2024-0029/008P |
[Untitled 7, original work by anonymous Iranian woman and former political prisoner] |
File |
[between 1970 and 2024] |
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B2024-0029/010P |
[Untitled 9, original work by anonymous Iranian woman and former political prisoner] |
File |
[between 1970 and 2024] |
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B2024-0029/013P |
Those who were executed stood like trees. Even when they were executed, hope did not die with them. Out of their deaths, came new life and hope for the future. I have chosen to show this in the nests in the trees. Their memory will not die.' Words, Colour, Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2024-0029/014P |
[Untitled 1] Words, Colour, Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2024-0029/015P |
Even though we were in prison, we had each other. We kept each other strong. We resisted the regime together.' Words, Colour, Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2024-0029/016P |
The idea of fascism is not limited to a particular historical moment. It continues today in many different ways. Fascism exemplifies the oppressive and authoritative modes of being.' Words, Colour, Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2024-0029/020P |
When I was in prison, there were many times that I saw scenes like this- a mullah and a prison guard lining up women for execution. Sometimes the officials would carry through the executions but other times they would use a "fake" execution as a tool to try and break prisoners' Words, Colour, Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2024-0029/021P |
When I think about points in history when fascism was growing, I think of the Olympics as a way of bringing the 5 continents together in peace rather than war.' Words, Colour, Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2024-0029/022P |
This picture represents the struggle of the people of Iran. In the history of Iran, there have been many times when the oppressors have tried to cut down all of the resistance. In this picture, the axe which has been used to cut down the tree is growing new life. Out of death comes new life.' Words, Colour, Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2024-0029/025P |
This is a picture of women waiting for execution in the prison yard." Words, Colour, Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2024-0029/026P |
This picture is of my daughter. I see her trapped by mental illness. She currently lives at CAMH and is struggling with schizophrenia. She is imprisoned just like I was imprisoned in Iran. My heart breaks for her because I don't know how to set her free.' Words, Colour, Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2024-0029/033P |
This picture represents the continuum of resistance in the world. This horse is the horse of resistance. Many people in history have ridden this horse and they have perished in the process. Even though people sacrifice their lives, there are always new people willing to ride the horse. We cannot forget that there is always hope.' Words, Colour, Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2024-0029/034P |
Girl by window.' Words, Colour, Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2024-0029/035P |
[Untitled 3] Words, Colour, Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2024-0029/041P |
[Untitled 6] Words, Colour, Movement workshops. Artwork |
File |
[ca. 2010-2011] |
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B2023-0005/007(03) |
Words, Colour, Movement with Bethany J. Osborne [includes postcard campaign to UN re: torture and execution of Iranian political prisoners] |
File |
[ca. 2010] |
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B2023-0005/007(04) |
Guestbook, Lines of Resistance: Prison Art from the Middle East |
File |
2011 |
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B2023-0005/007(06) |
Event programmes, "No Woman's Land", "Reclaiming Justice. Memory and Memorialization of Violence", "Memoirs, Imaginations and Sounds of Prison" |
File |
2014, 2019 |
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B2023-0005/002M |
Red Names by Amin Zarghami and Shahrzad Arshadi |
File |
1999 |
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