Paperwork

• Performance, 2015
•“Paperwork” is the performative embodiment of my journey as an immigrant, exploring the inseparable politics of family, profession, immigration and exile. Ever since my arrival in the US, I have been defined, or rather confined by a number of categories, and labels . At every turn in my personal and professional life, my immigration status has been a deciding factor.
In “Paperwork”, I construct a personal narrative of a morphing home, a glimpse into an interwoven past, and a future in the making. During the performance I fold a 10x10 Ft piece of paper while a video is projected on it. The video is a combined footage of a recording I got by walking around home the night before I left Iran, and home videos of my family from when we all used to lived together and after my sisters and I left the nest.