Fishing Holiday
While I was away, spending time in my "self initiated multi disciplinary residency" in Berlin in an non-conventional low profile institution…I remembered their website was not working or in other words their domain was expired when the Visa officer in German embassy was eager to make sure if it's a real invitation or a fake one, for human trafficking purposes..and looking at me very weirdly while trying to remain polite, to make sure that I am no political immigrant in the skin of a curator/ artists going to a unknown with its margins unspecified kind of residency in the monster city of Berlin; Back in Tehran around 10 internationally known curators and few agents who were on a fishing holiday were brutally kidnapped without themselves being noticed and then they followed peacefully the instruction which were presented but the hostage takers and they got released and you can see the result in the upcoming biennials and mega exhibitions around every corner… from Istanbul to New York. although this process had begun long before I sail way to fulfill my adventure … and I have to confess I had no power to stop or yet interfere with this crisis, but being an observer in chains and I'm already tired and exhausted by the fact and now that I said these words I want to jump out of this train …. and go hunting!
Amirali Ghasemi
July 2009