A/zar
Sat-Sun
Dec 13–14, 2024
7:30pm
$10
What Lab 1814 Pandora St.
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Created by Niloufar Samadi and Avideh Saadatpajouh
Image by Alan Derksen
A/zar is an interactive performance and installation that invites the audience to step into a world of misplacement, migration, and the tender spaces in between. Through puppetry, visuals, and live camera projections, the work weaves a tactile and ever-shifting landscape that feels both familiar and unknown.
You are invited to engage—to touch, to move, to leave your own imprint on the space. As the performance unfolds, it becomes a shared experience of belonging and transformation. Afterward, the stage remains as an installation, holding the echoes of your interaction.
About the Artists
Niloufar Samadi is an emerging interdisciplinary artist working across performance, film, and installation. With a background in puppetry from Tehran University of Art and an MFA in interdisciplinary arts, her practice is rooted in themes of identity, memory, and immigration. Drawing on her immigration journey and collaborations with diverse creative communities, she merges analog and digital mediums, exploring the sensory and tactile possibilities of art. Whether through live performances or visual installations, Niloufar’s work invites audiences to engage intimately with layered narratives that reflect her experiences of in-betweenness and the fluidity of identity.
Avideh Saadatpajouh is a multimedia artist and design dreamer who weaves technology, imagination, and human connection into her creations. With roots in architecture and industrial design, her work blossoms at the intersection of art, ecology, and digital exploration. Avideh’s projects pulse with life—whether she’s building responsive environments that dance with human touch, crafting installations that translate invisible frequencies into vivid expression, or shaping stories that challenge the gaze of modernity. Her art is a journey through the spaces between worlds: digital and physical, human and non-human, where every glitch and gesture becomes a path to connection. Guided by a deep curiosity, she invites us to explore, experience, and reimagine the invisible threads that bind us all. #Techno/eco #Generative art #immersive experience
Accessibility Info
What Lab is located at 1814 Pandora Street. There is no dedicated parking, only street parking. The venue is located on the second floor up one flight of stairs, but there is a ground level accessible entrance through the back of the building. Seating is typically informal, and will include some combination of chairs, floor seating, couches, and cushions. There is one single-occupancy, gender-inclusive washroom. The washroom is not big enough for larger style wheelchairs to completely turn around in while the door is open. We are a trans-inclusive space.
This presentation is funded in part by
