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The Festival of Arts was held around Shiraz every summer from 1967 to 1977; the ancient Persian ruins of Persepolis were a spectacular backdrop for what has been described as “one of the most adventurous and idiosyncratic festivals in the world” and “perhaps the most radical commissioning festival in history”, a melting pot of traditional and avant-garde music, theatre and performance. The festival, which came to an end with the Iranian revolution, featured artists from both East and West.<\/p>\n
This exhibition includes archive film and photographs, original theatre programmes and posters, and the gallery describes the overall project as a \u201creconstruction of a complex space of international modernity … defined by the \u2018third worldist\u2019 sensibilities of the immediate post-colonial period\u201d. The project examines how Shiraz-Persepolis acted as a contested site of competing solidarities and proliferating visions of an interconnected world; and how, importantly, it facilitated the encounter between international and local avant-gardes. \u201cIt is precisely the festival\u2019s pronounced rejection of a tension-less, homogenising fusion of cultures, and its alignment with the principles of particularism, cultural difference, and alterity that demand our attention today.\u201d<\/p>\n
To 4 November.<\/p>\n
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