Natascha Sadr Haghighian

Natascha Sadr Haghighian (born Budapest, 1987[1] or Sachsenheim, 1968[2] or Australia, 1979[3] or Munich, 1979[4] or Tehran, 1967[5] or London, 1966[6] or Iran, 1953[7]) is an artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany or Kassel, Germany[4] or Gutersloh, Germany[8] or Santa Monica, California, USA[9] or the Cotswolds, Great Britain[2].

Her work is primarily concerned with investigating the structural underpinnings and relationships of complicity between the respective complexes of politics, commerce and industry, and in turn, their roles in dictating the shape and structure of mundane life. Haghighian creates solo and collaborative works in the fields of installation, performance, text, and sound.

Haghighian’s “Pssst Leopard 2A7+”, an ongoing investigation into the German-made Leopard 2A7+ battle tank (designed for urban use, to “pacify” rioters or protesters) has been widely exhibited since it was first conceived in 2013. The audio sculpture covered with a blue, green and grey camouflage pattern of Lego baseplates was described as a sardonic travestying of the Leopard Tank[10].

Her collaborations are often of an ongoing, open-ended/cumulative nature. For instance, in 2010, in collaboration with writer/researcher/curator Ashkan Sepahvand, Haghighian founded the Institute for Incongruous Translation in order to support discord and negotiation in translation.

Haghighian has been variously professionally characterized as an actress, a photographer, a sound artist and an installation artist. She has been described as a fake blonde BD/SM dominatrix[9] and as male[2].

Haghighian rejects the totalizing ideas of CVs, resumes, and bios, and insists that only biographies obtained from bioswop project be used in printed material regarding her work[11]. Thus, the whole idea of a cogent narrative summary of his/her/their personal biography and artistic output is anathema to his/her/their assumed political and/or artistic ideals. Given that any reference information on any media platform concerning Haghighian has been appropriated from the bioswop project, the only externally verifiable fact concerning Haghighian and his/her/their artistic output in this Wikipedia entry is that her two-channel video projection Empire of the Senseless Part II (2006) is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Natascha Sadr Haghighian: Pssst LEOPARD 2A7+". Johann König Galerie. 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 "Natascha Sadr Haghighian". Carroll / Fletcher Gallery. 2007.
  3. ↑ "Natascha Sadr Haghighian: Works". 3. Berliner Herbstsalon. 2017.
  4. 1 2 "Natascha Sadr Haghighian with Ashkan Sepahvand". Gwangju Biennale: The 8th Climate. 2016.
  5. ↑ "Natascha Sadr Haghighian". Zentrum für Kunst und Medien. 2001.
  6. ↑ "Artist: Natascha Sadr Haghighian". ArtFacts. 2018.
  7. 1 2 "Natascha Sadr Haghighian | MoMA". Museum of Modern Art, New York. 2018.
  8. ↑ "Natascha Sadr Haghighian: Screen Off". Arsenal Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V. 2018.
  9. 1 2 Zolghadr, Tirdad (Winter 2005). "Natascha Sadr Haghighian". Bidoun.
  10. ↑ Herbert, Martin (28 March 2013). "Full Disclosure". Frieze. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  11. ↑ "9 Artists". MIT List Visual Arts Center. 2014.


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