Zahra Fuladvand

is an Iranian performative art creator. She has received her bachelor and master degree in Theatre directing from Tehran Art university, Iran. She has worked with several Iranian and European theatre companies since 2012. Theatre companies such as Av theatre group in Tehran, Polish Avant-garde theatre company OPT Gardzience and Artus creative studio in Budapest. Her recent artwork was a performance based on Ritual and Iranian funeral ceremonies which had been performed in Artus studio on May 2019. Beside her Art practice, she is researching and studying on found environment and pre existing natural spaces for per formative arts. https://zfuladvand.wixsite.com/mysite

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JOURNAL ENTRIES

process

The earth is my body. The sky is my body. The seasons are my body. The water is my body too. The world is just as big as my body. Do not think I am just in the east, west, south, or north. I am aIl over.

From Richard Schechner's Environmental theatre

I was being quarantined in the individual room in Szent Laszlo hospital from March 4th  to March 17th. I was surrounded by white light, metal bed, the smell of the hospital, the sound of an ambulance, and nurses covered fully with gowns and masks. But eventually, this space opened up to me, and I could feel the sky above me, the earth under my feet, the trees around me, and the sun shining on me. I wasn’t only in one space; I was all over.

here is just the beginning of the process of my exploration…