for Mahsa Jina Amini

The first part of the intervention is a performative dialogue between Parham Rostam Abadi and Ava

Jalali. Drawing on embodied storytelling, movement, and gestures inspired by the dance traditions

and cultural practices of southern Iran, the artists engage with themes of womanhood, queer bodies,

power, empowerment, and the body as a site of resistance and reclaimed agency.

The second part is a dialogue between Mandakini Pachauri and Negin Rezaie, bringing together

Indian and Iranian dance vocabularies, poetry, and embodied gestures. Inspired by the intersectional

claims of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, the performance explores transnational solidarities

between feminist and queer struggles through movement, poetry, and embodied storytelling.

• Ava Jalali is an Iranian movement and visual artist whose work explores visibility, displacement,

violence, and the body as a political site.

• Parham Rostam Abadi is an Iranian interdisciplinary artist whose practice engages with queerness,

migration, identity, and belonging through performance and visual art.

• Mandakini Pachauri is an Indian ecofeminist artist and dancer and Poet whose work connects land,

memory, ritual, and the body through poetry and embodied storytelling.

• Negin Rezaie is a performance and multidisciplinary artist whose work engages with queer feminist

archival materials, collective memory, building artistic and cultural ecosystems.