Name: Activation of Participatory Installation: Holding the Dilemma, Sitting with the Question
Start: 2025-09-14T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-09-14T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Donaustraße 84, 12043 Berlin, Deutschland

Activation of Participatory Installation: Holding the Dilemma, Sitting with the Question

𝗪𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘆𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗵 𝗠𝗶𝗿𝗷𝗮𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.
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For Acts of Conflation, Mirjahani presents Iteration #9—a participatory installation activated by visitors. The work invites participants to sit with discomfort, navigating the murky space between action and inaction, resistance and complicity. Through lived experience, it explores how agency is often shaped by hesitation, compromise, and constraint. Rather than seeking resolution, the installation opens a space to confront how we carry, negotiate, or refuse power within structures that limit our capacity to act and how we can account for a more subjective and embodied understanding of agency.
Reyhaneh Mirjahani’s 𝙃𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙢𝙢𝙖, 𝙎𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 is a participatory installation, part of the ongoing inquiry An Experiment on Agency (2021–), which investigates how individuals and communities navigate agency under the pressures of socio-political systems, where choices are often constrained, conflicted, or unclear. Under imperialism, colonial legacies, neoliberalism, and ideological authoritarianism, dominant concepts of agency—typically liberal, individualistic, or framed in terms of emancipation—are often inadequate for grasping the complexities of how people negotiate power in everyday life. This project seeks to challenge such limitations by making space for more nuanced, collective, and situated understandings of agency.
Bio. 𝗥𝗲𝘆𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗵 𝗠𝗶𝗿𝗷𝗮𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶 is an artist with curatorial practice. Her practice operates at the intersection of visual art, curating, research, organizing, publishing, and participatory interventions, employing collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches to create discursive spaces that investigate agency, counter-narratives, dilemmas, participation, and the politics of space. She is particularly interested in exhibition-making beyond conventional formats, exploring how artistic interventions can unfold in alternative gathering sites rather than traditional white-cube settings, fostering different forms of engagement.
Mirjahani holds an MFA in Fine Art from HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, and has completed the postmaster programs Commissioning and Curating Contemporary Public Art at HDK-Valand and CuratorLab at Konstfack.