Performance
Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust
Flags Parade
Part of Ceremony exhibition
Could we consider disappearing as a human species? The performance Flags Parade imagines this impossible hypothesis until grotesque: to hide the contours of our bodies in a flamboyant camouflage, not to disappear, but to appear differently. The color scheme of the costumes is made up of deconstructed flags of 4 countries, Iran, France, Poland and Germany, which make up the national identity of the artist, who offers a look at the mixture of different cultures in his home through queer optics. Are you European or Asian? A local or a migrant? Or perhaps you are no longer human at all, but some other non-human being whose identity was lost somewhere in the process of cultural translation? Metamorphose bodies through costume, transform movements and offer the dancer a new way of appearing and expressing himself. Flags moving? Colourful birds? Hybrid creatures try to communicate with each other: in spaces, they seek each other, trying calls, turn around, to finally meet in a final parade, a cry of love.
Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust’s approach revolves around the making of costumes, which he considers in turn as a space for transformation and hybridization, a choreographic score, in its capacity to modify our relationship to the body, to dance and to language. The garment becomes a means of questioning his identity, whether by summoning his Iranian origins, by donning costumes inspired by Persian works in the Louvre, or by deconstructing our relationship of domination to other species, by imagining hybrid creatures at the border of the human and the animal. As a Visual Artist is main medium is textile, which he use to make patchworks, paintings, costumes and scenographies. His patchworks are like stories, trying to catch a moment of movement, often between fighting and loving, between violence and love. Bodies are melting in which other, becoming shape of colors inside the patchwork. These textile works are also used for setting up installations, activated by site-specific performances. He has designed the costumes and scenography for the creations of Pau Simon (La grande remontée), Liam War-ren (Merge), Grégoire Schaller (Ekkrino, Mata, Ordeal by water) and Renaud Dallet (Voir, toucher, s’aimer fort).
Flags Parade at Mudam
Performer : Maureen Béguin, Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust, Morgane Le Doze, Grégoire Schaller
© Simon Verjus
Artist
Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust
Curation
Radicants
Duration
25 minutes
Schedule
Saturday 19.10 – 1:00 pm
Credits banner
Flags Parade at Buttes de Chaumont
Performer : Maureen Béguin, Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust, Dylan Guzowski, Mallaury Scala
© Paul Rousteau
About the artist
Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust is an artist, performer, choreographer and designer, the son of a Franco-German-Polish mother and a Franco-Persian father. In 2021 he founded his company DDDMM with Maureen Béguin-Morin. After studying fashion design at the Duperré School, graphic design at the Estienne School in Paris and sculpture at La Cambre, he studied dance, performance and choreography at the Institut des Arts Chorégraphiques (ISAC) of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.