ART Habens
Mehdi Farajpour
Interdisciplinary artist that does not make any sense since it is still not precise.
I studied drama( precisely to become an actor) but after few years of doing as an actor in the city theatre of Tehran, I gave up because I was not satisfied since I was not able to totally express myself in that discipline. So I switched my career to become a theatre director and then a choreographer. But besides all, originally, I consider myself as a poet. I have to admit that I started writing poems even before I decide to study theatre in the university. I was in high school by that time. When I entered into the university of fine arts( department of Drama), my vision on things has become wider. Theatre had offered me a new language( as a new tool) in which I could talk and act at the same time. Although, with the poetry, I did not have that Acting tool. I do not want to say that the poetry is a passive language compare to the theatre but I can carefully say that theatre is more comprehensive form of art and more open towards togetherness than the poetry. This is not a critic against the Poetry. It is only what I feel about it. The poetry is a personal cure to me. I can hide in my room and live with it although living with theatre needs going out of your room, meeting people,…
During the years at Fine arts university, I spent a lot of time with the artists of other disciplines such as Cinema, Painting, Sculpture, Music,…. I should admit that I learnt more things by spending time in the courtyard of the university than sitting in the classrooms and listening to the professors.( I believe there is a profound problem with classical teaching methods). In the courtyard of my university, I noticed that each artistic disciplines is a language with its own capacities, competences and possibilities. Some ideas, concepts or emotions can be better expressed in one than the others. This is because of the particularity of that language( discipline). It is because that particular language is offering you a wider space or a certain possibility that is able to easily host your concept inside itself. But of course, to speak in
2016, performed at Sala HIROSHIMA of Barcelo
that particular language( or to expresse your concept in a that discipline), you need to know how basic rules( grammar) of that language works. This was the point when I did break up with those common classifications in the university and went
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