Book contents
- Tied Up in Tehran
- Tied Up in Tehran
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Tables
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: The Personal Is Political – How I Came to Write This Book
- 2 Tied Up in Tehran: A Metaphor
- 3 How Our Mothers Drive Us Crazy: Hospitality, Ritual, and the Burden of the Social
- 4 Food as a Social Relation: Sabzi and the Question of Household Skilled Labor
- 5 Elegy or The Rule of the Fathers: The Break with the Past
- 6 Democratic Intimacies: Jokes, Sex, and Ta’arof
- 7 Through the Looking Glass: Reflexive Cinema and Society in Postrevolutionary Iran
- 8 Women, Life, Freedom: One Movement out of Two Legacies
- 9 Being a Public Woman: Streets, Cars, Crimes, and the Shifting Calculus of Moral Accountability
- 10 Shopping for Shoes: Consumer Identity, Commodity Fetishism, and Gender as a Brand
- 11 We Are More Than One, When We Speak Together: Collective Art, Plural Possibilities, and the Horizon of Utopia
- 12 Coda: Thinking in Practice – Arendt, Foucault, and the Challenge of Freedom
- Bibliography
- Index
11 - We Are More Than One, When We Speak Together: Collective Art, Plural Possibilities, and the Horizon of Utopia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 September 2025
Book contents
- Tied Up in Tehran
- Tied Up in Tehran
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Tables
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: The Personal Is Political – How I Came to Write This Book
- 2 Tied Up in Tehran: A Metaphor
- 3 How Our Mothers Drive Us Crazy: Hospitality, Ritual, and the Burden of the Social
- 4 Food as a Social Relation: Sabzi and the Question of Household Skilled Labor
- 5 Elegy or The Rule of the Fathers: The Break with the Past
- 6 Democratic Intimacies: Jokes, Sex, and Ta’arof
- 7 Through the Looking Glass: Reflexive Cinema and Society in Postrevolutionary Iran
- 8 Women, Life, Freedom: One Movement out of Two Legacies
- 9 Being a Public Woman: Streets, Cars, Crimes, and the Shifting Calculus of Moral Accountability
- 10 Shopping for Shoes: Consumer Identity, Commodity Fetishism, and Gender as a Brand
- 11 We Are More Than One, When We Speak Together: Collective Art, Plural Possibilities, and the Horizon of Utopia
- 12 Coda: Thinking in Practice – Arendt, Foucault, and the Challenge of Freedom
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Memory, shared realities, and political possibility through the remnant traces of an art installation. The unstable documentation of several related 1990s collective arts installations, all intentionally ephemeral within the abandoned spaces of condemned buildings on the eve of their destruction, opens up questions of plural achievement, the singularity of truth, and the possible contradictions among versions of evidence. These interconnecting collective arts projects were all intended to break free of the commodified gallery space, while calling attention to the vulnerability of both culture and city to rampant financial speculation. Despite the author’s and the archive’s confusion, different versions of the Khaneh Kolangi (the “To-Be-Demolished House”) together provided a key intervention in Iranian postrevolutionary arts culture and practice. They also offer a ghostly metaphor for the ongoing potential power of collective action, individual and shared memory, and political inspiration. Luce Irigaray’s conceptualizations of a plural self and its potentials offers insight into posibilities for differently understanding power, politics, and history.
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- Tied Up in TehranWomen, Social Change, and the Politics of Daily Life in Postrevolutionary Iran, pp. 294 - 316Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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