30 Seconds of Today

an audio archive by Tara Fatehi Irani

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47 Abbeville Rd., London. Sweeping, polishing, Chan Chan from the kitchen and a subsonic presence doing the till

ساعت تمیزکاری در رستوران بعد از رفتن مشتری‌ها

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70 kings av., London. Playing Dixit board game without the board.

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70 Kings Av., London. Pre-election discussions on Iran. محمدرضا عارف هنوز انصراف نداده بود، رییس جمهور وقت از مرخصی یک روزه ش اومده بود

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Studio 5, Jubilee, Roehampton University. Rehearsal of "Dear Hypothetical, there is oil all over the place." A work in progress showing of a performance I'll do this coming January at Chelsea Theatre.

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Studio5, Jubilee, Roehampton, London. A warm up that never turned into a song.

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70 Kings Av., London. Up the stairs (yes, the ones in the photo), calling them to dinner(?)

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88 St. Aidan, Peckham Rye Park, London, United Kingdom (?) A: [laughs] B: All the mother fuckers--- siamak C: والله ما بهش رأی می دیم

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Kitchen, 70 Kings Av., London. Taymaz cooking for probably the 3rd time in his life.

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Cafe Shooka, Gandhi Shopping Centre, Gandhi, Tehran, Iran So, I can't find my recordings of 20 May 2013 (defeated...yup) but this is exactly two years before that 20 May 2011 when we were trying to squeeze a group of more than 15 into the corner of Cafe Shooka. با درخشش مزدک منصوری، مهیار آقایی، اسفندیار آبان، نوژن کمیلیان، تایماز عظیمی، شایان درخشان، گلناز پاکدل، ابوذر علوی تبار، تارا فاتحی و یک عالمه آدم دیگه

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Studio 5, Jubilee building, Roehampton University, London. Deleted scene of ‘Dear Hypothetical, there is oil all over the place’: video of Makan’s birthday in Tehran. So it’s actually London but in fact Tehran.

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70 Kings Av., London. Editing a video for my performance Dear Hypothetical, there is oil all over the place: Taymaz’s birthday at the no-more-existing garden in Tehran.

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70 Kings Av., London. Just another Wednesday and folding paper

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Upstairs Gallery, RichMix, London. Well now we kinda know what’s gaffer and what’s duct and what’s either of them in the states. Do we really?

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RichMix Cultural Foundation, London

Iran's national anthem in our performance "Dear Hypothetical, there is oil all over the place" with Pouya Ehsaei's sound works.

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London: One of those local festivals that give you a hint of dancing and FOOD

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47 Abbeville Road, London. A baby enters, the staff 'interact'... and wuzup?

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Studio5, Jubilee, Roehampton University, London

and the beat goes on at studio 5 with lovely cheese, ham and wine.