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Artist’s Focus – Koushna Navabi
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Artist’s Focus – Koushna Navabi

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In light of our forthcoming London fine art and design exhibition New Players, New Roles we are highlighting one participating artist per post until the exhibition begins on May 31st. Each participating artist has worked with Six Pillars in the past, via in-depth interviews or creatively in other ways. In 2009 we met Koushna Navabi … Continue reading »

New Podcast – El Iqaa at Art Dubai
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New Podcast – El Iqaa at Art Dubai

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Music and research methods expounded by Joe Namy aka El Iqaa on his residency at Art Dubai, a major if not the leading art fair in the Middle East. El Iqaa (Arabic for ‘provider of the beat‘) is an independent multimedia artist creating sample-based sonic collage that explores the musical history of his roots – … Continue reading »

‘The Knife’ Arrows of Love
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‘The Knife’ Arrows of Love

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For those who attended the live performance of Nima Tehranchi at our Six Pillars charity event in London 2009, you might remember his sturdy yet secretive voice, his love of dynamics and his strong features as he articulated words of a personal and global socio-political nature. Tehranchi was formerly in Hush the Many Heed the … Continue reading »

This week’s Six Pillars – Peace From the Bottom of My Art
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This week’s Six Pillars – Peace From the Bottom of My Art

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Is there such a thing as a justified war? “A bomb, sheathed in condoms, explodes in a childlike paradise.”(1) From Picasso to Chagall, the struggle for peace has been one that is constantly and necessarily represented in the arts; peace as something worth striving for, whose presence we must keenly endeavour to decipher in the … Continue reading »

The Voice of Hani Niroo
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The Voice of Hani Niroo

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“I believe sound and music is nothing but imagination and dream, a realm of vivid visions and colorful thoughts. “Good Night” is a collection of shortscripts, usually read in two voices. Based upon classical and minimal western forms and foundations, the music is generally composed for non-acoustic instruments.” Creative music graduate Hani holds a gentle … Continue reading »