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Hair Cutting Ceremony of Jafar

An online story on social media ends with an interactive performance (2016)

The artist narrates an autobiographical story via video, sound, and pictures on social media for twenty days. Then he invites the audience members to cut his hair, in the form of sacrifice, and tell their own stories and/or answer these questions:

Do you aim to restrict, hide and control your body? Do you feel ashamed of your body (parts)?

Director and Performer: Jafar Hejazi

Writers: Jafar Hejazi and Saeed Jamshidipour

Photography: Mahyar Akhavin and Rojin Delfan

Visual Designer and sculpting: Pouria Kohandel

Lighting: Sepideh Soleymanzadeh and Arash Firouzeh

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