UnEarth

Azadeh Ganjeh

Wege: Unearth, Azadeh Ganjeh
Wege: Unearth, Azadeh Ganjeh | © Daniel Sadrowski, Ruhrtriennale 2022

About the project

Script, Direction: Azadeh Ganjeh
Dramaturgy: Foad Esfahani
Sound Design: Abbas Modjarad
Voice recordings: Christian Wilmes (Alias Film und Sprachtransfer)
Translation (de): Janna Düringer
Graphic Design: Sepand Saedi
Speakers: Lisa Lucassen, Nassim Soleimanpour
Thank you: Ramin Sadighi and Hermes Records

An explorative journey to unearth the truth of Haft Tepe in south-western Iran, an archaeological site with an ancient history which has been buried under layers of agro-industrial invasion. The performance tries to countermap the site in the Ruhr to ask: how does the co-existence of human civilization and ecosystem affect each other.

UnEarth started at the main station in Essen or in Duisburg, where the map of Haft Tepe / Mülheim was available at the DB Infopoint. After the S-Bahn journey, eleven listening stations were distributed on a footpath between Mülheim main station and Mülheim-Styrum on an approx. 4 km long path. The individual listening stations were numbered and marked with a QR code with which you could call up the respective tracks. The descriptions from Haft Tepe overlaid the present situations in Mülheim.

Language of the routes: German and English

Wege: Unearth, Azadeh Ganjeh © Daniel Sadrowski, Ruhrtriennale 2022
Wege: Unearth, Azadeh Ganjeh © Daniel Sadrowski, Ruhrtriennale 2022 | © Daniel Sadrowski
Wege: Unearth, Azadeh Ganjeh © Daniel Sadrowski, Ruhrtriennale 2022
Wege: Unearth, Azadeh Ganjeh © Daniel Sadrowski, Ruhrtriennale 2022 | © Daniel Sadrowski
Wege: Unearth, Azadeh Ganjeh © Daniel Sadrowski, Ruhrtriennale 2022
Wege: Unearth, Azadeh Ganjeh © Daniel Sadrowski, Ruhrtriennale 2022 | © Daniel Sadrowski