A sound-Installationby Ali Ettehad2016 Sounds can change a place. Sounds can turn an old, static pool into the center of the world. “I Am What I Am” is the name of an audio arrangement performed in the courtyard of the Fereshteh Gallery (Tehran, Iran). This sound-installation changed ambient sounds imperceptibly; by adding bird sounds or water drops. The speakers were hidden among the plants in the yard, allowing the audience to be in a three-dimensional space composed of real sounds and

a video-installation by Ali Ettehad 


There are several rows of “small trees in pots” on the stage. The light on some of the trees shines more and the trees in the end of the stage have less light shining on them. A video is projecting on the wall at the end of the stage. The video contains the performance of an actress walking among similar trees. She talks to the leaves and branches of plants and wipes the leaves with a