Arash Azarm - Āzādi (آزادی) - Freedom

– Plakat mit Text: "Äzädi – Freedom A Solo Performance by Arash Azarm". Person vor Gitter, Stadt und Landschaft im Hintergrund, Daten: 25–27 September 2026

A dark room is lit only by a video of a mother. Then the connection fails. From this interrupted image, Āzādi unfolds as a poetic, political and personal solo performance about witnessing catastrophe in Iran from the safety of Europe. Arash Azarm brings together monologue, movement, live camera, projections, documentary fragments, text, sound and silence. News, private calls, death counts, memories, bureaucratic emails, club nights and dreams collide. At the centre is a queer Iranian body that crossed a border while Iran never left the body. Āzādi asks how mourning can happen from afar, what survival does to guilt, and what freedom means when the body is safe but the mind remains at home.

English and Persian with English subtitles 

Content note: The performance addresses state violence and death in Iran, internet blackouts, grief, exile, queer persecution, emotional distress and survivor guilt. It includes documentary image and sound fragments, death counts, darkness, and sudden changes in light and sound. No graphic violence is shown.

Concept, text & performance: Arash Azarm Assistant & performer: Setareh Maleki Video & Visual Art: Giovanni Dinello Music & DJ set: Balthazar Martinez Artistic & technical assistance: Rahel Jenny Egger Technical support: Haesoo Jung Mentoring: Azadeh Ganjeh

Developed within the MA Expanded Theatre at Bern Academy of the Arts (HKB/BFH).

Vierte Welt

Next date:

• Date Friday, 25/September/2026 19:30 ( 2 more dates )
• Venue Vierte Welt
• Address Adalbertstraße 96, 10999 Berlin-Kreuzberg