Celebration at Persepolis Book
Published by Swiss publishers JRP-Ringier and edited by Nav Haq and Elisa Kay, the book is an expansion on Michael Stevenson’s project for Basel in 2007 for which he reconstructed a guest tent from the 1971 celebration at Persepolis. For more info, see previous post on Shiraz Arts Festivals.
Iannis Xenakis — Persepolis (1971)
Persepolis is a 56-min piece of multi-channel electroacoustic music, unrelenting in its density and continuously evolving architecture. The original presentation included two lasers, 92 spotlights, and bonfires and processions of torches [...]
Iannis Xenakis - Persephassa (1969)
Back in 1968-1969, at the height of the social activism that swept through Europe and the United States, Mr. Xenakis, well-known as a revolutionary in Greece during the period of World War II and after, was something [...]
Shiraz Arts Festival
Farah Diba greets John Cage and Merce Cunningham at the 1972 festival. (Photo: Cunningham Dance Foundation Archive)
Article Abstract:
Iran in the 1970s was host to an array of electronic music and avant-garde arts. In the decade prior to the Islamic revolution, the Shiraz Arts Festival provided a showcase for composers, performers, dancers and theater directors from [...]