Saman Anabel Sarabi works and lives in Worms. She studied philosophy, literature, music theory and art in Düsseldorf, Bruxelles and Bern. Her practices question the conditions of art on the level of production, presentation and reception. She is trying to create frameworks which allow different possibilities to act and intervene beyond the offered ones with the firm intention to constitute counter-publics. Counter-publics, which are organised collectively and which resist rules and normalisations as they are perceivable, i.e., within the context of city planning, written history and language books, constructions of time and moreover in schools and universities. Counter-publics which create and allow other and desired ways of speech-acts. She focusses on the power relationships between the (non)performativity* of language and economic structures.

Collaborations with different groups and collectives (i.e. the ArtsCommons, Centre of Inefficiency, coexistent) are inherent to her practice. Since 2014, she has been running the publishing office hightime together with Stefan Wegmüller.

* referring to Sara Ahmed: The Non-Performativity of Anti-Racism, borderlands ejournal vol. 5 3/2005

www.wormsartistcollective.com
http://www.hightimepublishers.com