2-i-move is a tryout towards moving again, moving the body in the space, the body that resisted moving, the body that remembers moving, the body that needs to move, the body that needs to be reclaimed.
Pegah Tabassinejad is an Interdisciplinary artist, educator and wanderer living and working as a stranger -an uninvited guest- on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) people.
Her interest is in creating intermedial performances, interactive performances, cyberformances, digital theatre, multi-channel video installations, and city projects. While focusing on the notion of identity, she has been exploring presence and absence, the real and the virtual, here and there, and the absence inside the two worlds that she inhabits in. While interested in body and body movements, she also questions the borders and boundaries of private and public space. Pegah is interested in the aesthetics of CCTV cameras, cell phone cameras, laptops, monitors, and the Internet.
She holds MFA in Interdisciplinary Art at Simon Fraser University and BA in Stage Directing from the Art University in Tehran. She also studied Visual Art at Azad University of Tehran and Contemporary Dance in Paris at Conservatoire de la Danse. She has taught various studio and seminar courses at the University of Art in Tehran, international Institutes, as well as leading workshops in Paris, Tehran and Vancouver.