We R The Nomads proudly presents an extraordinary week-long series of events in NYC featuring the innovative works of Firouz FarmanFarmaian. This nomadic experiential journey invites you to explore the depths of his creative mind. Experience an evocative blend of print and canvas artworks that intricately weave textile production into a captivating performative whole. The event will be enhanced by immersive sound and video integrations, alongside a groundbreaking generative AI experiment.
Join us as we embark on this unique artistic adventure.
December 12, 5.30PM
FORBES – Firouz FarmanFarmaian on New Line of Chapans, Art, Rugs, & Essaouira
If any artist is a global citizen, it has to be Firouz FarmanFarmaian. The artist was born in Iran, is French Swedish by nationality, and spends most of his time in Morocco.
Juncture Gallery ǀ Lincoln Center
Dec 10 – 12
Ecology of Soul Reading & Art Talk 5pm Dec 10th 5pm. Cocktail 6pm. Wines by Domaine Vicomte de Noüe Marinic. Nomads of Persia Art Book & FORRM 12’ Vinyl Signing 5pm 6pm FORRM acoustic showcase.
RSVP to salut@werthenomads.com
Salomon Arts Gallery
Dec 14 – Jan 14 2025
An immersive exhibition and installation, Nomads of Persia sets the tenor for the NYC “voyage”. The installation inhabits a Tribeca building space at Salomon Arts Creative Studio.
Work on print + canvas sets the scene weaving textile production into a new performative whole – draped within immersive sound + video integrations and coupled with a generative AI experiment. It engages with the endangered heritage of Persian tribal cultures disrupting established narratives from a position of exile. In combination with the nomadic heritage of the artist’s fatherland, FFF presents Nomads of Persia in multi-format form through textile, print, paint, video, sound and AI-powered digital material.
Juncture Gallery ǀ Lincoln Center
Dec 10 – 12
Working with found/archival material through the process of “paintover” has been a hallmark of the artist’s work. Showing as a 3-day pop-up exhibition in the Furman Gallery of the Lincoln Center, Camilla FarmanFarmaian’s Saint Tropez based juncture Gallery presents fresh units of these “paintovers” related to his new Nomads of Persia collection. A series of talks on related themes (eg. nomadic displacement; Spiritual Romanticism) will run parallel to the exhibition.
Ecology of Soul Reading & Art Talk 5pm Dec 10th 5pm. Cocktail 6pm. Wines by Domaine Vicomte de Noüe Marinic. Nomads of Persia Art Book & FORRM 12’ Vinyl Signing 5pm 6pm FORRM acoustic showcase.
RSVP to salut@werthenomads.com
GALACTICA EP vinyl and digital release
SoHo playhouse
Dec 9, 7PM
Expansive lyricism strums the tune to Farmanfarmaian’s creative output. Music to contemporary art and back again, FFF comes full circle in the City. Playing their US + NYC debut, FarmanFarmaian presents FORRM’s new album GALACTICA.
Firouz FarmanFarmaian’s music production has been constant since founding Paris based independent rock outfit PLAYGROUND c. ‘03; the release of two consecutive PLAYGROUND albums followed, including an unreleased lost album, number of EPs, remixes and singles. The band’s second and official last album PLAYGROUND NIGHTOLOGY went gold in France in 2010.
Museum of Arts and Design
Dec 12 5.30PM
Firouz FarmanFarmaian takes over The Museum of Arts and Design’s auditorium evening of Dec 12 ’24; in a breakthrough multidisciplinary live artwork, the audience will be immersed in a performative experience, with FFF’s experimental rock ensemble FORRM engaging in creative visual dialogue with a neural network framework, powered by NY based digital art studio Interactive Items.
Braving the boundaries of generative art in a cross-format approach, FarmanFarmaian partners with Interactive Items to develop a first-time complex, high-tech process.
Raw footage from his upcoming arthouse docu-film PATH (We R the Nomads Agency ‘25) will be set into sequences triggering the AI into “controlled hallucinations”, thanks to prompts and multiple sensors embedded in a ball of clay handled by the artist. These sequences will in turn be triggered by sound on performance night, projected and recorded live on the MAD’s auditorium screen.
PATH (Into the Vortex) will additionally be presented onscreen as a generative art audiovisual object at Salomon Arts Gallery Tribeca, parallel to FFF’s Nomads of Persia exhibition (Dec 14). Content from the experience will be woven into the feature-length version of FarmanFarmaian’s upcoming film PATH.
