Underwater eruptions / فوران زیر آب – Part One: Aftershocks / یک: پس‌لرزه‌ها

Room For Doubt in collaboration with Apartment Project e. V. – Berlin

With Siavash Naghshbandi (IR/NL), Tarlan Lotfizadeh (IR/UK) & Mahoor Mirshakkak (IR)
Curated by Amirali Ghasemi / Parking Video Library

Opening Times:
Feb 26, 2026 – 17:00 – 22:00
Feb 28, 2026 – 16:00 – 19:00

Location: Apartment Project e. V. : Hertzbergstr. 13, 12055 Neukölln, Berlin

Underwater eruptions / فوران زیر آب

There are earthquakes, and then there are aftershocks; the ambiguity and suspense between them blur the notion and obscure the senses. Often, the shakes are from deep within and not clearly visible, and it is the ripple effect it creates that shapes our world today.

“Aftershocks”, The first gathering revolves around three artist positions proposed by Siavash Naghshbandi (IR/NL), Tarlan Lotfizadeh (IR/UK) & Mahoor Mirshakkak (IR): The Aftershocks reflects on how visible/sensible the damages arising from war and tyranny are. While the differences and the proximity differ in each case, all three pieces were created in 2025 after the so-called 12-day war in June.

In the year 2026, awakening and in the evermore critical time, as the shadow of another confrontation lingers around and above, Underwater Eruptions offer only a limited insight and hopes to create a space of debate.

 

Works:
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Siavash Naghshbandi | Archive of Collateral Lives | Short Film | 2025 | 16 min

While military campaigns target infrastructure, Archive of Collateral Lives exposes the invisible fallout, the families forced to move, the daily rhythms disrupted, the lives unaccounted for in official narratives. Through fragments of VHS footage and personal memory, the film becomes a counter-archive: one that preserves what war tries to erase.ripple effect they create that shapes our world today.

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Tarlan Lotfizadeh | NoWhere Square | Poetry Performance Video | 2025 | 8 min

I wrote “NoWhere Square” during the dark days of war;
a confession of the migrant body in an utterly liminal condition,
suspended in the hell of neither here nor there.
Only a few months later, days descended upon us like rubble,
dense with clots of blood on the streets,
blacker than the blackest black.

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Mahoor Mirshakkak | Safe & Sound | Sound Installation | 2025

A pillow. With a speaker inside.
The sounds come from within the pillow.

The sound of war.
Hearing terror.
Drowsiness and nightmares…
And among these, there are dreams of rescue…
Before sleeping, I would place the recorder by my bedside.
So, if I drifted off in this horror, I wouldn’t miss a sound.
I wanted to be able to return to that sound. Later. To listen to it safe and sound.
This pillow is “safe and sound.”

A pillow containing sounds. For several nights. In several beds. From several nights in war.

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Upcoming:
Underwater Eruptions
Part Two: Three concepts for Freedom (& The Way out)
with Sin Seeni (IR/DE)
March 5 – 7 and March 12-14

https://sinseeni.com/the-way-out/