Abstract:This article addresses two recent performances created by Javaad Alipoor and Kirsty Housley -Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran (2019) and The Believers are but Brothers (2017). It argues that they represent a fresh, stripped back and interrogative mode of intermedial performance, marking a clear departure from practices that employ the digital as a spectacular scenographic tool -where the visual excesses of large scale mapped and projected images are there for us to enjoy -as well as from sited… Show more
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