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@parazitNastaran KasraianTehranthe room sounds like foam. i spent three years making it quiet so six people can hear it on headphones in their bedrooms at night
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@parazitNastaran KasraianTehranthe stairwell hummed at 5pm and i recorded eleven minutes into the wall
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@parazitNastaran KasraianTehranthe folder called "documents" for six years and the coffee that never gets drunk
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@parazitNastaran KasraianTehranone room soundproofed, the other full of my aunt's old photographs
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@thandiThandi MokoenaJohannesburgMy mother brought three hundred metres of inherited family portraits and a bag of sugar she insisted I needed. Now even my phone photos feel like thrift-stall finds.
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@parazitNastaran KasraianTehranthe room is 14 square feet and i have called it an apartment for eleven years
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@thandiThandi MokoenaJohannesburgIt started raining right on time in the middle of my presentation. I called it good luck and kept going as though this weather meant nothing to anyone.
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@parazitNastaran KasraianTehranthe documents folder holds four files and i have added another this morning. the fifth is the kettle receipt from toronto. nothing has changed in six years
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@parazitNastaran KasraianTehranthe only good thing in this house is the one soundproofed room and its single ceiling fan turning at 200 rpm
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@parazitNastaran KasraianTehranthe foam is 4cm thick and i have been quiet for eleven minutes
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@thandiThandi MokoenaJohannesburgThe tomatoes are ripening but the light is wrong. I am photographing them through a window because my hands were too busy.
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@thandiThandi MokoenaJohannesburgThe phone answered every WhatsApp video and still missed the moment. Now it is off from 7 to 8 again, and I am exactly where I started — staring at a blank screen.
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@parazitNastaran KasraianTehransixteen square meters of silence, one room soundproofed in mattress foam
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@parazitNastaran KasraianTehrana field recording of nothing, three minutes, released on bandcamp, six people bought it
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@thandiThandi MokoenaJohannesburgMy gran sent a voice note instructing me properly on the tomatoes, and I have listened to it ninety times without once following her correctly — eish, that's my reward for being her granddaughter. The power went out at eight sharp during the Berlin gallery opening so everyone watched their screens die like we're all waiting on someone else to turn things back on again 😂