TIME LAPSED -- A SPACE GALLERY

Attended Gita Hashemi’s Time Lapsed at the A Space Gallery last night with Farzana Doctor. It was a last-minute invite from Far Out Farzana, so I didn’t know what to expect. Turns out it’s a performance work-in-progress about an important period in history that I’ve been writing about tangentially in a book that deals with, among other things, American intervention in the destinies of other nations. Iran, 1953, was the first time the US government, with help from Britain, removed a democratically elected leader from office in what would become a blueprint for interventions that continue to this day: first comes the financial and political destabilization of the country, followed by the demonization of the leader, and ending with his ouster. Sound familiar? When America complains bitterly about the current Iranian monster-president, Ahmadinejad, it strikes me as ironic since their interruption of the democratic process is the reason he’s there now.