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Sarmad is an independent, non-profit interdisciplinary platform for research, publishing, collective thinking, and education in the fields of art, architecture and design.

Based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Sarmad has been evolving since its foundation in 2012. It started as a magazine for experimental photography and evolved into a platform working across different disciplines from photography, visual arts and architecture to writing, performance art and film.

Themes
The following would give you an idea of our current thematic interests:

Image
  • Sociopolitical importance and influences of various forms of image making
  • Image and power
  • Visual and non-visual image making (verbal, mental and perceptual images)
  • Walking on the border of the visual and the non-visual
  • . . .

Otherness
  • What/who is “other”?
  • Whiteness
  • The non-normative
  • minoritized and majoritized groups
  • Queerness
  • Identity-based forms of oppression
  • Moving the “center”
  • . . .
Precarity
  • Nomadic life
  • Autonomy
  • The self-employed, the freelancer
  • Exhaustion and comfort
  • Burnouts
  • Domesticity
  • . . .

And:
  • Persian cats
  • Buddhist thought
  • No-mind
  • No-self
  • Mattresses
  • Back pain
  • Talisman
  • non-duality
  • . . .

Sarmad consists of various interrelated activities: we organize public events, lectures and screenings, curate exhibitions, publish books, make podcasts and organize workshops. We cooperate with national and international art institutions, universities, art collectives and individual artists.

What makes Sarmad work is collaborating with others, so please do not hesitate to contact us if you have a proposal that you think can fit what we do. And always check for our open calls.



Sarmad’s activities have been made possible throughout the years with kind support from our wonderful community of artists and contributors, guests, and also collaborating institutions/organisations.

Our activities are made possible also with kind support from Gemeente Rotterdam, Mondriaanfonds, and Stichting Elise Mathilde Fonds.


Contributors
Sarmad Book One Alireza Abbasy, Peter Wiklund, Nadja Sveir, Benjamin Goss, Jose Pedrajas, Viktor Solodukha, Nieves Mingueza Tortola, Anne Henning, Susu Laroche, Oleg Kem, Samantha Sealy, Panayot Savov, Sabina Yordanova, Curtis Koshimizu, Amanda Elledge, Neto, Michaela Knizova, Nia Dielda, Danial Seyedin, Parisa Aminollahi, Maria Silvano, Viviana Levrino, Parham Mortazavian, Zouhair Zhiri, Francesco Viscuso, Claudio Santambrogio, Edie Sunday, Owen Patrick, Chiara Dondi, Monireh Askari, Livi Kessel and Laura Su Lilie

Sarmad Book TwoAlireza Abbasy, Michał Małkiewicz, Robin Cracknell, Pamela Ceccarelli , Pawel Smialek, Samantha Sealy, Jon Lewis, Fabien Cayere, Ingrid Budge, Laure Maugeais, Franz Falckenhaus, Russell Moreton, Isa Marcelli, Robert Hutinski, Maria Silvano, Phil Chapman, Lucas Kastelijn, Javier Bocanegra, and Chiara Gini

Sarmad Book Three Alireza Abbasy, Sean Rohde, David Ávila, Gerasimos Platanas, Maria Antonietta Mione, Peter Wiklund, Lucas Kastelijn, Viviana Levrino, Ky Lewis, Leonardo Garcia, and Kristian Saks

Sarmad Book Four
Sarmad editorial team: Alireza Abbasy, Arvand Pourabbasi, Golnar Abbasi.

Sarmad Book Five: Home Arshia Eghbali, Tomi Hilsee, Ryan Lim Zi Yi, Eric Patel, Ying Liu, Masih Samimi, Hosein Danesh Pazhooh, Bo Stokkermans, Julia Gat, Johna Hansen, Valeria Moro, Pille-Riin Vihtre, Eszter Nagy, Soha Kabiri, Lenny Waasdorp, and Abbas Vahedi.

Pocket Books: Fictioning Comfort Monireh Askari, Maike Hemmers, Valentina Curandi, Baha Görkem Yalım, Niloufar Emamifar, Moad Musbahi, Alireza Abbasy, WORKNOT! (Arvand Pourabbasi, Golnar Abbasi)

Un–Making Image Project Lucas Kastelijn, Ali Shobeiri,Gert Jan Kocken, Miguel Peres dos Santo, Eric Patel, Armina Pilav, Urok Shirhan, Inas Halabi, Alireza Abbasy, Dirar Kalash

Essays
Alina Lupu, Shadman Shahid, Diana Al-Halabi

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