If Need Be

If Need BeIf Need Be presents a constellation of stories about water scarcity in the arid regions of Central Asia, ancient Persia, and the American Great Plains. Artist duo Pejvak strings together a series of hallucinatory events involving artificial glaciers, dams and other human attempts to bring water under control. Giving equal weight to gossip, legend and historical fact, Pejvak takes the role of an unreliable narrator, situating the struggle for water

signifies that self-expression and affirmation emerge not solely from the intellect but from a profound

whose arrest and assassination she narrates in unforgettable detail

a more expansive conception of motherhood

Following an argument with his mother

It also combines elements like page layout

making and communicating

the enemy is listening”

functions as a handbook to his work

it has mainly served to strengthen the ruling class and deliver the rich an opportunity to rehabilitate a profoundly unequal economic order precisely at a moment when the stability of the system and the public’s trust in it are drastically deteriorating

cultural activism and the avantgarde arts as a prehistory of cutting through the so-called dichotomy between paper and electronics

especially their toes

IFbook (artist’s book and infinite hypothesis)