It contains a series of interventions at Bismarckstraße 106 in Bremen, a site that has hosted various student-run initiatives, including Circa 106, Sphere, Disorientation, trEiy, ZEFAK, and Julias Ida Green. Since August 2025, Circa 106 has relocated to Schildstraße 28, where it continues to operate under the same name it has carried since March 2020.
The first intervention, titled Temporary Dislocation As A Response To A Friend, began from a wish to imagine the student-run space as a leading site for critical discourse beyond the Eurocentric academy—borrowing around one hundred chairs from the theory room at HfK Bremen into the project space, shifting the center, even if only temporarily. This wish further took shape through building a bookshelf, which later mutated into the Library for Imagined Futures, initiated by Bubu Mosiashvili and currently run by him and Dorsa Eidizadeh.
The space has gone through many episodes of struggling to sustain itself. One of these moments took shape during my last months there, when I co-ran the space by transporting the bookshelf as a body that carries the open letter collectively written by students, articulating why the space should continue to receive sustained funding—moving it through the city and put on display on various location during the Hochschultage.
during 2020-2022 I co-ran the space which resulted into the the organizing and curating a series of Exhibitions collaborative residencies and releasing a publication which felt extremely urgent especially during the pandemic time.
below you find three contributions which mark the kinship with the project space over time.
- Circa Library for Imagined Futures / Reconfiguration of thought as a communal act, December 2022
- Solidarity Letter Action, June 2022
- Temporary Dislocation As A Response To A Friend, January 2018
Circa Library for Imagined Futures / Reconfiguration of thought as a communal act, December 2022
Collective reading at Circa 106
In collaboration with Jana Piotrowski, Victor Artica Rodrigez, Will Lee, Dorsa Eidizadeh, Nadim Choufi, Pablo Somonte Ruano, Hakeen Adam, Suyeon Kim, Bubu Mosiashvili
The publication “Reconfiguration of Thought as a Communal Act” was initiated as an online collective writing exercise, during the first lockdown of the pandemic in 2020, aiming to initiate a network of mutual care through engagement with text and writing, that was once presented with the possibility of sharing this process in a physical format in near future. That also became an incentive later to create a space within Circa106 that could accommodate such publications, literature, and research material from the residencies. “Circa Library for Imagined Futures” was conceptualized during one of the residency programs of Circa 106 by Bubu Mosiashvili that aims to sustain knowledge and experience exchanging platforms outside of institutionalized sociability. Circa Library for Imagined Futures will be introduced at this event besides the physical release of the above-mentioned publication.
Solidarity Letter Action, June 2022
In collaboration with Maria Arzt
moving the bookshelf, using it as a mobile display structure to gain visibility for the statement that was calling Hfk Bremen to secure sustained funding for the project space in the future. below you can find an excerpt of documentation of the moving performance filmed by Maria Arzt. The aim was to place the bookshelf in the exhibition rooms prepared for the annual open studios in Hfk Bremen.
Temporary Dislocation As A Response To A Friend, January 2018
Exhibition at Julias Ida Green
93 HFK theory class chairs
Temporary Dislocation is a response to this invitation to open the private space. To make this happen I struggled with the school (public organization) and I finally convinced them to allow me to transport around 100 chairs to Julias Ida Green just for a weekend (27th and 28 of January 2018), but since the chairs belonged to theory rooms, they had to be returned at the latest at 9 am on Monday, to be ready for the earliest seminar in the morning.
Theoretically, I wanted to transport these chairs from one territory of the Institution to another one, but since each chair costs 250 euro, the school asked me if I can insure 25000 euros, which I like to carry through the public space. The chair’s installation facing the stage follows the same pattern from gray zone in the living room to white zone in the project room.
Room plan, Julias Ida Green, Bremen Germany
Nothing is happening on the stage.
The chairs constitute a coherent picture, and would stage the all three rooms in order to represent them as one. The attempt to make the living room part of the project space, could become to a failure by the walls blocking your sight in white area or the inhabitants want their occupied space back in the gray one.
This two interventions in the school and into the house, question if it is possible to open up the public and to shift the bureaucratic structures.
Aria Farajnezhad 