Mitra Azar is an eclectic nomadic video-squatter and ARTthropologist with a background in aesthetic philosophy. Mitra admits to be haunted by images and by the relational-performative-philosophical aspect of engaging with them. The idea of border as fluid, flexible, amorphous entity and the political role of art and digital technologies within the frame of an aesthetic of crisis and of mass events have been the framework of his practice based research. In the last years, Mitra have been investigating crisis areas located both at geographical borders and during upraises and revolutions, focusing on offline/ online mass behaviors and politics of space mainly through the lens of visual anthropology, art, and media philosophy. Mitra have been field-researching in between filmmaking, media anthropology, tactical media and visual art for about 10 years, living as a nomad and working in some of the most critical area of the world. Mitra experienced prison in Iran during 2009 Green revolution and persuade a diplomat to smuggling out of the country the footage of his movie. He got captured in Alexandria by the military during the Egyptian Revolution – and went over night back to Cairo during his house arrest to hide and safe-copy his footage. He worked in China undercover on a movie about cyber-activism and internet censorship. He has crossed by feet around 20 of the most controversial borders of this planet and there managed to realize site-specific projects and interventions.
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