Sal(oos
Ta’ziyeh’s ritual performance is a tragic representation of the Ashura event. An event in which Imam Hussain, seventy-two companions, and his family were surrounded by the forces of the tyrannical government of the time and were unjustly killed.
Salus’ activism performance is the philosophy of masks, becoming, and playing, which is sometimes evident and felt between the audience and the actors in the atmosphere of Ta’ziyeh. The performer with a shamanic appearance performs the game of hypocrisy a moment before the suppression and arrest.
In Iranian society, both before and after the introduction of Islam, religion has been the core of culture and society and the most powerful factor of power. Religious people and clerics have always had the greatest influence between the people and the government in every religion and every era. A minority in order to achieve all kinds of power and the majority of people in all historical and sovereign eras have promoted a kind of culture of hypocrisy and religious pretense with performance and performance skills in order to be safe from punishment and achieve their desires. This culture of hypocrisy has reached its peak along with politics in the past few decades.
The activist performance of Sal/Vos was performed in the presence of about 4 thousand audience members, government officials, and religious people in Iran’s largest annual Ta’zieh show in Khwansar city. This artistic shock was the first performance of the Megaphonic series. A collection that intended to shock the drama community into questioning and criticizing with its sledgehammer. From the showmen of the field of art and intellectuals to hipsters and bobos and…
But the group was arrested during the very first performance and faced with ridiculous and delusional charges of Satanism. Two days of interrogation and the filing of a case with the crime of Satanism and insulting holy things led to the opening of the prosecutor’s office on a holiday to speed up the strange sentence of the prosecutor to be imprisoned in Isfahan. But on the other hand, due to the contact of some artists and the follow-up of lawyers, and fearing that the matter would not be reported, the case remained unclear and the group was released with a mandatory commitment and expelled from the city of Khansar.