There is no celebration here
ZÖJ, meaning ‘couple’ in Farsi, are the duo of two of Australia’s acclaimed improvising musicians, singer and Kamancheh player Gelareh Pour and drummer Brian O’Dwyer who have developed a reputation for their deeply moving, experimental free form music.
As you read this, women and girls around the world struggle against legally enshrined gender inequality and discrimination. Following the death of Masha Jina Amini in police custody, the girls and woman of the Women-Life-Freedom movement in Iran have courageously and peacefully demonstrated for their fundamental human rights. Protests have been met with fatal reprisals by authorities.
Experimental duo ZÖJ perform There Is No Celebration Here, a dark, romantic, and poetic set of structured improvisations that bring these injustices and human rights abuses into focus.
Coming from performances at Womadelaide and MONA FOMA in 2022, as well as a string of notable performances throughout 2023, ZÖJ is an emotionally charged, yet sensitively staged performance that should not be missed.
