Amy Rose Khoshbin

Ongoing multimedia project The Scheherazade Project (TSP) merges live performance and an original score by PUBLIQuartet + The Hollands with animated Persian illustrations and found and newly created footage to explore the power of storytelling, past and present. The King's Demise is taken from the last scene of TSP. TSP takes its inspiration from the feminist icon Scheherazade, who uses well-known folklore to save her own life as well as the lives of thousands of women from a virgin-killing king in the classical Persian story One Thousand and One Nights. Reimagined through a contemporary Western lens, TSP positions Scheherazade as the video screen, enchanting the disillusioned dictator with her media stories and slowly immersing him into the screen world where reality and fiction become indiscernible. Similar to the king, the current U.S. President is created from and immersed in the media- The King's Demise pictures a future in which the media eventually eclipses the man himself. TSP has been performed at National Sawdust as part of NY Philharmonic's Biennial 2016 and installed at Abrons Arts Center's SAWCC 20th Anniversary Exhibition curated by Saisha Grayson. Video By: Amy Khoshbin Music By: PUBLIQuartet + The Hollands (Jannina Norpoth, John Paul Norpoth, Curtis Stewart, Nick Revel, Amanda Gookin) Performer: Justin Alensa