Desert Detours: Contemporary Iranian Art & Critical Engagement with Remote Sites Pamela Karimi (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth) | For the 1972 Shiraz Festival of Arts, the American performance artist Robert Wilson and his avant-garde theater group, the Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds, displayed a seven-day nonstop performance across an entire mountain. The event was meant to be a kind of window into the world where ordinary and extraordinary events could be seen together. One could see the world at 8am, 3pm, or midnight, and the play would always be there, ... ..