About this episode
For a place where, there is no public warning siren in times of war for its people. For a place where no accessible, public shelters have been provided for civilians. In Iran, when danger approaches, no alarm is sounded. When an a<ack happens, many people have no immediate, reliable way of knowing where is safe. Bombs from above. Repression from within. Iranians are trapped between both. Instead, the first responses in times of crisis is the shutdown of the internet. The Islamic Republic has shut down the internet; people in Iran cannot access it to tell the world what is happening to them. Cutting off over 90 million people in the middle of war is not just censorship. It means cutting people off from help, from news, from warnings, and from communication with the world. This is the same country where people take to the streets for their most basic freedoms and rights, and are executed, or shot dead with live ammunition. This work does not claim to change this condition. It cannot protect anyone. It cannot bring back the lives that have been lost. It performs only a simple displacement: a siren that does not sound there, is made to sound here. For 24 hours. For those who sit in safety. For those who can choose to turn it off. This siren is disturbing. It is meant to be disturbing. And after some 4me, it will likely become background noise. Ignored. Silenced. Just as the suffering of others, other wars, and distant deaths gradually dissolve into the background of the world.