Four years ago, the head of the parliament’s financial commission had claimed that about two millions and two hundred empty houses existed in Tehran at the time. Three years ago,

the Minister of Roads and Urban Development of the time had maintained in an interview that there were around four hundred thousand empty houses in Tehran and considering the houses under construction in new cities, the total number would exceed one million empty units in Tehran. The quantity of empty houses in Tehran would lead us to a transcendental number.

Ten years after my graduation from the School of Architecture, I stepped in a construction site for the first time in my life: it was a five-storey, ten-unit, residential building in Tehran. My dad and some of his friends had chipped in to start a jerry-builder business. Building or buying a house is a safe investment, it is a common sense; in fact- if we are not hipster, then all of us need a room/place of our own. But for what reason should more houses be built in Tehran? Who are building them? Which political economy system is driving the city towards mass-production beyond its needs? Where does the will to accumulation come from? How and whence did we all get involved in producing stem cells of a city that are constantly reminding us our sense of insecurity? Does every one of us – working in the construction industry – obtain the same benefit from our initial investments? Are the things we have constructed byproducts of our collective fears?

This performane/show is a homage to the worker who, in a spring dawn, slept walked and fell to his death