“PSA – Public Service Announcement”, 9’49”, 2025 is a video-sound piece heavily influenced by the work of feminist poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who in 1963 made a PSA film called The House Is Black. The pain and dignity of the subjects is made clear without any direct narrative except what is intuited through her poems, the visuals and the sound.
Group Exhibition – Unfolding Narratives, Elephant and Castle
This week in March, University of the Arts, London (UAL) presents the Unfolding Narratives series. I’m in the group show, giving a performance and presenting paper on my PhD research in a hugely colourful, cross-disciplinary symposium. For the group show I explore the significance of being visible and audible in an increasingly surveilled society.
Lullabies
“I feel the catastrophe on my body. […] Were you uncomfortable? I hope so. We need to feel uncomfortable, to feel our bodies under siege, even for a minute.”
Nan Goldin, Neue Nationalgalerie, November 25th 2024
Art to Fundraisers for Human Rights
This month I’ve sent in work for an artist’s auction for Médecins Sans Frontières, UK (Doctors Without Borders) and Gaza Sunbirds and Gabusittah Childrens Fund
Broadcast Mix for Love Music, Hate Racism – “Your Racist Friend” on Resonance 104.4FM
What better way to resist hate than to up your loving quota, and sometimes only music does the impossible. When I think about dancing and community I remember one of Iran’s greatest Sufi poets, Rumi who said:
Actually Iranian Women Do Not Need You To Save Them – Performance
Our performance at the 25th Essex Book Festival, Lakeside Theatre, 2024
Performance – XMTR Audio Arts Festival Hastings
This three day festival near Hastings presents an opportunity to explore research I’ve been conducting over the four past years of my PhD topic
What works would you sell on the street?
My work allows me to provide dictums for us with which to navigate our waking and dreaming hours.
Works on Show – The Great Imagining
“Nature as artist” is the theme for this exhibition and series of events, run by The[…]
Imagining The Crumbling of A Post-Oil Mullahtocracy In Iran
“The mess the UK foreign policy around first tobacco, and then oil has left behind continues to ricochet into our lives today like a wrecking ball that never ends.”
Woman Life Freedom Panel at Wimbledon Book Festival 2023
“This panel event covers hardship, hope and empowerment in modern-day Iran and offers a context to the revolution, as well as celebrating the women determined to reclaim their freedom, dignity and self-expression.
We Could be Heroes – Heong Gallery Playlist
♥︎ ♫ ????I was commissioned with a playlist for Soheila Sokhanvari’s show “We Could Be Heroes”,[…]
“Woman, Life, Freedom: Voices and Art from the Women’s Protests in Iran”
Inside the book, my written piece and photo detail the wearable art I’ve been making for the street protests and political rallies we have held and attended over the past year. I describe how my practice adapted from making sound pieces for a gallery context or to release on vinyl, to text on cloth featuring hashtags and slogans.
Speaking at Bradford Literature Festival
This festival has already proved how contemporary it is by causing controversy for using two AI[…]
Woman Life Freedom Conference, University of the Arts London (UAL)
A 2 day conference “Tomorrow, Today: Woman Life Freedom” Wednesday April 19th / Thursday April 20th[…]
Group Show of Bodyless Sound, Madrid
The Le Son 7 exhibition in Madrid, 3rd to the 13th of May is at Gallery Doctor[…]
The Wire Magazine Review – “I Will Greet the Sun Again”
Back in January 2023, on the 17th, we brought the issue of the Iran Revolution to into the realms of music and experimental sound. The Wire Magazine’s Clive Bell was there to review.
Women, Life, Freedom Radio Special
I asked women from Iran to think about what we overseas should know, and what we might do, and there are surprising, important results. I also got to question a seasoned and renowned activist Steve Marsling.
Frieze Week Specials 2024
Wednesday 2nd October Artist and broadcaster Fari Bradley hosts two 2024 Frieze Week specials, on the[…]