Episode 8: Sholeh Asgary

"When we gather together, the forces around us become louder. There's a danger in gathering, but there's a grounding in it as well."

--Sholeh Asgary

We talk about: the relationship between photography and sound practice, the politics of sound, transcribing the waterways of Iran into music, incorporating the politics of a venue into site-specific installation, how sound becomes object, and much more...

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Sholeh Asgary engages performance, interdisciplinary forms, and collective processes to investigate, memorialize, and express the complexities of joy and survival inherent in diasporic and refugee experiences. Her work challenges colonial assumptions about what is heard, proposing new futures through sound.

Featured in Art in America's 2022 "New Talent Issue," Asgary was a Bay Area Now 9 artist at YBCA, a 2023 Artadia Finalist, and part of the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival (2024). She is exhibited in PST-Getty's Atmosphere of Sound and supported by institutions such as the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, MASS MoCA, and Headlands Center for the Arts. Asgary is a Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and California College of the Arts and serves on the Southern Exposure curatorial council. She holds an MFA from Mills College and BA from San Francisco State University.

⁠https://www.sholehasgary.com/⁠

@⁠sholehasgary⁠

Debut Album: آبـان (Aban)

⁠Sming Sming Books⁠

⁠crystalline morphologies⁠

⁠https://sholehasgary.bandcamp.com/album/aban⁠

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