Urok Shirhan
Artist and researcher working at the intersection of performance, visual arts and critical theory.
2019/2020 Research Fellow at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht and previously in residence at the Delfina Foundation in London (2018); Research Fellow at the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam (2017); Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht (2015/16) and Ashkal Alwan’s HWP in Beirut, Lebanon (2012/13). MA (Hons) in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths University in London (2014) and a BFA from the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.
My work explores the politics of sound, image and speech concerning power and affect. My projects are entangled with found materials and narratives, historical as well as current, often as informed by my family’s history of political migrations. My latest body of research considers the role of sound (and the voice in particular) concerning forms of collectivity, dissidence and belonging.
Recent presentations include Gallery TPW Toronto, Canada; Stroom Den Haag, NL; The Contemporary Art Museum of Crete, Greece; e-flux Film & Video platform; Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany; The Derivative at the Beirut Art Center; The City Talks Back icw Theatrum Mundi at Onassis Stegi, Athens; Casco Institute Working for the Commons, Utrecht; Theater of Operations at MoMA PS1, New York; Post Opera at TENT, Rotterdam; Live Works at the 38th Drodesera Festival, Italy; 5th Biennial for Young Art at NCCA, Moscow and Sonic Continuum at the Nottingham Contemporary.
In 2020 and 2021 I hosted 'Sound Without Image': a monthly live show on Radio Alhara, broadcasting from Bethlehem, Palestine.
Address: Athens, Greece
2019/2020 Research Fellow at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht and previously in residence at the Delfina Foundation in London (2018); Research Fellow at the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam (2017); Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht (2015/16) and Ashkal Alwan’s HWP in Beirut, Lebanon (2012/13). MA (Hons) in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths University in London (2014) and a BFA from the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.
My work explores the politics of sound, image and speech concerning power and affect. My projects are entangled with found materials and narratives, historical as well as current, often as informed by my family’s history of political migrations. My latest body of research considers the role of sound (and the voice in particular) concerning forms of collectivity, dissidence and belonging.
Recent presentations include Gallery TPW Toronto, Canada; Stroom Den Haag, NL; The Contemporary Art Museum of Crete, Greece; e-flux Film & Video platform; Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany; The Derivative at the Beirut Art Center; The City Talks Back icw Theatrum Mundi at Onassis Stegi, Athens; Casco Institute Working for the Commons, Utrecht; Theater of Operations at MoMA PS1, New York; Post Opera at TENT, Rotterdam; Live Works at the 38th Drodesera Festival, Italy; 5th Biennial for Young Art at NCCA, Moscow and Sonic Continuum at the Nottingham Contemporary.
In 2020 and 2021 I hosted 'Sound Without Image': a monthly live show on Radio Alhara, broadcasting from Bethlehem, Palestine.
Address: Athens, Greece
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Urok Shirhan was in residence at Delfina Foundation from 01/10/18–23/12/18 with support from the Mondriaan Fund."
https://www.delfinafoundation.com/platform/delfina-presents-urok-shirhan/
Papers by Urok Shirhan
Commissioned for Rayya Badran's edited Reverberations issue in The Derivative, a publication by the Beirut Art Center. See also "Lovesong Revolution" (2020), a musical essay that forms the basis for this text.
The Heart in Her Mouth is a volume of three correlating essays written with Sheila Chukwulozie, Vibeke Mascini and Urok Shirhan.
https://infrasonica.org/en/sonic-realism-wave-3/the-heart-in-her-mouth-en
Other by Urok Shirhan
Urok Shirhan was in residence at Delfina Foundation from 01/10/18–23/12/18 with support from the Mondriaan Fund."
https://www.delfinafoundation.com/platform/delfina-presents-urok-shirhan/
Commissioned for Rayya Badran's edited Reverberations issue in The Derivative, a publication by the Beirut Art Center. See also "Lovesong Revolution" (2020), a musical essay that forms the basis for this text.
The Heart in Her Mouth is a volume of three correlating essays written with Sheila Chukwulozie, Vibeke Mascini and Urok Shirhan.
https://infrasonica.org/en/sonic-realism-wave-3/the-heart-in-her-mouth-en